Picture: Nigerian woman who gave birth to 'white baby'

The picture of the Nigerian woman who gave birth to a white baby is still trending like wild fire online. Though Catherine Howarth is married to a British man she has beaten odds of a million-to-one by giving birth to a baby who appears to be of a different race. The baby has a pale skin, green eyes and light brown hair, Jonah, now three months old has no feature to show he is mixed parentage.

Recalling the moment she delivered Jonah in Milton Keynes Hospital on June 1, his mother told the Sunday Mirror:

‘Some children get darker after a few weeks when the skin colour they will have for life starts to become obvious. But you can see from the colour at the tips of their ears what that Jonah was fully white.
We have been told I must have been carrying a recessive gene. My parents were from Nigeria and, for as far back as anyone can remember; my family have all been black.’

Husband Richard, 34, who works as a medical recruitment consultant, was equally as shocked when he first saw his son:

 ‘The colour of Jonah’s skin is of no concern - Jonah being a healthy and happy baby is what matters.’