Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado (; ; born 23 September 1933)

Early life and development

Lina Medina was born in 1933 in Ticrapo, Castrovirreyna Province, Peru, to parents Tiburelo Medina, a silversmith, and Victoria Losea. She was one of nine children. Doctors originally thought she had a tumor but then determined that she was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr. Gerardo of the Lozada family had specialists in Lima confirm the pregnancy.

There was widespread interest in the case. The San Antonio Light newspaper in Texas reported in its 16 July 1939 edition that a Peruvian obstetrician and midwife association had demanded she be admitted to a national maternity hospital, and quoted reports in the Peruvian paper La Crónica that an American film studio had sent a representative "with authority to offer the sum of $5,000 to benefit the minor" in return for filming rights, but "we know that the offer was rejected". The article noted that Lozada had made films of Medina for scientific documentation and had shown them while addressing Peru's National Academy of Medicine. Some of the films had fallen into a river on a visit to the girl's hometown, but enough remained to "intrigue the learned savants". or two and a half. Gerardo grew up healthy, but died in 1979 at the age of 40 from bone marrow disease.

Identity of the father

Medina has never revealed the identity of the father nor the circumstances of her impregnation. Escomel suggests that she might not know herself, as she "couldn't give precise responses". She married and had a second son in 1972. In 2002, she refused an interview with Reuters,

There is only one published photograph documenting the case. It was taken around the beginning of April 1939, when Medina was seven and a half months into pregnancy. Taken from her left side, it shows her standing naked in front of a neutral backdrop. It is the only published photograph taken during her pregnancy.

See also

  • Mum-Zi – Youngest known grandmother (1875/1876 – unknown)

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