Just when you think you've heard it all.. (link to news article)

LucyRicardo3 · February 2014

https://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/womens-health/woman-gives-birth-children-discovers-her-twin-actually-biological-mother-she

This is to prepare yourself for possible future crazy person who wants to share a strange twin story with you.
wowzers

jocie2581 · February 2014

That is incredibly bizzare. What an unusual story.

LucyRicardo3 · February 2014

AshB62 said:

I can't get the whole article to load, but just reading the title made my head hurt.

Basically, It says this lady is actually a completely fused fraternal twin?
They use the word "chimera "which I've only heard of in Mythology stories.
Mind. Blown.

caden · February 2014

LucyRicardo3 said:

AshB62 said:

I can't get the whole article to load, but just reading the title made my head hurt.

Basically, It says this lady is actually a completely fused fraternal twin?
They use the word "chimera "which I've only heard of in Mythology stories.
Mind. Blown.

Non-science explanation: she ate her twin in utero and got her twin's ovaries.

LucyRicardo3 · February 2014

caden said:

Non-science explanation: she ate her twin in utero and got her twin's ovaries.

Yeah, actually THAT part sounds like something out of Greek Mythology !

LucyRicardo3 · February 2014

MrsLee04 said:

I'm pretty sure there was a chimera storyline on All My Children a looong time ago, cuz I was like WTF?!

So the whole "evil" twin takes on new meaning.. Or am I thinking of Days of our Lives?

PurpleIris30 · February 2014

It's not quite that twin sci-fi.

The article goes a little far to create a good headline. It's a type of gonadal mosaicism. Mosaicism happens more frequently than one would think (although still rare), but the average person just would have no reason to be tested. My husband is a geneticist and we were talking about this article the other day. He's had several cases like this.

xoexpat · February 2014

“I’ve been doing this long enough to recognize when someone is giving birth right in front of you,”

Lol!

I wonder if Kate Bosworth is a chimera? She has different colored eyes...

raraavis28 · February 2014

AshB62 said:

I can't get the whole article to load, but just reading the title made my head hurt.

LOL this! If someone said "I'm a twin but I didn't know it....actually I'm not technically a twin....I'm my own twin" I'd think they were high.....unless the conversation happened at Target where anything goes.

Fascinating story!