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Why was Cristine Reyes adopted?

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<div><br/></div><div><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">MANILA — Actress Cristine Reyes opened up about her childhood with her adoptive family. </span></div><p>&quot;My mom, she was going through a phase in her life where she had to go to the States, leave all her kids, all of us to somebody else. Ako lang nahiwalay, I didn&#x27;t know mga kapatid ko,&quot; Reyes told ABS-CBN News&#x27; Karen Davila in a vlog set for release on Thursday. </p><p>&quot;Hindi ko alam na kapatid ko siya (Ara Mina) nu&#x27;n<span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">,&quot; she added.</span> </p><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-1" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/C296fkkrbmG/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fnews-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A1%2C%22os%22%3A8405759.399999976%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="670" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-1" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Reyes said she was around 6 or 7 years old when her mother took her back.</p><p>&quot;When my mom got me, hindi ako nagsasalita when I was a child,&quot; the actress shared. &quot;Hindi naman ako &#x27;yung hindi makasalita but I shut down when she got me.&quot;</p><p>&quot;It was years, not just months, years na hindi ako nagsasalita noong bata ako. Nagsasalita na lang ako kapag nasa school ako, &#x27;pag babalik ako ng bahay, quiet ulit ako, &#x27;di ako nagsasalita. Kapag kakausapin ako ng mga tao sa bahay, magna-nod lang ako,&quot; she said.</p><p>Reyes said her adoptive family continued to show up whenever she needed them. </p><p>&quot;My adopted family was very supportive naman so they go [to school events] if my mom wouldn&#x27;t make it,&quot; she said. &quot;Showbiz naman, when I entered the business, ako lang &#x27;yung walang bantay, but sometimes naman my adopted family would go.&quot;</p><p>Davila&#x27;s <a href="https://youtu.be/6pUk74Fxw6g">full vlog</a> with Reyes drops at 6 p.m.  </p><div> </div>

<p>Actress Cristine Reyes opened up about her childhood with her adoptive family.</p>