Cancer
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara/Cause of death

Yerramatti Mangayamma became the ‘world’s oldest mum’ in 2019 after giving birth to twins at the age of 73 but she is now raising her twins on her own as her husband Raja, 84, died of a heart attack.

July 11, 2009
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara/Date of death

Deceased (1940–2009)
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara/Living or Deceased

Rajo, who lives in the remote village of Hissar, India, with Naveen, her husband Ballo and his second, younger wife Umi, said: ‘The only reason I am still alive in spite of my illness is Naveen. She is a gift to me from God and until I get her married I cannot afford to die.

69 years (1940–2009)
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara/Age at death

Carman (singer)

Although pregnancy is possible in postmenopausal women with hormone support but the incidence of complications remain very high. It raises a need for developing well-laid guidelines for performing in vitro fertilization in older age group women.

Maria del Carmen Bousada, a single mother and retired sales assistant from Cádiz, southern Spain, leaves behind her orphan sons, Pau and Christian. It was unclear who would look after them.

She gave birth to twin baby boys on the 29th or the 30th of December 2006, Christian and Pau in the Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona. They were delivered prematurely by caesarean section and weighed 3.5 lb (1.6 kg) each.

Maria del Carmen Bousada reportedly died on Saturday aged 69. She had given birth in December 2006 as a single mother after IVF treatment. At the time, Bousada told an interviewer she had lied about her age to a California fertility clinic.

Bousada became pregnant after repeated visits to a fertility clinic in Los Angeles, where she lied about her age. She told the Pacific Fertility Clinic that she was 55, the cut-off age. Bousada sold her apartment to pay for the treatment, which she did not start until her own mother, for whom she cared, had died.