AND THEY ARE HERE TO TELL US ABOUT THEIR SPECIAL BOND, BUT FIRST THEIR REMARKABLE JOURNEY. TRIPLETS RICKY JUMP, KENDALL SCAVO AND JULIANNE SCAVO ARE SISTERS AND BEST FRIENDS. >> I REALLY LEAN ON BOTH OF THEM. >> IT'S THE CLOSEST WE'VE EVER BEEN. >> THE THREE HAVE SUCH AN INSEPARABLE BOND, IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY SEPARATED AT BIRTH. 32 YEARS AGO IN COLORADO, THEIR BIOLOGICAL MOM, KATHLEEN, AND HER HUSBAND, LEE, USED A SPERM DONOR AND BECAME PREGNANT WITH TRIPLETS. BUT THE COUPLE HAD TO MAKE A TOUGH DECISION. >> THEY DECIDED TO PUT TWO BABIES UP FOR ADOPTION. THEY WERE NOT WELL OFF FINANCIALLY AND AGAIN, MY MOM WAS 100% DEAF, SO THAT FURTHER COMPLICATED THE SITUATION AND MADE BOTH OF THEM BELIEVE THAT THEY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO RAISE THREE CHILDREN SUCCESSFULLY. >> KATHLEEN AND LEE RAISED RICKI WHILE JULIANNE AND KENDALL WERE ADOPTED AS TWINS BY TINA AND KEN SCAVO WHO LIVE 40 MILES AWAY. RICKY GREW UP KNOWING SHE WAS A TRIPLET, BUT JULIANNE AND KENDALL HAD NO IDEA THAT THEY HAD ANOTHER SISTER, UNTIL THEIR PARENTS GAVE THEM A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS GIFT WHEN THEY WERE 8 YEARS OLD. >> THEY HAD TOLD KENDALL AND I THAT THEY HAD ONE PRESENT LEFT FOR US AND IT WAS THE KIND OF PRESENT THAT COULD NOT BE WRAPPED IN A BOX. AND THEY SHOWED US A PICTURE OF RICKI AND LET US KNOW THAT WE HAD ANOTHER SISTER OUT THERE. >> THE TRIPLETS THAN BEGAN EXCHANGING LETTERS EVERY FEW MONTHS. >> SO WE WERE LIKE PEN PALS. >> IT WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY CHILDHOOD. >> Reporter: IN ONE LETTER, RICKI WRITING TO HER SISTERS, ALL I'VE EVER WANTED WAS TO RUN UP TO YOU AND EMBRACE BOTH OF YOU IN MY ARMS. A FEW YEARS LATER, RICKI FINALLY GOT THAT CHANCE TO HUG HER SISTERS. THE THREE MEETING FOR THE FIRST TIME AT A LOCAL MALL, WHEN THEY WERE 11 YEARS OLD. >> WE, YOU KNOW, WALKED IN AND SAW EACH OTHER AND JUST LIKE, RAN UP AND GAVE EACH OTHER THE BIGGEST HUGS AND IT WAS LIKE WE HAD KNOWN EACH OTHER FOREVER. >> SINCE THEN, THROUGH ALL OF LIFE'S UPS AND DOWNS, INCLUDING THE TRAGIC LOSS OF BOTH OF THEIR DADS, THE TRIPLETS HAVE ONLY GROWN CLOSER. AND NOW THE THREE LIVE JUST MINUTES AWAY FROM EACH OTHER IN AUSTIN, TEXAS. >> WE'RE SEEING EACH OTHER AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK IF NOT TWICE. >> THE MORE TIME WE SPEND AROUND EACH OTHER, THE MORE WE START TO LIKE SOUND LIKE EACH OTHER AND ACT LIKE EACH OTHER. >> THEY'VE EVEN STARTED A PODCAST TOGETHER ABOUT THEIR STORY, FEATURING SOME SPECIAL GUESTS. >> YOU'RE HERE WITH THE THREE BABIES THAT YOU BIRTHED. >> LOOK AT YOU ALL. YOU'RE ALL TOGETHER AND YOU'RE HEALTHY AND HAPPY AND SMART. >> Reporter: THE TRIPLETS SAY THEY'RE GRATEFUL FOR EACH OTHER AND THEIR NOW UNBREAKABLE BOND. >> THEY ARE JUST LIKE THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE TO ME. >> BEING ABLE TO KIND OF CULTIVATE THIS REALLY UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP HAS JUST BEEN LIKE THE BEST THING THAT WE ALL COULD HAVE DONE. >> HERE THEY ARE. THE TRIPLETS, RICKI, JULES, AND KENDALL. GOOD MORNING! >> GOOD MORNING! >> WE'RE SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU. OKAY, THIS HAS BEEN SUCH AN EMOTIONAL JOURNEY, JUST TO WATCH THIS UNFOLD. AND RICKI, YOU ALWAYS KNEW THAT YOU WERE MISSING A PART OF YOU. WHAT WAS IT LIKE, DESCRIBE THE MOMENT, WHEN YOU'RE 11 YEARS OLD, YOU'RE IN A MALL AND YOU SEE THE TWO SISTERS WHO YOU HAVE KIND OF DREAMT OF MEETING? >> A LOT LIKE A PUZZLE PIECE SLIDING INTO PLACE. I HAD BEEN A PRETTY SAD KID UP TO THAT POINT, BECAUSE OF THE TRAGIC LOSS OF MY FATHER, IT WAS THE FIRST REPRIEVE I'VE HAD FROM THAT. >> AND YOU'RE IDENTICAL, RICKI AND JULES. NOT ONLY ARE YOU MEETING THIS LONG-LOST SISTER, YOU'RE IDENTICAL. >> YEAH, IT WAS VERY TRIPPY. I HAD BEEN RESISTANT TO THINKING THAT WE WERE IDENTICAL FOR A LONG TIME, BUT IT WAS JUST LIKE LOOKING IN A MIRROR, AND KNOWING THAT I DIDN'T HAVE THOSE CLOTHES AND I DIDN'T HAVE MY EARS PIERCED. IT WAS A LITTLE JARRING, BUT IT WAS SO FUN. >> I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT CHRISTMAS WHEN YOUR PARENTS SURPRISED YOU OF A PHOTOGRAPH. YOU HAVE TO DESCRIBE THAT MOMENT, BECAUSE I CAN IMAGINE IT WAS EXCITING, BUT ALSO SORT OF LIKE JARRING. >> IT WAS VERY SURREAL, BECAUSE, YEAH, IT LOOKED LIKE WE WERE LOOKING AT A PICTURE OF JULIANNE, BUT OBVIOUSLY NOT JULIANNE. SO OUR PARENTS TOOK US ASIDE SEPARATELY, ASKED US INDIVIDUALLY HOW WE FELT ABOUT IT. >> HOW DID YOU FEEL? >> I SAID, I'M UNIQUE. BUT, YEAH, REALLY COOL. >> SO, YOU KNOW, THE YEARS HAVE GONE ON, YOU HAVE OBVIOUSLY FORMED THIS REALLY CLOSE RELATIONSHIP. HAVE YOU NOTICED THINGS NOW WHERE YOU'RE LIKE, YEAH, WE'RE SO TRIPLETS. IT'S AN INTERESTING THING WHERE TWO OF YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT UPBRINGING THAN YOU DID, RICKI, BUT DO YOU FIND THOSE SIMILARITIES? >> YEAH, WE TALK ABOUT NATURE VERSUS NURTURE ALL THE TIME. JULIANNE AND I ESPECIALLY SPEAK EXACTLY THE SAME, WHICH I'M SURE YOU'VE NOTICED, HAVE THE SAME HAND MOVEMENTS, BUT MOST OF ALL, WE JUST GOT THE ODDBALL GENE, I WOULD SAY. >> I WONDERED, WHEN YOU KNEW THAT -- YOU KNOW, THE WAY YOU WERE SEPARATED AND YOUR MOM HAD TO MAKE THAT VERY, VERY DIFFICULT DECISION, DID YOU ASK YOUR MOM, LIKE, WHY US, WHY DID IT HAPPEN THIS WAY? >> I THINK WE ALWAYS -- I DON'T KNOW THE IT WAS WHY US SO MUCH AS WHY THEM, MY PARENTS. BECAUSE THEY DID FIGHT SO LONG TO HAVE BABIES THROUGH THE ADOPTION PROCESS. AND BECAUSE THEY TOLD US SO YOUNG, IT WAS JUST ALWAYS A PART OF GROWING UP. IT WAS NEVER A SHOCK TO US THAT WE WERE ADOPTED. BUT OF COURSE, WHEN WE FOUND OUT THAT WE HAD A TRIPLET, THAT WAS THE BIGGER SHOCK. >> AND FOR YOUR ADOPTIVE PARENTS, I'M SURE IT WAS A COMPLEX DECISION. BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO HOLD ON TO YOUR KIDS THAT YOU'RE RAISING AND YOU LOVE SO MUCH. AND WHEN YOU ADD IN THIS OTHER ELEMENT IN A BIRTH MOM, IT TAKES A LOT OF COURAGE FOR YOUR ADOPTIVE PARENTS TO SAY, LET'S BRING THESE GIRLS TOGETHER. >> I THINK THEY HAD TO OVERCOME A LOT OF FEAR IN ORDER TO DO THAT, BECAUSE I THINK THEY JUST ALWAYS HAD THAT INHERENT LIKE FEAR THAT WE WOULD SEE OUR BIRTH MOM AND AND OUR SISTER AND FEEL LIKE A BIOLOGICAL PULL. THAT WAS JUST NEVER THE CASE. >> SO WE'RE LOOKING AT YOU THREE, YOU ALL LIVE IN AUSTIN. THIS IS THE CRAZIEST SITUATION. HOW DID IT COME TO BE THAT THE THREE OF YOU WOUND UP IN THE SAME CITY SHARING LIFE LIKE THAT? >> I MOVED TO AUSTIN FIRST FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL. LET'S JUST PRETEND BECAUSE WE'RE ON THE "TODAY" SHOW THAT I COMPLETED THAT. AND I WOULD SAY ABOUT EIGHT YEARS LATER, JULIANNE HAD JUST BEEN SOUL SEARCHING IN CALIFORNIA AND I BEGGED HER TO COME JOIN ME. AND KENDALL JUST COULDN'T STAY AWAY. >> LOVE IT. WELL, YOU'RE TOGETHER, RIGHT WHERE YOU BELONG. IT'S SO FUN TO HAVE YOU HERE. AND IT JUST SHOWS YOU THAT FAMILY TRANSCENDS ALL OF YOUR DEFINITIONS. >> I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR YOUR PODCAST, TOO, BY THE WAY. >> WELL, WE'LL LOVE YOUR
