Debbie Rowe told a backstabbing pal "Hell no!" to the idea of raising the two kids she bore ex-hubby Michael Jackson, bombshell e-mails she reportedly wrote reveal.

"Do I want the kids? Hell no! Does it look good for me to ask for them? Absolutely," she wrote July 5 to friend Rebecca White, ExtraTV.com reported. "I don't want to look like the woman who gave away her kids."

Rowe, 50, is considering a custody bid for Prince Michael, 12, and Paris, 11, as her lawyers discuss private settlement options with grandmother Katherine Jackson, sources told the Daily News.

Michael Jackson's youngest child, Blanket, 7, was born to a secret surrogate.

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Jeff and Diana Kerr fell in love with the Guatemalan baby girl the moment they saw her photograph. The Minnesota couple decorated her pink and white nursery with pictures of flowers and butterflies, but now they don't know if the 8-month-old will ever become their daughter.

The Kerrs are among thousands of Americans trying to adopt 3,700 babies who are caught in limbo as Guatemala's lawmakers debate new rules that could all but shut down a largely unregulated system that has become the speediest place in the world to finalize an adoption.

"It's an emotionally taxing process," said Jeff Kerr, a 44-year-old financial adviser from Lino Lakes, Minn. "Every day you look at her picture and wonder if you're going to bring her home."

As early as this week, the legislature is expected to debate new rules to eliminate potential fraud in Guatemala's adoption process, which until now has been run from beginning to end by notaries who work with birth mothers, determine if babies were surrendered willingly, hire foster mothers and handle all the paperwork.

These notaries charge an average of $30,000 for children delivered in about nine months — record time for international adoptions. The process is so quick that one in every 100 Guatemalan children now grow up as an adopted American.

The small Central American country sent 4,135 children to the U.S. last year, making it the largest source of babies for American families after much-bigger China.

The adoptions are a $100 million a year industry for notaries.

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A raid on a Guatemalan orphanage has thrown the spotlight on overseas adoptions which have tripled in the United States in 15 years despite many perils, corrupt officials and exorbitant fees.

"There are tremendous stresses that come with building a family through adoption," Sandra Hanks Benoiton, the mother of two adopted children from Cambodia, told AFP.

"Situations like the present one in Guatemala make things much worse," she added, after police earlier this month seized a children’s home run by an American in the tourist area of Old Guatemala, where officials said nearly 50 boys and girls were victims of an illegal adoption ring.

"Imagine the horror that comes when a parent learns that their child — and these children are as much theirs as any gestating infant — has been removed at gunpoint from what they have come to accept as a safe environment (and) transported to who-knows-where," Benoiton said, an American who lives in the Seychelles.

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Eva Longoria and her fiance Tony Parker are considering adopting a baby.

The Desperate Housewives actress has revealed the pair could adopt after they get married in July.

She said: "We both have big hearts and the finances to do it, and we want to be able to provide an environment of love and stability to a child who otherwise wouldn’t have that."

Source: stuff.co.nz

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Angelina Jolie has officially adopted a three-year-old Vietnamese boy at an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. This is her third adopted child and she has one biological daughter born in May.

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