What if everything you once believed were true about yourself and your life, was later discovered to be a lie? That is the case with this story, when a woman named Lacey Tezino discovered her family history and her true racial identity after years of believing she was somebody else. Lacey’s story begins in Houston, where she was born to a white woman who originally desired to terminate her pregnancy.

After an encounter with a bar owner, Lacey’s mother decided to give Lacey away to a man named Ronnie Huckaby, who always wanted to have a child and agreed to adopt Lacey. 

  When Lacey was officially adopted, her adoption papers falsely listed both of her parents as white, and Ronnie took Lacey to Vidor where she was raised by a loving family. Ronnie was also dealing with cancer and unfortunately passed away, and Lacey’s grandparents took her in, and raised to believe she was white. 

Lacey often excelled in life academically and socially. Lacey would spend the next years of her life believing that she was a white woman, until one day in college one of her classmates questioned her heritage.

    This was the beginning of Lacey learning about her identity of being a black woman. “Learning about my Black heritage in college opened my eyes to a part of myself I never knew. It was empowering and heartbreaking all at once,” Lacey stated in a Newsbreak article. 

This self-discovery journey was a journey that changed her life forever. It helped her find the missing piece to fill the empty void in her heart, and Lacey proudly shares her story with the world.

Since then Lacey has created her own business, the mother daughter app called Passport Journeys. Which brings mother closer to the daughters in creating a bond and breaking generational curses.