Revisit Lakshmi, the girl born with eight limbs, this weekend on National Geographic Channel.
June 18, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Announcements, Children, Health, Medicine, Misc., Morning News, Oddities, Surgery, disability
Remember Lakshmi Tatma, a Indian girl who was born with four arms and four legs. We first wrote about her in December 2007, saying…
The people of her rural Indian village did not see this as a deformity. They believed that she was a ‘gift from God’, christened her ‘Lakshmi‘ after the four-armed Hindu Goddess of wealth, and queued outside the house to be blessed by the girl.
But the actual cause of the extra limbs was that the girl had a twin who hadn’t fully developed and instead became attached to Lakshmi’s body at the pelvis.
Lakshmi made headlines around the world …read more
Weird Deformity du Jour: Upside-Down Feet
First there was the Tree Man. There there was the baby with two faces. Now, backwards, upside-down feet? Oh yeah.
Now let’s be clear that we are in no way, no how poking any kind of fun at these poor people. But it’s just amazing to see the different ways the body can betray itself, is it not? Of course it is.
So next up in our Weird Deformity Breakdown is Jingle Luis, a 15-year-old girl from the Philippines who was born with feet clubbed so badly they twist backwards and upside down (see a photo slideshow at MSN.com)
Today, Jingle had surgery …read more
