A woman has left TikTok users shocked as she revealed that despite discovering she was related to her husband by blood, the couple have stayed together, The Mirror reports. Marcella, a blogger who writes about menopause and posts on TikTok under the handle @beingmarcellahill, shared her "confession" with her almost 300k followers.
Viewers found out that Marcella and her husband were told they were cousins while she was pregnant with her first child. "So I've never told anyone publicly that I accidentally married my cousin," Marcella begins, humorously whispering the words "my cousin".
She explained: "I was sitting on the couch and I was on a family search site. I was like 'Oh look, grandpa's name, grandma's name, great grandma's name, great great grandma's name.' My husband was next to me on his own family search and was like 'oh that's funny - we have the same grandma and grandpa's names'."
Marcella realised the reality when she looked at his family tree and discovered an identical line to hers. She said: "Then we start looking at it and we realise my grandpa is my grandma's first cousin." Their grandparents confirmed the worrying truth that not only were they related, they had grown up together and were living together as children.
"We're third cousins!" she exclaimed.
Marcella saw the funny side of the situation at the vide's conclusion, saying: "We have won a prize for being the closest related in a neighbourhood activity and when I go to my family reunion he gets to go to his too - at the same time."
Her video was captioned: "Funny story…I accidentally married my cousin. We had no idea our Grandma and Grandpa were 1st cousins. Oop!" While the viewers were shocked, many assured Marcella that it wasn't "a huge deal". One said: "3rd cousins are pretty far removed."
Another added: "That's far enough apart lol. crazy coincidence though lol" to which Marcella, somewhat oddly, responded: "But still weird we share our Great Great Grandma and Grandpa." Others asked how they hadn't found out sooner like at their wedding - to which Marcella explained that they had a private courthouse wedding without family.
Marcella seemed to find the whole thing amusing and some comments added to the joke, saying: "We're all cousins if you go back far enough". Another added: "So in a way your baby is it's own 4th cousin."
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