Many people find it hard to believe that these girls are twins, but it's true. And the answer to the mystery of how they are so different and are twins is very simple - my parents are of different nationalities.
And that's actually so wonderful! Every girl is special in her own way.
The sisters are named Marcy and Millie. Both doctors and their relatives claim that as babies they were incredibly similar.
But over time, the twins began to change. Little Millie began to develop darker skin and blue eyes, while Marcia gained lighter skin and blonde, curly hair.
When they were born in July 2006 in Birmingham, the girls did indeed look identical, according to their parents Amanda and Michael Biggs.
Marcia inherited her mother Amanda's fair skin and golden brown hair, while Millie, with her curls and dark skin, took after her father Michael, who is of Jamaican descent.
Mother Amanda says: "Even when they were in primary school, people would get confused. I would pick them up after school and other parents would stop me and say, 'Are these your daughters?' When I told them they were twins, they would always be stunned."
"There were a few teachers who didn't believe them at first, but when they got to know them, they saw how similar they were."
The family became famous all over the world thanks to a photographer who noticed the girls on the street.
The journalist told this interesting story, after which many people began to be interested in the girls' lives.
In 2018, when they were 11 years old, Marcia and Millie posed for the cover of National Geographic.
The girls say they feel "proud" to see their faces on newsstands around the world.
"I'm proud of us," Marcia says, looking at her sister. "It's not every day you see yourself in a magazine."
The reason for their radically different appearance is that the girls are fraternal twins, not identical twins, meaning that the mother's two eggs were fertilized by two different sperm.
Experts say that twins with different skin colors are not uncommon. When a biracial couple has fraternal twins, the children's skin color depends on a number of factors, including "where the parents' ancestors are from and complex pigment genetics."
However, their mother Amanda calls them a "one-in-a-million miracle," and we have to agree that she's right.
In the video you can see what the girls' mother and father look like and how they have changed from babies to now:
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