Two sets of sisters were documented June 21, 2006 on the TLC channel. The skin is our largest organ. When someone marries someone who also has the recessive gene ... this skin condition can occur. There are only about 100 cases. The skin is tight and restrictive; it grows every day about as much as people's skin would grow in 14 days.

There is concern for cracking (leading to infection). Loss of eyesight from eyelids scratching the cornias ... loss of fingertips from loss of circulation.

The two families lived in Britain where there are only 7 such cases. The Betts girls (one just turned 18) and the Bowen girls (one is still an infant).

I never saw anything like this ... or heard of it either.

They are looking for genetic, hereditary issues.

I would suspect a chemical poisoning of someone in the family line ...
Probably would wonder what their relatives did during D-Day