Tunis, Tunisia, Aug 19, 2009 / 14:04 pm
A Tunisian woman who attracted global attention when she claimed she was pregnant with twelve babies has been exposed as a fraud by her country’s health ministry.
The 34-year-old woman, only known as AF, told medics in her home town of Gafsa that she was due to give birth to six boys and six girls later this month, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The Tunisian health ministry investigated her case and found that she has “psychological problems and is unlikely even to be pregnant.”
“Our staff interviewed her at length, but even her pregnancy appears to be in her imagination,” a ministry spokesman told The Telegraph.