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\n\tCountry singer-songwriter Rory Feek\u2019s daughter Hopie recently shared an update about their family, sharing in a video<\/a> on Instagram that the results of a 23andMe DNA test revealed that Feek \u2014 who raised Hopie and her sister Heidi \u2014 is not Hopie\u2019s biological father.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always felt a little bit different \u2014 and now I know why,\u201d Hopie, 36, said in the video. \u201cI took a 23andMe test and I got the results I never knew I needed,\u201d she added, showing a photo of herself with a man she had recently met. \u201cTurns out this is my dad \u2014 not the one everyone knows \u2014 and his name is\u00a0B.C.\u201d Hopie noted that upon meeting B.C., he \u201cimmediately loved me and was so excited to call me his daughter.\u201d Hopie expressed gratefulness for \u201cthe new people who I have in my life and the new family who love me for who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFeek raised Hopie and her sister Heidi as a single parent following his split with their mother, Tamara Gilmer. Feek went on to marry Joey Martin in 2002; together, they also formed the musical duo Joey + Rory, competing on the CMT musical competition Can You Duet?<\/em>, and earning Billboard Hot Country Songs entries including \u201cCheater, Cheater.\u201d Joey and Rory welcomed daughter Indiana in 2014. Joey died<\/a> in 2016 at age 40, following a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n \n\tA few days after Hopie revealed the familial news in the Instagram video, on Feb. 11 Feek shared his own thoughts about the revelation<\/a> in a blog post titled \u201cA Different Dad,\u201d published on his website. Feek noted that Hopie revealed the news to him in a meeting near where Joey is buried.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m not sure what I thought Hopie was going to say, but I was not expecting to hear that,\u201d he said in his post. \u201cI just listened. Not quite sure that this was really happening\u2013processing it the best I could.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFeek also noted that the news did not completely surprise him, recalling a period of time just after Hopie\u2019s birth, when he suspected that Hopie was not his. In his blog post, Feek wrote about recalling that the doctor had told him Hopie was born several weeks past her due date, which Feek had thought did not align with the timeline of when he had returned home from a six-month military deployment. In his blog post, Feek had also noted that at one point during his split from his ex-wife, he had asked her directly if Hopie was his child, and says that he\u2019d been assured that Hopie was his.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI told Hopie that I guess a part of me knew. But more than that, I told her I didn\u2019t care. That this news and this blood test doesn\u2019t change anything for me. \u2018I love you as my daughter and I always will,\u2019\u201d he wrote. He also shared the \u201churt\u201d he has for Hopie, writing, \u201cHopie has such a tender heart, filled with child-like wonder and light, even in the darkest of days. It\u2019s heartbreaking that she has had to deal with such an incredible amount of pain and loss in her relatively short life.\u201d<\/p>\n