A Brazilian woman’s search for her long-lost mother took a shocking turn after she discovered that she had unknowingly married her biological brother. Adriana and her husband, Leandro, who chose not to disclose their surnames or show their faces, had been together for nearly 19 years and share a daughter. Both had grown up searching for their mothers, each named Maria, who had abandoned them during childhood.
Unaware of their blood ties, the couple built a life together while separately pursuing answers about their past. Adriana, a cosmetics saleswoman, said she had not seen her mother since she was just one year old and was raised by her father. Leandro, a lorry driver, was abandoned by his mother at the age of eight in Sao Paulo and was brought up by a stepmother.
Their lives had followed different paths before they met. While Leandro remained in Sao Paulo, Adriana left their hometown to work as a housemaid, later marrying another man for 15 years and having three children. The startling truth about their shared parent reportedly emerged during Adriana’s renewed effort to locate her mother, revealing that the woman they had both been searching for was the same person.