At-home ancestry kits can teach us a lot about ourselves: what our ethnic roots are; whether we’re predisposed to certain illnesses and even whether we have secret relatives.
However, sometimes the details we learn about ourselves are uncomfortable to say the least . And no one knows this better than a mother-of-three from Colorado.
Celina Quinones took a 23andMe DNA test to find out more about her origins. But, rather than enjoy a fascinating insight into her distant heritage, Celina was left feeling “sick to her stomach.”
Upon reading the results, she and her husband Joseph, who have been married for 18 years and have two sons and a daughter together, instantly considered separating.
The reason for their extreme reaction? They discovered that they are, in fact, cousins.
“In my head, I thought we were supposed to get divorced,” Celina told Truly last year, recalling how online trolls branded their relationship “disturbing and disgusting”.
She explained that the earth-shattering revelation came about simply because she wanted to learn more about herself.