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Young Woman Goes from NYC Model to Adoptive Mother of Three within a Year
Two years ago, Jessica Hanna was a model and hairdresser in New York City. Now, thanks to a strange set of circumstances, she's the proud mother of four children—one biological, and three adopted.

By Kathryn Hawkins. Posted on August 11 2009

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A couple of years ago, Jessica Hanna (then Marchel) was working as a model and a hairdresser in New York City. Today, she’s happily married in Ellensburg, Washington, and is a mother of four.

You’re probably thinking quadruplets, but you’d be wrong: Jessica and her husband, Tom Hanna, are the proud parents of 3-year-old Nick, 18-month-old Nathan, 9-month-old Marchel, and 7-month-old Hailey. And while just one of the four children is related to the couple by blood, the family is as tightly-knit as any you could imagine.

When Jessica returned home to Ellensburg for a family visit two years ago, she was planning to get back to her jet-setting life in New York as soon as she had the opportunity. But after a former classmate invited her over to see her son Nick, Hanna knew that she had an obligation to stick around.

“I came and looked at him and he was in a total meth house,” Jessica told the Daily Record. She called State Protective Services immediately to get him removed from his mother’s care—and, because the mother had no other appropriate connections, the baby was entrusted to Jessica’s care. Just 21 years old, she knew that her former life of urban glamour was over—but something even better had taken its place.

Knowing that she wouldn’t be returning to New York City, Jessica decided to get connected with her local community again. She met Tom Hanna at church, and worried that she had scared him off by telling him that she had a baby. But her confession had done just the opposite: “I admired the fact that she had left everything that she had in New York so that she could take care of this kid,” he said.

Within just a few months, the young couple was married. Several months after that, Jessica discovered that she was pregnant: Nick would have a little sister.

But their family wasn’t done growing just yet: while Jessica was pregnant, she received another phone call from the State Protective Services. It turned out that Nick had a half-brother, Nathan, who was currently in foster care. The agency was wondering if Tom and Jessica would like to adopt the six-month-old baby. They jumped at the chance.

In October 2008, Jessica gave birth to a daughter, Marchel. They hadn’t planned to have any more children for quite some time—but as it turned out, her meth-addicted acquaintance had just had another baby, too. Just six weeks after Marchel’s birth, Jessica received yet another call, asking her if she’d like to adopt the woman’s third child.

Though Jessica was already dealing with the challenges of life with a newborn, she said yes without a second thought. “How quick can you get here?” asked the Protective Services agent. “She’s hungry.”

The Hannas loaded up the car that day to go and pick up baby Hailey, who was just two days old.

Even with their suddenly large family, Jessica and Tom have already established a successful salon, called Hanna Marchel. When Jessica meets with clients, they’re often shocked to hear the story of her three adoptions, but Jessica claims she’d do it again in a heartbeat—though probably not for a few more years.

“Being a foster parent is something special. Your heart has to be really prepared,” she said. “These little children’s hearts are breaking. Why not let yours break a little for them?”

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Season Of Thanksgiving!

I have always heard stories of things happening to people as random acts of kindness but have never experienced it as directly as I have thses last few weeks.


Few Weeks ago.

Tom and I loaned out our car until our friends could get thiers fixed. thats just what friends do. when the car was returned not only did it have a full tank of gas but a whole date for Tom and I planned and payed for! Wow!

Friday Night

Friday night I have WyleLife (middle School Young Life) that I help lead. On these nights I don't get to see the kids before they go to bed and usually end up waking them up just to say goodnight. but, this last friday I convieved to Tom to take the kids and I out for dinner so I could see them that evening. we were planning on going to pizza hut but I knew Tom would rather have mexican food so I changed plans last minute.

Dinner was really good and the kids were wonderful! the restrant placed us in the very back corner near the bathroom. As we were finishing up, a man with a white berd came by just to say hi. We did not know him but the kids liked him a lot. Nathan started calling him Grandpa. (made me embarraced) Realizing I now was going to be late for WyleLife we all throw our coats on and I asked for our bill. The waiter said it was taken care of. I didn't understand. but when I realized who paid for our food, we all ran to catch the man with the white berd.

Nick ran up to this man and gan his leg a hug and said "thank you for dinner" We spent some time chatting and enjoying eachothers company.

That night at WyldeLife I gave a talk. Feeling so blessed about what happened I spoke about Jesus and Hope.

Sunday Boxes


The pass was bad so we remained in Ellensburg for Church. The Pastor at the kittitas community church encouraged up to give thanks to the Lord and our blessing. Being thankful and blessed is somthing I feel all the time thanks to all my babies God has intrusted me with.

When we got home, after church we got home to find three boxes of food. lots of GOOD food. a turkey and everything. are you kidding me!! that is so amazing! A family I love thought it would be nice to take care of us this thanksgiving! how sweet!

The Lord is full of blessings and he works through so many people to show His Love.
Thank you to all my friends and family for loving us. there are so many of you that take such good care of us. with the kids to just coming to our house to hang out. I love you all and am so thankful for you this thanksgiving season!Be blessed