When you hear the word “twins,” what immediately comes to mind is two people—or things—that look alike.
But that isn’t the case for twin sisters Kalani and Jarani Dean. The pair are quite the head-turner because they’re the perfect picture of a phenomenon rarely seen in twins.
While parents usually wage a friendly match over who looks more like who, Whitney Meyer and Tomas Dean had nothing to “compete” over. That’s because their twins reflect each of their unique qualities in the most remarkable way.
Kalani was born with fair skin, like her mother, who is white, while Jarani has brown skin, like her dad, who is black.
Meyer recalls the surprise she got when the girls were born on April 23, 2016 in Quincy, Illinois.
“Kalani was as white as can be. I was just in denial, because you know the odds of this?” she said. “I would never think I would have a black and white twin. That’s why I asked if she was albino, because she was just so white.”
Tomas Dean, Meyer’s boyfriend and the father of the twins, was just as surprised.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, she’s a little light,’ but I thought maybe babies are that way when they’re first born. But then a couple of minutes later, her sister came out a little darker,” he said. “In a million years, I never thought I’d have a girl with blue eyes. I didn’t think I could pull that one off!”
Meyer said she usually dresses the girls in matching outfits.
Whitney said she thinks of the girls as a symbol against racism. She hopes that through them, people are encouraged to “love everyone equal.”
“I hope that a lot of people can see that color really isn’t a big thing. What’s important is love,” the proud dad said. “Mysterious things can happen and life is a blessing.”
It doesn’t matter if you are black or white. You are beautiful no matter what color you are, always remember that!
The girls were born nearly two years after Meyer’s 2-year-old son, Pravyn, drowned while under the supervision of his day care provider. Meyer said Jarani is the spitting image of Pravyn, who had darker skin like his dad, while Kalani looks like her older Caucasian brother, Talan, who reads to the girls every night.
“He’s an amazing big brother,” Meyer said.
It’s unusual for biracial siblings, particularly twins, to look as different as Kalani and Jarani, but there are so many genes that control skin tone and eye color that even scientists don’t even know all the potential ways they can interact.
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