Great-Granny pregnancy hoax

[flygal]

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/04/pregnant.hoax.ap/index.html

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SYLVESTER, Georgia (AP) -- A 59-year-old great-grandmother who claimed in an Associated Press story last year that she was pregnant with twins admitted Tuesday that she is not.

Frances Harris' claim gained widespread attention after the rural Sylvester, Georgia, woman and her family told her story the same week that a 56-year-old woman gave birth to twins in New York.

"To the surprise of even her family, it was recently discovered that Harris is not pregnant with twins," Harris said in a statement distributed Tuesday by her 39-year-old son, Fred Jackson.

"Due to some personal issues that are still being evaluated, Mrs. Harris believed that she was pregnant with twins and was able to convince her family and friends that she was expecting as well."