Record-breaking mother was a fraud

A Chilean woman who entered the Guinness Book of Records after claiming she had 58 children was a fraud.

A Chilean woman who entered the Guinness Book of Records after claiming she had 58 children was a fraud.

Leontina Espinoza, who died in 1988 aged 66, only gave birth to 16 children - the rest were given to her by poor women or her cousins, according to a police investigation.

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