
I
think I am seeing this for the first time. The twin sisters absolutely
look nothing like each other. My eyes are seriously gazing at the
pictures, trying to find a trace of resemblance, but NAY, I don't see
any,
maybe you would.
One has straight ginger hair, a fair
complexion and deep blue eyes. The other has masses of curls, far darker skin
and her eyes are a sparkling brown.
With such opposing looks, it’s hard to believe this striking pair are sisters.
But they are much more than that – they are twins.
The girls were born with radically different colouring, thanks to a quirk of
their mixed-race parentage.
Lucy and Maria Aylmer's mother, Donna is half Jamaican and their father, Vince is
white, and together they managed to produce one white twin and one black twin.
The girls were born in January 1997. Their mother was astonished when she first
saw the twins, as nothing on the scans had prepared her for their different
skin tones.
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Fair-haired Lucy, who lives with her family in Gloucester, said: ‘It was such a
shock for her because 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.’
Their mother, who is 47 and a warehouse worker, and their 53-year-old father, who works as a scaffolder, split up after the twins were born. The 18-year-olds have three older siblings, George, 23, Chynna, 22, and Jordan, 21. Lucy said: "Our brothers and sisters have skin which is inbetween Maria and I. We are at opposite ends of the spectrum and they are all somewhere in-between. "But my grandmother has a very fair English rose complexion, just like mine. "No one ever believes we are twins. Even when we dress alike, we still don’t look like sisters, let alone twins. Friends have even made us produce our birth certificates to prove it."
Their mother, who is 47 and a warehouse worker, and their 53-year-old father, who works as a scaffolder, split up after the twins were born. The 18-year-olds have three older siblings, George, 23, Chynna, 22, and Jordan, 21. Lucy said: "Our brothers and sisters have skin which is inbetween Maria and I. We are at opposite ends of the spectrum and they are all somewhere in-between. "But my grandmother has a very fair English rose complexion, just like mine. "No one ever believes we are twins. Even when we dress alike, we still don’t look like sisters, let alone twins. Friends have even made us produce our birth certificates to prove it."
Certainly at school there were no
problems mistaking the twins for one another, and no way of playing tricks to
confuse their classmates.
Lucy said: "We were in the same class, but
no one had a problem telling us apart. Twins are known for swapping identities.
But there was no way Maria and I could ever do anything like that.
"Most twins look like two peas in a pod – but we couldn’t look more
different if we tried. We don’t look like we have the same parents, let alone
having been born at the same time."
The twins' interests are as
different as their looks. Lucy studies art and design at Gloucester College whilst
Maria studies law at Cheltenham College. Lucy explained: "Maria was outgoing whilst I
was the shy one. But Maria loves telling people at college that she has a white
twin, and I’m very proud of having a black twin."
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