‘When She Was Born, I Asked The Midewife If She Is Mine’-Black Mum With White Kid

No mother wants to be  given strange stares in public and asked if their baby is actually theirs but for 45-year-old Sophia Blake, it is something she has no choice but to live with.

Jamaican woman who gave birth to a completely white baby with blue eyes is having a hard time explaining to people that her cute little white girl Tiara is actually hers. Tiara whose father, 60-year-old father Christopher Perkins is also white bears no resemblance to her mother.

‘I can’t walk down the road with Tiara without someone making a comment,’ says Miss Blake, a marketing executive from Selly Oak, Birmingham. ‘People simply don’t believe Tiara is my little girl because she looks so completely different.

‘I was so shocked when she was born I actually said to the midwife, “Is she mine?” I simply couldn’t get over her being so pale and blue-eyed. Doctors explained it was a million to one chance that Tiara was so white and it was likely there was a white gene in my family which had remained dormant until now.’

A recent hurdle was when Tiara started school. ‘When Tiara ran out of class and shouted “mum” to me I knew what those mothers who don’t know me were thinking – that Tiara must be adopted.

‘And the situation is even more pronounced when I go out with my mother, other daughter Donchae and Tiara because the fact we are all dark emphasizes how white she is.’