The Real Housewives of New York City fans are going wild after Ally spilled major tea on her mother. She claims her mom, Jill Zarin, was hounded by another family member to admit how Shapiro was created.
Ally Shapiro admits sperm donor truth
Ally Shapiro made a TikTok bringing up claims she was conceived by sperm donor. She first brought up the news in 2022, including how there was a sperm bank mix-up that led Ally to find her biological dad.
She wrote at the time, “When I was 20 years old moving into my senior year of college, I found an email on my mom’s computer asking why I was the only one who had blue eyes in my family.”
Since then, she’s been openly speaking about the matter and how her mom admitted she and her father – who she divorced when Ally was four – had used a sperm donor to have her.
She recalls family history on TikTok
Ally spent a good chunk of her life thinking Jill’s ex-husband, Steven Shapiro, was her biological father. The RHONY star recounted the whole thing during one of those “put your finger down” TikTok videos.
She said that three years after meeting her “biological father,” someone on 23andMe contacted her and said, “Surprise, I’m your father!” However, this was not true despite three years of speaking.
Shapiro also had to break the news to the original sperm donor that he indeed, was not the father. Then, she discovered six more half-siblings thanks to her actual biological dad.
RHONY fans wanted a storyline
Since Ally brought back up the family drama, RHONY fans are asking about why they never watched the sperm donor discovery play out on camera. Jill admits it’s because she “still hadn’t told her.”
At the time Jill was a RHONY cast member, Ally was between 14 and 18 and nobody knew except a few people. Even Zarin’s parents never knew – and at the time, “that’s what everybody did.”
Jill said the website, 23&Me, changed the game for everyone, while Ally explained how it wasn’t as socially accepted to have a non-traditional family back in those days.
