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The Girl With Eight Limbs

NETWORK PREMIERE ONE-OFF Thursday 28th June, 9.00pm

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In 2007, a girl was born in rural India with one of the world's rarest physical abnormalities. Lakshmi Tatma was born with four arms and four legs, she was joined at the pelvis to her half-formed twin. Locals revered her as the re-incarnation of Lakshmi, the Goddess with eight limbs; doctors regarded her as a child with a life threatening disability and her parents agonised - should their daughter undergo a potentially fatal operation or should they remain in the village under the constant gaze of villagers and pilgrims? This one-off documentary follows Lakshmi and her family as she undergoes the operation that changed her world