Chrissy Teigen thought she had a long-lost similar twin after taking a DNA take a look at and your complete story is a wild experience

• In an Instagram submit, Chrissy Teigen mentioned for a second, she thought she had a twin.
• She had taken a DNA take a look at on 23andMe and was advised she had an similar twin.
• Seems, Teigen had taken a DNA take a look at earlier than beneath a pseudonym. 

Chrissy Teigen has all the time been open with followers about her private life, however for a quick second, even she was shocked by her DNA outcomes.

The cookbook creator and mannequin mentioned on Monday that after taking a 23andMe DNA take a look at, the outcomes confirmed that she had “an similar twin.”

“As a few of you understand, I have been on a little bit of a journey for the previous few years (however particularly the previous yr) of well being and wellness and making an attempt to determine loads about my previous and my household,” she mentioned on Instagram. “Simply typical stuff we’re all interested by.”

As part of this journey, Teigen, 37, mentioned her therapist and physician supported her to take a DNA take a look at to study extra about herself.

She mentioned whereas she had finished 23andMe earlier than, she had solely “finished a heritage factor.” 23andMe has three totally different companies, essentially the most fundamental tier being an “Ancestry Service” for $99 that features relative finders and geographic areas, whereas the extra companies turn out to be extra complete and embody well being reviews.

So Teigen mentioned she paid for the upgrades and what she found was — along with having Neanderthal DNA — that she has an similar twin named “BB.”

“That needs to be a joke, proper?” she mentioned in her Instagram video.

So Teigen mentioned, as any of us would, that she began to spiral — she wrote to the supposed twin’s profile, grilled a 23andMe robotic assistant, texted her physician, and referred to as her father Ron Teigen Sr. to see if anybody knew what was occurring.

“I name my dad and I actually say, ‘Dad, hey, did you see me come out of mother’s vagina and had been there two of me?'” Chrissy recalled earlier than he confirmed that it was simply her.

It even received to the purpose the place Teigen started to imagine that this supposed twin might be why she was “co-dependent” and had points with dependancy.

However lastly, Teigen mentioned she referred to as her sister to attempt to clarify the thriller, who identified that your complete household had taken DNA exams beneath pseudonyms for the TV present “Discovering Your Roots,” a PBS collection hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Their program by no means completed taking pictures, based on Teigen, and by no means aired, so she had fully forgotten about it.

“My similar twin was myself,” Teigen concluded. “I used to be matching myself.”

Teigen’s Instagram was flooded with followers and celebrities all reacting to her story, from director Taika Waititi to her husband John Legend, who wrote “RIP Sissy Teigen.”

Some even recommended this needs to be a scripted present that follows one girl’s quest to seek out her twin earlier than discovering it was herself all alongside.

Teigen is not the one A-lister who took DNA exams for the PBS present “Discovering Your Roots” — Julia Roberts, Viola Davis, Andy Samberg, and lots of others have all appeared, and in 2015, Ben Affleck controversially suppressed a slave-owning ancestor on the present. He later apologized.