9 People Who Have Extra Body Parts

1. The boy with four extra limbs
Deepak was born with extra limbs (including two very long legs) coming out of his chest. Some people in his village thought he was a devil, while others believed he was a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishu. But Deepak got to show everyone that he was just an ordinary little boy when a hospital in Bangalore offered to do the $78,000 surgery to remove the limbs for free. Now, he is free to live the rest of his life the way he always wanted to, and there are no extra limbs to get in his way.
2. The man with two hearts
This Italian man wasn’t born with two hearts; he got an extra one during a surgery many years ago. The 71-year-old was admitted to the hospital due to what was thought to be a typical cardiac arrest case, but doctors soon discovered that his situation was very different from anything they’d seen before.
3. The babies who share a body
When a Brazilian woman went into labor expecting twins, she had no idea that her baby boys would end up sharing the same body. But Maria de Nazare wasn’t even a little upset when doctors informed her of her babies’ condition. The children, named Emanoel and Jesus, have individual brains and spines, but share a heart, a liver, a pelvis, and lungs. Despite their condition, both boys were happy, healthy, and able to eat on their own. Doctors decided not to remove either head since both of them were functioning normally and didn’t pose an immediate threat to the other one.
4. The girl with a fetus on her back
When Yin Xin of China was born, doctors noticed something unusual: The girl had an underdeveloped fetus growing on her back. It started out as just an arm, but as the girl has grown, so has the fetus. It started to take on a more human shape, with evidence of a breast and fingers starting to appear as Xin reached eleven years of age. Her parents finally saved up the money to remove the fetus, and the girl is supposedly living life without the extra “twin” today.
5. The woman with a nipple on her foot
The presence of a tiny extra nipple isn’t entirely unheard of - celebrities Lily Allen and Mark Wahlberg are pretty proud of theirs, and many people don’t even realize they have one because they look so much like moles.
6. The woman with two uteruses
Having twins isn’t normally a newsworthy occasion, but for a 24-year-old Florida woman, it definitely was. She didn’t just give birth to two healthy babies at the same time- she did it with two uteruses. About 1 in 2,000 women has this condition, but the birth of her twins, Nathan and Natalie, is a 1-in-5-million scenario. For it to have occurred, she would have had to have released two eggs at once, both of which would have to be separately fertilized and implanted into separate uteruses.
7. The girl with eight limbs
When Lakshmi was born, many people in her village believed she was a goddess. But the poor little girl couldn’t walk, sit, or stand, and it looked like she would have to spend her life completely immobile. Recently, though, a team of doctors helped remove all of Lakshmi’s extra limbs, which were actually the result of a parasitic twin that stopped developing in the womb.
8. The boy with 31 fingers and toes
A boy in China with sixteen toes and fifteen fingers underwent surgery in 2010 to have all the extra digits removed and is now living a normal life. Four of the fingers on one of his hand and three fingers on the other had actually been fused together, but now the extra ones have been separated and removed. He was once bullied incessantly at school for his condition, but now it seems he will be able to live the life of a normal schoolboy.
9. The baby with an extra head
When Manar was born, doctors and her mother were shocked to see that she had a twin…but the other baby wasn’t what you’d expect to see. The twin, whom the mother named Islaam, was only a head. She had her own brain and could blink and make facial expressions separate from Manar’s, but sadly, she couldn’t survive on her own. Doctors made the decision to separate Islaam from Manar, at the cost of the underdeveloped baby’s life, so that Manar could go on to live happily and healthily. Tragically, Manar also passed away from a brain infection just before she turned two years old, but she and Islaam will go down in history as truly amazing babies.
10. The woman with two vaginas
TH-cam personality and model Cassandra Bankson received a surprise when she went to the doctor for a case of kidney pain. Her doctor told her that she actually had two vaginas, two cervices, and two wombs. He said that condition basically resembled “an upturned nose,” and that while she might have some trouble getting pregnant, there’s no reason it should negatively affect her sex life. Even though Cassandra wasn’t aware of her unusual body trait, she said it did explain why she frequently got two heavy periods a month.