Woman Who Was Abandoned as a Baby Discovers She's Married to Her Brother

Adriana (39) went on a search to find her biological long-lost mother and ended up discovering she had unknowingly married her own brother.

Adriana and her husband Leandro (37) have been together seven years and have a six-year-old daughter together.

The Brazilian couple (who don't want to reveal their surnames) were both abandoned as babies and have spent their lives trying to find their respective mothers were are both called Maria.

But neither considered they could be looking for the same person...

Adriana, a cosmetics saleswoman, last saw her mother when she was one when she left Adriana's father to raise her.

Truck driver Leandro found out when he was eight that his own mother had also abandoned him, and that the woman he knew as his mum was actually his step-mother.

Leandro stayed in the same town where he was born in the state of Sao Paulo, southeast Brazil and Adriana moved away to work as a housemaid and was married for 15 years. She had three children.

The pair met for the first time ten years ago after Adriana's marriage broke down and she moved back to her home town, and they soon fell in love and moved in together.

Adriana was unable to give up the search for her mother, and last month decided to contact a radio station in their town to ask for help - and the two were reunited live on air.

But at the end of the interview on Radio Globo's 'The Time Is Now' programme, which specialises in finding lost relatives, the mother revealed she also had a son who didn't know her, Leandro.

As it becomes clear that it is the same Leandro that she was married to, Adriana is heard weeping uncontrollably: 'I don't believe that you're telling me this. Leandro is my husband,' she sobs.

At the end of the interview she says: 'Now I'm scared to go home and find out that Leandro doesn't want me any more. I love him so much.'

Adriana and Leandro - who never married legally - told Radio Globo that they would stay together, despite finding out that they are actually brother and sister.

'Only death is going to separate us. All this happened because God wanted it to happen.

'Of course it would have been different if we had known all this before, but we didn't and we fell in love.

'We thought it was funny that both our mothers had the same name, but it is a common name so we just thought it was a coincidence.

'At first we were really knocked by it all. But we had a family meeting and told everyone that we are going to stay husband and wife, whatever anyone might think.

'We have so many plans together, nothing's going to break us up, nothing.'

The couple said they don't blame their mother for leaving them, have spoken with her a number of times since and plan to meet up soon.

Source: dailymail