The Truth About The Paternity Of The McClure Twins, Ava & Alexis McClure Revealed

There is a huge difference between fathering a child and being a father to a child. Justin and Aminat McClure, the parents of the hugely popular McClure twins Ava and Alexis, have some explaining to do after racist tweets surfaced on the dad’s Twitter account.

Aminat, 36, was born in Nigeria. The mom-of-3 left Lagos, south-west Nigeria, as a child when her family relocated to the US.

Almost everyone has heard of the adorable McClure twins. They are the identical twin sisters who captured the hearts of social media in a viral video. So popular, the adorable 5-year-olds have secured endorsement deals and a Discovery Channel show.

But now their fun family empire is under attack, reports PEOPLE.

The McClure twins public accounts are run exclusively by Justin and Ami. And apparently, Dad Justin never deleted his old tweets and now he’s been receiving some heavy backlash online.

“Black people can’t say ‘ask’ ” Justin wrote in one of his now-deleted tweets, “but they have no trouble saying Cadillac Escalade.”

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Justin, who now parents three bi-racial kids with wife, even teased about the names black women call their children.

“Dominican women I know: Ilia, Awilda, Janitsy, Zora,” he tweeted in 2011. “Black women I know: Chandelier, Lasagna, Constellation, Walgreens #whenblackpeoplegetpaid.”

In 2012, Justin continued with his racist tweets.

“Lately I’ve been under the impression… Impression is the black girl I went out with,” he tweeted in February 2012. “She loves being on top #blackgirls #ghetto.”

In 2014, a year before the twins were born, Justin wrote that a Black woman would one day name their child “Allergies.”

Because we all assumed Justin was the twins’ biological father, people demanded to know how he could tweet such horrible things after fathering bi-racial children.

Last week, his wife Ami sat her husband down for a YouTube interview and revealed that she was even shocked those racist tweets existed.

Though Justin has since apologized on camera to the world, and to his black wife, this scandal has forced the family to reveal another big secret—Justin isn’t even the bi-racial twins’ biological dad, although they led fans to believe he was!

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“I was just as surprised and shocked by those tweets from previous days as [the public] was,” Ami says in the video. “This is my first time seeing them as well… I did not know that man. The man that I met and married is the Justin I know today.”

“I know I’m not a racist,” Justin told his wife. “But I look at the things I said, and would a racist person say those things? They would … if I what I say is so offensive to someone else and it’s racist to them, then it’s racist.”

Justin said the tweets were written as comedy material when he was starting out.

Still, Ami burst into tears admitting that she once harboured ill-feelings towards whites that she’s had to reconcile.

“I don’t know if you can call it racist… but I didn’t like white people,” she said. “Anybody who knows me knows that I did not like white people. And I had to sit to myself and say ‘why?’”

Justin also sat down with the twins to talk about what he learned from the ordeal that almost derailed his career.

“Did you learn your lesson from what you said?” one of the twins asks Justin. “Why didn’t you get a spanking?”

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“I did get a spanking,” he replies. “I think I got a spanking from the internet,” he replies.

After the shocking revelation, people did some digging and found out that Ami was married to a man in 2012, just a year before Alexis and Ava were born.

That man is Jeffrey Pestka, who is also white and the girls resemble him.

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Ami released another video this week where she briefly tells the story of how Justin entered their lives when now 5-year-old Alexis and Ava “were a little over a year old,” confirming that Justin actually adopted the twins.

”In 2012, I married a man I knew I should never have married and finding out that I was pregnant with the girls is what gave me the courage to get out of that relationship, because I knew I couldn’t bring children into a toxic and abusive environment,” she said.

“So I did my best as a mother to not allow my mistakes to affect my children. Justin and I met after the girls were born,” Ami added. “They were a little over a year old. Justin adopted the girls. He is their dad, he’s the only dad they’ve known and he will be the only dad they’ve ever known.”