After undergoing many fertility treatments, Egyptian Naglaa Mohamed was thrilled to finally be pregnant with twins. Her pregnancy was extremely difficult, but it wasn’t until the first twin, Manar, was delivered that doctors discovered serious complications. The twins were conjoined at the head, but an emergency c-section revealed something even more unusual: the second twin, named Islaam, was JUST A HEAD. It was fully-developed and capable of smiling and blinking, and even had its own brain. When one head was smiling, the other could be screaming.



The head was living off of his sister’s organs and caused her so much strain that she suffered multiple heart failures. The only chance for survival was for doctors to surgically remove the extra head—a procedure with a 100% chance of death. But miraculously, she survived the surgery and is now a healthy youngster.