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Alison Lapper
(Reader Contribution to World's Oddest Mothers)
Alison Lapper was born in 1965 with no arms and shortened legs,the result of a medical condition called phocomelia. She was taken away from her mother at birth and lived at Chailey Heritage, a special school in East Sussex, until she was 17. At 26, she graduated from Brighton University with a first in Fine Art. Since then, she has worked as an artist, frequently using herself as her subject. In 2000, after a brief relationship with an able-bodied man she says: "I quite unexpectedly, and quite happily fell pregnant, and he ran a mile". Alison became a single-parent to a boy she named Parys. She is currently best known as the model for Marc Quinn's sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant, which has been chosen to occupy the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. She and her son, Parys, now four, are also participating in the BBC series Child of Our Time. They live on the Sussex coast.
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