Guide Note

The Girl With Eight Limbs is a National Geographic documentary about Lakshmi Tatma, a girl born with the limbs of her parasitic twin attached to her body. In 2007, Tatma underwent a successful surgery to remove the extra limbs.

Fast Facts

1. Station: National Geographic Channel
2. Date: Sunday, June 22, 2008
3. Time: 9:00 p.m.
4. Follows the life and story of the family of Lakshmi Tatma
5. Explains her condition
6. Interviews and footage of her family
7. Report on her successful surgery
8. Interview with her surgeons
9. Born in 2005
10. Parasitic twin's limbs were attached to Tatma's body
11. Appeared as if she had four arms and four legs
12. Named after Lakshmi the Hindu goddess who had four arms
13. Lakshmi Tatma had surgery in 2007