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THE pensioner who has become the world's oldest mum has showed off her twin babies for the first time and confessed: "I CONNED doctors I was younger."
In an exclusive News of the World interview, 67-year-old spinster Carmela Bousada tells the full amazing story of WHY she was so desperate to bring new life into the world when she's so close to the end of her own.
And she sensationally reveals HOW she secretly plotted to get pregnant whatever the cost.
With freshly dyed hair and heavy make-up, she cuddled her four-week-old sons Pau and Christian and vowed defiantly:
"Everyone has to have children at the right time for them. This was the right time for me. It was something I always dreamed of."
First-time mum Carmela, who gave birth seven days before her 67th birthday, revealed that she:
LIED to doctors in the US that she was only 55 to get fertility treatment.
SPENT her £30,000 life savings and flew across the world several times.
BOUGHT donor eggs and sperm by choosing from a catalogue.
LAST had sex more than 10 years ago.
HAD her last period an astonishing 18 years ago, and is
HUNTING for a younger husband to be a father to the babies.
She has only now taken her seven-weeks-premature sons home to her one-bedroom flat... after three weeks in hospital.
And she said: "I've wanted children for a very long time. Now finally I have two perfect boys. People are entitled to their opinions, but they shouldn't judge me."
Carmela — who comes from Cadiz, Spain, and worked all her life until she retired for the Spanish equivalent of Marks & Spencer — decided to pursue her dream of having children after her elderly mum died in 2005.
Inspired by magazine stories of older women giving birth, she sold the house they had shared for £30,000 and flew to America several times to find a doctor who would treat her.
Incredibly, she managed to convince a private clinic, the Pacific Fertility Center in Los Angeles, that she was 55 — the cut-off age for their IVF programme.
Carmela said: "They didn't ask for my age or my passport. I may look tired now but before the births I did look slim and a lot younger.
"No one at home knew what I was doing. I told a few girlfriends that I loved the idea of having a baby, but none of them took me seriously. They thought it was impossible."
Doctors gave Carmela a medical and started her on a course of hormone treatment to reverse the menopause and prepare her dormant womb for artificial insemination with donor egg and sperm.
She said: "It was very strange having periods again after all that time. I went through the change at 49. I can't say I liked having PMS again and all the mood swings and stomach cramps."
Carmela, who speaks little English, went home to Spain to allow her body to get used to its new state before flying back to LA last May for the final stages of the process.
There, in a sterile doctor's office, she chose the donor parents — eggs from a pretty, brown-haired 18-year-old and sperm from a blond, blue-eyed Italian-American.
She recalled: "I picked them from photos in a catalogue. It was a bit like studying an estate agent's brochure and choosing a house. I wasn't bothered about what sort of jobs they had or how much they earned as long as they were healthy. I picked people who were different looking as I wanted a mixture.
"I wasn't scared of being pregnant at my age. I wasn't frightened. The doctors said I was very brave. It cost me £30,000 for the treatment — it's a lot of money, but worth every penny."
Medics fertilised the eggs, then inseminated her with the three healthiest.
Carmela added: "I was surprised the insemination was actually so easy. It only took a minute. I remember thinking, ‘How can this be making me pregnant?'
"I didn't think it would ever be so straightforward."
Ten days later back in Spain she received the news she had been waiting for. She said: "A nurse from the clinic phoned and said, ‘Congratulations, Carmela you're pregnant!'
"I couldn't believe it. I was shocked, stunned. It worked on the first go. I was happy, happy, happy."
A few weeks later, the senior citizen went for her first scan at a hospital in Madrid and saw her babies for the first time.
One of the embryos had not taken, but the monitor detected two little heartbeats.
Carmela said: "I felt an amazing sense of calm wash over me. Until I was pregnant, I felt I would never find peace. They looked like tiny acorns on the screen. My dream had come true."
When she was two months pregnant, she finally told her friends and family.
She revealed: "At first they thought I was joking. Then they were completely blown away and they wanted to know why I hadn't told them before."
As her bump grew, Carmela got some shocked glances from people in the street.
The OAP mum-to-be prepared for the birth like any other parent but struggled in the ante-natal classes.
She said: "I went to a few classes in Barcelona, but my legs were so swollen up through water retention I couldn't do the exercises.
"I had morning sickness of course, I even lost blood at one stage. Another time I fell over in the supermarket and had to go to hospital. I took lots of vitamin and iron supplements."
Doctors put her on a high protein diet to build up her strength as the pregnancy sapped her body of nutrients. But six months into the pregnancy, Carmela's health took a turn for the worse.
She started to swell up so much with water retention that medical staff feared her kidneys were failing.
"And they found via blood tests that my body wasn't retaining protein and the babies were sapping what little I did have," she said.
"Doctors stabilised me and held off for as long as they could so the babies could grow as much as possible before giving me a caesarean." Her condition was so serious as she went into labour that medics summoned close family to her bedside, fearing the worst.
But on December 29 the twins were born without problem —although they both needed to spend time in an incubator.
Carmela smiled: "When doctors said they had to make an incision for the caesarean I told them, ‘Make it really low so that I can still wear a bikini'. The nurse joked, ‘Don't worry, you'll still be able to wear sexy pants!'
"It was pretty easy — almost as if they were just lifting watermelons out of my stomach — and it was over quickly. Pau was the first to come out. Three minutes later his brother was born.
"The doctors laid Pau next to me and I gave him a kiss on the head. And then Christian came out and I thought, ‘Oh my god he's ugly!'
"He was full of gunk. In fact, they were both a bit gunky and looked like little shrimps."
The babies, due on February 8, were so small they were fed via tubes. Pau was 3lb 7oz and Christian 3lb 5oz, but they soon began to thrive.
Carmela said: "Pau was named after the hospital in Barcelona where he was born and I chose the name Christian after hearing it on American TV. I think it was on the Oscars."
The birth put Carmela into the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest mum — 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth to daughter Eliza in January 2005.
In Britain there is currently no upper age limit for assisted reproduction, but most private clinics stop at 45 and on the NHS it's 39.
A spokesman at the Pacific Fertility Center said: "We do not speak about ou
THE pensioner who has become the world's oldest mum has showed off her twin babies for the first time and confessed: "I CONNED doctors I was younger."
In an exclusive News of the World interview, 67-year-old spinster Carmela Bousada tells the full amazing story of WHY she was so desperate to bring new life into the world when she's so close to the end of her own.
And she sensationally reveals HOW she secretly plotted to get pregnant whatever the cost.
With freshly dyed hair and heavy make-up, she cuddled her four-week-old sons Pau and Christian and vowed defiantly:
"Everyone has to have children at the right time for them. This was the right time for me. It was something I always dreamed of."
First-time mum Carmela, who gave birth seven days before her 67th birthday, revealed that she:
LIED to doctors in the US that she was only 55 to get fertility treatment.
SPENT her £30,000 life savings and flew across the world several times.
BOUGHT donor eggs and sperm by choosing from a catalogue.
LAST had sex more than 10 years ago.
HAD her last period an astonishing 18 years ago, and is
HUNTING for a younger husband to be a father to the babies.
She has only now taken her seven-weeks-premature sons home to her one-bedroom flat... after three weeks in hospital.
And she said: "I've wanted children for a very long time. Now finally I have two perfect boys. People are entitled to their opinions, but they shouldn't judge me."
Carmela — who comes from Cadiz, Spain, and worked all her life until she retired for the Spanish equivalent of Marks & Spencer — decided to pursue her dream of having children after her elderly mum died in 2005.
Inspired by magazine stories of older women giving birth, she sold the house they had shared for £30,000 and flew to America several times to find a doctor who would treat her.
Incredibly, she managed to convince a private clinic, the Pacific Fertility Center in Los Angeles, that she was 55 — the cut-off age for their IVF programme.
Carmela said: "They didn't ask for my age or my passport. I may look tired now but before the births I did look slim and a lot younger.
"No one at home knew what I was doing. I told a few girlfriends that I loved the idea of having a baby, but none of them took me seriously. They thought it was impossible."
Doctors gave Carmela a medical and started her on a course of hormone treatment to reverse the menopause and prepare her dormant womb for artificial insemination with donor egg and sperm.
She said: "It was very strange having periods again after all that time. I went through the change at 49. I can't say I liked having PMS again and all the mood swings and stomach cramps."
Carmela, who speaks little English, went home to Spain to allow her body to get used to its new state before flying back to LA last May for the final stages of the process.
There, in a sterile doctor's office, she chose the donor parents — eggs from a pretty, brown-haired 18-year-old and sperm from a blond, blue-eyed Italian-American.
She recalled: "I picked them from photos in a catalogue. It was a bit like studying an estate agent's brochure and choosing a house. I wasn't bothered about what sort of jobs they had or how much they earned as long as they were healthy. I picked people who were different looking as I wanted a mixture.
"I wasn't scared of being pregnant at my age. I wasn't frightened. The doctors said I was very brave. It cost me £30,000 for the treatment — it's a lot of money, but worth every penny."
Medics fertilised the eggs, then inseminated her with the three healthiest.
Carmela added: "I was surprised the insemination was actually so easy. It only took a minute. I remember thinking, ‘How can this be making me pregnant?'
"I didn't think it would ever be so straightforward."
Ten days later back in Spain she received the news she had been waiting for. She said: "A nurse from the clinic phoned and said, ‘Congratulations, Carmela you're pregnant!'
"I couldn't believe it. I was shocked, stunned. It worked on the first go. I was happy, happy, happy."
A few weeks later, the senior citizen went for her first scan at a hospital in Madrid and saw her babies for the first time.
One of the embryos had not taken, but the monitor detected two little heartbeats.
Carmela said: "I felt an amazing sense of calm wash over me. Until I was pregnant, I felt I would never find peace. They looked like tiny acorns on the screen. My dream had come true."
When she was two months pregnant, she finally told her friends and family.
She revealed: "At first they thought I was joking. Then they were completely blown away and they wanted to know why I hadn't told them before."
As her bump grew, Carmela got some shocked glances from people in the street.
The OAP mum-to-be prepared for the birth like any other parent but struggled in the ante-natal classes.
She said: "I went to a few classes in Barcelona, but my legs were so swollen up through water retention I couldn't do the exercises.
"I had morning sickness of course, I even lost blood at one stage. Another time I fell over in the supermarket and had to go to hospital. I took lots of vitamin and iron supplements."
Doctors put her on a high protein diet to build up her strength as the pregnancy sapped her body of nutrients. But six months into the pregnancy, Carmela's health took a turn for the worse.
She started to swell up so much with water retention that medical staff feared her kidneys were failing.
"And they found via blood tests that my body wasn't retaining protein and the babies were sapping what little I did have," she said.
"Doctors stabilised me and held off for as long as they could so the babies could grow as much as possible before giving me a caesarean." Her condition was so serious as she went into labour that medics summoned close family to her bedside, fearing the worst.
But on December 29 the twins were born without problem —although they both needed to spend time in an incubator.
Carmela smiled: "When doctors said they had to make an incision for the caesarean I told them, ‘Make it really low so that I can still wear a bikini'. The nurse joked, ‘Don't worry, you'll still be able to wear sexy pants!'
"It was pretty easy — almost as if they were just lifting watermelons out of my stomach — and it was over quickly. Pau was the first to come out. Three minutes later his brother was born.
"The doctors laid Pau next to me and I gave him a kiss on the head. And then Christian came out and I thought, ‘Oh my god he's ugly!'
"He was full of gunk. In fact, they were both a bit gunky and looked like little shrimps."
The babies, due on February 8, were so small they were fed via tubes. Pau was 3lb 7oz and Christian 3lb 5oz, but they soon began to thrive.
Carmela said: "Pau was named after the hospital in Barcelona where he was born and I chose the name Christian after hearing it on American TV. I think it was on the Oscars."
The birth put Carmela into the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest mum — 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth to daughter Eliza in January 2005.
In Britain there is currently no upper age limit for assisted reproduction, but most private clinics stop at 45 and on the NHS it's 39.
A spokesman at the Pacific Fertility Center said: "We do not speak about ou
