24. August 2006
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"It was a shock ..."
A mixed-race British mom has given birth to twins - one of each.
No, not a boy and a girl, two girls - one black, the other white.
The odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said.
"It was a shock when I realized that my twins were two different colors,"
Kylie Hodgson, 19, told Londons Daily Mail.
"But it doesn't matter to us - they are just our two gorgeous little girls."
Hodgson and her partner, Remi Horder, 17, were both born to mixed-race parents.
Little Kian and Remee share a love of apples and the Teletubbies, their proud mom says.
Fertility experts speculate that a sperm containing all-white genes fused with an
egg with all-white genes, and a sperm with all-black genes fused with an all-black
gene egg to produce the fraternal twins.