Ep. - 1409 - SATURDAY SERIES: SANDY KLEIN
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Sandy Klein, mother of Amazing Race contestant Emily Bushnell, discusses Emily's adoption, the impact of finding out Emily had a twin sister whom she was separated from at birth, and the painful truth behind their birth story in Korea.
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| 0:23.9 | Welcome back. Subscribe on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcast. The Amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC. |
| 0:29.5 | And welcome back for this Saturday series episode. |
| 0:33.4 | Imagine going through life believing you're an only child. |
| 0:36.9 | And then one day discovering that not only do you have a sibling, but she's your identical twin. |
| 0:40.1 | That's what happened to Emily Bushnell and Molly Sinert, two women adopted from Korea into American families. |
| 0:47.4 | It wasn't until their 30s that a simple DNA test revealed what fate had kept secret for decades. |
| 0:53.5 | They weren't alone. When I first spoke with them back |
| 0:56.6 | in episode 543, their story stayed with me. I couldn't stop thinking about how surreal it must feel |
| 1:03.0 | to meet someone who not only shares your features, but also your history, your roots, an entire |
| 1:09.7 | piece of your identity that had been hidden until |
| 1:12.2 | adulthood. Last month, I got a text from my friend, Emily Atwell. She was at a dog park in |
| 1:19.0 | Pennsylvania. And in one of those small world twists that you can't quite believe, she struck up a |
| 1:25.2 | conversation with a stranger who began sharing her adoption story. |
| 1:29.3 | Almost instantly, Emily realized that it was the same Emily that I had interviewed on this |
| 1:34.2 | podcast, the identical twin who discovered her sister decades after they were separated at birth. |
| 1:40.5 | That unexpected moment led to a text thread between the three of us, and from there to some incredible updates about what has unfolded since my original conversation with Emily and her twin Molly. |
| 1:51.8 | It also opened the door to a perspective that I've wanted to include ever since I learned of their story, the adoptive mothers. |
| 2:00.1 | So today I'm honored to share that Emily's mother is joining me on the podcast. |
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