A mum was shocked when her children were born with red hair despite both parents being brunette - and says people joke the mailman must be their dad. Jessica Enslow, 48, is mum to seven kids and the youngest three, who are her current husband's, have glowing red locks.
According to Jessica, people can't believe she and her brown-haired husband, Rob, 44, a technology management consultant, are their parents. She said she constantly gets jokes that flame-haired Lincoln, 13, Alexis, 11, and Eli, nine, must actually be the mailman's - with the couple receiving comments multiple times a day both in person and online.
But the parents are so used to it that they no longer even notice. Jessica, from Salt Lake City, Utah, US, said: "When our little boy was born with red hair it took us by surprise.