Woman discovers her twin sons have DIFFERENT fathers on the Maury Show



It takes a lot to shock Maury Povich.

But the talk show host admitted that even he couldn't believe it when a woman came on the show to prove her ex-boyfriend was the father of her twins - only to find that he was the father of just one of them.



Speaking about the revelation, which was aired live on his show, he admitted he did not even think this was possible.

Twins: Jayla, left, and Julius, who have two different fathers making them half brothers Mother: Alejandrina said that she did not sleep with any one else when she was with Jose but a paternity test said differently Father: Jose said he was not the father of the twins and claimed his ex-girlfriend was a 'party girl' who slept around Reaction: Jose jumped for joy when he found out that Julius was not his and called Alejandrina a whore

He said: 'The show has very dramatic and very edgy themes which I think are played out in American society. The most unusual dramatic DNA theme was when the woman came on the show and had different fathers to her twins.'

Regina contacted the Maury show to try to prove that her ex-boyfriend Eric was responsible for her twins.

When Povich read out the DNA results and announced that Eric was the father of just one of her twins, he had to explain to a visibly shocked audience that this was not beyond the realms of possibility.

When it happened a second time on the show in 2008, to 19-year-old Alejandrina and her ex-boyfriend Jose, he was armed with the facts.

Amazed: Maury Povich said he didn't even know twins could have two different fathers until the case came on his show

Shock discovery: Regina was the first mother on the show to find out that her children had two different fathers

Denial: Eric refused to believe the twins were his and jumped for joy when they found out only one was

He said: 'I want to explain about this situation. Its happened before on this show with fraternal twins. Less than one per cent of fraternal twins are from different fathers, to be accurate 0.001 per cent of the time and this is one of those less than one per cent.'

This occurrence is so uncommon that only a few cases have been documented in medical records.



HETEROPATERNAL SUPERFECUNDATION

Heteropaternal superfecundation occurs when two or more of a woman's eggs are fertilized by different men within the same ovulation period. Sperm are capable of waiting in the fallopian tubes for between three and five days, while the ovum may only survive a matter of hours if fertilization does not occur. The fertilization time window is relatively narrow, particularly if sperm from two different males must arrive.

Given the single-pair reproduction strategy employed by most people, these criteria are very rarely met. There are between seven and ten documented cases in medical literature about twins with different fathers.

In rare instances when twins are conceived by different fathers, it's called heteropaternal superfecundation, which occurs when two or more of a woman's eggs are fertilized by different men within the same ovulation period.

Before the results were read out, Alejandrina promised that she had not slept with anyone else while she was with Jose and broke down in tears when the truth came out.

He said his ex was a 'party girl' and said the test results proved she was a 'whore'.



Jose said he would take responsibility for the one child while Povich told Alejandrina that they would do another paternity test if she was able to find the father of her second child.



In May 2009, Mia Washington from Texas also gave birth to twins with different fathers.

She and her fiancé ordered a paternity test when they noticed the twins had very different features. She then admitted to having an affair.



