Adopted Sisters Who Met Via TikTok Meet Biological Mom For First Time In Colombia

Two sisters who were adopted to different sides of the world before discovering each other thanks to a viral TikTok video have travelled to Colombia to meet their biological mom for the first time. Rachel Weiner, from New York, had no idea she had a sister until the TikTok algorithm incredibly connected her with her biological sibling, Emelie, in Sweden. After the pair met for the first time in June 2025, they made a pact they would one day travel to Colombia to visit their birth mother, Mariana Salazar. Rachel, 27, was adopted at two months old, and because she was older and adopted from a different orphanage than her sister, Emelie, 25, who moved to Stockholm, Sweden, she had no way of knowing she even had a younger sibling. Emelie, meanwhile, was informed of nothing more than she had an older sister who had the same parents, whose biological sister name was Karen, and had been adopted to the United States. For years, Rachel would jokingly beg her adoptive parents for a little sister, not knowing she had a younger sibling on the other side of the world. Then, in July 2024, Rachel decided to start sharing her adoption story on social media to connect with and raise awareness for others in her situation. She posted a video about her adoption and the background to her life story – and months later, in February 2025, that video appeared on Emelie’s TikTok For You page, prompting her to realize the story closely resembled her own. When the pair first met in Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, a clip of first-ever hug went viral – but their story didn't finish there.