This woman discovered she was adopted while looking at Facebook snaps… because her ‘mum’ wasn’t pregnant just before ‘giving birth’
SILVINA Martinez Pintos, 31, was made the startling discovery when she came across a photo of her 'mother' on Facebook
A WOMAN discovered she was adopted while browsing through pictures on Facebook.
Silvina Martinez Pintos, 31, was made the startling discovery when she came across a photo of her mother captured just before her birth but realised that she wasn’t pregnant.
Silvina, from Mar Del Plata in Buenos Aires, noticed the inconsistency while looking at old family photos on the social media site.
She has since updated her own Facebook page with a post about the discovery and hopes to use the power of the internet to reunite her with her birth mother.
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She wrote: “Hello. I am uploading this post, adding my photos in which I look like my biological mother. The man who is in these photos is my adoptive father.
“I was born in Trelew on March 27, 1985, and I learned recently that I was adopted.
“A few days after, my adoptive parents took me to live in La Plata, where I lived for 11 years until I moved to Mar del Plata (where I currently live).
“I would love to know about the woman who gave birth to me.
“I only know that I was born in the Modelo clinic at 11.30 in the morning, my biological mother was 16 years old and the doctor who attended the delivery was Dr Ricardo Carminatti.”
After stating the facts of the birth Silvina went on to appeal for help in tracking down her biological mother.
She continued: “I would be interested to find her, not to judge her. I just want to know who I look like, if I have brothers... and just listen.”
In the emotional message the 31-year-old confessed that find out the truth had been “very hard”.
She wrote: “I have two children. One is very similar to my husband, the youngest looks like me, but what intrigues me is whom I resemble. It's a sentimental thing.
“I want to know what happened: if they told my mother I was dead, or that I was not dead... it is a possibility.
“I want that closure, not to reproach anyone.”
The heartfelt message was uploaded on December 11 and has been shared more than 5,500 times by people keen to help Silvina locate her biological family.
The post has been heavily shared on Facebook and other forms of social media, as thousands have got involved with the search for Ms Martinez Pintos's real mother.