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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dear dr grossed out.why the hell are u even on this website?it’s not nice being a jerk off.respect people and there feelings.webbed toes are unique and beautiful.so if u have something negative to say don’t come back here.
Wow! This is really cool. I had no idea so many folks had twin toes. I’ve been thinking about getting surgery on mine. Has anyone had this done that can share some thoughts? I’m a model and there have been many occasions where a client will want me to do a shoot barefoot and I’m always so embarrased to show my feet. My toes are webbed on my right foot, not all the way, just about 1/3. My family tells me not to be embarrased and it’s not that noticeable, but I’ve always been very self concious about it. It’s nice to know I’m not alone.
Hi, i was wondereing if anyone had any information on piercing your webs. I read a post from someone whose girlfriend got hers pierced- i think it sounds really cool!
My daughter (5 months) has the 2nd and 3rd toes webbed on both feet. It was picked up immediately following her birth. My husband and I had no idea where it came from. I hated the way it was described on my dughter’s hospital notes as an “abnormality”. It made me feel as though we ought to be ashamed of it or something. I was telling one of my closest friends about it, and it turned out her feet are exactly the same. I used to live with this friend, and I’d never even noticed her feet were different from mine. Interestingly, my friend is of Irish descent (both parents) and my husband’s maternal grandfather was Irish. My neighbour told me her husband’s toes are the same too! The fact that I’d never noticed my friend’s webbed toes helped reassure me that my daughter’s toes are normal. They’re just a bit different.
Hello!
I am 33 years old and have twin toes on both feet (nr 2 and 3 up to the nails). Very cool to see
that there are more people that share this kind of thing. About the origin of twin toes: I am from Sweden and the truth or rumour I have heard is that as far back as the vikings had this toes. Some peole says that
William the conquerer had them…. I dont know, but it would surely be interesting to learn more about this.
Neither of my parents have it and neither of my two kids.
Mikael
my 2nd and 3rd toes are webbed, too. but the skin that connects them comes up farther than yours and i have it on 1 foot and my dad has it on both
I have webbed toes too. My second and third toes are split all the way up. Just like a millimeter from the end of the webbing to the top of my feet. Both of my feet.
i have webbed tose and they r ruingin my life, im am really self concious bout them. i havnt even shown my friend who i have known for 7 years he knows bout em and is curious but i am always hidin them with sox. I dont no wat to do . due to my stupid actions i beleive I have no choice but to get them seperated. WATEVER U DO PEOPLE KNOW THAT U ARE BEATIFUL, TAKE LIFE BY THE HORNS AND RIDE IT INSTEAD OF HIDING AWAy, U WILL NEVER ENJOY YOURSELF PROPELLY IF U HIDe UR TOES!!! be wise and learn from my mistakes not from ur own
My daughter was born with webbed toes on both feet! Her’s isn’t so bad. However her aunt on her fathers sides are all they way up.
I was told this is a polish thing .. lol … now I know better thanks for the blog guys
Well your answer lies here maybe fairytales are not fairytales after all. There was some inbreeding going on very unusual inbreeding from people known as selkies really fallen angels perhaps who fell in the water to become fish people like mermaids, see for yourself for this could very well be a scottish, irish, possibly english ancestory. My son was born with only one connected finger on one hand. I did some research, and found out this can not be a mutation of us being fish at one time thats ridiculas, mutations if they were to occur stay in the past and do not happen again. Something tells me that people just do not talk about tales that are not true someone slept with some mysterious woman from the sea or who knows were check this out.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/selkiefolk/selbairns.html
It was also said that giants mentioned in the time of Noah in the bible, with the flood had six fingers and six toes.
I too have “twin-toes” on both feet with the 2nd and 3rd toes conjoined half way. I didn’t know so many people had this. My Aunt and cousin have it as well. I guess it is just hereditary. I will keep this link on my favorites to come back later. I feel like I belong to a cool secret society. LOL. Peace.
Im 19 and haved webbed toes, 2nd and 3rd toe on my right foot. I was told that webbed feet is also a sign of a crack baby.(child born with cocaine in his system) Anyone else here that?
No but I can assure you I was not doing crack or my husband.
I too have second and third toe webbed on both feet, my right is about 3/4 and left is half. I’ve never considered getting them seperated and never will! I love then, and I think they make me a little bit different to the masses! I live in a hot climate in Australia where I wear flip flops, sandals, and open toed shoes all year around! It doesn’t bother me in the slightest! I dont dig my toes in the sand at the beach - I let them bathe in the sunlight!
I think in all of my years, only once has someone noticed (other than when I show people). Even if they do notice -so what?? Truly - its not a big deal. In school people would ask about it, but I was always comfortable with it so even if someone tried to tease me about it, the fact that it didn’t bother me meant they would stop fairly soon - ie they didn’t get a reaction so teasing stopped.
I dont know where I get it from, I am adopted so dont have the opportunity to follow up on the genetics of it. The reason why I googled it today was a few weeks ago I was at a friend of a friends house and discovered she also had webbed toes - it was the first time I have ever met someone like me! (I always assumed it was just me…), what a pleasant surprise to discover there are others out there just like me!
I think were all special, unique and we should have webbed toe pride!!!!
I have twin toes which come from my mother’s Frech Canadian heritage. I have also seen twin toes on other French Canadians. Are there any other French Canadians with twin toes out there?
wow i cant believe this many people have webbed toes! its crazy i have them on the second and third toe on each foot. left foot is the most intense. im starting to accept it now. during my teens it done my head in so much. I can never wear flip flops or sandals which is well anoying. im the only one in the family with it. I went on tv about it aswell when i was 18, done me no favours, people who dont have it dont understand, but i must say that reading this sight has made me feel a heck of a lot better, its good to know im not alone. Apparently every 1 in a 100 people have it. i hope i get a boyfriend one day who digs my toes as much as my brothers do. they are so used to them they think my toes are well funny, in a loving way.hahaha you got to laugh about it. the only anoying thing is when i stand up in the bath when theres water in there they feel like there stretching apart. gross i know but thats how god made me so i just gotta get on wiv life. they have built character in me.
I have web toes, 2nd and 3RD, about 80%. I thought it was only in my family. Then i became massage therapist and to my amazement lots of my clients have them too!! The sad thing is my six year old daughter has them and school children do make remarks about them which is making her very paranoid!!!
i am only in Highschool and i ahve my 2nd and 3rd toes joined all the way up to the nail line!!! I alwayse wear runners and socks around people as i am very self-consiouse around other people. i hate them!!!! it is great that i found this site because for my whole life i have been wanting to get them seperated. i am also very paranoid that one day someone wll see them and laugh at me when i was in grade 8 my best friend found out that i had them and she called me a freak and swore she wouldnt tell anyone because then she would be teased for hanging out wit me!!!
Holy cow! There are more like me! I cant believe I never thought to “google” this and find my peers! How fabulous! Its my 2nd and 3rd toes, as well (that seems to be the norm in this) but my toes are incredibly tiny, like 2cm long (I swear! I measured just now) and are cojoined (do we have to say “webbed”?) about halfway. I am one hell of a swimmer, so I say its the toes to those who ask. And I’ve made myself have fun w/ it after a childhood of feeling uncomfortable and different. Now I wear flip-flops and show everyone that walks by! Its a hoot! I have so much to say, but wont clog up this thingy. Please email me and we can share toe stories, have a toe jam. Go team go!!!
I’ve created some forums for discussing webbed toes. Hopefully, this will be easier to manage than a bunch of comments on my blog posts.
This 2nd & 3rd toe webbing has run in my dads family for serveral generations and I have been told this was
a cherokke indian trait. There is another family with cherokee heritage that was told the same exact thing.
So far we have heard that there are dozens of cherokees with this webbing. Maybe this post will lead to a new direction.
[...] A few years ago, I made a post that mentioned in passing that I have webbed toes. About a month later, my logs started showing up a fair number of referals from search engines from people looking for info about webbed toes. So I promised that I’d try to put up a picture. A couple of days later, I posted said picture. [...]
To Dana, who posted back on October 19! Oh my gosh, I thought I was the only one with very very short webbed toes. Mine are tiny to especially the third one on my right foot. I’m happy you are so open minded about showing off your toes. I have had them covered ever since I can remember. How old are you? I am 36. I have 2 girls, and just one of them have webbing, just a little bit. Well write back soon. tj
I have webbed toes that look exactly like yours: webbed between the 2nd and third up to the first knuckle joint on both feet. Not sure if I am going to get them removed one day, I’ve never had anyone notice except for a girlfriend who noticed mine because she had it too on one foot and I never noticed!
I have always wondered what it would be like for them to be like the other toes and seperated down to where they were supposed to be. I might have the surgery one year if I don’t plan a vacation.
Well,I have some shocking news for you all. I have the exact toes in the above picture, so does my mother and sisters and some of my nephews. Well I gave birth to a beautiful boy 5 years ago and he was born with six fingers on each hand and 7 toes on each feet with a lot of webbing! This was quite a shock to us, with some surgeries the extra toes have been removed, but the webbing in the feet were left, due to not necessary. Anyways, being told this is how this deformity in the gene can change and do what it wants.
Thank you very for the forum. My wife just gave birth to a lovely little boy with webbed toes - second and third toes. You can’t really tell from the top of the feet. You have to look at them from the bottom. I tried to do a search on web md about this genetic anomoly and a lot of scary syndromes came up. Is this a pretty common thing? You all seem pretty normal to me! I don’t know anyone else in my family with this condition. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sean
Hi everyone,
My son was born with webbing between the 2nd and 3rd toes on the left foot only. I don’t know anyone in mine or my husbands family who has this. He was also born with a heart condition and has had lots of genetic testing and chromosome tests which have all come back normal. The drs seem to think that because he has the webbing with a heart condition that he must have some syndrome………they don’t know which one though. I think he is fine.
I had problems early on in the pregnancy, and started to have a miscarriage at 6 weeks, and then it stopped………it was such a miracle. I feel that this caused my sons problems.
Does anyone else have it only on one toe, not on both? it seems most people have it on both feet.
I’m from Australia
Anne - anne@winarta.net
Hi everyone,
My son was born with webbing between the 2nd and 3rd toes on the left foot only. I don’t know anyone in mine or my husbands family who has this. He was also born with a heart condition and has had lots of genetic testing and chromosome tests which have all come back normal. The drs seem to think that because he has the webbing with a heart condition that he must have some syndrome………they don’t know which one though. I think he is fine.
I had problems early on in the pregnancy, and started to have a miscarriage at 6 weeks, and then it stopped………it was such a miracle. I feel that this caused my sons problems.
Does anyone else have it only on one toe, not on both? it seems most people have it on both feet.
I’m from Australia
Anneliese - anne@winarta.net
This is wonderful! I have the exact same toes as in the photo, except ‘pretty girl feet’. When I was a child, I would make up excuses in P.E. to get out of taking off my socks, (which is gross anyway.) I am almost 31 years old, and have just come to accept and love my feet in the last several years. It wasn’t until I was about 25 that I started wearing flip-flops, and I still can’t wear some styles of open-toed sandals, just because it looks goofy. I feel sorry for the people that have opted to surgically alter what they were born with, when it really isn’t such a ‘deformity’. I realized that most people don’t even notice my toes, and if even when I point them out, it takes them a second to understand what I’m talking about.
I am also of Irish decent, but I’m the only person in my family that I know of with ’stuck-toes’. I can’t swim to save my life, as I have developed a water phobia after two near-drowning incidents, but I used to be able to swim well. It’s also funny that people mentioned the toe socks… if anyone asks me ‘do they hurt?’ ‘doesn’t that feel weird’, I always reply “The only problem I have is that I can’t wear those cute stripey toe socks” (and I’ve always meant to modify a pair just for laughs!) It is somewhat ignorant of people to ask if it feels ‘weird’, what other way should they feel? This is all I know.
oh, and I was also born with a heart condition, which I outgrew. I really wonder if they are connected. Maybe we should all list our health conditions… hehe
Oh thank you so much for doing this site. I have a lovely baby granddaughter Natalie who has twin toes on both feet and we dont have anyone in our family with this “little quirk of nature”. I did worry about it, thinking it might be related to another foot disorder. At 4 months old one foot has started to arch in half way down, therefore I think we will have to seek treatment. Seeing your site,I realise the toes dont matter any more.
I am yet another person with second and third toes on both feet webbed almost all the way up, and as a child I used to be very self conscious, but now I love my fabulous toes! I was adopted, but I know that my mother was of English descent. They have no negative affect on me at all, and I would never separate them. Another famous web toe is Dan Ackroyd. Be proud, webbed ones, we are unique!
I too have webbed toes on both feet. My dad had them and my daughter has them. We are absolutely special people!
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