Woman takes Ancestry DNA test as a joke only to discover she was adopted

A woman who took a DNA test as a joke was shocked to learn her mother and father are not her biological parents.

Amanda, 31, revealed in a video shared on TikTok that she always had a curiosity about taking an Ancestry test, but never quite believed the results would be accurate.

"Finally decided to do it just to see if I could find random family members since my grandpa has so many children," she said in the video, which has been viewed more than 150,000 times. "Got my results back and saw no familiar last names and one person was even a 50 per cent match."

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"Asked my parents if they recognise anybody and they said they didn't, proving I was right about not trusting the test," she said.

"Two days later I asked them again and they told me I was adopted when I was newborn (I'm 31 now) and that the 50 per cent match is my biological mother."

Amanda ended up meeting both her biological parents two weeks later.

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"I am not angry, sad and I do not feel betrayed, even when they told me," she said in a follow-up video about her adoptive parents.

In fact, Amanda felt like she needed to comfort her parents because they "felt like I would hate them".

The Ancestry DNA test is done with a saliva sample. According to Ancestry, the test surveys a person's "entire genome at over 700,000 locations" and the online interface allows you to utilise your DNA results for family history research, connecting you with potential new relatives.

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