A baby who was born with a full head of hair is already having to visit the barbers every six weeks.
Arthur Patel, 21-months-old, has been turning heads since the day of his birth due to his thick locks which his mum says leaves people shocked.
The adorable toddler , from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, has hair that wouldn't look out of place on an adult's head.
He has already had his locks professionally chopped nine times - the first time when he was just 12 weeks old - even though he's just months off his second birthday.
His mum Anna Barnard says even the midwives were surprised when he was born and people still stop her on the street to comment on her son's stunning hair.
The 33-year-old teaching assistant said: "He was born with a full head of hair.
"When I was pushing for hours, all the midwives and doctors just kept telling me: 'we can see his hair!'
"Normally the newborns need to wear a hat but they told me I didn't need to worry about that because Arthur already had quite a lot of insulation.
"Everyone was really shocked - apart from me, I think it was mother's intuition but I expected him to have a lot of hair.
"I was more surprised on how other people reacted, like 'oh my God, look at his hair'- everyone at the hospital, the midwives, anyone I came across was like 'wow'.
"It was then when I thought it's probably unusual."
She added: "I took him to the hairdresser when he was only a few months old, maybe three or four.
"The hairdressers were so surprised- now he goes to the barbers that my husband goes to because he needs a proper haircut.
"People are always shocked because he's got a lot of hair- some have even asked me if I had heartburn when I was pregnant but I didn't have any at all.
"When he was younger people thought he was a girl, purely because of the hair.
"I get stopped in the street all the time and people are always commenting on his hair."
It seems like the 'hairy' gene runs in the family, as Arthur, who was born in September 2017, has the same hair as his dad, Richard Patel, 34, a monitoring officer.
And even though as he gets older he doesn't enjoy the barbers appointment, his mum has found a trick to make it easier for him.
She added: "We know it's time to have his haircut when my mother-in-law puts a clip in his hair .
"He doesn't really like going to the hairdresser- we've found that letting him watch Peppa Pig on my phone is the only thing that works, otherwise it's quite traumatic for him.
"His hair is quite hard to tame; we put gel and try to style it.
"It's getting to that point when it starts to go in his eyes and then goes really long at the back, like a mullet."
