Mum shocks doctors with her 'million to one' babies
Black and white twin girls ... Candice Anne and Aleisha Lilly
A MOTHER has amazed doctors after giving birth to twin girls — one white and the other black.
Proud Pamela Frazer joked last night: “At least I can’t get them mixed up.”Candice Anne has dark skin, black hair and dark eyes, while Aleisha Lilly is white with fair hair and light eyes.
Pamela, 30, has already faced some awkward questions from passers-by when she is out with the four-week-old girls.
But she added: “For me, it makes them even more special.” She and 37-year-old husband Oswald are both mixed race.
Former bank manager Pamela revealed: “My mum has got Jamaican, African and Irish in her and my dad is white and Jewish. Oswald’s dad is Jamaican and his mum is Jamaican and Irish.”
She said of the different coloured girls: “It is quite common for it to happen with siblings, but for twins we were told it is very, very rare.
“The doctor said it was a one in a million chance.”
Delighted Oswald, an engineer, beamed: “I saw them and I loved them straight away.
“They looked quite similar to start with but now they look so, so different.”
Mixed blessings ... Pamela with Oswald and their twin girls
She said: “The night it happened it was all a bit of a rush, in about 20 minutes. I didn’t see them both together straight away.
“I saw Candice, she was crying. Then with Aleisha, they wouldn’t show me her because she wasn’t breathing. I asked if she was OK but they wouldn’t show me.
“It was a couple of hours before I saw her and they were just totally different.”
The twins — who have a brother Brandon, six — spent a couple of weeks in hospital before being allowed home in Hastings, East Sussex. And it wasn’t long before they were attracting some funny looks.
Pamela revealed: “I was walking down the street with the girls in the pram and a woman asked how old Candice was.
“Then she asked how old Aleisha is. And she said ‘Oh, are they twins? They can’t be’.
“It was a bit awkward. I didn’t know if she was being rude. I love it that they’re different.”
The mum, who herself has an identical twin called Jemma, said the girls’ personalities are as different as their looks. Aleisha is a “bit of a diva”, who is happy to scream for food during the night, while Candice is “very relaxed” like her dad.
But despite their different characters, Pamela believes her girls will enjoy having a twin sister.
She said: “Jemma and I were inseparable when we were younger. It’s great being a twin.
“You don’t even have to say something — you just know what each other is thinking.
“The downside is that people do just treat you like one person. But at least they can’t try to play tricks on me.”
Pamela — who has been married to Oswald for five years — added: “I always wanted twins. But I never thought I would have them. I always thought it skipped a generation.
“I wanted to be able to dress them both up so that they looked the same — and I probably still will do.”
Chuffed Brandon said he loves having his new sisters around the house. But he added: “They make a lot of noise when I’m asleep. They are a bit loud.”
Pamela is already prepared for the day when her daughters ask her and Oswald about their contrasting looks.
She added: “When they are older and they ask why they look different I will just tell them they are extra special.
“It will definitely be a talking point at the school gates.”
Pamela and Oswald are not the first couple to have children with different skin colour.
Four years ago The Sun revealed how mixed-race couple Dean Durrant and Alison Spooner, from Fleet in Hampshire, had Lauren, with light skin, and Hayleigh, who was darker.
They then repeated the feat by having another set of black and white twins, Miya and Leah.
Two years ago we also told how British black couple Ben and Angela Ihegboro had a white, blue-eyed blonde daughter.
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