Natalia Grace shares picture with new dad after former adoptive family accused her of being a woman disguised as a child
Olivia House
Published Aug 22, 2026
NATALIA Grace, the young Ukrainian woman accused of posing as a six-year-old girl, has been spotted spotted spending time with her adoptive father in a recent social media post.
The young woman shared a photo of herself with her adoptive father Antwon Mans, writing in the caption “Daddy/Daughter Time.”
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Late last month, the father-daughter duo was spotted selling fireworks outside a local Walmart in Greencastle, Indiana.
Natalia’s adoptive family have been increasingly supportive for the young woman in recent years, after her former adoptive parents accused her of being a dangerous con artist posting as a child.
The accusations started after an Indiana couple, Michael and Kristine Barnett, adopted the Ukrainian orphan in 2010.
At the time, the couple claimed the girl hid knives under her bed and threatened the family.
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They also alleged that Natalia was not six-years-old like they originally thought, but claimed their adoptive daughter was actually a 23-year-old adult.
Natalia has a rare form of dwarfism called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, often referred to as SEDc, which causes short stature and skeletal anomalies in the spine and long bones of the arms and legs.
In a recent documentary, the Barnetts claimed they found bloodied underwear in Natalia’s room – from where she supposedly hid her period – and that she had pubic hair.
The documentary also revealed that the couple took Natalia to a psychiatrist and she was diagnosed as a sociopath.
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Two years after adopting her, the Barnetts petitioned the court to legally change Natalia’s birth year from 2003 to 1989.
The court sided with the couple, determining that Natalia was born on September 4, 1989 – 14 years earlier than she claimed.
This then led the Barnetts to put her in an apartment in Lafayette.
They were later accused of child and dependent neglect because of this, however the charges against them were eventually dropped.
Natalia has vehemently denied the accusations against her – insisting that she was a child when she was taken in, which would make her only 19-years-old now.
Her current adoptive parents – Bishop Antwon and Cynthia Mans – have appeared on Dr. Phil with Natalia in support of their daughter.
They have said they are not concerned about her in any way.
“We have other children. We have a grandson. [Natalia] does nothing but love her siblings and her nephew,” Cynthia said at the time.
Natalia is speaking out against the accusations again in a two-hour documentary called The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks.
In the special, Natalia called the claims frustrating and accused her former adoptive parents of lying.
“The things that [they] have said that I have done is a lie. I have never done anything that they have said that I have done,” she said in a preview of the documentary.
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"You can ask anybody in my family now. You can ask Bishop Antwon and Cynthia Mans that -- just ask them, 'Has she ever done anything?'
"They will tell you who I really am. They're not going to lie and neither am I."
