An America woman named Catherine Bridges has been reported to have been delivered of seventeen babies at once at a fertility clinic in Rhodes Island breaking a world record with the only woman who has given birth to seventeen children in 29 hours
The wife and husband were reported to have been trying to have a child for many years, the couple decided to use medical assistance from a fertility clinic and got an entire litter of seventeen identical boys.
This report also claims that the parents chose the following names for their boys: James, Jacob, Jarod, Jarvis, Jason, Jeffrey, Jeremy, Jerome, Jesse, Jimmy, Joachim, Jonathan, Jonas, Joseph, Julian, Jimbo and surprisingly, Darth Porkinus.
Don’t be fooled. This report is not true. This report is making rounds and unsuspecting people are believing it. The claims in the report are utter nonsense and the image is photoshopped.
The first time this report was shared was in 2014. Yes, 2014! The story was originally published by the notorious fictional-news website, World News Daily Report back in January 2014.
Many news sites copied the news and since then it has been revised and shared by different news sites. See a sample of when it was shared in 2016:
When it was first shared by World News Daily Report back in January 2014, there was a Disclaimer which was not obvious to readers. The disclaimer reads:
WNDR assumes however all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purely a miracle.
For the record, Hoax-Slayer reports that the highest number of babies born to one mother at one time is nine (Nonuplets). In 1971, a woman in Australia gave birth to 9 babies, but none of the babies lived more than six days. Then, in 1999, a woman in Malaysia also gave birth to 9 babies, but all died within 6 hours of birth.
So, no one should believe the ‘miraculous’ story that a woman gave birth to 17 babies at a time. The image was photoshopped.
