Myrtle Corbin, the girl with two sets of legs

 

Myrtle Corbin, a girl who was born with two sets of legs, two pelvises, and two functional sets of sexual/reproductive organs

At age 19 she married James Clinton Bicknell, with whom she had four daughters and a son.  "It was "determined that it was in her left uterus that Mrs. B. was pregnant." "physicians determined that Corbin preferred intercourse in the right side, and this fact was commented upon in several subsequent reports."

Corbin was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee.  Her parents were William H. Corbin, aged 25 at the time of his daughter's birth, and Nancy Corbin (née Sullins), aged 34.  Both parents were described by physicians who examined the infant shortly after her birth as being very similar in appearance, "both having auburn hair, blue eyes, and very fair complexion"; in fact, they looked so similar that the physicians felt compelled to point out that they were not "blood kin" The Corbins had four children in total, including a child from Nancy's first marriage.

Myrtle's birth was not marked by anything "peculiar about the labour or delivery" according to her mother. Doctors who examined the child shortly after her birth noted that a breech presentation "would have proved fatal to the infant, and possibly to the mother."  Corbin soon showed herself to be a strong child, weighing 10 lb (4.5 kg) three weeks after the birth, and it was reported in a journal published later that year that she "nurses healthily" and was "thriving well".