Rosie O’Donnell’s Kids: Meet Her 5 Children Including Troubled Daughter Chelsea After Her Arrest

Rosie O’Donnell loves being a mom and has five children. Fans want to know more about her kids following daughter Chelsea’s 2024 arrest.

Who Is Rosie O’Donnell’s Son Parker O’Donnell?

The comedian adopted her first child, son Parker, shortly after he was born on May 25, 1995. Rosie was initially a single mom, but Parker was later adopted by Rosie’s first wife, Kelli Carpenter, before the former couple married in 2004. Rosie and Kelli split in 2007.

“He used to say, ‘Did I grew in your tummy?’ and I said, ‘No, you grew in my heart,'” Rosie recalled to Access Hollywood in 2010 ahead of the premiere of her HBO documentary, A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O’Donnell Celebration. “He said, ‘Well, it feels like I grew in your tummy,’ and I said, ‘You’re right, it does feel like you grew in my tummy.'”

“I said, ‘You know, you grew in someone else’s tummy and God looked inside and he knew that you were going to be raised by a different mommy. God picked me, and your birth mommy listened.’ And he said ‘Yeah, ’cause me and you, we’re a good match,'” she continued.

“But we are a good match and he knows this and I’ve told him already [that] he’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me in my entire life and I’m forever grateful he is the boy who changed it all,” Rosie gushed.

Parker attended Valley Forge Military Academy before joining the Marines. “He chose on his own. He actually begged to go to a military academy. And I was like two years of ‘No way,'” the Flintstones star told Access Hollywood in 2011.

“Truth is, since he was a little boy, that’s his area of interest. The same way I love [Barbra] Streisand and Bette Midler and entertainment, he can tell you any general in any war, what kind of tanks they had, what the battles were like. So I finally gave in and truthfully, he’s excelling and he’s very happy,” Rosie admitted.

While a panelist on The View in 2014, Rosie joked, “How do you annoy your left-wing, liberal, pacifist mother? You become a big military man.”

In addition to his military career, Parker became a certified mixologist in 2016 after attending the Academy of Professional Bartending School. He shared new of his accomplishment via Instagram.

As of 2021, Parker was in a long-term relationship with girlfriend Hannah. Rosie shared a photo of the couple in October 2021, writing in the caption, “Happy 7th anniversary to parker n hannah.” It’s unclear if the pair are still together.

Who Is Rosie O’Donnell’s Daughter Chelsea O’Donnell?

Rosie and Kelli adopted Chelsea as a baby following her birth on September 20, 1997. The former talk show host and her daughter have been estranged at times over the years amid Chelsea’s brushes with the law.

In 2015, Rosie pleaded for help after then-17-year-old Chelsea went missing. She was located by New Jersey police a week later at a 25-year-old man’s home. Rosie’s rep said that Chelsea had mental health issues and stopped taking her medicine.

Chelsea claimed her adopted mom kicked her out of her home once she turned 18. She moved to Wisconsin to be near her biological mother, Deanna Micoley. “Growing up, I never really got along with her [Rosie] and then once she kicked me out, I was just kind of done,” she told Inside Edition in 2017. “I miss the rest of my family a lot but I think there is some much-needed space between me and Rosie. It’s been nice having that.”

Rosie and Chelsea reconnected the following year when the then-20-year-old gave birth to daughter Skylar Rose, whom she shares with ex-boyfriend Jacob Bourassa. “My daughter chels – jake – and skylar rose my first grandchild!!! ” Rosie wrote with the hashtags, “love,” “life” and “NANA,” along with a picture of her daughter and granddaughter in the hospital shortly after Skylar’s birth.

Chelsea went on to have three more children: Riley, born January 2021, daughter Avery Lynn, born in February 2022 and son Atlas, born in October 2023.

“I think with my relationship with my daughter, Chelsea, because we went through some really public troubled times … She’s doing better now and we’re both communicating with each other. When somebody does something unforgivable to you and you can forgive them and they can forgive you, there’s a kind of grace that descends upon the both of you, within that,” Rosie confessed during a 2018 appearance on The Talk.

In Touch exclusively broke the news on October 18, 2024, that Chelsea had been arrested the month prior and was charged with four felony counts of maintaining a drug trafficking place, child neglect, possession of methamphetamine and possession of THC. Prosecutors also charged Chelsea with two misdemeanors: disorderly conduct/domestic abuse and possession of illegally obtained prescription drugs,

“Sadly, this is not new for our family – Chelsea has struggled with drug addiction for a decade,” the O’Donnell family told In Touch on October 19, 2024. “We are all hopeful she will find her way out of this deadly disease.”

Who Is Rosie O’Donnell’s Son Blake O’Donnell?

Blake was born on December 5, 1999, and became the third child adopted by Rosie and Kelli.

While Blake lives a private life, Rosie has shared updates about him on social media.

“Dropped off my boy at college. Hard to believe,” she wrote as Blake was about to start his collegiate studies at New York’s Marist College in 2018.

Rosie revealed her second-oldest son wasn’t aware his mom was an actress until he was 19 years old and saw A League of Their Own for the first time.

“My son was at a party, and he comes home and he goes, ‘Mom, I saw you on TV. You were in a baseball game, and you were a teenager,’” she shared with Page Six while attending the GLAAD Media Awards in 2019. “I’m like, ‘Honey, that was my first movie. I was not a teenager. I was 29 years old.’”

Rosie revealed in December 2022 that Blake was engaged to girlfriend Teresa Garofalow Westervelt, after he popped the question during a Broadway performance of The Phantom of the Opera.

“Last night – my son blake asked his gf teresa to marry him – and she said yes!!! the crowd clapped – and Hillary Clinton was there too – i cried all through phantom of the opera – wishing my mom was here to see it all,” the Riding the Bus With My Sister star captioned an Instagram post showing Blake getting down on one knee and presenting Teresa with a ring while in the audience at intermission.

The couple married on August 16, 2024. Rosie shared an Instagram photo of Blake and Teresa’s first dance at their lavish wedding reception. She posted a snapshot of the newly married pair while out to dinner on October 14, 2024, writing, “Love these 2 newlyweds.”

Who Is Rosie O’Donnell’s Daughter Vivienne O’Donnell?

Kelli gave birth to Vivienne on November 29, 2002, after becoming pregnant via artificial insemination.

Rosie shared that Vivienne graduated from high school in a June 24, 2021, Instagram post where the teenager alongside the American Gigolo star’s longtime best friend Jackie Ellard.

“Vivi and jackie – as vivi graduates from hs – hard to believe – im so proud of u honey – u r a wonderful young woman,” Rosie wrote in the caption.

In 2022, the pair had a TikTok exchange after Vivienne claimed in a video, “I love all these comments about how Rosie kept my life ‘normal.’ No offense, Mom, that never happened. She just didn’t really inform us, for really anything.”

Vivi added, “She has done so much for me and I’m so incredibly, incredibly thankful for her, but one thing she’s not done is normal.”

Rosie responded with her own TikTok video, snarking, “Vivi, what do you mean I didn’t do anything normal? I did normal things. I’m normal. I’m totally normal,” adding, “Jeez, Viv. I’m gonna tell some secrets about you.”

Who Is Rosie O’Donnell’s Daughter Dakota O’Donnell?

After Rosie married second wife Michelle Rounds on June 9, 2012, they adopted daughter Dakota, who was born on January 5, 2013. Rosie filed for divorce in 2015, and Michelle died by suicide in 2017.

The Fosters star penned an emotional essay about Dakota’s autism diagnosis in 2022. “I didn’t want Dakota to feel shame about her diagnosis. I have told her from the start that autism is her superpower,” Rosie wrote in People.

She added, “I am learning to have compassion much deeper than I ever did. To really listen and communicate in a way I never had to with my other kids. The sense of vulnerability that comes with having a kid with autism has been a gift to me. She teaches me.”

In the same essay, Rosie revealed what Dakota said to her birth mother after requesting to meet her.

“We’re in contact, so Dakota gets on FaceTime and says, ‘Are you the lady whose tummy I was in? I just wanted you to know I’m the kid that was in there, and when I got born, my mommy held me and I squeezed her pinkie, and I am with her. So, I just want to let you know that’s what happened to me. Bye,'” Rosie shared