NEWS: COUPLE GIVES BIRTH TO BLACK AND WHITE TWINS AGAIN
Submitted by admin on December 31, 2008 at 7:52 am 32 Comments
Black and White twins Hayleigh and Lauren Durrant proudly hold their new sisters Leah and Miya — who incredibly are also twins with different coloured skin. Their mixed-race parents Dean Durrant and Alison Spooner repeated the two-tone miracle after a seven-year gap. Black and White twins Hayleigh and Lauren Durrant proudly hold their new sisters Leah and Miya — who incredibly are also twins with different coloured skin.
Their mixed-race parents Dean Durrant and Alison Spooner repeated the two-tone miracle after a seven-year gap.
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WOW, that is all I can say.
I remember when the oldest girls made news,my first reaction was did she cheat on her husband?
I don’t think people should call them Black and White twins because they are both biracial. But anyway this is interesting! In the additional pictures the two sets of twins look just alike, minus the coloring.
I agree with you Nic. Neither of the girls look white to me, nor do they look black. They obviously have different complexions, but they both still look biracial.
Anyway, they are very beautiful girls and the babies are cuties too. I clicked the link so that I could read on it further. It’s a very interesting story. Congrats to the parents.
This is old news this has happened a few times before
This is interesting. The most important thing is that they’re happy, healthy and in a loving home. The colour topic is for the rest of the world to get over. Hopefully sooner, than later.
WOW…interesting. The girls are beautiful.
I’ll have to agree with what Destiny said. I have two daughters, one of which is noticeably lighter than the other…they both look alike minus their skin tone…they both look like me and my husband. Neither of us is “mixed”….
Nonetheless, both sets of twins are absolutely beautiful. I think it’s a bad idea though to make such a big deal out of the difference in their skin tone, it could affect them in a negative way. I hope the parents reinforce that they are sisters regardless of how the world perceives them.
I’ve read so many similar stories. I don’t understand why in 2008… almost 2009 this is still shocking. We should all know how genes work by now.
I don’t understand all the shock and awe… siblings with diverse complexions have always been quite common in black and latino families. Judging by the appearance of the father’s phenotype, he’s of some obvious mixed race ancestry (Like everyone on the planet!) As for the mother’s whiteness, the percentage of mixed race couples are high in the U.K, and early african ancestry absorbed itself into the white working class community, so much so that it has left its genetic traces in one in 100 Brits. Furthermore, so called black and white twins aren’t a rare phenomenon, especially not in the United Kingdom, but each recent case is treated as if it is something rare or odd defying.
However, this is an extremely beautiful family!!!!!
aww that’s cute even though it’s getting old now lol this happens like every year now
I’m with the person up top that mentioned genetics. This happens all the time in black families, so I don’t see why the color of their skin is newsworthy. They are beautiful children. God bless them.
I don’t think that they are trying to make a point out of the girls skin tone, I believe that the point that is being made is that it happened to the same couple twice.
wow…interesting
One is actually Black and the other White, you can see both colors and then there is the fact that the only true Whites are red-heads and that baby is a red-head.
The child took almost/nothing of the father gene and everything from the mother and her ancestry, the other child took from both mother and father.
Blacks/Biracials can be born blondes, but not red-heads.
I have to disagree with Linda. Both children are, genetically, of mixed “race”. It doesn’t matter what they look like. That’s the difference between phenotype and genotype.
Linda, that is not true about blacks not being able to be redheads. I have seen a biracial man who had bright red hair and freckles all over. His daughter was exactly the same and her mother was black.
My own sister’s hair is auburn and used to be even redder when she was little, so red people thought my mom dyed it, and we are black on both sides.
Just recently I saw a brown skinned black baby girl with very red hair and it was NOT dyed–she was only 1 year old.
BTW, the girls are so cute and it is amazing that one is so fair and the other brown and the fact that it happened twice in one family is something.
It’s not a racist or ignorant thing that people are fascinated by this because it’s just a cool, interesting thing, even if it happens several times in the world.
We are wonderfully made and you just never know how genes will express themselves.
It’s crazy once but twice damn. Cute kids though and congrats.
MIXTRYMAMA=As you said the man was BIRACIAL, so the red hair happened from the European ancestry as well as the freckles. Only people with European ancestry anywhere in their genetics can get freckles as well as the red hair. It’s on this genetic site. If you like I could find it for you.
How can blacks not be redheads? Have you seen SINBAD?
Beautiful girls! And I, too think the point being made was that the light/dark twins happened *twice* in one family.
I’m assuming Linda hasn’t heard of Detroit Red nor Chicago Red AKA
Malcom X and Redd Fox; each were given names by their peers to distinguish between the two red haired fellows!
Suz, like I said, I also know a black child who is NOT European on either side who has very red hair and is a brown complexion. Also, have you never seen black Africans with red hair? Even those in remote areas who don’t have mixed bloodlines can have red hair. And repeat: my sister who is black and not mixed had red hair as a child and it remains auburn.
Anyone else with any grandiose ideas about what a black person can and cannot physically look like, why not step foot outside your own small towns and have a look around at the people on this earth, why don’t you? Not every black person (black on both sides)is black or brown haired with black-brown eyes; not even Africans are that limited in their appearances.
I couldn’t have said it better myself,MixtryMama! The only statement that I have heard from a scientist is in regards to it being rare for two brown-eyed people to produce a blue-eyed offspring! Every other trait is possible (red hair, included)especially in the offspring of black people-lets face facts, most (if not all) African-Americans are from a varied multicultural background, the result being the beautiful diverse people that we are!
Freckles are a concentration of melain, and can be found on any racial or ethnic group. Africans have been noted to have red hair or a reddish hue to their hair with or without known introduction of the European gene pool or tradition tribal dyes. Aboriginals, who are often as black skinned as Africans have natural red or light blonde hair. Several red heads have unique texture to their hair noted as being curly or frizzy. While most red heads are in Ireland, they’re found around the world.. Suffice to say, considering the first Scots dynasties were African, perhaps the melanin clusters, red hair, and frizz are just the african coming out of the European as opposed to vice versa. SMILE.
Regardless, this is an extremely beautiful family and they remind us how closely connected we as people really are.
Interesting…
That man has the strongest blood ever. He is very light. Even the lighter daughter doesn’t look all white..
Cute kids..
for the ones saying this old news….and that is had happened before…that´s true…earlier last year in Germany….an African woman (married to a German) had twins….one looked biracial, while the other one had her mother´s dark skin….the cutest ever….but it has happened before…
what makes this “case” so special is….the the couple has twins twice consecutively…which is seldom enough….but that both of the twinsets…:D…..are of different color…that has almost never happened
someone mentioned that the man might have been cheated……..sorry…but one child is almost white…the other one is dark….his wife is white…so there is always the chance of having a white looking child….look at Boris Becker´s second son…he´s blond and white…but he looks alike his older brother Noah Gabriel who has his mother´s complexion…and younger one has the same curly hair….
OMGoodness ! I wish people would quit already. They are NOT “Black and White” ! They all come from parents of mixed “race”. Fraternal twins are no different than any other siblings. One of my brothers has a dark complexion and there is nothing amazing about that. It’s simply that our mother was dark skinned and he took after her. That’s it.
I have twin boys mixed race age 7 now the oldest by 18 minutes is very lite complextion dark straight hair lite eyes his brother tan complextion thick curly hair dark brown eyes….
this happens more than you would think… i have twin cousins who are like night and day and both of their parents are black not mixed but black…having twins that skin two differ runs on their father side of the family. if you saw them you wouldnt even think they were in anyway related. the same as their twin aunts
Maybe theyre have diffrent colord skin becaue theyre faturnal and one sperm and egg had the genes fro darker skin and the other egg and sperm had the genes for lighter skin.