Twins Born With Different Skin Colours: 'Everybody Asks If They Are Related'
Twins Born With Different Skin Colours: 'Everybody Asks If They Are Related'
Amy Packham— The Huffington Post UK
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These seven-month-old twins were born just two minutes apart, yet people often question whether they are related.
Anaya has a skin tone similar to her mother's, while her sister Myla looks more like her father Kyle Armstrong.
Mum Hannah Yarker, 20, from Wythenshawe, told the Mirror: "Everybody comments on them. People say 'are they both yours?', 'are they sisters', 'are they related'?”
Hannah Yarker, Kyle Armstrong and twins Myla and Anaya
"Because they’re not identical twins they both developed in separate sacs," Yarker explains. "Myla's taken more of her dad’s genes and Anaya’s taken more of mine."
Yarker said when she fell pregnant, her family joked that she might have twins with different coloured skin.
When her daughters were born, her partner turned round and said to her "they actually are, we've got one of each".
However the new mum is worried how she will explain the girls' different skin tones as they grow older and go to school.
She said other children will inevitably wonder if the twins have the same parents, adding "kids can be quite brutal in a way."
The mum added: "We’ll just take it as it comes I suppose."
Anaya and Myla are "complete opposites" in their personality too
Yarker said her daughters seem to be opposite in every way.