A cleaning lady has posted a TikTok describing how an ancestry DNA trial run helped her discover she had over 50 half - sib – trip paranoia about accidentally go steady a relative .

Izzy , who goes by@izzyvn_98 on TikTok , tell her follower that she take up an deoxyribonucleic acid test in 2018 , curious as to where her ancestors were from . As well as hear she was " not as Italian " as she thought , she claims she was contact by another woman who had used the service . The woman   enjoin that Izzy had " tally " with her daughter , and ask her if she was related to   a specific   house .

Izzy said no .

" She then asks me if I was a sperm conferrer baby , because her daughter was too , " Izzy wrote over her video .   " Now I ’m freaking out because she could be my sister because I am a donor baby . "

" The donor ’s half - sister then jibe with me and DMs me enjoin other mother who used the same donor , and their children , are part of a secret Facebook grouping and that I should unite too . "

After joining the group , she exact there were over 50 people in there , of various eld , all of whom were created using the same spermatozoon donor ’s sperm . Izzy expire on to say that there ’s now " paranoia " in the chemical group   " because some of them are afraid there are so many of us and we may end up dating someone who happens to be a sibling . "

Though unusual , the situation is n’t entirely unheard of . In the Netherlands , one fertile sperm donor known as " Louis " fatheredover 200 childrenvia sperm donation . Louis was specifically hoping that if he donated enough of his sperm cell , one of his tiddler would chase after him down .

“ If I had 10 children this way , there would be a very slender chance of succeeder , ” hetold the Guardian in 2018 . “ But what if I had 100 … or even more ? ”

Well , in that sense it worked . As well as tracking down their biologic founding father , many of his biological children were able to obtain each other . Some of them , on Tinder .

“ Once , I swiped on a sister and she cabbage the right way on me at the same clock time , ”   Jordy Willekenstold the Irish Timesof the incident . The half - siblings who found each other now keep a list of potential sibling , to prevent further mishaps like this , though there ’s no telling exactly how many more potential relatives there are out there in their go steady pocket billiards .

Willekens now has to be thrifty when he go out , adding “ I have a very trained optic by now " .