Tammy Hembrow reveals she WILL be removing her baby girl’s extra fingers after an ultrasound revealed her daughter has a rare genetic mutation
Tammy Hembrow has revealed she will be removing her baby girl’s extra fingers following her birth.
The heavily pregnant influencer recently revealed her baby has 12 fingers, the same rare mutation, which is called Polydactyly, she was born with.
During an Instagram Q and A on Wednesday, one fan asked Tammy: ‘Will you be removing your baby’s extra fingers?’
‘No reason to keep them’: Tammy Hembrow has revealed she WILL be removing her baby girl’s extra fingers after an ultrasound revealed her daughter has a rare genetic mutation
‘Yes no reason to keep them. I had mine removed shortly after birth,’ Tammy, 27, responded.
It comes after Tammy previously revealed in a video posted to YouTube, her baby has 12 fingers.
Tammy was born with the same rare genetic mutation, which is called Polydactyly.
During an Instagram Q and A on Wednesday, she revealed: ‘Yes no reason to keep them. I had mine removed shortly after birth’
Condition: It comes after Tammy previously revealed in a video posted to YouTube, her baby has 12 fingers. Tammy was born with the same rare genetic mutation called Polydactyly
‘We just saw the little baby, and the surprise was that she has 12 fingers, like me, like her mummy,’ Tammy said in the video, in which she is seated in a car next to the baby’s father, her fiancé Matt Poole, 33.
Tammy further explained that her sisters, mother and brother also had the mutation, but that her first two children, son Wolf, six, and daughter Saskia, five, who she shares with ex-fiancé Reece Hawkins, 26, did not.
‘Amy and Emilee had extra fingers when they were born as well, and so did my little brother. So did my mum. It runs in my family,’ she said.
Skipped: Her son Wolf, six, and daughter Saskia, five, (both pictured) who she shares with ex-fiancé Reece Hawkins, 26, do not have the mutation
‘It skips a few people, like it skipped Wolf and Sass, but this baby has 12 fingers. Isn’t it crazy?’
Last year, Tammy shared a rare photo of herself as a baby that showed the additional digit on her hand.
On her Instagram Stories, she posted a cropped photo of her hand as an infant in the bathtub.
The fitness mogul wrote in the caption: ‘Found this pic of my hand when I was a baby lol, count the fingers.’
Genetics: Last year Tammy shared a rare photo of herself as a baby that showed the additional digit on her hand. She revealed a scan showed her new baby girl will have Polydactyly