Trip At 66

The children are Bhateri Devi’s first delivery. “I wanted to have a family,” she told the media. “Before I didn’t have any children, even at this age, that’s why I gave birth to these children.”

In 2008, another Indian woman, 70-year-old Omkari Pawal, became the oldest woman in the world to give birth to twins. She dismissed the media hoopla at the time, saying, “If I am the world’s oldest mother it means nothing to me. I just want to see my new babies and care for them while I am still able.”