Identical Twins Separated at Birth | The Twinsters Story
In 2012, a fashion student named Anaïs Bordier was on a bus in London, scrolling her phone, when a friend sent her a YouTube link. It was a video of an American actress in Los Angeles. As soon as the clip started, Anaïs froze. The girl on screen had her face. Same eyes, same smile, same expressions.
Anaïs had been adopted from South Korea and raised in France, and her adoption papers said she was an only child, so at first she tried to laugh it off. But her friends didn’t drop it. They kept searching and eventually found the actress: Samantha Futerman, living in LA.
Then it got even stranger. Same birthday — November 19, 1987. Same birthplace — Busan, South Korea. Also adopted. It was too much to ignore, so Anaïs sent a slightly shy but very honest Facebook message asking Samantha where she had been born.
One long Skype call turned into many. A DNA test with twin researcher Dr. Nancy Segal confirmed what they already felt: they were identical twins, separated as babies and adopted by families in different countries.
Since then, they’ve made the documentary Twinsters, written Separated @ Birth, travelled back to South Korea to meet their foster mothers, and started speaking up for other adoptees searching for their roots.
