"My parents revealed to me that my 13-year-old brother is my twin - but I'm 19"
Tiktok user shared with viewers her extraordinary story after discovering that her little brother is actually her twin - even though she is 5 years older than him
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16/02/2022
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"I found out my little brother is actually my twin" (@annahipkinxo)
Twins are formed at the same time, are usually born minutes apart, share a birthday (unless the birth is around midnight) and in some cases even look exactly the same.
19-year-old Anna Hippkin shared a tic-tac-toe she recently discovered to her amazement that even though her brother and she were not born together - they are twins.
In fact, she learned during a routine lunch with her divorced parents that her younger brother, 5 years her junior, is actually her twin.
How does that make sense?
Try to decipher yourself before we tell you.
In a ticketing video (which she has been mimicking for now), Anna (@annahipkinxo) said that her 13-year-old brother, Jack, is technically her twin despite the age gap between them - since they were both created at the same time, the Daily Star reports.
In the video, she wrote: "When your divorced parents tell you at lunch that your 13-year-old brother is actually your twin ... but you are 19."
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Anna's video left viewers confused, so she explained the situation in more detail in a sequel (which she also mimics for now) - in which she revealed that her brother and she were created in the same round of IVF (IVF) treatments, but while she was inserted into the uterus - he remained frozen.
According to Anna, their mother did not want to give birth to twins and decided to freeze one fetus until she was ready for a second child - which happened five years later.
She said in the video: "I did not think so many people would be interested, but here I am with the promised story time. So, as many of you guessed in the comments, we were both born using IVF treatments. My brother was put in the freezer for five years as a fetus. "
She added: "After 5 years they thawed and returned it to my mother - then nine months later, here you go. So there is a 5 year difference between us, I am 19 and he is 13, almost 14. Obviously we are not identical twins, but biologically , Technical,
"I was put in my mother's, and my brother was put in the freezer" (Photo: screenshot, @annahipkinxo)
So are they really twins?
There is no unequivocal answer to this question - although many have responded to the video claiming they are not twins at all, as getting pregnant from the same round of fertility treatments does not make them so.
One wrote in response: "How is your twin ?! It does not work that way" and another added: "If you follow this logic, all siblings are twins - as long as they have the same parents."
A third wrote: "What? But that does not make it your twin. Twins conceive and are carried in the womb at the same time."
Others defended Anna and shared similar stories: "It happened to one of my girlfriends. Her parents did IVF and gave birth to my girlfriend, then gave birth to her twin 10 years later," one wrote and another added: "Same with my brother. He I am 23 years old and I am 20 years old, but we are twins. "
According to a study by fertility doctors, women who become pregnant with previously frozen embryos are more likely to have healthier pregnancies, with fewer complications, than those with new embryos implanted in them.
Fertility doctors have found that infants born from frozen in vitro fertilization have a 16% lower risk of prematurity and a lower chance of dying shortly after birth.
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