Their happy family dynamic quickly changed with allegations came forward that their daughter was really an adult pretending to be a child.
Surprisingly, the case of Natalia Grace wasn’t the inspiration behind the 2009 film “Orphan,” where a family adopts a young girl who is not who she says she is. “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace,” which you can stream on Max, follows the true story of Kristine and Michael Barnett, who in 2010 adopted Natalia, who they believed was a 6-year-old Ukrainian orphan with a rare bone growth disorder. Their happy family dynamic quickly changed with allegations came forward that their daughter was really an adult pretending to be a child.