Meet Hopie Feek, daughter of country music artist Rory Feek
Feek raised Hopie, 36, and her sister Heidi, 38, as a single dad after splitting from their mother, Tamara Gilmer.
In the same video, Hopie went on to share a photo of herself standing next to a man who she introduced as her biological father.
'Turns out this is my dad – not the one everyone knows – and his name is B. C.'
A few days after her revelation, Feek recounted the day Hopie broke the news to him in a blog post titled 'a different dad'. In the post, Feek shared that he wasn't completely surprised: he'd always suspected that Hopie wasn't his biological child. He recounted that her due date hadn't aligned with his six-month military deployment and that at one point he'd directly asked Gilmer if Hopie was his, and had been reassured. A childhood photo of Hopie Feek (left) with her father Rory Feek and elder sister Heidi. Photo: @hopiefeek01/Instagram Aside from Heidi and Hopie, Feek has a younger daughter named Indiana who he shared with his late second wife, Joey Martin, who tragically died of cancer in March 2016.
'My love for Hopie isn't based on us having the same blood running through our veins. I love her because she's my child, even if technically … she's not,' Feek wrote.
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