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'I ate my twin in the womb' - Peach-sized cyst reveals BRAIN, teeth and hair

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Woman suffers intense pain for years before the 'twin' was discovered.

Natashjja Heming experienced severe pain since she was 13-years-old. She chalked it up to menstrual cramps, but discovered the truth was something much worse.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Heming believed the sharp pain she experienced was normal but when she was 14-years-old she began to feel a "pulling" on her left side.

Her doctors were unable to identify the cause of the pain and she reported the pain steadily grew as she got older.


As the pain increased, she learned to handle it on her own - until the pain became so great she began to black out.

A friend recommended a new doctor, who ordered an ultrasound.

At 22-years-old, Heming's doctor told her the "lady pain" she experienced all those years was actually a dermoid.


A dermoid is a cyst sac-like growth that only increases in size over time. It forms when skin is trapped during fetal development.

Heming's doctor took her into surgery to remove the peach-sized dermoid but it broke during the procedure.

What doctors found inside led Heming to believe she had "eaten" her twin.

Brain matter, skin, hair and teeth were removed from the dermoid and Heming was finally spared the pain she'd learned to live with over the past nine years.

She believes it is possible the dermoid consumed what would have been her twin, as twins run in her family.

"I joke that I ate my twin in the womb," Heming later stated, "which is not a scientifically proven thing, but it has been mentioned."

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