Twins Separated at Birth Ended Up Marrying Each Other!

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on January 12, 2008 at 4:00 am


Lord Alton of Liverpool spoke of an example of why UK laws covering human fertility and adoption should be changed. Here’s the strange case of a twin, separated at birth, who ended up marrying each other:

"They were never told that they were twins," he said during the Dec. 10 debate on a law covering human fertility and embryology. They had been adopted by separate families and "met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation."

Link - Thanks Tiffany! (Photo is of David Alton, who spoke at the House of Lords about the case)



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18 comments to "Twins Separated at Birth Ended Up Marrying Each Other!"

  1. biltmore
    January 12th, 2008 at 5:01 am

    Yummy!

  2. Edward
    January 12th, 2008 at 5:12 am

    No names, no first hand witness, just a story from a poletician to support a pet cause.

    I’m calling BS on this one.

  3. lewis
    January 12th, 2008 at 8:33 am

    that sounds suspiciously like the oldboy scenario

  4. FetishForPerception
    January 12th, 2008 at 8:41 am

    I doubt it’s BS… They had a full report about it on the news last night, didn’t catch most of it, but I’m pretty sure this is all true.

    Wow! I just justified the authenticity of a story because I saw it in the media… o_O

  5. DanielC
    January 12th, 2008 at 9:35 am

    Its so Luke & Leia

  6. Tim Giachetti
    January 12th, 2008 at 11:11 am

    Ummm, Ewwwwwww!

  7. nathaniel
    January 12th, 2008 at 11:23 am

    i like how neatorama leaves the fact that the picture is of the politician until the very end of the post.

    here i was thinking that was one of the practitioners of consanguinity (look it up).

    grounds for libel, methinks…

  8. just a guy
    January 12th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    I agree with a lot of the info above. A politician shares a ’story’ about bla bla bla. Sounds like BS.

    And I thought the pic was one of them too, at first. but then again, his pic is the only thing we have.

  9. Kate
    January 12th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    Really, if you had the misfortune of marrying your twin, would you want the world to know who you are? This could be true for all we know, because I’m fairly sure no one would want to come forth and confirm it.

  10. SB
    January 12th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    Agh! Lewis! Don’t ruin it for everybody!

  11. AJ
    January 12th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

    The story is complete BS. Here is the explanation:

    http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDBlog=21

  12. Vanessa
    January 13th, 2008 at 2:17 am

    Here’s the news article here!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7182817.stm

  13. just a guy
    January 13th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    it was on Reuters too. In ALL cased of the article, it says “according to SuchAndSuch” then goes on to state his story as fact.

    What a great lesson on how much we can rely on ‘official’ media.

    As a side note, it’s odd that the story is a ‘good example’ for the politician’s agenda.

  14. Ali S.
    January 13th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    At least we can thank the fact that they didn’t have kids…because that would have been awkward. Very, very awkward to explain to their friends.

  15. Courageous Grace
    January 13th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    I have read interesting comments on this story, several of which indicate how people often marry someone who looks like them. I thought that was quite amusing as I have had people ask me if my brother-in-law (hubby’s little brother) was my biological brother because we look similar. Just to relieve any concerns, I know we are not blood-related, lol.

  16. Abmertaxauti
    January 13th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    Well, if we were to ignore the lack of evidence here, that would seem like an odd story.
    But this really is a short article and doesn’t have anything to support itself.

  17. marieissah
    January 14th, 2008 at 12:13 am

    That surely hurts.

  18. Emperor
    January 15th, 2008 at 10:45 am

    I’ve had a nose around this and it really looks closer to an urban legend than reality:

    http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/1226-Did- twins-really-get-married.html

    As has been said this seems more like a lesson in the way media work (and why we should be suspicious of them) than a story about unfortunate twins.


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