WHEN Alyona was a young girl, she grew up hearing rumours that her mum was a "cheat" while locals cruelly pointed out that she looked nothing like her father.

But it would take 38 years for her to finally find out the truth about her birth - and the terrible accident that left her living the wrong life.

Alyona Baulina, along with Gulsina Kudryakova, had been raised by the wrong parents after a shocking hospital blunder.

The revelation left the pair heartbroken at being robbed of truly knowing their real families after medics at a Soviet hospital in 1982 attached the wrong tags to the newborns.

Alyona told The Sun that the woman who raised her faced endless taunts, even from her own husband, accusing her of having slept around.

She has distinctly Asian features, like many people in the

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