Sold, Not Relinquished: An Adoptee's Search for Answers

Cate & Ty Break It Down

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Prepare to have your mind blown as Cate & Ty sit down with Diana(@blackmarketbaby), an adoptee whose story only gets wilder and wilder. From uncovering the truth about her birth mother's "tiger king" lifestyle and essentially selling her children in the 80s, to navigating complex family dynamics and searching for her biological father, Diana shares her journey of identity and finding her truth in a world that often paints a pretty picture of adoption.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Kate and I, Break It Down, and today we have a very special guest.
0:13.2	I'm excited to be here.
0:14.5	We're so happy to talk to you because we actually saw you on TikTok, and it was kind of
0:19.9	that I'm assuming you know the video that we're
0:21.7	talking about which was you talking to your um adoptive mom talking about the name change yeah so um
0:29.1	first off tell everyone who you are and and kind of like a little bit of a little bit of update about
0:34.2	you know how all this came to be yeah Yeah, your story, whatever you're comfortable with
0:38.7	sharing. I'm Diana and I'm from Chicago. I was born in Wisconsin to a lady who, I don't know,
0:48.3	there was like a lot of stories throughout my life about how she like really loved us and she was like putting us up for adoption to like
0:56.7	protect us from like the mob and like all of these like crazy stories and like her friends like
1:04.5	really believe these stories like to their heart to where when I'm like no she sold us they're like
1:10.3	don't say that I'm like, no, she sold us, they're like, don't say that.
1:11.9	I'm like, but that's what happened.
1:14.2	Like that's, that's it.
1:15.9	No, she loved you.
1:17.0	She was protecting you.
1:17.9	I'm like, no, that doesn't make sense.
1:20.8	Like with all of the information that I now have at 38 years old, like, no.
1:27.0	So what you say us as in like, so there's more than one?
1:30.4	How many siblings do you have?
1:31.7	There is.
1:32.3	I have three brothers.
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