During her second marriage to director Blake Edwards, Julie adopted her two younger daughters, Amy and Joanna.

A few years after their marriage, Andrews and Blake adopted their daughter Amy Leigh from Vietnam in 1974. The following year, they adopted a second daughter, Joanna Lynne, also from Vietnam. Both girls were infants from a Vietnamese orphanage during the war.

Amy Edwards and Joanna Edwards are the adopted children of Julie Andrews The actress told PEOPLEthat she and her husband Blake “wanted a child and weren’t being successful,” so they turned to international adoption in 1974, amidst the Vietnam War.

From her new marriage Andrews gained two stepchildren, Jennifer and Geoffrey. Later she adopted two children – Amelia and Joanna – after a failed attempt to have children with Edwards.

During their married life, the couple adopted two more girls, Amy Leigh and Joanna Lynne, who were infants from an orphanage located in Vietnam amidst the war. Both Edwards and Andrews knew the orphanage would not be able to manage taking care of the children, hence their request for adoption.