Twins Forcibly Separated At Birth Are Reunited Thanks To TikTok
Imagine: it’s a normal day, and your friend sends you a TikTok video. You open it up, watch it, and realize the person you’re looking at in the clip is... you. At least, the star of the video looks exactly like you. It isn’t you, of course, because you’ve never recorded a video like this. So what’s going on? Did someone make a deepfake of you? Or is something even stranger at play here? Well, this exact scenario really happened to Ano Sartania in 2021 — and the explanation was, indeed, unthinkably weird. Ano was watching a video of an identical twin she’d never known she had.
Like the plot of a movie
Ano and her sister, Amy Khvitia, would come to learn that they’d been separated right after they were born. Neither of them was ever told about this, and they’d grown up without any idea of the other’s existence. And weirdly, they lived pretty close to each other. Ano and Amy are from Georgia — not the U.S. state, but the country in eastern Europe.
The girls had lived their lives without directly encountering each other, though there were moments when they came close. It was only in their early adulthood that fate or chance intervened and they were able to make contact; their story is literally like the plot of a movie.
A TV lookalike
It was social media that ultimately brought Ano and Amy together, but old media had come close, too! When the girls were 12, Amy was watching her favorite show on TV when she noticed something weird. The program was Georgia’s Got Talent, where people get on stage to show off their respective performance skills.
During this particular episode that Amy was tuned into, there was a girl on stage doing a dance. She was about Amy’s age, and, as a matter of fact, she looked like her, too. She looked really like her.
“Everyone has a doppelgänger”
Amy was, as we know now, watching her identical twin sister Ano perform on that episode of Georgia’s Got Talent. She didn’t realize that at the time, of course: she just saw a girl who looked eerily like her on the screen. But she hadn’t been the only one to notice the resemblance, as she explained to the BBC in January 2024.
Amy remembered, “Everyone was calling my mum and asking, ‘Why is Amy dancing under another name?’” Clearly the resemblance wasn’t just in the young girl’s head, but, when she asked her mom about it, her concerns were basically ignored. “Everyone has a doppelgänger,” her mom apparently replied.
A blue-haired girl
That was that for the next seven years, but new media would then have its say. In 2021 Amy uploaded a video of herself to TikTok, in which she had blue hair and was getting an eyebrow piercing. This time round, it was Ano who saw her unknown sister on a screen.
Ano’s friend sent her the video, because they wanted to know why Ano had changed her hair color to blue. Little did the friend realize that the TikTok video depicted a blue-haired Amy, and not Ano.