Donna and Vince Aylmer who live in Gloucester, England were so excited with the idea of expanding their family of five members to six, as there was another addition on the way. Donna who was 49 years 0ld at the time and working at the warehouse, accompanied by her husband, Vince a 55-year-old scaffolder were making their way to the doctor. Donna was coming in for her first routine checkup and ultrasound.
The couples were happy and somehow nervous, but they had nothing to be worried of as they didn’t expect anything out of ordinary. But they were soon going to be thrilled about the news they were about to receive. This was not what they had expected.
The doctor informed the Aylmers that Donna was carrying not one but two babies. The doctor added that the babies were healthy and were developing as normally as they should. For the couple the news came shocked them a little as they never expected it. But they were happy about it.
Having three kids George, Jordan, and Chynna already at home, and now twins on their way sounded a bit handful. But they were happy and cherished the news to be the biggest blessing. The catch was that they never had an idea of the kind of blessing they were about to receive.
It was January 16, 1997, and on that day Donna gave birth to a set of beautiful twins, but when the midwife handed her the babies she was completely shocked and speechless and somehow confused. But Donna’s reaction was quite normal given the situation.
Donna held the twins in her arms where one of them had a snow white complexion accented by deep blue eyes as well as ginger hair, and Lucy was the name she gave her. The other twin had sparking brown eyes that matched with a very dark complexion as well as brown hair. And Maria was the name she gave her. How could have this happened?
Just like how things tend to go with twins, Donna worn her twins with identical outfits. They were so cute, but no one could have ever guessed that they were twins as they girls were entirely different and they had nothing to make you think that they were twins.
Having blue-green eyes as well as curly hair, Lucy looked like she was an Irish, Maria had features that people would think she was from Caribbean Island, as she had dark skin and eyes accompanied by curly brown hair. In case you think this sound so different just wait and see how they look today.
When they were seven years old, the twins told their mother that they no longer wanted to dress in identical outfits anymore. They had no idea why they had to wear exact same clothes while it was entirely clear that they had nothing that make them alike.
The girls also told their mother that they even didn’t feel like they were twins because of the way they looked and felt, and therefore they felt like dressing differently. It was along that time when the girls started to establish their sense of identity, but this came with a sense of difficulties as well.
The twins were in the same class at school, but no one could tell that they were twins. That means the girls could never swap names or play tricks on their teachers and classmates like how other twins do.
But it was clear that Lucy and Maria were happy about being identified as individuals, even though they couldn’t enjoy the perks of being twins. It is always easy for someone to identify the difference between identical twins if you focus on their different personality traits. When Lucy and Maria got older, they opened up about how different they really were, and that was beyond their distinctive looks.
At the time when girls finally turned to 18, their story was picked by several news outlets. Lucy told the Inside Edition about their entire opposite personalities. She said that Maria was outgoing while she was shy. Maria supported this and added that as they grew older Lucy started coming out of her closet a bit more.
Lucy was careful enough to stay away from strangers while Maria was so confident that she could walk directly to strangers and start a conversation. Their differences were clear that these young twin girls had nothing close, but they changed along the way as they grew older. So what are the twins doing today? Just keep reading.
Maria and Lucy hated some of the attributes about themselves, Maria didn’t like her curly hair and used to cry sometimes about it while Lucy hated her pale skin as kids used to tease her telling her that she looked like a ghost and that she was adopted.
Lucy would always try to reason with herself and others to figure out where she got her pale skin, and she reached to a conclusion that she must have inherited it from her grandmother. She then started to straighten her hair as she got older as her hair had natural curly characters, but didn’t have ringlets like Maria’s. But that wasn’t all.
Donna and Vince had created a set of biracial twins and they had no idea about it. The fact is skin tone and color normally don’t show up when doing an ultrasound, and therefore there was no way they could have known that this was going to happen. Besides, the chance of having biracial twins occurs one in 500 births.
On the other side, the couple’s other kids, Chynna, George and Jordan were of dark complexion, but they weren’t as dark as Maria and were much darker than Lucy. Keep reading to know more the unusual twin sisters and know how this phenomenon came into existence.
Biracial twins come from parents with different races and ethnicities. Vince has a Caucasian origin while Donna is half Jamaican and half white, and this make sense to why their three older kids have mixed skin tones.
What surprised them was that Lucy and Maria were totally different with different color skin tones. Despite the fact being twins, but it seemed as Donna had given birth to strangers. But how did that come to be possible?
Lucy and Maria are non-identical twins due to the fact that they formed from separate eggs in the womb. When such a thing occurs it means that they didn’t inherit the same genes as one another, and that means it was luck of the draw as to who between the two would get what skin color tone.
When it comes to Lucy and Maria’s case, the possibility of one baby coming out light while the other dark than the other is based upon Donna who is their mother is from a mixed lineage. Donna carried a gene for both white and black skin. This means there was an increased chance that she would pass on a white gene to at least one of the twins. But when it comes to the skin color tone, just how different did Lucy and Maria really come out?
Besides when it comes to the difference in their appearance as well as personalities, the twins had developed their own sense of style. Lucy likes dressing with edgy and dark makeup as well piercings while Maria likes dressing in a more sophisticated fashion with little of boho turn around.
Lucy made a confession to the Inside Edition that all the traits between them had an effect of their connection while they were young. She added that maybe if they had looked the same and clear to everyone that they shared the same parents, they might have been more close. But this does not mean that the bond between them is not strong as of today.
“Now we have grown up, even though we are still not alike, but we are more connected,” Lucy said that during an interview with the Inside Edition. The twins admitted that currently they are just twin sisters but they are best friends.
Currently, is so proud of informing everyone that she has a white sister, while on the other hand Lucy feels so blessed letting people know that she has a sister that has a different color from her own. But just like the same way it took them a few good years to get used to the fact that they were not identical, it seems there are some other people who struggle with the idea too. Do you want to know what they girls are doing today?
Accepting their differences is the path they chose for their life. The twins have not only embraced their different sense of style, but they have also taken different career paths. Lucy enrolled at Gloucester studying art and design, while Maria opted for law at Cheltenham college.
They are so into each other and they love talking fondly of one another, and this is what triggered a lot of media to pick an interest in them. But there are some people who still cannot accept them for whom they are. Keep on reading.
After the twins had made several interviews with different media outlets, some of their friends at the college were so impressed with their amazing story, while there are those who never wanted to believe it. Maria told the Inside Edition that there was someone who had asked her if she was a really a twin when she showed her Lucy’s picture.
After they had the television interview, that is the time some of their friends started to believe that their story might be true, that Lucy and Maria might really be biracial twins. But Maria stated that they are used to skeptics. People are used to the fact that twins are always identical, but in their case even when they decide to wear the identical clothes, they will still look un related.
Even some of their closest friends have had a hard time believing their story. Some have even gone far asking the twins to produce their birth certificates so as to prove that they are twins.
This proves that many people have no idea about the biracial twins’ phenomenon, and shows how hard it is for people to face the fact even if the twins are their close friends. Once Maria jokingly stated that, such friends have no lots of trust. She stated that while she was talking to the Inside Edition. But is there something that they both share?
Lucy and Maria both admit to the fact that they were never close while growing up and they always felt like they were worlds apart from each other. But when they were doing an interview with the Inside Edition, they were asked if they ever share the stereotypical psychic bond that all other twins do claim to have.
They both answered that they do not really feel to have a psychic bond that most twins talk about, but they admitted sometimes they do experience the same physical pains in same body spots. So they might have such a bond even though they do not know if they do. But this does not end there.
Lucy and Maria may be so different from each other in many ways and they enjoy their differences via fashion and style, but they are so similar than the way they could imagine. At the age of 18, they all could have passed as models having tall and slender physiques.
If you take a closer look, beyond their color of hair, skin tone and eyes, there is some strong resemblances between the two. Besides, they enjoy the fact that they will always have each other’s backs no matter if they look identical or not. In case you though they were the only biracial twins out there, you were entirely wrong. Keep reading to know other biracial twins.
Marcia and Millie are also biracial twins. Unlike Maria and Lucy, the twin sisters are so close and identical in style and manner, and walk to school holding each other’s hand. They even like about having the same hair style.
The two have a love for gymnastics as well as dancing, and besides they share an interest and skill in science as well as mathematics. While it is obvious that beyond the matching lunch packs, uniforms as well as the hairstyles, the girls are not identical, even though they do share some similar physical attributes.
Kalani and Jarani Dean are among the biracial twins. Their mother is white and their dad is black, as a resut Kalani came out with a dark skin while Jarani inherited a brown skin. Their mother, Whitney Meyer refers her daughters to be a symbol against racism.
Meyer has a hope that such genetic phenomenon can be responsible in creating social awareness regarding trivial skin color and how does it take place. During her interview with Today magazine she said that her daughters are the same girl but different colors. Not different from Maria’s and Lucy’s mother, Meyer was shocked when they were born because the possibilities of giving birth to biracial twins are extremely rare.
Their parents Joanne and Larry were still wondering, before the birth of their twins, whether the twins would resemble their mother more as compared to their father. Joanne is white, while Larry is black. This is being their parents had expected as they expected each of the twin to resemble each of them.
Initially, the differences between the two twins was not so much. But as they started to grow they started becoming more and more different as their skin tones started to be obvious. No one has ever believed that the two were twins as they are entirely different. They don’t even seem to look like brother and sister, let alone being twins.
Kian and Remee are twins that were born just a minute apart. Their parents Kylee and Remi have a family origin in which they had white mothers and black fathers, having a mixed genetic makeup and creating a very rare set of twins.
According to Biology, these twins are extremely rare as the occurrence is one in a million. One of the girls is black having brown eyes, while the other girl is blonde having blue eyes. Their parents stated that while the twins shared the same first word which “juice” the girls couldn’t be more different.
James and Daniel are known as fraternal twins and apart from having the same parents, they have nothing that makes them look the same. James is black outgoing and gay, while he enjoys school while his brother Daniel is white, straight, somehow shy and doesn’t enjoy school as his brother.
Their mother is white, while their father by the name of Errol is a Jamaican and that explains why they were with such differences and skin tone variations. Most Caribbean people, despite the fact that they are dark skinned but they also carry a European DNA. It was hard for the brothers to even accept the fact that they were brothers, let alone twins. That is what their mother said.
These are adorable twins, by the name of Viviana and Dennis Ng are unbelievable unique fraternal twins, not just because of their skin tones only, but also their wide variety of family genetics. The Ng family is a multiracial family that composes different genes around the globe.
Viviana and Dennis have an African, Hispanic, Hawaiian, European, and Chinese genes, thus making the twins so unique. Some are they twins or were they conceived naturally? That is what their mother said and then she added that when she and he husband are together, that is when people are like, “Oh, now I see.”
Growing looking entirely different from your family is not easy. This is what happened when it comes to the case of Breana Concotta. While growing up Breana was being teased for having a light skin tone and was called names such as “albino.” She was also required to choose between white and black.
Thanks, that the twins are now full grown and they say that neither one had to deal with such childish teasing anymore. But yet people do not believe that the two are brothers, much less fraternal twins.
These two cute girls are actually identical twins. But you might not even have guessed it by just looking at them. As a matter of fact, the twins, Amelia and Jasmine, are believed to be the first genetically identical black and white twins to be born in the UK.
The parent had hoped that they were going to have identical twins before their birth, so both parents were trying to figure out how they be able to tell them apart. But when the kids were born they were surprised even the doctors themselves didn’t believe what they saw. The kids looked entirely different as they were of different skin color tone.
When it comes to the Spooner family they are remarkably known for having two pairs of twins where one is black and the other is white in both of their two pairs. The couple gave birth to the first pair of twins, then after seven years they gave birth to another set of twins which were also biracial.
Geneticists say that as people are getting more and more marrying beyond their gene pool, the barriers between races will continue to break done. That means that we will keep experiencing more and more biracial twins in the coming future as compared to recent.
This pair of twins was born in Ohio U.S. whereas the mother is white and the father is black. The twins were referred as medical marvels by the doctors, but the couple has faced criticism as well as backlash from their own community.
Gabriel was born with a light skin tone as well as blonde hair with blue eyes, on the other hand baby Triniti was born with dark skin as well as brown eyes. The parents are always faced with questions from people whether these two are related and if their parents are certain. These babies have been called as derogatory slurs with names like mutts’ and with the parents facing criticism. They explain that some people have gone to extra miles and asked them how could they do that to their children.
The possibility of having biracial twins is so minor but sometimes some people would have them. The parents of these two pairs of twins are not only friends but they are blood related sisters! What are the differences?
This all comes down to genetics but the chances are extremely rare. The two sisters each have black and white twins and both are great friends. Their kids play together as they are of the same age group and that helps as their both have something in common.
These baby twins are among the fraternal twins. The babies where one is a girl and the other is a boy, they do not look so alike. But as we have already seen, looks have a way of deceiving when it comes to genetics and twins.
Their mother does hope that her children will be able to embrace their uniqueness. She said that, “Usually when people are interracial, they feel as if they have to identify with one or the other and I’d like them to embrace it even though they look completely different. So hopefully that will encourage them to do that as they get older.”
Kendall and Baylee are twin sisters that gave their parents quite a shock as they are entirely different. Baylee inherited her mother’s characters as she is from a European heritage while Kendall inherited from her father who is from Jamaican heritage with darker skin tone. Before the babies were born, their parents had been getting ready to learn how they will distinguish their kids when they are born.
One of the thing I surely know is that family as well as friends will never struggle when it comes to differentiating them, that is what Curtis, the twins father said jokingly. He then added that in case he didn’t father them himself, he also couldn’t believe that they were related.
Hannah and Kyle say that at the time they found out that they were pregnant with twins their friends had jokingly aid that one would come out dark while the other fair, just like their parents. They just laughed thinking that it was a joke and it cannot really happen.
They were so stunned when the joke just turned into reality. The parents are always face with questions from people anywhere they go. Hannah once told the reporters, that it is impossible for her to walk down the aisle supermarket without being stopped.
Couple Carole and Brian had been doing everything they can to have children for quite a long time with no success. After going through several problems and numerous miscarriages, then they finally were able to have just one set of twins. But not just twins but unique ones.
The chances that Carole and Brian had gave birth to twins that have different color tones was rare as it occurs to one in a million. As they had dealt with tough issues having to get pregnant in the first place, there is no double these were miracle babies.
Baby Daniel gave his parents a shocking experience has she was born with a fair and blonde hair, as considering that both of his parents originate from African heritage. Francis, who is his father admitted that when he first saw the newborn he was surprised and questioned if he was really his father.
Baby Daniel is not biologically biracial. Besides, he is not albino. His condition occurred just due a little genetic mutation that runs in his mother family. Arlette, who is his mother says that she had heard stories of someone in their family six generation prior that gave birth to a white baby but she always thought that the story was just a myth.
Nyle DiMarco who is a winner of America’s Next Top Model, couldn’t have anything less like his twin brother Nico, as was born with fair skin and entirely striking red hair. The two brothers were both born deaf, but that didn’t stop them from pursuing their passion and yes they succeeded.
Technically they cannot be referred to biracial, they are just another example of how twins can turn out. Nyle is an actor and a model, while Nico is a successful DJ. Besides, both are deaf activists, and they are working hard to help raise awareness and help support the community.
