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We are used to the fact that a person has five fingers, two legs, two arms, one head, in general, a standard set, so to speak. But some people are born not quite ordinary, but with additional body parts. And such cases happen more often than we think. Many historical figures and celebrities, it turns out, are also among such unusual people.
Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII's second wife had eleven fingers and three breasts. Well, the breasts may have been the result of evil tongues, as at that time it was considered a sign of dark magic, but historians confirm the presence of an extra finger.
Antonio Alfonseca
American national baseball team player Antonio Alfonseca has twelve fingers - six on each hand, but he does not suffer from this in any way; they do not interfere with his game because they do not touch the ball at all.
Mark Wahlberg
The famous actor has a third nipple on his left breast. At first, he was embarrassed by it and thought about getting rid of it, but then he came to terms with it and got used to it. Mark is not alone in his unusualness - there are about 2% of men and women in the world with this mutation. This feature is often mistaken for moles, but this is wrong.
Indian man
In 2006, a 24-year-old man approached doctors with an unusual request: to remove his second penis. Doctors operated on the man, but his identity remained unknown. This disease is called diffalia – duplication of the penis. It is very rare, and about a hundred such cases have been recorded.
Rebecca Martinez
This girl was born in December 2003 in the Dominican Republic with a diagnosis of parasitic craniopagus - a child is born with a parasitic head, in which the brain is missing, which distinguishes this anomaly from the condition of Siamese twins. Rebecca became the first child to undergo a popik to remove the second head. Unfortunately, on February 7, 2004, during a complex eleven-hour operation, the girl died.
Hermaphroditism
That is, the presence of both female and male genitals. In total, 1% of people in the world have such anomalies. In 1843, Levi Sedam, a 23-year-old guy living in Salisbury, Connecticut, came to the elections to vote. However, well-wishers reported that Sedam was not really a man, so he did not have the right to vote. After a medical examination, he was still allowed to vote - the doctor found male genitals in Levi.
The boy with three arms
Ji-Ji is a boy from China who was born with three arms that functioned equally well and looked absolutely normal. However, when the boy was two months old, doctors removed one of the arms, the operation was successful.
[ Francesco Lentini
In 1889, when medical possibilities were very modest, a boy named Francesco Lentini was born. His parents immediately abandoned him, and his aunt took over his upbringing. And all because the baby was born with three legs and a double set of genitals, in addition, from the knee of his third leg grew two more legs - the remains of Siamese twins who died in the womb. Despite such a set of mutations, the boy achieved considerable success in the circus arts and became "The Great Lentini".
Girl with four legs
In 1868, Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born. She was a very weak girl and also had an anomaly - two pelvises and four legs. Two underdeveloped legs, as in the case of Lentini, are the remaining parts of Siamese twins. Nevertheless, the girl got married and gave birth to five healthy children. According to legend, three children "came out" of one pelvis, and the other two - from the other.
Betty Lou Williams
Betty was born into a poor farming family in 1932. She was the 12th child in the family and looked very much like her older brothers and sisters, but there was one significant difference. The girl had an extra pair of arms and legs that grew on her side. It was this unusualness that fed Betty and her entire family well. With her help, her brothers and sisters studied at colleges, and her parents finally bought a large farm. But at 23, she was struck by an asthma attack that affected her twin's head.
Hannah Kersey
One in a thousand women have two uteruses. Although this is not a rarity, in the case of Hannah Kersey it is still a rarity. Let's start with the fact that Hannah, her mother and her sister have two uteruses. But the most unusual thing happened in 2006, when Hannah gave birth to triplets. It turned out that she carried two girls in one uterus, and the third baby in the other. Doctors say that this is the only case in history.