Anaïs Bordier and Samantha Futerman were both born Nov. 19, 1987, in Busan, South Korea, and adopted as babies — Anaïs grew up in France, Samantha in New Jersey. But 25 years later, they rediscovered each other over YouTube, Facebook and Skype.
Meet Anaïs Bordier.
She’s a 27-year-old French designer who currently lives in London.
Anaïs was born in South Korea but grew up in Paris, she was adopted by a French family when she was a toddler. One day when browsing the web, Anaïs came across a YouTube video that featured a young woman who looked exactly like her… but who had an American accent.
Samantha WHO? She certainly looks like Anaïs. A lot.
When Anaïs looked up Samantha Futherman, an LA-based actress, on the Internet, she realised that Samantha was born in South Korea on the exact same day as she was. And Samantha was also adopted at a very young age.
She messaged her look-alike on Facebook. The girls later shared the original message on Facebook Stories: Hey, My name is Anaïs, I am french and live in London, About 2 months ago, my friend was watching one of your videos with Kevjumba on youtube, and he saw you and thought that we looked really very similar… like… VERY REALLY SIMILAR…we were making jokes about it etc. (I’m always being violent with people and hitting them too hahaha) Today, he saw the trailer of 21 & over and told me he saw you again, I then checked your name on the cast, stalked you A BIT, and found out you were born the 19th of november 1987. I checked more of your videos (which are hilarious) and then came upon how it feels to be adopted’… and discovered you were adopted too. So..I don’t want to be too Lindsay Lohan, well…but..how to put it..I was wondering where you were born? I was born on the 19th of November 1987, in Busan but my papers were made at the Holt Children’s Institute, so “officially” I was born in Seoul. My korean name is Kim Eunwha. I arrived in France the 5th March 1988, so 3 months later. You can check my Facebook if you want to check the pictures and videos. It’s more obvious on videos… Let me know…don’t freak out… Lots of love Anaïs
Samantha and Anaïs soon realised…
Despite growing up in different countries…
… and despite one being American and the other French…
They actually are twins.
The documentary Twinsters, directed by Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto, follows the story of the two girls meeting in London for the first time, taking a DNA test, and realising that they are sisters. You can watch the full trailer below…
What an incredible story. It’s really touching and great to see that they’ve been reunited after all these years. It’s yet another win for social media, too, for none of this would have been possible without social networking sites. Well done Facebook. Well done girls. Can’t wait to see the documentary.
