
The yellow pigment is actually amber or light brown pigment, indicating the presence of melanin in the eye. Pregnancy does all sorts of things to you, and not always the most obvious!

I can't tell the girls (who have an afro-haired half West Indian father) that their exceptionally curly hair will straighten when they have children - mine used to be very curly and now it's almost straight! - or I'll be facing teen pregnancies, as their hair is like sheepskin and a nightmare to care for even now. I prefer being the way I am now (can tan, henna my hair back to red, not so photophobic) so there you go. My eyes are darker in the iris but the golden ring never changed.
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As I had children, the melanin in my skin increased during PG as it's meant to do (you get one hell of a suntan when up the duff!) and I went from milkbottle white skin to golden brown permanently over both PG's, (don't forget that the 2nd one was a double dose of hormones) and my hair from auburn to brown. When I was a child I had blue eyes and auburn hair (my dad's mum was a redhead as was his brother and sister, he was as Mediterranean coloured as his dad).

No-one else in the family on either side has these, but my dad had eyes so black you couldn't tell the difference between the pupil and the iris and my mother very pale blue eyes (and a severe case of photophobia on the back of it!) with very dark and very pale eyes directly on both their sides, too. My children - DS, now 11, has steel grey eyes with a gold ring round his pupil, and my twin DD's (not identical) age 8, have the same grey eyes and are growing gold rings too. I have blue-grey eyes with a very visible gold ring round both pupils, too, and had it from at least my teens.
