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Josephine Waas, better known by stage name of Josephine Joseph or Josephine-Joseph was an American performer who was prominent in circus sideshows and the carnival circuits. She is best known however for her only film role in the Tod Browning, pre-code production Freaks in 1932. Her body was supposedly split down the middle, one side female and the other male. She claimed to be a true hermaphrodite, but there is no evidence to confirm whether this was the case or not; she may have just been a very skilled impersonator, in the style of Albert Alberta Karas.