For a few weeks in 2007 she was the most famous little girl in the world. This BodyShock Special tells the story of Lakshmi Tatma, the girl with eight limbs. Two-year-old Lakshmi was born with one of the world’s rarest physical abnormalities. Joined at the pelvis to her half-formed conjoined twin, she has four arms and four legs.

In her remote Indian village she is revered as a living god. With exclusive access, this film follows Lakshmi’s family on an epic emotional journey from their rural home to a hospital in Bangalore where her parents must decide whether to proceed with potentially life-threatening surgery to remove her extra limbs.

Tuesday 19 February 2008 9PM, Channel 4