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 “didn’t look local”.

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

On October 24, the Henan Broadcasting System reported that the 24-year-old woman, surnamed Dong, from Xinxiang in Henan Province, recounted 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 tell me, ‘You don’t look like us at all.’ Your nose is wide, you have thick lips, and your eyes are larger and deeper than ours. You don’t 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 gave conflicting information about her date of birth.

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