about a little girl worshipped as a goddess after being born with four
arms and four legs is taking her first steps since having her extra
limbs removed.
Lakshmi Tatama is an Indian girl born in 2005 in a village in Araria
district, Bihar, having "4 arms and 4 legs." She was actually a pair
of ischiopagus conjoined twins where one twin was headless due to its
head atrophying and chest under-developing in the womb. The result
looked like one child with four arms and four legs.
Families in her remote village in India believed she was the
reincarnation of the eight limbed Hindu goddess of wealth and fortune
Lakshmi.
Her parents were reluctant to agree to the operation for fear it would
bring bad luck until doctors told them she would struggle to survive
into her teens without it.
Now the brave youngster is learning to walk for the first time eight
months after the successful 27-hour procedure.
Lakshmi, whose progress is being monitored by American television's
National Geographic Channel and ABC, now attends a school for disabled
children.
Find out more about her journey to recovery on our special documentary
at 8pm tonight on Viasat1.
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