Many people complain about their fate, complain about external flaws, lament for the lack of beauty or the correct proportions of the figure. But at the same time, rarely will anyone think that some children are born with inconceivable anomalies, and even live with them all their lives, despite medical and social problems.
The most harmless in this case are the extra fingers or toes, which can be easily removed in the framework of modern medicine and plastic surgery. But what is to be done to people whose body has not only an extra organ, but sometimes an entire system that is directly dependent on the host’s body. In this case, the phenomenon of the fusion of two children in the womb, as well as the formation of "Siamese twins" is implied. One can only envy the courage of parents who were ready to accept their child like that, and not have an abortion for medical reasons. The child is always forced to be a stranger in the world, get used to curious looks and hope for the opportunity to make friends.
Consider 10 famous people who have discovered excess body parts.
10. Dan Azir
This man from Connecticut is diagnosed with a rare hereditary pathology - exostosis. In addition to the 206 bones that a person has, he has grown about 92 more. A significant part of them are localized in the sternum and joints. Doctors were able to remove 42 through a series of operations performed in 2010. It is noteworthy that some were commensurate with the remote control from the TV. Surgical treatment had a number of consequences. For example, even in his youth, a guy was injured by a nerve, as a result of which his leg began to go numb. A rare disease was transmitted to Dan's three children, but they did not detect a dominant gene, which appears in about half the cases. Hereditary exostoses were diagnosed in only 1.6 thousand families. No effective treatment has been developed.
9. Yin Xin
The girl suffers all her life because of the growth of the unborn twin, who literally “parasitizes” in her body. When the girl was born, it was immediately noticeable that a small arm was growing from her back. Over time, this anomaly acquired fingers, followed by a stomach and chest. By the age of 11, half of the back already contained a poorly developed fetus. The girl’s parents did not have funds for the operation at that time, but in 2007 the parasite was removed.
8. Hong Hong
In China, 2 years ago, a woman gave birth to a child with an amazing vice - 31 fingers and toes. Pregnancy was not noticeable, it usually proceeded, and the doctors did not notice any abnormalities on the ultrasound screen. So Hong Hong was born - a man with a record number of rudimentary fingers. According to world practice, with such an anomaly, one out of a thousand children is born.
7. Kang Kang
In one Chinese family, a child was born with a rare disease in which a transverse cleft of the face forms. Outwardly, it seems as if the baby is walking in a mask. It is interesting that during pregnancy, the doctors did not diagnose the pathology, so it was unpleasant for the parents that their healthy child had such a visual defect. Next began to collect the amount aimed at a number of expensive operations in the famous medical center.
6. Deepak Pasvan
This Indian child did not recognize the most rosy childhood. He was born, carrying in his body the limbs of an underdeveloped twin who parasitized in the chest area. Peers intimidated and teased the boy, and Hindu religious figures and pilgrims, on the contrary, worshiped as the many-armed deity Vishnu. Eight years ago, one of the hospitals in Bangalore offered the family a charity operation on the proceeds (78 thousand dollars). It will enable the boy to live a full life.
5. Hazel Jones
One day in 2012, on an English talk show “This Morning”, a 27-year-old girl appeared with a very strange story about 2 vaginas that she had from birth. The girl says that she did not know about the peculiarity of her anatomy until she came of age, when she decided to have a sex life. Anomaly was the most discussed topic at parties, and she even often visited fetish clubs with her husband. Popularity led to the fact that the girl was offered to pay a million for her role in porn films. But she refused an obscene offer, although before that she had already posed for an erotic magazine. That's how people learn to be proud of their seemingly vices, and even get a pretty penny for them.
4. Brigham Nordstrom
Many of our organs are paired, but there are none of which should be exactly three, and especially four or five. A lawyer from New Zealand went to the hospital nine years ago with an infectious kidney disease, he was then 28 years old. When diagnosing internal organs, it was found that a man already has five completely functional, full-fledged kidneys. He is the only person in history with a similar anomaly. Many wondered if Brigham wanted to sell extra kidneys to ensure a comfortable old age. However, doctors did not recommend the unique patient to abandon the "helpers" for no good reason. The fact is that resection of any of the kidneys can cause a serious damage to the nervous system, and the operation itself always has a risk to life and health, and also implies a long rehabilitation and the need to follow a therapeutic diet.
3. Sarah Reinfelder
Most people do not know that female embryos initially have two identical reproductive systems (a pair of queens, vaginas, etc.). As the fruit ripens, they are usually combined into one. Once every 3,000 newborns, a girl appears who has a double uterus pathology. In the future, this will interfere with normal pregnancy, can cause pelvic pain and cause a miscarriage. One of the queens is often underdeveloped or malfunctions. Sarah, whose case was diagnosed in 2009, had both functional uterus. And she became pregnant with twins, each of whom developed in her own uterus. Children appeared healthy without abnormalities and pathologies.
2. Bethany Jordan
A Bethany girl from England was born with an organism in which the abdominal organs were mixed. The liver shifted, and the heart beat at all somewhere in the back (and a hole in it was discovered). Jordan was also diagnosed with two lungs on the left side and as many as 5 spleens. This organ is designed to filter infectious agents and dead blood cells from the blood plasma. The additional spleen, in theory, should provide high-quality maintenance of the body, but doctors were worried that it would not survive when they discovered pathology at 6 years old. However, the “puzzle girl” survived and leads a normal life, trying not to participate in hard work.
1. Didier Montalvo
The presence of moles in a person does not surprise anyone. But Montalvo appeared and grew on its back a large mole that looked more like a shell. The boy was born in 2006 in Colombo. Life was not easy, as most fellow citizens avoided communicating with him and his family, thinking that the boy was cursed by evil forces. The family went to the UK, where a special operation would ensure Didier a full life.
Despite the difficulties of life and poor health, these people were able to find the strength to fight and resist human opinion. And some are not shy about their vices, considering them not at all flaws, but features.