Posted on 03/31/2012 5:27:17 PM PDT by No One Special
One is black and has big brown eyes. The other is a blue-eyed blonde with the palest of skin.
They might share the same cheeky smile, but side by side, they could hardly look less alike.
Yet remarkably, Kian and Remee are twins, born a minute apart.
The pair owe their appearance to a one in a million combination of their parents’ genes.
Mother Kylee Hodgson and father Remi Horder both have white mothers and black fathers.
The startling result is a two-tone set of delightful little girls.
They first attracted international attention when they were featured in the Mail at less than a year old.
They first attracted international attention when they were featured in the Mail at less than a year old.
Now, approaching their seventh birthday, they have never asked why they don’t look the same, nor have they ever experienced any racial prejudice.
‘They are such a perfect example of how it should be,’ their mother told the Mail. ‘They are not bothered about their skin colour. It’s not the big issue everyone else seems to see it as. It isn’t important to them at all – it’s about what they’re like underneath.’
Kian and her 60-second older sister were delivered in April 2005 by caesarean section.
Kylee, now 25, recalls the moment she saw them for the first time: ‘I noticed that both of them had beautiful blue eyes,’ she said.
‘But while Remee’s hair was blonde, Kian’s was black and she had darker skin. To me, they were my kids and they were just normal. I thought they would start to look the same as time went on.’
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bfl
The first time I saw a photo of Jeter (back when he was in AA or AAA), it was a black-and-white picture in a newspaper and I thought he (i) was white and (ii) looked a bit like Cal Ripken; only later did I realize that he’s half black.
What beautiful girls! The black/white thing doesn’t startle me that much, though. We have fraternal twin boys . . . and one looks like my side of the familiy (and acts it) and one looks like my husband’s side of the family (and acts it!). The difference is so pronounced that people remarked on it as soon as we brought them home. “Genetics in action” is always a funny thing!
I’m from Missouri: show me their DNA.
Cheers!
>>>>I’m from Missouri: show me their DNA.<<<<
I can see a lot of similarities in both, notably in the hair. Skin pigment is fabulously easy to change from generation to generation - I see it up here in Alaska, where most of the Native kids in my classroom have non-Native parents, and skin tones are simply all over the board. My own kid, too - my wife is Italian, I’m Russian Jew, and my son has a olive tone that browns up instantly in the sun - nothing at all like me.
I’d be a little annoyed using these kids as a skin color freak show, but that’s the British tabloid press for you. I expect to see one or both on page three in 20 years. If you know what I mean. Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge. Say no more.
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