Remember last year when that 66-year-old unmarried Spanish woman gave birth to twin boys and became the world’s oldest mother? And a lot of people were outraged or disgusted or both? She’s too old! What kind of life can she give these boys! They’ll be orphaned before they’re out of diapers!
Well. Bad news.
She has cancer.
Now, Mama Carmen is not all up in arms. She was diagnosed when her sons were four months old. She’s getting treatments, believes she’ll survive it, thinks her cancer is “fashionable” (?!) right now. And those boys that everyone was worried about? Apparently her brother and her nephew and the kids’ godfather are not only on stand-by if the worst-case scenario were to come true, but they’re also helping her out now and have been since she came home from the hospital with the little squealers.
Her battle with cancer was revealed on a Spanish talk show, and audience members were still angry with the never-married woman for undergoing IVF in the U.S. and coming back pregnant. Some called her selfish and irresponsible, as experts did when she gave birth seven days before she turned 67 years old.
The woman’s a fighter, you have to give her that. She says she had always wanted to be a mother, but never married and gave much of her life over to working retail and taking care of her mother, who died at the age of 101. Once retired and free, Carmen decided to make her move, with or without a husband, with or without functioning ovaries. After Spanish doctors told her she was too old to undergo fertility treatments, she sold her apartment in Spain, cooked up some fake documents and came to the U.S. posing as a 55-year-old.
A fertility doctor in L.A. first reversed the menopause she had undergone 18 years before. Then implanted the donor egg of a brunette that had been fertilized by the sperm of a blond-haired, blue-eyed Italian-American’s sperm.
The results, as we all know, where 3.5-pounders Cristian and Pau and a whole lot of hand-wringing over grannies getting pregnant.
Photo: Solarpix via Daily Mail
