2.13.2009

TLC Obsession

I cannot stop watching these awful true life stories on TLC.

Mermaid Girl
With no vagina or rectum, Mermaid Girl Shiloh has to attach large bags to holes in her stomach to collect her bowel movements. She walks around with her shit hanging off of her until her Dad changes the bags for her once a day. Wow!

The Woman with Giant Legs

Mandy Sellars has proteus syndrome which is a congenital skin disorder causing skin overgrowth and atypical bone development often accompanied by tumors.

















Pregnant for 46 years

A 75-year old Moroccan woman gave birth to a calcified, full-term ectopic baby that miraculously did not kill her for 46 years after fusing with her abdominal wall and internal organs!

"In 1955, in a small village outside Casablanca, Zahra Aboutalib went into labour. Forty-eight hours later, the baby still hadn’t shifted and Zahra was rushed to hospital. There, Zahra looked on as a young woman died in agony on the operating table. There was only one thing for it; she turned and fled in panic, convinced she would suffer the same fate. Days of excruciating pain followed, and then the pains faded out. In Moroccan culture, it is believed that babies can live inside a woman’s womb to protect her honour and Zahra took on this “sleeping baby” myth. Zahra cast the pregnancy from her mind and many decades passed, during which time she adopted three children and became a grandmother." -- five.tv

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