Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The Other Face...

Many of you are familiar with the story of my first bikini waxing experience where the “technician” explained that everyone has two faces and you must take care of them both.

I don’t thinks she was talking about this:

Baby with 2 faces worshipped as reincarnation of Hindu goddess



NEW DELHI - A BABY with two faces - two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes - was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess.

Hundreds of pilgrims have visited Lali, the 1-month-old baby, and her impoverished parents to touch her feet out of respect and receive blessings.
'She drinks milk from her two mouths and opens and shuts all the four eyes at one time,' Mr Ali said.

The child apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. All of Lali's facial features are duplicated with the exception of her ears - she has two.

Poor Lali has three faces to maintain!! Was that joke wrong???????????

5 comments:

Jeff said...

You know, Jen. A heads up before flashing that gross picture would have been nice.

KaTeDuB said...

Another article said that the father refused a CT scan for further evaluation. Didn't think it was necessary. Indians are nothing if not thorough. Miss you JB!

JenniB said...

Jeff: At least is wasen't my other face!

Anonymous said...

I worship your other face like a baby indian goddess. actually, that's a bit wrong...

Anonymous said...

If you have 2 faces ...
Doesn't little Lali have 4?
Oh, and Kate, the politically correct term is Native Amer ... oh wait, my bad.