Two best friends who met in middle school 17 years ago find out they are SISTERS after family friend of their father comments on a picture of them on Facebook
- Latoya Wimberly, 29, and Ashley Thomas, 31, who live in Philadelphia, shared images of the two of them celebrating the former’s engagement on Facebook
- Ashley’s late mom’s best friend commented that she had known Latoya’s dad
- Two women then probed Kenneth and he realized he had known Ashley’s mom
- Latoya said she ‘almost passed out’ when a DNA test confirmed they are sisters
- The two women say they were often told they looked like one another
- They even fell pregnant for the first time, at the same time, by two brothers
Two best friends who met in middle school 17 years ago have now discovered they are actually sisters.
Latoya Wimberly, 29, and Ashley Thomas, 31, who both live in Philadelphia, shared images of the two of them celebrating the former’s engagement on Facebook.
Ashley’s late mom’s best friend then commented that she had previously known Latoya’s dad Kenneth and the two friends probed him on his past.
That resulted in Latoya asking her father to take a DNA test after he realized he had had a brief relationship with Ashley’s mother Michelle.
Latoya Wimberly, 29, left, and Ashley Thomas, 31, right, who live in Philadelphia, shared images of the two of them celebrating the former’s engagement on Facebook
Ashley’s late mom’s best friend commented that she had known Latoya’s dad, pictured. The two women then probed Kenneth and he realized he had known Ashley’s mom
The two women say they were often told they looked like one another with high cheekbones and gaps in their front teeth.
They even fell pregnant for the first time, at the same time, by two brothers.
Ashley told Good Morning America: ‘I gave her [Latoya] a shout out on Facebook and my mom’s best friend said, “I didn’t know you were Kenneth’s daughter’s best friend”.
‘I called [Latoya Wimberly] a few days later and told her my mom’s best friend said she knew your dad and your dad may know my mom.’
Latoya told Good Morning America she ‘almost passed out’ when her dad text to say the DNA test confirmed he was Ashley’s father. She added: ‘Then I immediately called Ashley.’
Latoya said: ‘I always looked up to Ashley as if she was a big sister. We always heard, “you look so alike”.’
Ashley, who found out aged 15 that the man raising her was not her biological father, added: ‘I’ve been around him all my life and I never once thought “he could be my dad”.
‘The first few nights I couldn’t go to sleep. I’m happy that she’s my sister but had some emotions that this guy I’ve been around this whole time, I never knew he was my father.’
The two women say they were often told they looked like one another with high cheekbones and gaps in their front teeth. They even fell pregnant for the first time by two brothers
Dad Kenneth, center, had a brief relationship with Ashley’s, left, mother Michelle when they were teenagers but she never told him she was pregnant
Dad Kenneth, 48, who said Ashley’s mother never told him she was pregnant after their brief relationship as teenagers, said: ‘If she called me with some car stuff or if she and Toya wanted to come over for dinner, they would come and hang out.
‘I asked her one time, “Where’s your dad? He won’t help you out with your car stuff?”, and she said they didn’t have a good relationship and that was it.
‘I am happy that she’s my daughter. And everyone is happy that she’s a part of the family. It was just God’s work.’