Extraordinary People is een Britse documentaire van de zender Channel 5. De serie ging in première op 28 maart 2003.
Extraordinary people is de serie documentaires waarin opmerkelijke verhalen over menselijke ervaringen en prestaties van over de hele wereld worden verkend.
How can it be that DNA testing proves that Lydia Fairchild cannot be the mother of her own children? In this episode, Lydia was found to be a "chimera" where at her own conception, two separate fertilized eggs merged together instead of growing as two separate twins.