Grandmother to have baby with own grandson

A grandmother has shocked her friends and family after revealing she is having a baby with her own grandson.

The couple are 46 years apart in age.

Seventy-two-year-old Pearl Carter said she had never been happier, after beginning a relationship with her 26-year-old grandchild Phil Bailey.

The pensioner, from Indiana, US, is using her pension to pay a surrogate mother so that they can have a child, according to New Zealand's New Idea magazine.

Her lover is the son of Pearl's daughter Lynette Bailey, who she put up for adoption when she was 18 years old.

When his mother passed away, Phil tracked down his long-lost grandmother and they quickly fell in love.