Many Said We Were Switched: Twins With Different Skin Colours Speak in Video, React to Online Comments
- The birthday photos of Taiwo and Kehinde Apeleyin, Nigerian twins who have different skin colours, trended on social media
- The twins who talked about how they have different attitudes revealed some of the harsh comments their snaps got online
- Kehinde, the dark-skinned, said she wished she had the complexion of Taiwo so she would not have to use makeup always
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The Nigerian twins who have two different skin colours have spoken about the attention they received since their photos trended on social media.
In a BBC News Pidgin interview, one of them said people wondered if they were switched at birth, asking her father to go conduct a DNA test.
Source: Twitter
My mother never liked albino
The albino of the twins is called Taiwo, while the dark-skinned one is named Kehinde. Taiwo revealed that when their mother was told that she would be having twins, she fainted.
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Taiwo added that when the nurses saw her, they were surprised that she was very white. The lady stated that her mother never liked albino before she gave birth.
Our attitudes are different
Kehinde on the other hand said that the different things about them are their attitudes. The fair-skinned said she is high-tempered.
They revealed that after their photos trended on Twitter, they got to know that there are other twins like them.
Taiwo said that people always try to see how they are twins. For some, they look at the similarity in their body structures.
Watch their video below:
See some of the reactions below:
thriftby_bammy said:
"Dey lookalike nah der color difference."
oluwaremu said:
"The beautiful and unimaginable things God can do."
mon.daymoney said:
"You guys look alike."
Birthday photos
Meanwhile, YEN.com.gh earlier reported that the twin sisters, Taiwo and Kehinde, had set social media agog after sharing gorgeous photos to celebrate their birthday.
The birthday photos of the twins show them with a conspicuous difference in their skin tones. While one is very dark, the other is as fair as an albino.
Many Twitter users who have seen the photos have asked questions about why the two are so different.
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