These Unique British Twins Are Two In A Million

British twins born within minutes of each other are celebrating their first birthday but the two are actually far from identical: one of the girls is black while the other is white with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Apparently, through a genetic quirk, Millie Biggs is dark-skinned like her Jamaican father while her twin sister Marcia has a fair complexion and blonde hair.

"People have said that it's one of those unusual things to do with the genes. It's very rare that it happens - a one in a million chance," the girls' mother Amanda tells a Britain paper.

Millie and Marcia, who were conceived after Amanda underwent in vitro fertilisation treatment, "looked alike when they were born," their mother said.

"We never knew how different they were going to look," she said.

"Their different appearance settled down after a few months, but it means that Millie now looks like her dad, with black hair and dark skin, and Marcia takes after me, with fair skin and strawberry blonde hair," she added.

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