‘I fell in love with my sperm donor who I met 12 years after having his baby’

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When Jessica bought sperm to start a family with her wife 18 years ago, she would never have believed the twists and turns her life would take after her daughter was born.

Now though she is in a relationship with the father of her daughter Alice, 16. “I was married to my wife and living in another state and we decided to get an anonymous sperm donor,” explains Jessica, 45, who appeared on hit C4 show Steph’s Packed Lunch yesterday. “Back then you looked on the Internet and picked someone out thinking you would never get the chance to meet them.” The mum, from Vashon Island, Washington State, described how a decade later her daughter Alice’s curiosity about her genetic make-up led to new love. “My daughter really wanted to know what countries she was from so we did a DNA test at Christmas. “She wasn’t interested so much in what her father’s name was.

Her Grandma, who loves genealogy, very kindly jumped in and gave her a DNA test,” explains Jessica. “We did the test and you can opt in to see your DNA relatives and we pushed the button and the first thing that came up was Aaron Long - shares 50 percent of genes - father. “It was terrifying because I had no idea that database was so big and people were doing it.

I had no expectation of anything. “Aaron was pretty new to the site too and we had to stop and think ‘What are we going to do about this?’” Sign up to the OK!