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THE stunned black dad of a newborn, WHITE, baby girl declared yesterday — "I'm sure she's my kid ... I just don't know why she's BLONDE."
British Nmachi Ihegboro has amazed genetics experts who say the little girl is NOT an albino.

Dad Ben, 44, a customer services adviser, admitted: "We both just sat there after the birth staring at her."
Mum Angela, 35, of Woolwich, South London, beamed as she said: "She's beautiful - a miracle baby."
Ben told yesterday how he was so shocked when Nmachi was born, he even joked: "Is she MINE?"

Little 'miracle' ... Nmachi Ihegboro
PETER SIMPSON & NEIL HALL
He added: "Actually, the first thing I did was look at her and say, 'What the flip?'"
But as the baby's older brother and sister - both black - crowded round the "little miracle" at their home in South London, Ben declared: "Of course she's mine."
Blue-eyed blonde Nmachi, whose name means "Beauty of God" in the Nigerian couple's homeland, has baffled genetics experts because neither Ben nor wife Angela have ANY mixed-race family history.
Pale genes skipping generations before cropping up again could have explained the baby's appearance.
Ben also stressed: "My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn't been, the baby still wouldn't look like that.
"We both just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages - not saying anything."
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Doctors at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup - where Angela, from nearby Woolwich, gave birth - have told the parents Nmachi is definitely no albino.
Ben, who came to Britain with his wife five years ago and works for South Eastern Trains, said: "She doesn't look like an albino child anyway - not like the ones I've seen back in Nigeria or in books. She just looks like a healthy white baby."
He went on: "My mum is a black Nigerian although she has a bit fairer skin than mine.
"But we don't know of any white ancestry. We wondered if it was a genetic twist.
"But even then, what is with the long curly blonde hair?"
Professor Bryan Sykes, head of Human Genetics at Oxford University and Britain's leading expert, yesterday called the birth "extraordinary".
He said: "In mixed race humans, the lighter variant of skin tone may come out in a child - and this can sometimes be startlingly different to the skin of the parents.
"This might be the case where there is a lot of genetic mixing, as in Afro-Caribbean populations. But in Nigeria there is little mixing."
Prof Sykes said BOTH parents would have needed "some form of white ancestry" for a pale version of their genes to be passed on.
But he added: "The hair is extremely unusual. Even many blonde children don't have blonde hair like this at birth."

Blonde bombshell ... parents show newborn
Nmachi to sister Dumebi and bruv Chisom yesterday
PETER SIMPSON & NEIL HALL
The expert said some unknown mutation was the most likely explanation.
He admitted: "The rules of genetics are complex and we still don't understand what happens in many cases."
The amazing birth comes five years after Kylie Hodgson became mum to twin daughters - one white and the other black - in Nottingham.
Kylie, now 23, and her partner Remi Horder, now 21, are both mixed race.
Even so the odds were estimated at a million to one.
The Sun told in 2002 how a white couple had Asian twins after a sperm mix-up by a fertility clinic.
Yesterday three-day-old Nmachi's churchgoing mum Angela admitted that she was "speechless" at first seeing her baby girl, who was delivered in a caesarean op.
She said: "I thought, 'What is this little doll?'
"She's beautiful and I love her. Her colour doesn't matter. She's a miracle baby.
"But still, what on earth happened here?"
Her husband told how their son Chisom, four, was even more confused than them by his new sister.
Ben said: "Our other daughter Dumebi is only two so she's too young to understand.
"But our boy keeps coming to look at his sister and then sits down looking puzzled.
"We're a black family. Suddenly he has a white sister."
Ben continued: "Of course, we are baffled too and want to know what's happened. But we understand life is very strange.
"All that matters is that she's healthy and that we love her.She's a proud British Nigerian."
Queen Mary's Hospital said: "Congratulations to Angela and her family on the birth of their daughter."

Fiction wrote:Ehm I thought this was normal for an albino. Didn't read the article so not sure, but aren't most albino from Africa or blacks? Unno how they say she's not an albino tho =/

woutR wrote:

Fiction wrote:Ehm I thought this was normal for an albino. Didn't read the article so not sure, but aren't most albino from Africa or blacks? Unno how they say she's not an albino tho =/

if you had read it you would know that the child is not an albino

Azilius wrote:Skimmed through and saw no mention of DNA test to show father was real father.

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nohunta wrote:Mom was cheating obviously. Lul.

Azilius wrote:Skimmed through and saw no mention of DNA test to show father was real father.

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Squirt wrote:Jesus did it

UnbeatableDevil wrote:Read that a few days before

the crazy thing is, the kid actually looks black (physical features like eyes/nose) and just has white skin lol

UnbeatableDevil wrote:Read that a few days before

the crazy thing is, the kid actually looks black (physical features like eyes/nose) and just has white skin lol

woutR wrote:Cheat or not, have you ever heard of a white child from a black mother?

UnbeatableDevil wrote:Read that a few days before

the crazy thing is, the kid actually looks black (physical features like eyes/nose) and just has white skin lol

Tasdik wrote:What kind of a name is Nmachi Ihegboro? I mean seriously.

Azilius wrote:Skimmed through and saw no mention of DNA test to show father was real father.

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Razorhead wrote:EVOLUTION

Isis wrote:

UnbeatableDevil wrote:Read that a few days before

the crazy thing is, the kid actually looks black (physical features like eyes/nose) and just has white skin lol

That's what I thought, she looks as though she should be black, but she has white skin.


Even if the mother did cheat on him, the girl will have darker skin and not blonde hair.

Squirt wrote:^Yeah thats what I thought. If it was with a white man then her skin should be "goldish" or a bit darker rather than 100% white.
Another thing that surprised me is that her hair is straight and not curly ( Look at the rest of her family, curly hair).

Isis wrote:

Squirt wrote:^Yeah thats what I thought. If it was with a white man then her skin should be "goldish" or a bit darker rather than 100% white.
Another thing that surprised me is that her hair is straight and not curly ( Look at the rest of her family, curly hair).

Her hair will be darker, as well and not blonde. I think I read somewhere that she has blue eyes?
They don't look blue in the photo, but I think if she did have blue eyes, they should be brown maybe?

Drevixa wrote:

Razorhead wrote:EVOLUTION

Bye bye blackies