Shilah Pepin, known to the public as “Mermaid Girl,” suffers from sirenomelia, a condition found in one out of ever 100,000 births. Sirenomelia has left Shilah’s two legs fused together and without a bladder, uterus, colon or vagina.
Told by doctors that Shiloh would survive only a few months, two surgeries later Shilah is still functioning and enjoying a young childhood. At age ten, she now attends the Consolidated Elementary School, making her the single survivor of sirenomelia not to undergo surgery to separate her conjoined legs.
