Gilbert — who starred on the Little Home on the Prairie and was adopted after start — opened up on an episode of the Patrick LabyorSheaux podcast about her relationship along with her bio dad.

She admitted that she known as him as an grownup to share the information with him, and he or she found he already knew.

“I did not inform him who I used to be, after which he requested me, ‘Properly, who’re you? What do you do?’” she informed host Patrick Labyorteaux throughout the podcast.

“And I mentioned, ‘Properly, here is the factor.’ And I mentioned, ‘Did you ever watch Little Home on the Prairie?’ And he mentioned, ‘You are Laura, aren’t you? I knew it.’ He knew it,” she added.

“Once I met my half-siblings, all of us look alike,” Gilbert defined. “So, you would positively see it. So, it is fairly clear.”

She additionally opened up about her start mom — who died earlier than Gilbert bought a possibility to fulfill her — sharing that she was a former unique dancer, whereas her start father was a inventory automobile racer and musician.

The actress was raised by her adoptive mother and father, Barbara Cowan and the late Paul Gilbert.

Gilbert herself is the mom of two kids; Dakota, whom she shares along with her first husband, director Bo Brinkman, and one other son, Michael, born in 1995, whom she shares along with her second husband, actor Bruce Boxleitner.