Her adopted children were: Akio (Korean son), Janot (Japanese son), Luis (Colombian son), Jarry (Finnish son), Jean-Claude (Canadian son), Moise (French Jewish son; pronounced moh- EEZ, French for Moses ), Brahim (Algerian son), Marianne (French daughter), Koffi (Cote d'Ivoirean--or Ivory Coast, Africa-- son), Mara (Venezuelan son), Noel (French son), and Stellina (Moroccan daughter). Baker bore only one child herself, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency hysterectomy.