Oldest mother wants to be mom again at age 72

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.

‘Eliza is energetic and fun — a very happy child. She is everything to me and nothing else counts or matters. The child is mine and that’s all I care about, but medically it is not impossible for me to have another child.

‘I don’t smoke and I don’t drink. If I live as long as my parents did, Eliza will be 20 by the time I pass away. I think I still have a lot to give her.’

Source: MailOnline



Oldest mother wants to be mom again at age 72


Oldest mother wants to be mom again at age 72


Oldest mother wants to be mom again at age 72