A logistics officer and a mother-of- 2 was horrified to discover a seemingly harmless lump on her ovary was in fact the decades old remains of her unborn 'twin'.
Jenny Kavanagh, 45, made the grim discovery after she went to the doctors to have a contraceptive coil implanted and medics insisted on an ultrasound of her ovaries due to her age.
Scans revealed a 10cm mass growing in her left ovary and concerned medics warned it could rupture and kill her at any moment.
Surgeons told her it was an undeveloped unborn twin which had grown inside her from birth - complete with face, an eye, tooth, and long black hair.
She said: