Korie Robertson of 'Duck Dynasty' Rappels Down 300-Foot Building for Adoption Awareness
Korie Robertson of the A&E reality show "Duck Dynasty" joined forces with Louisiana's First Lady Supriya Jindal to spread awareness about adoption by rapelling down the side of Baton Rouge's second-tallest building on Friday.
The women accomplished their feat around 1 p.m. Friday when they rapelled 308 feet down Baton Rouge's One America Place building. The unique challenge was done to promote awareness for the "Over the Edge for Adoption" campaign, created by the Louisiana Family Forum, which seeks to bring awareness to the more than 300 foster children currently available for adoption in the state of Louisiana.
Korie and her husband, Willie, CEO of the Robertson family's Duck Commander business, have repeatedly discussed their personal passion for adoption, as two of their five children are adopted. Korie Robertson recalled the joy she and her husband felt when they adopted their son Will when he was a baby.
Get Our Latest News for FREE
"From the moment we found out about him, he was ours," Korie said while speaking at the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute Angels in Adoption Gala in Washington D.C. in 2013.
"I swear, I had labor pains the night before I went and picked him up at the foster home he was living at. He's our child, just like our biological children."
The couple adopted their other child, Rebecca, after she stayed at the family's house as an exchange student from Taiwan. Robertson describes herself on her Twitter profile as "Mom to four awesome kids plus a sweet exchange student who became ours. Love my big family. Thankful. God is good."
Photos taken by The Times-Picayune Friday show Robertson and Louisiana's First Lady Supriya Jindal, wife to Gov. Bobby Jindal, smiling widely at the top of One America Place before taking the plunge to the ground floor. Korie's biological son John Luke and daughter Sadie also participated in Friday's rapelling event.
Supriya and Korie met when Gov. Bobby Jindal awarded Willie Robertson with the inaugural Governor's Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence earlier this year for growing his father's duck call business into a multi-million dollar company.
"The Robertsons have lived the American Dream," Jindal said at the ceremony, held on the Robertson property in West Monroe, La., back in February. "They've proven there are no limits to what you can accomplish." The governor added that he selected the Robertson family for the award due to "the tremendous impact that Duck Commander's expansion has had on our community and on all Louisianians."
