His wife gave birth to white baby and he burst into tears when he discovered that

The 20th of July in London is a holiday. According to The Sun, a couple of African descent gave birth to a white, blue-eyed blonde baby on Monday in London’s Hampstead. Namachi Igeboro, a British national, has taken genetic specialists by surprise, who declared the small girl is not an albino.

“We both just sat there staring at her after the birth,” said Ben, a 44-year-old customer service advisor. “She’s lovely—a miracle baby,” said Angela, 35, of Woolwich, South London, beaming as she described her daughter.

Ben described how he was very taken aback when Namachi was born, to the point that he joked, “Is she mine?” His explanation was as follows: “Actually, the first thing I did was look at her and exclaim, ‘What the flip?’”

As the baby’s elder brother and sister—both of whom are African—gathered around the little miracle at their South London home, Ben proclaimed, “Of course she’s mine.” Neither Ben nor his wife Angela has any mixed-race family history.

Genetic specialists have been perplexed by the birth of Namachi, a blue-eyed blonde whose name means “Beauty of God” in the Nigerian couple’s home country. It’s possible that the baby’s look was caused by pale genes passed down through generations before reappearing.

“My wife is loyal to me,” Ben stated emphatically. “Even if she hadn’t been, the baby wouldn’t have looked like that at all.”

“After the birth, we both just sat there staring at her for what seemed like an eternity, not saying anything,” said Angela, who is from nearby Woolwich. She gave birth to Namachi at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, and doctors there informed the parents that Namachi is absolutely not an albino.

Ben, who moved to the UK with his wife five years ago and now works for Southeastern Trains, explained that his daughter doesn’t seem like an albino child either—“Not like the ones I’ve seen back in Nigeria or in literature.”

Ben and his wife are both from Nigeria. “She just appears to be a perfectly healthy white baby. My mother is a black Nigerian; however, she has a slightly fairer complexion than I do,” he continued. “However, we are not aware of any white ancestors. We began to wonder if it was the result of a genetic twist. However… what’s with the long curly blonde hair?” said Ben.

Professor Bryan Sykes, head of the Department of Human Genetics at Oxford University and one of the UK’s foremost experts, described the birth as “exceptional.”

“In mixed-race humans, the lighter form of skin tone may emerge in a child, and this can sometimes be strikingly different from the skin tone of the parents,” he explained. “This may be the case in groups where there’s been a great deal of genetic mixing—such as Afro-Caribbean people. In Nigeria, however, there is little mingling.”

Professor Sykes stated that both parents would have needed some type of white heritage for a pale version of their genes to be passed on to their children. “However, the hair is quite rare,” he continued. “It’s true that even the majority of blonde youngsters do not have blonde hair like this from birth.”

According to the expert, the most likely explanation was a previously undisclosed mutation. “The rules of genetics are complex, and we still don’t understand what’s going on in many cases,” he said.

After becoming a mother to twin children—one white and one black—in Nottingham five years ago, Kyrie Hodgson is now expecting her third child. Kylie, who’s now 23 years old, and her partner Remy Horder, 21, are both of mixed race. Despite this, the odds were believed to be one in a million.

Following an error by a reproductive clinic, The Sun reported in 2002 that an American couple had Asian twins as a result.

Angela, the mother of three-day-old Namachi who was delivered through cesarean section, acknowledged yesterday that she was speechless when she first saw her baby girl. “I was thinking, ‘What is this small doll?’” she explained. “She’s absolutely stunning and I adore her. It makes no difference what color she is. She’s truly a miraculous child. However… what on earth has happened here?”

Her husband related how their four-year-old son Chisholm was even more perplexed than they were by his new sibling. “Our other daughter, Dumabi, is just two years old, so she’s too little to understand,” Ben explained. “Our son, on the other hand, keeps going over to look at his sister and then sits down, seeming perplexed. ‘We’re a black family,’ he says. ‘Why do I have a white sister all of a sudden?’”

Ben added, “Of course we’re perplexed as well, and we want to know what’s going on. But as we all know, life is a strange place. What’s important is that she’s healthy and that we care about her. She is a proud Nigerian-British woman.”

“Congratulations to Angela and her family on the birth of their daughter,” stated a message from Queen Mary’s Hospital.

Another similar story happened: a black mother gave birth to a one-in-a-million white daughter with blue eyes and revealed how strangers often question whether they are related.

When Sophia Blake gave birth to her daughter Tiara, she expected her to bear more than a passing resemblance to her. She was not alone in this expectation, as many mothers are. Tiara’s father, Christopher Perkins, 60, a retired sales manager, is white—but the couple expected their newborn girl to be a mix of the two of them, at the very least.

As a result, they were taken aback when Tiara was born with white skin and blue eyes. As she grew older, they predicted that Tiara’s hair and skin would get darker. But everything has remained the same, and their kid has grown into an absolutely stunning young lady—albeit one with white hair and blue eyes.

Doctors estimated that the chances of Tiara becoming as white as her father were one in a million. Tiara’s father is African-American, although they are not physically related. The fact that the mother and daughter looked nothing alike caused confusion, as many people didn’t believe they were even related.

Furthermore, Miss Blake has a daughter, Donchai, 17, from a previous relationship with a black man, and she too is a black woman like her mother. This made the situation even more complicated. Miss Blake, a marketing executive from Selly Oak, Birmingham, says it’s impossible to go down the street with Tiara without someone making a passing observation.

“People simply don’t believe Tiara is my daughter since she appears to be so dissimilar to me,” she said. “When she was very small, it didn’t bother me too much. However, as Tiara’s gotten older, this has become more of an issue for her.”

“Before I had Tiara, I didn’t realize how strongly we all identify ourselves with being white or black. The dilemma now is that Tiara comes from a black family yet appears to be of white skin tone.”

“Why don’t we look alike, Mommy?” she wonders all the time. “I explained to her that she’s of mixed ethnicity, but she finds it really perplexing.”

Miss Blake, who is estranged from Tiara’s father, had hoped to give birth to a child with dark skin and afro hair. “According to the doctor, black skin is typically dominant, and my family—descended from Jamaica—is predominantly black,” she explains. “But at the very least, I imagined Tiara to be a hybrid of Christopher and my own characteristics.”

“I was so taken aback by her birth that I asked the midwife, ‘Is she mine?’ after she was delivered. I couldn’t get over the fact that she was so pale and had blue eyes.”

Doctors said there was a one-in-a-million possibility that Tiara could be white, and that it was possible a white gene had been dormant in the family until now.

Since then, mother and daughter have been the subject of a barrage of questions and comments wherever they go. The author notes that white infants have been born to black mothers before, but usually retain the mother’s afro hair and facial traits—which Tiara does not have. Her hair is naturally longer and straighter than most.

“I’m getting a little tired of having to explain that she’s my daughter,” said Blake. “Even doctors and instructors appear perplexed. For example, when I recently went to our doctor’s office, the doctor asked if I was Tiara’s social worker or guardian. I told him firmly that I was her mother, and he was visibly uncomfortable and apologized excessively. This happens all the time.”

When Tiara entered school, she had to overcome a significant obstacle. “When Tiara came out of class and called out ‘Mom’ to me, I understood what these mothers—who didn’t know me—were thinking: that Tiara needed to be taken in by a family.”

Because her other daughter, Donchai, and Tiara are of different skin tones, the situation is even more evident when they all go out together.

Miss Blake, who has chosen to speak up to raise awareness of the fact that mixed-race children can also be extremely white or very black, claims that she and Tiara are like peas in a pod when it comes to their personalities.

“We’re both extroverts who are self-sufficient and have a quirky sense of humor. After others get to know us, they notice we have a lot in common,” she said.

She adds, “Although she believes she’s lovely, she’s her mother’s child. I am just so proud of her.”