WHEN Bobby and Riley George were born 30 minutes apart with light skin, curly hair and brown eyes there was no doubting they were twins.

    But four years on, the boys couldn’t be more different as Bobby has blue eyes and a light complexion while Riley’s skin and hair is dark like his father’s.

    The twins, from Feltham, West London, were born to mother Abigail Tongue, 22, who is white, and father Richard George, 26, who is of mixed race.

    When they first found out that Tongue was expecting twins, doctors said there was a one-in-a-million chance that the babies, created by two separate eggs, would have a different skin tone.

    And when they were born in October 2011 at West Middlesex University Hospital in Isleworth, West London, they virtually looked identical.

    But at six weeks, the boys’ appearances began to change with Bobby’s hair becoming curlier and skin becoming lighter.

    At the same time Riley’s skin started to become darker and his hair became straight and brown.

    Their personalities also developed differently with Bobby becoming very independent and active and Riley more laid-back and clingy.

    “When she was pregnant we’d joke how one could be black like me and another white like Abbie but we never thought it would happen,” George said.(SD-Agencies)