Chinese woman takes DNA test after joke about her looks, finds out true identity

A woman in northern China discovered she was not her parents’ biological daughter after a DNA test was prompted by her colleagues’ joke that she “did not look local”.

As a result, there has been widespread support from netizens encouraging her to search for her birth parents.

On October 24, Henan Broadcasting System reported that the 24-year-old woman, surnamed Dong, from Xinxiang in Henan province, shared during an interview how her colleagues often commented on her distinctive appearance.

“I’ve always lived in Xinxiang, but after I started working, my colleagues would say, ‘You do not look like us at all. Your nose is wide, you have thick lips, and your eyes are bigger and deeper than ours. You do not look like someone from Henan at all,’” Dong recalled.

Prompted by these comments, Dong approached her parents for answers, but they were evasive and even provided conflicting information about her birth date.

Driven by a growing curiosity and confusion about her origins, Dong decided to take a genetic test.