Little did 21-year old US woman Jenessa Simons know that a post on Facebook mentioning her search for her birth parents could actually result in her finding her birth mother.
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Ms Simons, who was originally named Whitney, mentioned on Facebook the details of her birth- that she was born at Utah Valley Regional Medical Centre in 1991. Her parents were both 16 at the time.
A lady who saw the message felt strongly that she had attended school at the same time as Ms Simons' birth parents. She immediately connected with the lady she felt would be Ms Simons' birth mother.
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"She sent me a message on Facebook and said 'I think this is you, I think I'm your birth mother. I can't believe this, I've waited all this time'," Ms Simons told a leading newspaper.
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