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EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Culberson has always known she was adopted - but the aspiring actress had no idea she was the star of a real-life fairy tale. I always knew I was different, the 44-year-old recalled to Fox News. I had a really great childhood with lots of wonderful friends, but I was very aware that I looked different from everyone else, including my family. I was constantly trying to fit in and it was exhausting. I had all these questions and I felt determined to discover who I was.
In celebration of Black History Month, we bring you a special feature story on Princess Sarah Culberson. It was 16 years ago when Princess Sarah Culberson first learned of her royal status. Since she was adopted as a baby, she knew very little about her family history. After years of battling with questions about her identity and her biracial roots, she made the decision to search for her birth parents at the age of 28. In her journey, she found out that her father lived in a village in Sierra Leone, and her birth mother passed away when she was 11. Princess Culberson said she learned the most life-changing news during her first phone call with her uncle.
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Sarah Culberson was adopted and raised by a white family in West Virginia and uncovered a rich history in her search for her birth family.
NBC Newsreported at the age of 28-years-old, Culberson began her search when she learned her biological mother died when she was only 11. After a phone call from an uncle, she learned she was related to African royalty. According to the news outlet, she is from the Mende tribe in Bumpe, Sierra Leone, and is considered a mahaloi, the child of a paramount chief. This makes Culberson the princess of the Bumpe village.
By Chris and Rosie
Dec 18, 2020
Sarah Culberson didn’t start searching for her biological family until she was 28 and when she found them, it changed her life forever. She was adopted as a baby by a white family in West Virginia and she didn’t know anything about her birth parents and in her quest to find them, she learned that she’s African royalty.
Her biological uncle called with the news that her family is a ruling Mende tribe in Bumpe, Sierra Leone. Sarah is considered a mahaloi, the child of a paramount chief and that makes her the princess of the village. Her mother died when she was 11, but her father and brother are still in the village and she made her first visit to Sierra Leone in 2004 to meet them.
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