Thanks for being here.
I have fraternal twins, easy to tell them apart--
one's a girl, one's a boy, right?
But when I look at the two of you, I have no idea who's who?
So you're-- help me out here.
Who are you?
I'm Molly, and I'm actually an inch taller than Emily.
So you can look for height, very subtle difference.
But also, if you cheat like my dad,
you can look for my wedding ring.
Ah, there you go.
So you have to stay single for the rest of your life.
Yes, which I don't mind.
So you have an incredible story.
So Emily, please tell us how this all started?
Yeah, so were adopted from South Korea.
I have a daughter who is 11 years old.
And I would say about five years ago--
five years ago, excuse me, she had this growing interest
to find my biological family.
She was relentless.
She asked me for a DNA test year after year.
So finally, for her 10th birthday in 2019,
we got her 23andMe kit.
We got the results back and confirmed that I'm 100% Korean.
She's 50% Korean, 50% European mutt, but nothing profound.
We didn't find any DNA relatives,
maybe 11 distant cousins on my side and about 1,000
on her father's side.
So I had sort of lost hope until March 3.
OK, what happened March 3?
Molly?
Well.
So, I, actually, in October of 2020,
had a little bit of a health scare,
went and had a mammography and ultrasound.
Emily had the same lump that brought me in.
Good news, we had nothing to be worried about.
Yes.
But I thought I have no health history.
Let me look into this genetic marker kit,
and it happened to go on sale for the holidays,
and I purchased it.
The kit--
Oh, thank God for the sale, right?
We both love a good sale.
We do.
I don't pay full price for anything.
But, of course, it just sat on my desk for three months.
And my husband reminded me that I had it and said,
maybe you should send this in.
So I sent it in the end of February.
The results came back early on March 3.
OK, and when the results came back, then what happened?
Shock.
I opened up the results and it said--
You were Nigerian?
I'm sorry?
No, it didn't say that?
Oh, Nigerian.
OK.
Well, Nigerians are hot right now.
I was hoping for something exciting,
but I was 100% Korean.
But it said you have one close relative
and her name is Isabel.
I clicked on her, and it said you share 49.96% DNA.
And we predict that she's your daughter.
Wow.
We don't have children, so that didn't make sense.
My husband and I thought, absolutely, this test kit
is terrible.
They don't know what they're doing.
And we thought about it, and I connected through the app
and messaged Isabel and said, hey,
I'm adopted from South Korea in 1985.
I'm really curious how we share this much DNA.
And then what?
Then what happened?
So on the northern part of the coast--
OK, all right.
--my daughter and I were actually getting ready for bed,
and I'm single mom.
So she had asked if we could sleep together that night.
I was not going to say no because there's
going to be a time when she does not want
to sleep and be in bed with me.
Exactly.
So we are laying in bed, I was checking my email,
and I had a message from 23andMe that
said you have a relative match, and this relative
is trying to reach out to you.
So we opened up the message.
Molly had stated that she was adopted
from South Korea in 1985.
So instantly, I looked over to Izzy in total shock.
Obviously, she was a sister of some sort.
I didn't know at that moment that she
was an identical twin sister.
So we went and Googled her name.
We looked at pictures of her.
We saw videos of her.
She clearly was my identical twin.
But I still was not believing it.
Reached out to my family, FaceTimed them,
and after a few hours, we pieced together the fact
that she is actually my identical twin sister.
Oh my god.
This is crazy.
We have to hear some more this.
So we'll be back with more with Molly and Emily
after the break.
All right, we're back with Molly and Emily who found out
they were twins after 36 years.
So when was the first time you guys met?
What was that like?
Oh, man, that was the best day of my life.
We met on our 36th birthday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
I'll just fill her in.
We're doing a twin-- oh, yeah, let me finish for you.
We were both so nervous.
We thought, oh my gosh, maybe we're not going to look alike.
I kept asking my husband, is she going to look like me?
Is she going to look like me?
And we did, and we cried, and it was just a magical moment.
Our whole lives just changed that day.
It's beautiful.
It's just beautiful.
All that time-- and now you have your match.
It's beautiful.
So one thing I heard is that you discovered
you have twin-tuition going up?
Oh, yeah.
What's that?
We've had a lot of twin discoveries
as we started talking on the phone and sharing photos.
In fact, Emily shared a photo of senior prom,
and I ran up to my room to get my photo album because we
basically wore the same exact gown, same necklaces, our hair
was the same, our makeup--
The same hair?
Yeah, I mean, it was incredible.
And I mean, the way we were posed with our dates
was even a mirror image.
It's like we were posing together.
But the hair-- you know what?
I'm going to pull one little string of hair right in here.
This is what I would do.
This is going to set everything off,
this one little wisp of hair.
The 2000s are coming back I hear.
This is amazing, really.
And you're planning a trip to Korea in 2022, I understand?
We hope to.
Well, Ellen has friends at Shutterfly
who happen to love when twins are reunited after 36 years.
So they're giving you each a check
for $10,000 to help you travel to South Korea next year.
Thank you.
Oh my god.
We'll be right back.