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\"I feel the same way with a woman with brown skin and her babies or a white woman with you know, her white babies,\" she said. \"Maybe one day that will go away. Maybe on eBay we will see with different eyes.\"

Roorda said Bullock putting a spotlight on this topic will open up the conversation about trans-racial adoptions.

\"I think that's why her elevating this type of family building and elevating that and putting it out there on the national stage -- I think that first of all, it will hopefully help adoptive parents not realize that they're alone,\" she said.

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