Lydia Fairchild’s case has caused a stir in the medical world. The reason is one that, at first glance, does not seem to make sense: she is the mother of her own children, but at the same time she is NOT. This is how such a thing was possible.
Lydia Fairchild separated from her husband after they had a child together, and yet they conceived two more children. She was 22 when she had her first child with Jamie Townsend. A year later the two will have another child, and in a year she will be pregnant again, although the two broke up again. The woman did not have a stable job, so she had to apply for social assistance.
But her world will turn upside down when she has to take paternity tests, which she tests ex officio at the request of the authorities. They proved that although Jamie was the father, she was not the mother of his children. The DNA test showed that there was no genetic match between her and her children!
At 2,500 miles away, Karen Keegan, a 52-year-old teacher, suffered the same thing: According to DNA tests, her children were not hers! In this second case, doctors sought the help of an older colleague who suggested it could be a case of CHIMERA.
A person with CHIMERA is someone who has two completely different genetic identities at the same time, two sets of DNA! It is believed that a chimera is formed when two fertilized eggs fuse and become one, this happening very early in their development.
After Karen’s story reached the newspapers, the two met and realized that the same thing was happening to them. After thorough analysis, they were able to prove in court that they are the mothers of their own children. But their cases have become famous. How many such people have Chimera, but they will never find out?
Here is a video about this strange story: