Post by eyecandy on Jan 20, 2008 20:48:44 GMT -5
World's oldest mother, 66, who lied about her age to get IVF, is 'stricken by cancer'
After becoming the world's oldest mother at the age of 66, Carmen Bousada brushed off criticism by saying she was as fit as she had ever been.
But yesterday, with her twin boys less than three weeks from their first birthday, she admitted that her health has taken a severe turn for the worse.
Miss Bousada said she was being treated for "a very serious illness" - reported to be cancer - raising the possibility that her babies will be left as orphans.
The retired shop worker, now 67, has never married and has no partner. News of her condition yesterday reignited the debate about pensioner mothers.
Miss Bousada, who comes from Spain, travelled to the US, where she lied about her age - saying that she was 55 - to receive IVF treatment at the Pacific Fertility Center in Los Angeles. She gave birth to Christian and Pau in Barcelona on December 29 last year.
Yesterday she told a Spanish television show: "I have been presented with an illness, a very serious illness."
She would not reveal what it was but added: "It is one which is fashionable at the moment."
Some observers said this suggested either breast cancer - of which Kylie Minogue was a victim - or intestinal cancer, which is afflicting Farrah Fawcett.
Miss Bousada added: "I am having treatment and that, but I'm well. The little ones are beautiful, very chubby, very big.
"I have a girl who helps me look after the children. I am always there for them. I always have help." She said if she dies the children will be looked after by her nephew or their godfather, whom she did not name.
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