Four-Legged Girl from Texas

Josephine Myrtle Corbin (May 12, 1868 in Lincoln County, Tennessee – May 6, 1928 in Cleburne, Texas) was born a dipygus. This referred to the fact that she had two separate pelvises side by side from the waist down, as a result of her body axis splitting as it developed. Each of her smaller inner legs was paired with one of her outer legs. She was said to be able to move her inner legs, but they were too weak for walking.

Corbin entered the sideshow circuit with the moniker "Four-Legged Girl from Texas" when she was 13 years old. One of her first promotional pamphlets described her as being as "gentle of disposition as the summer sunshine and as happy as the day is long."

Her popularity in this industry was such that other showmen turned to exhibiting four-legged gaffs (falsified performances) and once Corbin herself was no longer performing, there were several phony four-legged women to whom audiences could turn.

At the age of 19 she married Clinton Bicknell, and she would go on to give birth to four daughters and a son.

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