Woman arranges to meet doppelganger after seeing her online. It ended up revealing a long-kept secret.

Adversity is a part of life, and facing challenges head-on is often the only way to grow. One young woman experienced this firsthand when a TikTok video led her to a shocking discovery—she had a twin sister. In 2021, 19-year-old Ano Sartania received a clip of a girl with vibrant blue hair getting her eyebrows pierced. According to the BBC (@BBCWorldService on YouTube), this prompted the Georgia resident to search for her supposed doppelgänger—who, in a stunning twist, turned out to be her long-lost twin. However, their journey to reunite actually began years earlier with an episode of Georgia’s Got Talent in 2014, when both were still teenagers.

The girl in the TikTok video, named Amy, had already captured hearts years earlier with a standout dance performance on reality TV. Sartania’s family, longtime fans of Georgia’s Got Talent, were stunned when Amy appeared on the show. Her resemblance to Sartania was so striking that relatives began calling her mother, convinced she was performing under a different stage name. Even Sartania was taken aback. “Everyone was calling my mum and asking: ‘Why is Amy dancing under another name?’” she recalled to the BBC.

When Sartania confronted her mother about the uncanny resemblance, her mom brushed it off, saying, “Everyone has a doppelgänger.” But the long-lost siblings’ connection resurfaced when Sartania came across the clip on social media seven years later. The woman’s curiosity helped her track down her sibling, who was located about 200 miles away in Tbilisi. With the help of a University WhatsApp chat group, she was able to narrow down her search. A common friend finally arranged the siblings’ first in-person meeting at Rustaveli Metro Station located in Georgia’s capital city. “It was like looking in a mirror—the exact same face, the exact same voice. I am her, and she is me. I don’t like hugs, but I hugged her,” Sartania told BBC, explaining how she felt meeting her sister, who had been separated at birth. Upon further digging, they both learned that they had been born at the now-defunct Kirtskhi Maternity Hospital in western Georgia.

As they processed the shocking discovery, the sisters found they had more in common than just appearances—including a shared diagnosis of dysplasia. Digging deeper, they realized their birth certificates, which listed different birth dates, were actually fake. The truth unraveled when they confronted their families, who finally revealed that both had been adopted as babies in the early 2000s. While speaking to the outlet, Ano admitted to being “angry and upset” with her family. “But I just wanted the difficult conversations to be over so that we could all move on,” she said. Both of their adopted moms paid unknown sums of money for the babies, claiming they were unable to conceive. They thought the transaction was lawful because it was conducted at a hospital. However, journalist Tamuna Museridze, while investigating their case, found that the twins were potentially among the victims of black-market baby trafficking in Georgia, which, as per the outlet, was prevalent from the early 1950s to 2005.