The average person is born with two arms, two legs, one head, torso and some other bits
of course.
However, there are those who were born with less, but also those who were born with more,
so join us as we count 10 people with additional body parts.
Deepak Paswan Deepak Paswan was a boy unlike any other.
He was born with eight limbs and because of this he was treated as a God, because his
appearance resembled that of the Hindu God Vishnu.
Hindu pilgrims visited his home in the northern state of Bihar to worship him.
Understandably, Deepak’s family were slightly uncomfortable with the attention their son
was getting, so they appealed for help to pay for the operation to have the extra limbs
removed.
A hospital in the southern city of Bangalore offered to do the procedure for free.
Usually this surgery would cost around £50,000, a sum their family could never have dreamed
of affording.
Luckily, the procedure went smoothly and was a complete success.
Double Penis In 2006, a 24-year-old man from India checked
himself into a New Delhi hospital and asked doctors to remove his extra penis so that
he could marry and lead a normal sex life.
To protect his privacy, doctors wouldn't disclose his identity or that of the hospital but did
confirm that the operation took place.
The condition, known as diphallia or penile duplication, is extremely rare, with only
around 100 cases ever documented.
The Two Faced Baby 14-Month-Old Kangkang was born with a deformity
called transverse facial cleft, which gives him the appearance of having two faces, or
looking like he is wearing a mask.
The poor child literally looks like he's wearing a mask, due in part to a massive cleft that
extends almost all the way up to his ears.
Unable to see her son upon birth, the unfortunate mother, who is employed at a company that
manufactures electronics in the Guangdong Province, pleaded and pleaded with her husband
to see the newborn.
After finally being handed the child, she broke down into tears.
No one knows what causes this unfortunate condition, and it is incredibly expensive
to treat, as Yi learned when she took Kangkang to a hospital in Changsha when he was 20 days
old.
The final tally was around 300-400,000 Yen, or approximately 80,000 to 100,000 dollars.Thankfully,
there is a happy ending, as Kangkang's family has managed to gather together enough money
for treatment.
Josephene Myrtle Corbin Josephene Myrtle Corbin, born in 1868, was
a dipygus, meaning that she had two separate pelvises and four legs.
These were the residual parts of a conjoined twin.
She could move all of the legs, but they were too weak to walk on.
She was a great success in sideshows with the stage name "The Four-Legged Girl from
Texas."
She married a doctor with whom she had five children.
Legend has it that three of her children were born from one pelvis, and two from the other.
Francesco Lentini Francesco Lentini was born in Sicily in 1889
and had a life that was anything but normal.
He was born with three legs, two sets of genitals, and an extra foot growing from the knee of
his third leg -- the remains of a conjoined twin that had died in the womb.
Rejected by his parents, he was raised by an aunt, then in a home for disabled children
before moving to America when he was 8.
He became "The Great Lentini" and toured with major circus and sideshow acts, including
the Ringling Brothers' Circus and Barnum and Bailey.
Part of his act included using his third leg to kick a soccer ball across the stage.
He married, raised four children, and lived longer than any other three-legged person,
dying in Florida in 1966 at age 78.
Syafitri Polycephaly is the condition of having more
than one functioning head.
There are many documented occurrences of this in the animal kingdom, although in most human
cases we refer to the condition as conjoined twins.
One recent case was that of Syafitri, born in Indonesia in 2006.
These conjoined twins were given just one name by their parents who insisted that they
were, in fact, one baby girl since they had only one heart and shared a body.
It would have been impossible for doctors to separate the conjoined twins, and Syafitri
died of unknown causes just two weeks after she was born.
Rebeca Martinez Craniopagus parasiticus is a medical condition
in which a baby is born with a parasitic twin head.
The extra head doesn't have a functioning brain, which is what differentiates this condition
from that of conjoined twins.
In effect, the baby is born with the head of its dead twin attached to its body.
There have only ever been eight documented cases, and, of these, only three have survived
birth.
One of these was Rebeca Martinez, born in the Dominican Republic in December 2003, the
first baby to undergo an operation to remove the second head.
She died on Feb. 7, 2004, after an 11-hour operation.
Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn was the second wife to Henry VIII
of England and is commonly believed to have had 11 fingers and quite possibly a third
breast.
Historians believe that she did indeed have an additional finger or at least some kind
of growth on her hand that resembled an extra finger, but it's unlikely that she had an
extra breast.
This rumour was most likely started by her enemies because in Tudor times an extra breast
was believed to be the sign of a witch.
I know we’re going off topic here, but on the note of having three breasts, there have
been a couple of recent reports of three breasted women.
Most notable is Jasmine Tridevil, who claimed to have a third breast surgically implanted.
However, this was nothing more than a hoax and she is actually using a wearable prosthetic
– proven by the fact that she reported a '3 breast prosthesis' stolen when her bags
went missing at Tampa Airport in 2014.
Add to that, there have been thermal images taken of her, showing a lack of body heat
around the area of her supposed third breast.
Levi Suydam Hermaphroditism -- the condition of being
born with both male and female reproductive organs -- is more common than you might think,
existing in some degree in around 1 percent of the population.
In 1843, when Levi Suydam, a 23-year-old resident wanted to vote for the Whig candidate in a
local election, the opposition party objected, saying Suydam was really a woman and therefore
did not have the right to vote.
A doctor examined Suydam and declared that he had a penis and was therefore a man.
He voted and the Whig candidate won by a single vote.
Hannah Kersey It might seem unusual for a woman to have
two uteruses, but the condition known as uterine didelphys occurs in about one in 1,000 women.
In fact, Hannah Kersey, her mother and her sister all have two wombs.
But Hannah made history in 2006 when she gave birth to triplets -- a set of identical twin
girls from one womb and a third, fraternal sister from the other womb.
There have been about 70 known pregnancies in separate wombs in the past 100 years, but
the case of triplets is the first of its kind and doctors estimate the likelihood is about
one in 25 million.