#Black baby girl with blue eyes skin#

Their mothers are both white and their fathers are black.īut the chances of the twin girls having completely different skin colors was one in a million.Īccording to the Multiple Births Foundation, baby Kian must have inherited the black genes from both sides of the family, whilst Remee inherited the white ones.A Nigerian couple just got quite a surprise: Angela Ihegboro gave birth to a white baby with blue eyes and curly blond hair, reports The Sun, a British tabloid. In 2006 a British mixed race couple gave birth to twin girls, one of whom was white and the other black.īoth Kylie and her partner Remi Horder, 17, are of mixed race. And if both contain just the versions necessary for black skin, the baby will be black. If both the egg and sperm contain all white genes, the baby will be white. When these eggs and sperm come together, they will create a baby of mixed race.īut, very occasionally, the egg or sperm might contain genes coding for one skin color. Similarly, a man of mixed race will have a variety of different genes in his sperm. If a woman is of mixed race, her eggs will usually contain a mixture of genes coding for both black and white skin. Skin color is believed to be determined by up to seven different genes working together. ‘But all that matters is that she is healthy and that we love her.’ He added: ‘Our boy keeps coming to look at his sister and sits down looking puzzled.

Ihegboro said the couple’s son was even more confused than them. The couple also have an older daughter, Dumebi, two, and a son, Chisom, four.

But even then, what is with the long curly blonde hair.’ But we don’t know of any white ancestry.’

My mum is a black Nigerian although she has a bit fairer skin than mine. She just looks like a healthy white baby. ‘Not like the ones I have seen back in Nigeria or in books. ‘She doesn’t look like an albino child anyway,’ Ihegboro said. Pale skin genes can skip generations but neither Ben nor Angela Ihegboro - who only moved to Britain five years ago - know of any white heritage in either of their families. Even if she hadn’t been, the baby wouldn’t have looked like that!’ Mum Angela said: ‘She is beautiful, a miracle baby.’ĭespite jokingly asking whether he was the father, Igegboro said: ‘Of course she is mine. ‘We both just sat there after the birth staring at her,’ said Ihegboro. Her stunned parents, who already have two black children, just ‘sat and stared’ at their white baby when she arrived, they told the Sun last night. The British couple are both of Igbo Nigerian origin and have dark skin.įather Ben Ihegboro, 44, a customer services adviser, admitted that when he saw the baby he exclaimed ‘What the flip?’ before joking: ‘Is she mine?’ĭoctors at Queen Mary hospital in Sidcup insist that Nmachi - whose name means ‘beauty of God’ in the couple’s native Igbo language - is not an albino. The blonde, blue-eyed girl’s Nigerian parents say they don’t know of any white ancestry in either of their families. This is the black couple who have amazed medical experts after their baby daughter was born with white skin, blue eyes and blonde hair.īenjamin and Angela Ihegboro’s daughter, Nmachi, has flummoxed genetic experts who are unable to explain why she looks they way she does.ĭoctors say the white-skinned newborn is not an albino.

Black baby girl with blue eyes