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Elvis was a Mamma's Boy: Famous Mother Trivia
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Obscure, and interesting information and facts about mothers.
| | The youngest mother was Lina Medina, who delivered boy in Lima, Peru in 1939, at an age of 5 years and 7 months. The child was raised as her brother and only discovered that Lina was his mother when he was 10. |
| | 2003, Satyabhama Mahapatra, 65 years old in India, became the world's oldest mother. It was her first child conceived through artificial insemination using eggs and sperm from the woman's 26-year-old niece and nephew. |
| | Bobbie McCaughey holds the record for the most surviving children from a single birth: septuplets - born in 1997. Conceived by in vitro fertilization. |
| | Jayne Bleackley holds the record for the shortest interval between two children born in separate confinements: 208 days apart. |
| | Elizabeth Ann Buttle holds the record for the longest interval between the birth of two children: 41 years 185 days apart. |
| | The highest number of children born to one mother is 69. 1725 - 1765 the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. |
| | Modern world record for giving birth is held by Leontina Albina, mother of 64, of which only 55 of them are documented. |
| | Katherine Hepburn's father was a surgeon and her mother was a dedicated suffragette and early crusader for birth control. |
| | Kim Basinger's mother had been a champion swimmer who performed water ballets in several Esther Williams movies in the 1940s. |
| | Laura Dern and mother Diane Ladd earned Oscar nominations for their role in "Rambling Rose". They became the first mother and daughter ever nominated for Academy Awards for the same movie. |
| | Madonna's mother died when she was five years old. |
| | Elvis Presley slept in the same bed with his mother until he reached puberty. Until Elvis entered high school, she walked him to school and made him take his own silverware to avoid germs. She forbade Elvis from swimming or anything that might put him in danger. The two also conversed in a strange baby talk that only they could understand. |
| | James McNeill Whistler's painting often called "Whistler's Mother" is actually titled "Arrangement in Black and Gray: The Artist's Mother." |
| | Many of the sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on his show were knitted by his real mother. |
| | Monkee Mike Nesmith's mother was the inventor of Liquid Paper correction fluid. |
| | Eric Clapton was born to an unwed mother and to shield him from the shame, Eric grew up believing that his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his sister. |
| | Hoyt Axton wrote Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World". His mother wrote "Heartbreak Hotel" for Elvis Presley. |
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