I had a child with my first cousin

On January 19th, The Sun had an article about a cousin couple that was based on a call into the talk radio station LBC. The episode was posted to YouTube on December 11th.

One caller rang into LBC to "tell her tale" of falling in love with her first cousin - who she later had a child with.

In a clip shared to LBC's TikTok account, a caller named Shirley told host Ben Kentish how she had a daughter with her first cousin.

Shirley claimed people "can't help who they fall in love with."

"I, um, have a child with my first cousin. We were together for 6 years. And the one thing that's not been mentioned is you just fall in love," she told host Ben.

Shirley went on to say she is "from a Jewish background" and that she and her cousin took medical tests to rule out the possibility of passing down any genetic diseases.

She said: "Before even contemplating it, we went to see a professor at the university of Sydney about the possibilities of what could happen. We had our test and we're both negative.

"So we went ahead and we've got a 35 year old daughter together."

I don't know if they had the child out of wedlock or got divorced, which I believe are wrong, but she said they are still friends and talk to each other.