10 People Born With Extra Body Parts

10 AMAZING PEOPLE BORN WITH EXTRA BODY PARTS. NUMBER 10: THE BOY WITH LIMBS ON HIS CHEST. Childhood for Deepak Paswan, a 12-year-old
boy from India, hasnt been easy, as he was born with the arms and legs of his underdeveloped
twin growing out of his chest. Other children bullied him, calling him names
such as devil and freak.

Hindu pilgrims would also visit his home to
worship him as an incarnation of the god Vishnu, who is often depicted with multiple additional
limbs. Thankfully in 2010 a charitable hospital in
Bangalore offered to perform the $78,000 surgery that would give Deepak the chance to live
a normal life - completely free of charge. The surgery was a phenomenal success. Today Deepak is free to play and have fun
like any other boy.

He particularly enjoys playing cricket and
celebrates the fact that he can now run faster than his two brothers. NUMBER 9: THE BOY WITH 31 FINGERS AND TOES. In January 2016 a baby boy was born in Hunan
province, China, who has 15 fingers and 16 toes. Hong Hong, now 9 months old, was diagnosed
with polydactylism, an inherited condition that affects approximately one in every 1,000
births.

His mother also suffers from the condition
and has six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. When she was pregnant, she worried that the
baby would be affected, but no one could have imagined the full extent of it. After raising approximately $30,000, partly
through crowd funding online, Hong Hongs family were finally able to afford surgery. The brave little boy has quite a road ahead
of him, with multiple rounds of surgery ahead to remove the extra digits, reshape his hands,
and reconstruct his thumbs.

However, doctors are confident that Hong Hong
will have full dexterity and be able to live a happy, healthy life by the time he starts
school. NUMBER 8: THE WOMAN WITH HORNS. Keratin spots are not all that unusual. The dark spots, made of the same protein as
our hair and nails, tend to occur in fair-skinned elderly adults whove had a lot of exposure
to sun over their lives.

But what is unusual is when they grow beyond
a little spot, as was the case for 101-year-old Zhang Ruifang from China. Ruifangs son, Zhang Guozheng, said that
initially they didnt pay much attention to the rough patch of skin on his mothers
forehead. But when it grew into a staggering 6cm-long
horn, they couldnt ignore it much longer. Luckily for Ruifang, doctors have classified
the horn as completely benign.

And the cheery grandmother seems to be quite
enjoying her new addition. She is even excited at the prospect of another
spot on the other side of her head growing into a matching horn. NUMBER 7: THE GIRL WITH AN EXTRA PAIR OF LEGS. Stories of amazing people with extra body
parts are not exclusive to the modern day.

In 1868 a girl was born with dipygus, a severe
congenital deformity. Myrtle Corbin had been born with two separate
pelvises, side by side, leading to an extra pair of legs. Each of her smaller inner legs was partnered
with one of her stronger outer legs. Remarkably, Myrtle was able to move her inner
legs as easily as her outer ones, but they were not strong enough for her to walk on
them.

For a short period during her teenage years,
Myrtle performed in a traveling sideshow circuit, called the Four-Legged Girl From Texas. According to contemporary accounts, she quite
enjoyed this job. At the age of 19, she left performing to get
married. Despite a few medical complications along
the way, she went on to give birth to four daughters and a son.

She died in 1928, aged 60. NUMBER 6: THE GIRL WITH A FETUS ON HER BACK. Similarly to Deepak Paswan, Yin Xin from China
had suffered all her life from the growth of her unborn twin attached to her body. When she was born, Yin was found to have a
small arm on her back, but as she grew, it grew too.

It started to look more human in shape, with
fingers, a stomach, and a breast appearing. By the time she was 11 years old, over half
of her back consisted of the underdeveloped fetus. Her parents had saved up for the operation
to remove the fetus since Yins birth and by 2007 they finally had enough money. According to a case report published in the
British Medical Journal, the extremely lengthy and complicated surgical procedure was successful.

NUMBER 5: THE WOMAN WITH A NIPPLE ON HER FOOT. Third nipples are surprisingly common, occurring
in approximately 1 in 18 people. They are created in the womb when, during
the fourth week of a pregnancy, the fetus begins growing breast tissue. This development occurs along two thick lines
of skin, known as the milk lines, which stretch from above the armpits to the beginning
of the legs.

The milk lines usually fade away by about
the 8th week of pregnancy, but when they take longer to disappear, breast tissue can grow
in other places along the lines hence extra nipples. For one woman, the milk lines must have continued
exceptionally far down her legs, as she grew a third nipple on the sole of her foot! Even more extraordinarily, a case report form
1827 details a French woman who had a complete third breast on her left thigh, which even
began to lactate after she gave birth, so she could breast-feed her child from it. NUMBER 4: THE MAN WITH FIVE KIDNEYS. Brigham Nordstrom, a 28-year-old lawyer and
keen rugby player from New Zealand, thought that he was at the peak of his physical fitness.

He had never had any suspicions that his body
could be anything other than normal. Then one day in 2009 Brigham visited the doctors,
concerned about back pain that he thought could be a kidney infection. He was partly right he did have a kidney
infection. What he was not expecting to hear, however,
was that he actually had a total of five fully functioning kidneys.

Despite the oddity, Brigham is indeed perfectly
healthy. Doctors are reluctant to remove any of the
extra organs, as they feel it would risk interfering with his nervous system. Tales of people with additional kidneys have
grabbed headlines before Brigham, including a Serbian man, a Chinese girl, and two Latvian
brothers, who all had four kidneys each. But - so far - Brighams is the only story
of an individual with five.

NUMBER 3: THE MAN WITH 298 BONES. The adult human skeleton is composed of 206
bones, or so it should be. Dan Aziere from Connecticut, however, has
298. Dan suffers from an extremely rare condition
called multiple hereditary exostoses, which has caused him to grow an estimated
92 extra bones throughout his body, particularly around his joints and rib cage.

Since the age of 5, Dan has been in and out
of surgery. He has had 19 operations to remove 42 bones,
which have varied in size from smaller than a pencil eraser to 10 centimeters long. Because Dans condition is hereditary, he
sadly passed it on to all three of his children. Luckily, none of them are reported to have
had problems anywhere near as significant as their father.

And, while there is currently no cure for
the disease, scientists have identified the gene responsible for causing it, meaning that
the total elimination of the condition could be just around the corner. NUMBER 2: THE WOMAN WITH TWO VAGINAS. When she was 18 years old, Hazel Jones from
England visited the doctors, concerned about how she always got terrible cramps and heavy
periods during puberty. The astounding diagnosis? She has two vaginas.

This condition, called uterus didelphys
is surprisingly common, occurring in almost 1 in 2000 women - with most never realizing. In most cases, it manifests as a double uterus,
with two separate cervices [service-ease], but sometimes women affected will have two
vaginas as well. Another woman with the condition, known by
her username nurseryRN, hosted an Ask Me Anything on Reddit. She answered questions about her sex life
and how she does have a preference of which vagina is used.

A common question raised on the forum was
what would happen if a woman with uterine didelphys got pregnant in both uteruses at
the same time. In 2011 this question was answered when a
woman from Florida gave birth to twins from two uteruses. This is a 1 in 5 million scenario, seeing
as she would have had to have released 2 eggs at once, have them both separately fertilized,
and then have them implanted in separate uteruses. The birth occurred without complications and
both babies are happy and healthy.

NUMBER 1: THE MAN WITH 2 PENISES. Its not only women who can see their sexual
organs doubled up, as the condition diphallia can cause men to be born with two penises. This condition is somewhat rarer, occurring
in 1 in 5.5 Million men. Most sufferers have the additional penis surgically
removed when they are young, but this isnt always the case.

Take one sufferer, with the highly appropriate
online username DoubleDickDude. He is now in his mid-20s and has two fully
functioning penises. Like nurseryRN, DoubleDickDude
ran a Reddit AMA, which has since gone on to become one of the most popular threads
on the site. On the forum, he discusses the complications
of dating and urinating, and confesses that he would not think about getting one removed
now..

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