Anything is possible they say, but according to Vivian Wheeler who was born a hermaphrodite, with both male and female reproductive organs and had hypertrichosis also known as the Werewolf syndrome, some things can’t be possible.
At birth, Wheeler’s facial fuzz appeared with an inch and a half of light hair covering her cheeks and chin. She says her mother wanted a daughter, and the doctors were instructed to remove the male parts, so she had to grow up as a girl. Wheeler claimed her father was humiliated by his bearded little girl, but it didn't prevent him from capitalizing on her condition. She began working in side shows at an early age, earning money to send home to her family.
Between tours, she would return home and reach for a razor. “My dad said I should shave because people wouldn't understand why I had facial hair, saying, “This is what you’ll have to do to fit into the society,”” Wheeler told AOL News. As she grew older, she would shave sometimes to placate the men she dated, "because of their low self-esteem. It didn't bother me." Wheeler stopped shaving her beard entirely in 1990 shortly after the death of her mother. "I let it grow back to be myself," she said. "Without my beard, I'm not me. I'm pretending to be someone I'm not."
As an adult, Wheeler of Illinois was blessed with having the longest beard for a female, with the longest hair in her beard measuring 11 inches - 27.9 cm. She held The Guinness World Record for the Longest Female Beard Ever, had appeared on popular TV shows and featured in American Sideshow.
According to Wheeler, doctors examining her for Guinness World Record said she had a male bone structure. With half her hormones being male, doctors thought it would be impossible for her to give birth, but she became pregnant, and baby Richard was delivered by cesarean section in 1977. For Wheeler, a Seventh - day Adventist, it was a miracle.
Her joy was short lived as the father of her baby, a carnival ride operator she had met in Nebraska, snatched the baby away from their family home and who later abandoned the baby in a motel, aged just three. Since then, she mourned the loss of her only son.
Richard Lorenc an adopted child had always wondered who his biological mother is and at some point he fantasied that Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane was his mum. After a back injury that led to multiple medical exams and many questions about his family medical history, he decided it was time to start digging. Six weeks later, he received a letter from the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services saying they had the identity of his mother.
Finally he found out that his mother was more than what he imagined. She was Vivian Wheeler, a hermaphrodite, a Side Show Star and a Guinness World record holder with the Werewolf syndrome. And he said she was better than what he ever imagined.
62 year old Vivian Wheeler was blessed in her old age as she unites with her lost son who has been missing for 30 years.
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