Best friends for decades - until a DNA test revealed they were sisters
DNA testing confirmed the women were a 100% match, and the childhood friends reconnected after 15 years apart.
- Two Indian-born women raised in the Netherlands, Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen, discovered they are biological sisters after a DNA test confirmed a "100% match" in April.
- Adopted from Mumbai orphanages, the pair met as teenagers and became close friends, often calling each other "Sis," before losing contact 15 years ago.
- Minal recognized her match on social media as the girl she once knew, leading to an emotional reunion in August where she said, "We were sisters the whole time."
- Since May, the sisters have been speaking every other day, noting uncanny similarities in how they move and finish each other's sentences.
- Meena, now a mother to three children, described their August meeting as a "homecoming," expressing regret that the sisters could not have supported each other through past hardships.
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'I thought I had a best friend until DNA test revealed who she really was'
Meena Geltink, 43, and Minal Tijssen, 44, became fast friends when they met as teenagers (Picture: Reuters) When Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen first met as teenagers, they were struck by their remarkable similarities. The two women, now in their 40s, were both born in India but were adopted as babies by Dutch families and raised in the Netherlands. They became fast friends after meeting at an event hosted by the adoption agency their parents u…
They became best friends as children – unaware that they were full sisters. When they began researching their family tree decades later, the news came as a shock. “Minal was the missing piece of the puzzle that I had been waiting for so long,” Meena Geltink tells the BBC.
Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were adopted from separate orphanages in India and grew up as friends. Now a DNA test has shown that they are biological sisters.
The two girls met by chance at an event as teenagers, and were already considered sisters, but it took decades for proof to be found.
Two women, Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen, who were adopted from different orphanages in India and taken to the Netherlands, met again years later. A DNA test conducted 30 years later revealed that they were biological sisters, as they had called each other sisters since childhood.
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