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No Shuffleboard For This Retiree
Category: Gaming The System
Some have been known to lie about their age to be served alcohol. Others have added a few years to join the military. Then, there are the retirees who just want to have a baby.
A 67-year-old woman who is believed to be the world's oldest new mother told a British Sunday newspaper she lied to a U.S. fertility clinic -- saying she was 55 -- to get treatment.
World's oldest new mom lied to clinic
Carmela Bousada said in her first interview since she gave birth to twin boys on Dec. 29 that she sold her house in Spain to raise $59,000 to pay for in vitro fertilization at a California clinic, The News of the World reported."I think everyone should become a mother at the right time for them," Bousada said in a video of the interview provided to Associated Press Television News.
"Often circumstances put you between a rock and a hard place and maybe things shouldn't have been done in the way they were done but that was the only way to achieve the thing I had always dreamed of and I did it," she said.
Bousada turned 67 this month but said she told the Pacific Fertility Center in Los Angeles she was 55 -- the clinic's cut off for treating single women, the report said. She said the clinic did not ask her for identification.
Dr. Vicken Sahakian, the clinic's medical director, confirmed late Saturday that he treated Bousada, but said clinic procedures would have required her to provide her passport.
"I did not know that she was 66," Sahakian told The Associated Press, declining to comment on her case further. "We do check identity."
Bousada now hopes to find a younger husband to help raise her two sons, Pau and Christian, the newspaper said.
What Carmela needs is a 20-something man who has always wanted a great grandmother.
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