Black and White Twins - Again

by Roger Sinasohn (Subscribe to Roger Sinasohn's posts) Jan 4th 2009 11:00AM

Categories: Newborns, Siblings, Weird But True, Twins, Triplets, Multiples

The odds against having twins, one of whom appears black and the other white, are astronomical at best. It would require a specific set of circumstances and a whole lot of luck. It's the sort of thing that, even if you were able to do it once, you could never do again in a million years.

Unless, of course, you're Dean Durrant and Alison Spooner. The couple had twins Lauren and Hayleigh in 2001 whose skin and eye color were "strikingly different" -- one taking after their fair-skinned, blue-eyed mother and the other after their dark-skinned father. In November, the couple had another set of twins, once again with two very different skin colors.

Leah takes after her mother and her twin sister takes after her father. The twins were born prematurely in Southern England and are now home with their parents just outside of London. I don't know about these girls, but if I were one of them, I'd be having loads of fun confusing the heck out of people growing up.

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