An adopted woman who put talcum powder on her face in a bid to try and lighten her skin has discovered she is Native American.
Paula Stillie, 51, had a happy upbringing in Scotland after parents Joyce and Jim adopted her as a baby. She always wondered where she was from, but never suspected she was a descendent of the Comanche tribe in Oklahoma, US, and that her father had visited the UK with the US Navy.
Paula said: “I’ve always felt different. My mum and dad were lovely and very supportive and open about me being adopted. “Being adopted, you are different and mixed race makes you even more different.
Why did I have a different skin colour to my mum and dad? “I can remember an incident in the bathroom when I covered myself in talcum powder
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