Saturday - November 13, 2010

world’s oldest mother and looks it. feel sorry for the kid in a few years

Charming my aching butt.  Nothing charming that I see.  A wizened and decrepit old bat who’s selfish enough to give birth to her own old age care giver. If she’s lucky.

And I question the age she says she is. Take a look at the web page for other pix. No matter, I really think somewhere down the line the kid may pay for her mother’s ego trip.

Broody again at 72: She became the world’s oldest mother at 66. Now her little girl’s five - and she wants ANOTHER

By Helen Weathers

Charming though they look together, walking hand in hand to school, Adriana Iliescu — at 72 — looks more like her five-year-old daughter Eliza’s slightly doddery great grandparent than her mother.

Heavily lined and with dyed black hair, even she — who in January 2005 became the world’s then oldest mother — admits she looks every one of her years, if not more.

‘I try not to look in the mirror, because I don’t enjoy it,’ says Adriana, a writer and part-time ­university lecturer in Romanian literature, who lives with Eliza in a two-bedroom flat in the ­Romanian capital, Bucharest.

The mirror is unkind to women, but if we are talking about my energy then I feel like a young woman. I feel like I’m 27 and when I feel a bit more tired, I feel like I’m 37. I am healthier than women more than half my age.

‘People think they are being funny when they call me granny, but I didn’t have Eliza to make me look younger. I never feel my years.’

Could this be why, in what must surely be a ­triumph of attitude over age, Adriana is now ­defying all her critics by talking about the ­possibility of having another child?

‘Medically, it’s possible,’ she says. ‘I ­understand there are trials going on with a 70-year-old woman in England, so it could be done. I am fine and healthy and I think it would be possible to have another child in the future, but I’m not in a rush at the moment.’

Not in a rush? She’s 72! How much time does she think she has?

But her caution, she insists, has nothing to do with age, exhaustion at caring for a young child or the fear of dying. It is the love she feels for Eliza and their strong bond, that makes ­Adriana ­reluctant to test it with the ­rigours of another baby.

‘I am so close to Eliza, so bonded with her, I’m not sure I’d be able to ­consider having another child if it actually came to it,’ she says.

‘I was really tense as I wanted her to do well. I’ve invested a lot of energy into the past two years,’ she says. ‘But, Eliza makes friends and plays with them, which gives me a break.’

The result of Adriana’s complete focus on her daughter is that Eliza can already read and write and is academically advanced for her years.

She has friends and is happy, which is all that matters to Adriana, who gives not two hoots for the opinions of others.

A deeply private woman, she doesn’t like to engage in school gate tittle-­tattle and deflects questions from other mothers, curious as to how she copes or what might happen to her daughter if she dies.

Conceived via IVF, courtesy of donated sperm and eggs implanted by a Romanian fertility expert seemingly keen to make medical history, Eliza’s birth continues to divide opinion.

Her decision has been described as ‘grotesque’, ‘horrifying’ and the ­‘ultimate act of selfishness’ by ­religious and ethical groups.

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