Adopted woman meets birth family after 43 years following £68 DNA test

A woman who only found out she was adopted when she was 14-years-old used a £68 DNA test to finally be reunited with her family 43-years later. Louisa Hale, now 60, only found out she was adopted when a friend of her mum 'spilt the beans'.

Louisa was raised in Melbourne, Australia, but was born in England. The mum-of-two, who now lives in the Caribbean, decided to take a £68 DNA test three years ago. She took it along with sons Matthew, 22, and Joshua, 21, as well as husband Jonny, 59, which changed everything. "I just had to know the truth," she said.

“In 2019, I was back in Australia visiting family when I decided to do a DNA test with my brother and it revealed that we were not at all related. The Ancestry results came with other information about our heritage and what parts of the world I was descended from. When the results came back, I was shocked by what they said.”

READ MORE:'I don’t understand why anybody would do this': Manchester women speak out after disturbing TikTok clips go viral

Louisa first begun to suspect she was adopted around the age of 14 when she noticed her blue eyes and blonde hair standing out in family photos. She said: "Thinking back now, it was obvious. My sister is only six months younger than me, which doesn’t make any sense, but it wasn’t until we started learning about the birds and the bees in school that I began to realise.

“When I was a teenager, I started digging around for information and a friend’s mother ended up spilling the beans to me.” Still, despite her burning desire to know more, she did not ask her parents about her origins until she turned 32.

She added: “Back then, people just didn’t talk about these things and I very much thought of them as my parents, so I didn’t want