Last updated on August 11th, 2023 at 08:51 pm
Lucy and Maria Aylmer are fraternal twins but most people don’t believe them because they look totally different. Lucy has fair skin and red hair, while Maria has caramel skin and dark hair. The biracial twins, 18-year-olds from Gloucester, U.K., were born to a Caucasian father and half-Jamaican mother. But the Aylmers are proud of their differences! “Now we have grown older, even though we still look so different, the bond between us is much stronger,” Lucy said. “Now we are proud of the fact that we are each other’s twin sister. Maria loves telling people at college that she has a white twin – and I’m very proud of having a black twin.”
The BBC reports that for a biracial couple expecting twins, there is about a 1 in 500 chance those twins will have different skin colors. “No one ever believes we are twins because I am white and Maria is black,” Lucy said, according to World Wide Features. “Even when we dress alike, we still don’t even look like sisters, let alone twins. When we’ve met friends for the first time they never believe we are twins and they have even made us produce our birth certificates to prove that we are actually twins.”
The twins were born in January 1997 after their mother, Donna Douglas, gave birth naturally. She was shocked when she was handed the twins. Lucy said, “It was such a shock for her because obviously things like skin colour don’t show up on scans before birth. So she had no idea that we were so different. When the midwife handed us both to her she was just speechless.”
The twins personalities are as different as their looks. Fair haired Lucy studies art and design at Gloucester College whilst Maria studies Law and Psychology at Cheltenham College. We wish these beautiful and intelligent young woman the best of luck in their bright futures!
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