section_path: Early life and adoption
section_name: Early life and adoption
paragraph_text: Early life and adoption
  
  Natalia Grace was born on September 4, 2003, as Natalia Vadymivna Gava (Ukrainian: Наталія Вадимівна Гава; named by social services Natasha (Ukrainian: Наташа)) in Ukraine to Vadim "Vadik" Gava (Ukrainian: Вадим «Вадик» Гава) and Anna Volodymyrivna Gava (Ukrainian: Анна Володимирівна Гава) of Mykolaiv. Natalia was diagnosed with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare form of dwarfism. Her mother, identified as born on April 20, 1979, placed her in an orphanage in Ukraine after her birth, with the recorded rationale of the "child hav congenital defects" and, being unmarried with a 4-year-old, "hav not enough money to raise another child".
  
  In 2008, she was adopted as Natalia Lourdes Ciccone by Dyan and Gary Ciccone of New Hampshire. The Ciccones placed her for adoption again in 2010, for what People magazine alleged was her "disruptive behavior". She was adopted by Kristine and Michael Barnett in the spring of 2010, taking the legal name "Natalia Grace Barnett".
  
  Natalia Grace was born on September 4, 2003, as Natalia Vadymivna Gava (Ukrainian: Наталія Вадимівна Гава; named by social services Natasha (Ukrainian: Наташа)) in Ukraine to Vadim "Vadik" Gava (Ukrainian: Вадим «Вадик» Гава) and Anna Volodymyrivna Gava (Ukrainian: Анна Володимирівна Гава) of Mykolaiv. Natalia was diagnosed with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare form of dwarfism. Her mother, identified as born on April 20, 1979, placed her in an orphanage in Ukraine after her birth, with the recorded rationale of the "child hav congenital defects" and, being unmarried with a 4-year-old, "hav not enough money to raise another child".
  
  In 2008, she was adopted as Natalia Lourdes Ciccone by Dyan and Gary Ciccone of New Hampshire. The Ciccones placed her for adoption again in 2010, for what People magazine alleged was her "disruptive behavior". She was adopted by Kristine and Michael Barnett in the spring of 2010, taking the legal name "Natalia Grace Barnett".