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Black Mum Gives Birth To Blue-Eyed, Red-Haired Baby

Black Mum Gives Birth To Blue-Eyed, Red-Haired Baby

She says she's stopped every time she's out with her little girl.

Claire Reid

Claire Reid

A black mum who gave birth to a white, blue-eyed little girl says she can't go out in public without strangers stopping her to comment on her baby.

Four-month old turns heads whenever she's out and about with her mum because of her blue eyes, auburn hair and pale skin tone.

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Patience Chando, who is of Zimbabwean heritage, and her white German partner, Andreas Spillea, were shocked when their little girl Andrea Mariella was born four months ago sporting a head of auburn hair, blue eyes and pale skin.

They have said that the adorable little girl turns heads whenever she's out with her parents in their home city of Hanover, Germany.

The surprised mum said she thought her daughter's complexion would darken, because her other two daughters - 15-year-old Faith and 17-year-old Lucricia - inherited her skin tone.

She said: "I couldn't believe it. Her skin was too white when she was born, I was sure it would tone down, which happens sometimes, but it hasn't.

"It wasn't until a few days after she was born I started to think 'hold on, her skin was white. I'm her biological mother and I'm black'.

"Every time we go out I get questioned or stopped for photographs. I'm running out of things to say to people. She's the centre of attraction."

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Andrea's pale complexion has also surprised doctors, who initially thought she may have a skin condition and conducted tests. Fortunately, little Andrea is perfectly healthy.

Patience continued: "My friends keep joking that a mother is out there looking for their baby, and one day they will find us."

She has since traced her ancestry, but found no white heritage in her family. However, this could be an explanation, according to Dr. Bryce Mendelsohn, a medical geneticist at the University of California.

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He said: "People of African descent have traces of European in their ancestry, especially from populations with many geographic origins, so that could be the case here.

"The child is distinctly lighter than her mother, but of course there is another parent to consider. Children often resemble one parent more than the other.

"When we pass on our genes to our kids they can be skewed either way, it's what makes us unique."

Science.

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