Photographer Judith Nwokocha, 38, from Calgary, Canada, admitted to being under the influence when she gave birth to her twins in 2016. Her children are named Kamsi (son) and Kachi (daughter). For eight years, Judith did her best to get pregnant before resorting to in vitro fertilization.
When she successfully underwent the procedure and finally became pregnant, she thought children were a gift.
Judith explains that most people don’t believe the children are twins because they not only have a different skin color, but also different hair. She notes that people often ask who the children’s mother is.
After a second scan, she learned that she was indeed expecting twins, but that they might have Down’s syndrome. At the age of seven weeks, her daughter Kachi was smaller than expected for her size and even stopped growing. Although doctors warned Judith that her daughter might not survive, she was grateful that Kachi pulled through.
But apart from her lighter complexion, Kachi looks exactly like her mother. According to statistics, one in four children are likely to be albino if their parents carry the albinism gene. Judith was rightly concerned about how Kachi would grow up and how people would react to her condition.
Identical twins that are black and white, sparking uncertainty