Okay, all you foot freaks — here’s that picture I promised. These are my webbed toes. Sorry, no duck webbing, if that’s what you expected. It’s just that the 2nd and 3rd toes are joined by skin to about the 1st knuckle.
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183 Comments
i am 22, and yes, my toes are webbed. Every time i say that i feel like i am making a major confession.
if anyone wants to mail me about webbs, you can at rmgrisham@yahoo.com
My name is Chris and I’m 13 yrs old and I have web toes and I am proud. Ashton Kutcher was the first person I saw with web toes.
I’m a 57 year old woman with webbed toes, mine are webbed exactly like those shown in the picture. I was lucky in that nobody ever teased me about my toes. In fact, for a long time as a child, I thought everybody had toes like mine! I am of Irish, English and German ancestry. A long time ago, I heard that some of Hapsburg Royal family in Germany had the webbing trait; I don’t know how true or not that is.
My mom, bless her heart, asked the doctor if I would have any trouble walking, he said, no, I’d be fine. I’ve never wanted to change my toes, never knew that there was surgery for it. I’ve always sort of thought that other people’s toes looked rather gangly compared to my little toes! Only thing I can’t really do, is wiggle those two toes, individually. But, I’ve never had problems with one toe crossing up over the top of the others like some of my frinds have had, so that is one advantage to having the webbing. My birth mother’s last name was Daniels, she had to give me up for adoption in the late l940’s era, so it’s a mystery as to where I inherited this trait, but one I do cherish as a genetic link to where I came from.
The first thing I did when my son was born, was check and see if he had any webbing of his toes. He has some webbing, much less than mine, and a bit more on one foot than the other. I was really surprised to read in the comments that the webbing can differ from one foot to the other.
Many thanks for the effort in setting this site up, it’s nice to know there are more of us out there with this trait!
I have webbed toes on both feet. On one foot they are nearly webbed right to the top, the other about a little less. It used to bother me at school but now I don’t really think about it much.
Webbed toes are not that uncommon guys, I got mine separated and I asked the plastic surgeon how common they were and he told me statistics say one born in every two thousand has webbing of some sort.
So there….!
I also have webbed toes. My pinkie toe and the fourth toe are completely stuck to each other with skin. I was so sad about it when I was young. I did not reaveal it to my husband until over a year of marriage. (He does not care) I am partly Irish but not on the side that this came from. My balance is great I can dance and everything. I want to get them separated but the one doctor I saw told me that it would cost $20,000 dollars. That is in Abilene Texas. I don’t hate it that much. How much did any of you pay?
wow man what is it real you all have webbed toes looks intresting
i wonder how it looks can someone please post me some picturs of
your webbed toes maya_alias_noam@yahoo.com thanks.
Trish can you send me a picture of you webbed pinkie i have never seen
some thing like that whith a pinkie toe. javrcd@yahoo.com thanks Trish
I’m glad I found this website. My webbed toes (2nd and 3rd toes) were not pointed out to me until college. I thought that they were normal. Up until a few years ago, I thought they were from my father’s side (he has German-English-ScotIrish roots and connections to the Appalachias). It turns out that I inherited the trait from dear old mom. She’s half Irish and half German. The Irish (Kennedy&Bonners) are from County Donegal. The krauts hailed from a small town Northeast of Munich in Bavaria. Who knows…
Could my children have major defects beyond a minor cosmetic thing? I started to think that I was a genetic freak until I did some searches online. As I think about children, I thought I should go through genetic counseling due to this recessive trait. Maybe it was connected to some other bad genetic traits that I didn’t want to pass along to possible children. One of my brothers has autism – I was coming to a not so scientific conclusion that my genes have some bad mutations.
So I guess I’m not such a freak. Maybe my moderate webbing won’t be a major impact on my kids other than a cosmetic issue?
i have been looking for other people with toe deformities for ages,
i dont have webbed toes but i have massive big toesthese toes are so strong i can stand on the tips of just the big toes.
i researched and the first thing google came up with was that big-foot (sasquatch) had the same type of deformity
anyone else out there?
Hi, just want to say thanks to everyone. I recently met this cool guy, but was a bit freaked out when he told me about his webbed feet. I feel quite prepared for them now
Hello all,
I am so tickled to find this site.I also have my 2nd & 3rd toes webbed on both my feet. I thought it was something normal, & it seems like it is, in many people. I first learnt of the difference after seeing Ashton Kutcher my self on Oprah while chanel surfing one day I’m 50 years of age, one of 7 kids,white, I wonder if skin color makes a difference, hum… food for thought I guess, all with the same parents,we all have webbed toes. Although my great grandfather was adopted as a child & we’ve not been able to trace all his life,I do know I’m 1/3 Cherokee,1/3Irish, I’ve heard I have a touch of German.I read some one else also had the same blood lines almost. I’ll never know, but this was a lot of fun to look up & read about.It’s never bothered any of us, Like I said we thought it to be normal. God be with you all. Watcher
Hi again,
P.S. I also had a male cousin whom was born with six toes,he did have the extras ones taken off as a child, we are both the same age & I also have a great neice that both of her small toes curve up & over towards her 4th.toe The docs. have corrected the left one but can’t get the right one to lay flat yet. she’s 4 yrs.old & beautiful & it don’t bother her at all either.Must be something in our bloodline,you think.If it was,,, inbreading it was long before my parents time though.
God Bless, Watcher
I’m now 59 years old and was born with the second, third, fourth and fifth toes of my right foot completely webbed, though each toe has its own bone structure and separate toenail. For reasons never explained to me the forth and fifth toes were separated when I was 5 years old – perhaps the reason was to do with balance. The fourth (separated) toe has always hammered, sat atop, the fifth toe which is somewhat tucked or rolled inwards, and my right foot is 2 full sizes smaller than the left. My second and third toes remain joined.
I’ve never had any problems with balance, was State high School Swim Champion in 400 Metres Freestyle and 100 Metres Butterfly and was State High School Track and Field record holder in the 100, 200 and 1500 Metres (1961, 1962 &1963). Hahaha, I live in a very small, low population State!
But, I’ve always felt extremely embarrassed or shamed by the ugly deformed appearance of my right foot and, if publicly bare footed, I’d go to lengths to hide it by burying it in the beach sand, beneath my Beach or Swim towel or behind the normal left foot. My major hassle these days is trying to clip the toenails of the toes that are still joined.
I’m unaware of any relative with webbed toes. Neither of my sisters have them nor did my parents. Though, a cousin said she thought our maternal Grandmother had webbed toes. Our maternal Grandmother’s sister certainly had a “Club Foot” with the iron braced leg and the built-up boot.
I’ve no knowledge of any Irish ancestors,my maternal Grandmother’s parents, grandparents etc all came from Cornwall, England. My father’s ancestors were all “Geordies” from Newcastle on tyne and Durham, England.
The English novelist, Lawrence Durrell, in his pornographic study, entitled “Tunc” (1968), or was it “Nunquam” (1970) speaks of webbed toes as being a sign of nobility and a marker of royal Turkish blood. Durrell seems to display some kind of “foot fetish” as deformity, feet and misadventure occur in many of his “Alexandria Quartet” Novels. In “Clea” the aristocratic Arabic heroine is trapped underwater and drowns when a Speargun shaft pins her foot to the wooden hull of a sunken vessel. While in another of his Novels, a Turkish Princess , despairing of her inability to stop her father, the King and family’s brutal oppression of the people, uses her father’s Dagger to separate her own webbed toes – either to die in the attempt or as penance for their sins against the people, her people.
Hmmm, could Lawrence, himself, have had webbed toes? His father was Irish!
Hmmmm, well a “google” search seems to suggest that Buddha himself had webbed toes and fingers, but, in more modern times….Dewey Weber, the “legendary surfer” had webbed toes…
Legendary surfers
Check it at URL:
http://www.legendarysurfers.com/surf/legends/lsc210.html
Dewey Weber was born David Earl Weber on August 18, 1938 in Denver, Colorado. He went on to become one of the greats in surfing in the 1950s and a great
in the surfboard manufacturing world in the 1960s. His stardom, however, began at an early age. When Dewey was 8 years-old, his mother took him to an
audition where he won a part as “Buster Brown,” the fantasy boy who lived in a shoe with his dog Tide. Dewey did in-store promotions as Buster Brown and
by the age of 14 was a three-time National Duncan Yo-Yo Champion, appearing on the national television show “You Bet Your Life,” hosted by Groucho Marx.
In high school, he was a three-time CIF westling champion and an All-State performer at El Camino College.
The only child of a German working class family, Dewey was exposed to water at an early age through his babysitter. His father, Earl, was a truck driver
and his mother, Gladys, worked at Denver’s Nabisco cracker factory. At age 3, he had a babysitter who was also a lifeguard at a nearby municipal pool.
“My early memories,” Dewey recalled once, “are of being at the pool almost all of the summer. By the time I was four, I could swim twice the length of
the pool underwater. It came very natural to me for some reason.” Whether it helped or not, Dewey had two webbed toes on each foot, a family trait passed
on to every other generation on his mother’s side.
Manahattan Beach Surf Club, 1943-1948
The Webers relocated to Manhattan Beach during
the war,
in 1943. Dewey immediately adapted to the new surroundings
…:”
im 13 and i have webbed toes aswell. They crack me up. Im damn proud ov my toes!
I too have web toes, 2nd and 3rd, also Irish, German and English, supposedly my dad was born with them and his parents had them separated.I have always been proud of my toes, not many people have them so its my own individual trademark. I will wip my toes out in a crowd, and the 1st thing I say is “no, I dont swim better”. I have a ten yr old who wasnt blessed with them, I am pregnant now and hope this baby will have them. If people are experiencing ignorant comments, thats too bad. I have yet to get any bullying about my toes. I think my toes are better looking than the freaks whos 2nd toe is bigger than the big toe.
i have twin toes and my mother has them also hers were tothe very top of her toe , mine is shorter much like the pic shown
my mother told me a long time ago how many generations this goes on before it is gone but i have forgotten . does anyone
know? my first child is on its way and i told my wife her child will have twin toes too. she thinks its a litte weird.
hey doods! nice feet u guys rock! peace out!
my daughter is 6 weeks old and i just noticed she has webbed toes (2nd and 3rd digits). i freaked out at first but was relieved after reading the comments on this site. thanks! i think i’ll let her decide for herself (when she’s older) if she wants to have them separated or not.
wow, lots of people w/ this….
I have four children. My youngest is nearly 3 years old. I didn’t notice he had webbing of his 2nd and 3rd toes til he was home from the hospital for about 4 days! He was born in the winter, so he was constantly covered up! I honestly did freak out, I cried, I wondered WHY are they like that?? took me a long time to deal w/it….But now, I love them, I love HIM, and they are part of him. It has done nothing to his balance or his walking ability, so I figure WHY change him??????????????? THIS IS HOW GOD GAVE HIM TO ME. People ridicule each other for LOTS OF THINGS…. Those of you that are worried about your child getting made fun of, what are you going to do when they have their nose made fun of? There big ears? Their weight? The way they talk? For God’s sake you cannot just change things because you are afraid of what other people think. I celebrate his ‘piggies!!’ we love his feet, he is who he is. And I WOULD NOT EVER IN A MILLION YEARS make my little boy go through a NEEDLESS COSMETIC surgery due to worrying about him getting made fun of. Please…. think about it, there are FAR MORE things in the world they can make fun of your child for, um, at least you can wear shoes to hide it, shall a child wear a mask because they aren’t as attractive as you think they should be, or his/her classmates think they should be???
Please do yourselves a favor and do not be shallow…
If someday my son wants to have the surgery I will support him, but right now I want him to know I love him for WHO he is….not less because of a little divider of skin is attatched to him….. How very shallow of parents or anyone in this world to think anything differently….
I don’t worry about ‘why’ anymore…I focus on him being normal. He is extremely bright. And for the record no Irish descent to my knowledge either…. I was 28 years old when I had him. None of my other 3 children have it.
I guess I don’t know what the big deal is.
Love yourself
So you wonder why your 2nd and 3rd toes are webbed? I am Irish and I have them too ! I was told by my mother that the Irish foot adapted to the wet soil in the bogs and that is why English shoes hurt our feet. I find a moccasin soft shoe to work the best for me. I have heard there is a kind of pony native to Ireland that have a unique hoof. Any one else know any thing about this?
My toes are not webbed, but my toes are each 3 inch long.
pretty neat, eh?
Any one else have long toes that are typing words right Now?
Hehe,
My third son was born and my oldest son was changing his diaper in the hospital for me and he said hey mom… Petie has webbed toes!
I was like no way and sure enough his toes are connected by the skin up to the first joint… The pediatrician said that they were called twin toes and would never cause him trouble… exept that they are so irresistable… I love to tickle them and pretend to eat them
Anyway for anyone who has these you guys are in a select group of cool people
P.S. we are also from irish decent… I got the red hair
OMG i thunk this is cool
i have to look up this stuff for skool and i didn’t kno that there were sooo many people that had webbed feet
i’m sory but i don’t have webbed feet!!!!
i don’t kno anyone personally with webbed feet either!!!
I too have “twin Toes” much like the ones in the photo, I was researching about it after I releived I feel like no one else besides me and my grandmother have this birth effect I found it quite strange but also unique, Iam glad Iam not alone with my twin toes ;p
Now in mid sixties. Webs on both feet second and third, like the picture. Left foot, one half filled,
the right foot only about a quarter. Have a cousin, whose grandson has full web on one foot,
almost to the tip. Came down from Irish side. Sweeneys and Sullivans.
Took some flack from brother when we were kids. “Be kind to your webfooted friends” was a popular song in 50’s. Cousins got big laugh. I laughed when grandchild came along. Too funny.
I was a good athlete. Very agile and could jump. At almost 6 feet tall, I could dunk bb. The toes did
bother me some when swimming. They made my feet week when kicking in water. Basically couldn’t swim. Also when I had my own little children, if they stepped on toes they would just kill me. Webbed toes tended to bend in the middle, like a joint, but bent the wrong way. Never had them x-rayed, and never wanted to get rid of them. Actually I loved them.
My son has twin toes. He is ten and could care less. Why would anyone care to look like everyone else?? When he was born with them I was thrilled. The weird thing was that I felt that I knew (before he was born) he would have joined toes.
He is considered by others to be an unusually coordinated child.
Heyy, my toes are webbed too, my second and third one on both feet are webbed
Aloha my brothers and sisters with twin toes. Let me tell you a story that happened to me. I was in a Health Food Store and a lady told me about these people that were bred with fish in Atlantis. She said that some of these “mutants” are still around. I asked her how she could tell, and she told me that these “mutants” will have their toes stuck together. In Hawaii we wear slippers, and I told her to look at my feet. She left the store very fast. I laughed at that!!!!! Anyone hear that story? This lady claimed this information is in a book. Written by a Margret something, I believe. Stoked to hear Dewey Weber has the “toes” too, as I am an avid surfer on the North Shore of Hawaii. Ever hear of “Country Surfboards”???????
gail
When I first met my husband (many, many years ago) he showed me his toes and proclaimed that he was tempted to fly south for the winter, or at least thought of it. At this point he let out a little duck sound and flapped his arms. I thought how cute. Then when our daughter was born in 1981, we were thrilled to find she had his same webbed toes, much more than the ones pictured, I knew then that she would swim easily like her dad. In 1994, we had a son, he has only a partial webber slightly less than the one pictured, but on one toe his foot shows a web that is unmistakeable as a true web. The Dr. told us no webbing and was baffled when we were obviously saddened but then we yelped for joy when we found that he did have at least one true webber like his father and grandfather.
To us, somehow this unique distinction has always been a positive! I remeber that misguided folks in 1981 thought that we shoud have our daughter’s toes seperated, but I loved every part of her. I liked her nose that looked like me, and I liked her toes that looked like her dad’s, wouldn’t have thought of it. In our family, we celebrate the human web footers.
Terry
I’m glad to know that my son is not alone. When he was born the doctor came in and asked me if I noticed my son’s webbed toes. He has web toes on both feet the second and third toes are webbed to the joint. I had no known history in my family with webbed toes. My husband didn’t know until the day our son was born that his mother has the same webbed toes on both her feet as well. Genetics are amazing.
I have webbed toes. Apparently my great-grandfather had them (from Italy). I was born in the States, and my parents, both Argentinean of Northern Italian descent, didn’t know where they came from until we visited Argentina and a great-aunt told us my great-grandfather on my father’s side had them. I am a female, and inherited this from my father’s side, but I also gave it to two of my three sons.
It’s funny that no one notices my toes unless I tell them about it. I used to love them, then for a while I felt somewhat weird about them (I’m a shoe freak, and love to see feet that are well groomed in an expensive shoe) but most people see my toes in detail when I tell them, and surprisingly, no one is grossed out about it, not even when I get a pedicure. In fact, most of the time, I am told my feet are rather “young” for my age. I am now in my forties and people who deal with feet all the time, always compliment me on the “great and young looking feet” I have.
I wonder though if this genetic marker is a sign of common ancestry.
I would just like to say that I am so happy to have found this community of people who have the same “gift” as I have. Throughout all my life I have been ridiculed and teased not only by others but my closest friends, there was one stage where I slept with my shoes on. They just don’t understand and in someways I feel sorry for them because they can’t see that it’s not what’s on the outside but it’s really what’s on the inside that really counts. I use to really be upset when some teased me about my web toes but now I don’t get angry anymore because I have learnt to love who I am and not be afraid. I now walk freely with sandles and barefooted along the beach without any shame at all. Also, I have started a support group here in Australia for people who have a similar condition and are afraid to remove their footwear, I hope to put up a website soon and when I do I will be sure to let all of you know. My group is called ” Toe 2 Toe “. Thanks for taking the time out of your day to read my post, I hope everyone of you out there who has syndactly be not afraid of the looks and stares of others, have pride in yourself and live your life the way you want to. Much love, to all my brothers and sisters Joshua Forty.
Hi guys, me again, i forgot to mention earlier, if any of you are from Australia and wanted to join ” Toe 2 Toe ” I operate the Victoria/Hoppers Crossing guild for ” Toe 2 Toe ” and my email is toe2toeAUS@hotmail.com please send me an email if you want to join or you just want to chat.
Cheers, Josh
I never thought I’d find a sight like this. I have webbed toes. Mostly my right foot 2nd and 3rd toes, the left foot not very much at all. My brother is the same but his are less noticable. My sister has perfect feet. It is really embarassing, I never buy open toed sandals or wear flip flops. I wish my parents did get them fixed when I was little. I know its unique and I’m proud of that but at the same time it’s hard. I am of Irish/Russian decent. My mom’s side being Russian and my Dad’s side Irish. My grandma on my dad’s side said her father had webbed toes so its safe to say its hereditary. I never got to meet him so i’m not sure what severity his webness was. No one else in my family besides myself and my brother have this. I’ve really thought about getting it fixed and one day being able to wear sandals, flip flops etc without having the thought of people saying something or staring. I do go get pedicures and no one really says anything. I was wondering how much this surgery would cost and is it better to go see a person that specializes in microsurgery or go to a foot doctor. If anyone has any imput let me know. Thanks.
I have the same and of eastern-european, Jewish decent.
There goes the Irish and scottish theory.
My son also has the same.
I personnaly hate it but my (grown) son seems to have no problem wearing going barefoot and wearing saldals in public.
I have thought about an operation but never was that serious to do anything about it.
The more I read here, I feel better. Thanks, guys!
-Marty
I too have the same trait — the 2nd and 3rd toes are joined on both feet.One 100% the other about 80%.
Its a unique trait that is a great part piece.
Has the DNA code for ‘webbed toes’ been studied?
I am also Irish – one my brothers has it too. ( being irish there are a good few of us – 2 out of 7 are more blessed!)
has anyone had any luck in tracking this back ? i saw one posting that said he was going to try and trace it. any results??? i think its from my mums side.
Duffy & Smith
Hiya, I didn’t realise so many people had webbed toes like myself and my brother. I’m 14 and have always hated wearing flip-flops in the summer however after reading all of your comments I’m slowly but surely learning to love my toes. I actually find them quite amusing! LOL! My 2nd and 3rd toe on each foot are about one third webbed or “conjoined” as I like to call them (same for my brother). I did consider having them seperated but I now don’t see the point- they are just toes after all. I don’t know anyone outside of my family with this but I once saw Ashton Kutcher in an MTV interview where he was asked about his toes and he took his socks and shoes off and proudly showed the world his webbed toes. I want to say thanks to everyone who says love your toes; I am going to book myself in for a pedicure soon so I can proudly show off my pretty, pampered toes!
Webbed toes are unique. Embrace your individuality!
Does anybody know what causes webbed toes? coz I’d really like to know.
My son Gabriel has webbed toes. My husband and I don’t, but we heard he may have gotten them because we both have RH negative blood types. I can’t wait until the weather gets hotter so i can show everyone his adorable, precious toes. I’m not going to let him have an operation to seperate them. I think that it’s not neccessary to get one done. I enjoy kissing them, and I’ve never seen any like them before. I love my son the way he is and so does my husband.
can u post pictures on this website?
Hi, I also have webbed toes on both feet. Its the 2nd and third toes and there webbed till the 2nd joint, and i am also part irish.I dont know of anyone in my family who has webbed toes. My parents where originally going to have my toes seperated when i was little but decided that they would wait and let me decide. I am now 18 and still havent had them seperated and dont think i ever will. I like them there different! Ihave never found that people care that they are different and they have never stopped me playing sport, swimming or whereing strappy sandles.
ew, grose, get surgery.
it must be nice being so goddam perfect, dr grossed out!
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