Couple with three kids discover they're cousins after 10 years of marriage
A husband and wife with three kids - who had been together for 17 years and married for 10 - were shocked to discover that they're actually cousins.
After taking a family tree DNA test, the Colorado 'cousband' and wife, Celina and Joseph Quinones, found out that they are blood related.
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The mum-of-three has gone viral on TikTok after sharing the news earlier this month.
She uploaded a screenshot of their shared ancestry results, which showed that they have a match of 62 cM, or centimorgan - a unit for measuring genetic linkage.
This basically means that the pair both had the same ancestor eight generations back.
“Married my husband in 2006. Not thinking anything of it, we had three kids. Come to find out we were related and cousins,” Celina explained.
"My kids and my husband are my everything and we looked past it. All our kids have 10 fingers and 10 toes. It's a good ice breaker lol."
"17 years with my cousband. No, we didn't know till we did a DNA test. We had a four-month courtship before we got married," she explained in another video.
"This was three kids in that I found out we were related.
"I did my DNA test I think in 2016 and yeah it was devastating because I was like ‘babe we're related, are we even supposed to be together? This is weird’.
"It really freaked me out."
Despite the awkward discovery, Celina says she is as happy as ever.
"He is still and will be my everything. I ain't gonna let a little bit of blood destroy what we created, this beautiful family," she said.
But as you can imagine, not all viewers saw it in the same way and Celina hit back at the haters, saying: "Let me divorce him because we didn't know. Let me just tell our kids their parents are not together anymore because of other people's opinions.
"No thank you we will just be staying cousins, spouses and lovers forever. Now go throw up in your mouth some more."
In a follow-up video, the happily married woman said she wouldn't be surprised if more couples in Colorado were secretly related.
"Colorado seems so big, it's really not that big," she said.
"Everyone knows everyone and most likely everyone is related.
"Do a DNA test if you don't want to marry your cousin on accident! Lol. Just my luck.
"Now even if we separate we stuck for life because we family now.
"I love my cousin, and I wouldn’t [have] it any other way that I married on accident."
Topics: Sex and Relationships, TikTok, Viral
Anish Vij