A black British couple living in Woolwich, south London, surprised experts in the field of genetics because they gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. This baby has white skin, curly blonde hair, blue eyes, and is absolutely not albino.
“We’ve all been here since the baby was born,” said father Ben, a 44-year-old customer service consultant.
And the baby’s mother, Angela, 35 years old, said with a radiant face, “The baby is like a miracle; he looks so pretty.” The girl’s name is Nmachi Ihegboro.
Her father said how surprised he was when Nmachi was born, joking, “I wonder if it’s mine?”
Baby Nmachi’s older brother and sister are children with black skin, like their parents. “I have watched my child a lot,” said Ben. “It is truly a miracle that has appeared in my family. Of course, that’s my child.”
The girl with blue eyes and curly blonde hair is named Nmachi, a name taken from the Nigerian language where this couple is from, and it means the beauty of God.
What surprised genetic experts was that both Ben and Angela came from black families and were not mixed-race.
The recessive genes did not appear in previous generations, and it was only in this baby girl that they were revealed, causing her to have different skin and hair than her parents.
However, there were times when Ben was more or less stressed, even though he said, “I trust my wife, and even if she isn’t honest with me, the child probably has white skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes like that.”
Doctors at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, where Angela gave birth, told Angela and her husband that Nmachi did not have albinism.
Ben came to England with his wife five years ago and worked for South Eastern Trains. Angela said, “Anyway, she is not an albino; she is a completely healthy child.”
And Ben said, “My mother is black from Nigeria, even though she has lighter skin than mine. We also don’t know if anyone in our family is white or not. We wonder if it’s due to a genetic change or for what reason.”
Professor Bryan Sykes, head of genetic anthropology at Oxford University and a leading expert in this field, called this rare case “an anomaly”.
“In rapid interbreeding, variations in lighter skin may be revealed in later generations,” he said. This causes the child to be born with a different skin color than the parents. This case may be due to a mix of genes, but in Nigerians, it is very rare.”
This professor also added that both the child’s father and mother have white ancestors, and it is recessive through generations, but it is revealed in their children’s generation. Her curly blonde hair is an extremely rare case.”
This expert also believes that there are some changes that we do not know about that are the best way to explain this case. The principle of genes is that mixing causes many strange things to happen.
Her father expressed: “She is so beautiful, and I love her so much. Its skin color doesn’t matter either. It’s a lovely baby. And to this day, I still wonder what happened.”
Mr. Ben said: The older boy is 4 years old, and the girl’s brother insisted that the girl was not his sister. He sat next to Nmachi, observed his brother, and looked confused. He said, “We are a black family; why do I have a white brother?”.
Nmachi Ihegboro’s older sister is only 2 years old, so she doesn’t understand.
Ben went on to say, “Of course, we want to know what happened, but we know that life is full of strange things. All she has now is that she is healthy, and we love her. We are proud to be Anglo-Nigerian.
A surprising birth occurred five years ago when Kykie Hodgson became the mother of two daughters, one white and one black, in Nottingham.
Kylie, now 23 years old, and Remi Horder, 21, are the parents of the twins. Both are racially mixed. And there is only 1 such birth in 1 million cases.