She became pregnant and when she chose the baby’s name she discovered that something else connected her to her husband

The story of a mother in the United States who confessed that she married a man without fully knowing his past and did not realize it until she became pregnant with his child, is at this time one of the most incredible news reports in that country’s news media.

Marcella Collina, from Utah, unveiled his story on his social networks and immediately the “careless” of both went viral. “Oops,” she wrote in the caption of her TikTok video, which has been viewed more than 900,000 times.

The discovery didn’t come to light until Marcella became pregnant, and the couple looked to their stories for inspiration. family trees to help them name the baby along the way.

Marcella said: “I was sitting on the couch looking up the names of the baby we were going to have and was browsing the genealogy site Family Search“.

“My husband was next to me during his family search and suddenly he said, ‘It’s so funny, we have the same names for grandma and grandpa,'” she said.

Marcella assumed her husband was logged into her account, but when they took a closer look, things became clearer and within seconds they began to realize that they were both they had married without knowing they were cousins.

“We start looking at it and realize it My grandfather is your grandmother’s first cousin.‘ he told Metro.com.

Wanting to get to the bottom of the confusion, the couple reached out to their respective grandparents for more information. “We asked them if they knew each other and they actually said yes.revealed Marcello.

“They also lived together when they were children. It means that we we are third cousins“said the woman.

Marcella and her husband have the same great-grandparents. “When I go to my family reunion, he can go to his too,” Marcella said with a laugh.

His followers were quick to ask how they hadn’t found out they were related sooner. “How did you not notice at the wedding?” asked one. But Marcella explained that there was almost no wedding: “What wedding? We got married in a courthouse after I left work on a Wednesday,” she said.

She added: “But still, let’s say if we had the wedding, and my grandfather and grandmother were there, and we found out we were third cousins, what were we supposed to do?“.

Other users of their networks have pointed out that their family ties are not close enough to cause problems and that they are completely legal. “It’s too far. Crazy coincidence though,” wrote one. Another noted that the Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip they were also third cousins.