Black Parents Give Birth to White Baby

…And now for your bizarre news of the week.

A Nigerian couple just received quite a surprise: Angela Ihegboro has reportedly given birth to a white baby with blue eyes and curly blond hair.

“Actually, the first thing I did was look at her and say, ‘What the flip?’” says Ben Ihegboro, the baby’s father and first official Nigerian to say ”What the flip?” 

Ihegboro, who immigrated to Britain with his wife five years ago, now lives in South London. He also has two other children, both of whom are black.

Ihegboro is adamant that infidelity is out of the question. “My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn’t been, the baby still wouldn’t look like that.”

The baby, which the couple named Nmachi, is not an albino doctors say. It’s an unusual case, but not completely unheard of. Skin and eye color are determined by melanin, and the amount or type of melanin is controlled by about a dozen different genes. Thus, Nmachi’s blue eyes and blond hair may simply be the result of a trace of white ancestry from each of her parents’ genes.

Either that, or it could be a fabricated story given that it was first reported by The Sun, a British tabloid.