It's a black-and-white story. Two mixed-race sisters in Britain have both given birth to one white and one black child in what's being claimed as a million-to-one genetic fluke.
It's a black-and-white story. Two mixed-race sisters in Britain have both given birth to one white and one black child in what's being claimed as a million-to-one genetic fluke.
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Thirty-five-year-old Sharon and her 40-year-old elder sister Sonia Harris each have two children, fathered by white men, the Daily Express reported. But even though Sonia's boys, Cameron and Kyle, are five-year-old twins, they have different-coloured skin and hair. Cameron has brown skin and dark brown curly hair while Kyle has white skin and is blond.
Sonia's sister Sharon also gave birth to a daughter with pale skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair. Kayleigh, five, looks very different from her older sister, Paige, who has dark curly hair and a darker complexion.
Sharon's partner, Malcolm Holloway, 32, is white, while Sonia, a schools lunchtime supervisor, had her children with white ex-partner Phillip Bradley, 42. Sharon, who was stunned when Kayleigh was born, said: "We couldn't believe it when we saw her blue eyes, blonde hair and light skin. I think if the circumstances had been any different I might have worried there had been a mistake. It was a shock, that s for sure. But Malcolm's sister is pale so perhaps that has something to do with it."
Sonia added: "I was really shocked when the boys were born. Cameron came out first, and then the next thing we saw was a little pair of white legs and a white bottom. I just thought, 'What's happened?' The doctors said it was very unusual, but that it does happen.
"People don't always realise they are twins at first, but when you tell them, they say they can see the other similarities."