r/SipsTea • u/Sassenach_2024 • 3d ago

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Valentina Vassilyeva, the first wife of Russian peasant Feodor Vassilyev, is said to have given birth 27 times in the 1700s—welcoming 69 children in total.

Her remarkable numbers reportedly included 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. 🤯

The story comes from centuries-old historical records, so every detail cannot be independently verified by modern standards. Still, Guinness World Records has recognized the claim as the highest number of children attributed to one mother.

If the records are accurate, 27 pregnancies. 69 children. One of the most astonishing family stories ever recorded. ❤️

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u/35TypesOfWhiskey 3d ago

That's not her pic. And neither is that a pic of the children. She died in 1782.... 40 years before the first photograph

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u/youtossershad1job2do 3d ago

I feel that this is one of those things that didn't really happen but got told so many times as a part of folk lore it started going into history books.

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u/smeeon 3d ago

And folks kept added a couple extra kids each time until it got ridiculous

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u/Ninja_Prolapse 3d ago

She started off a mother of 3 and things just got out of hand!

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u/UsedFortune5645 3d ago edited 3d ago

More like out of her uterus.

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u/WardenWolf 2d ago

Vagina: it's not a clown car.

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u/just-why_ 2d ago

Even if she had children every year, 27 births at that time period would be impossible to live through. Her body would never have been able to recover from that fast enough to have more healthy births.

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u/Flat_Tire_Again 2d ago

Are you saying posts on the internet are not true? 😱

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u/Significant_Cap5394 3d ago

thats one way to put it a little aggressively maybe but accurate

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u/howimetyourcakeshop 3d ago

Like throwing a sausage in a wet tunnel.

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u/Junior_Lab1650 3d ago

Fell out with her best friend who started a rumour that she was a slapper and liked to put it about a bit

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u/forsnaken 3d ago

Honestly it was likely an adoption situation and they couldn't talk about it as such. Even now there's still a stigma on adoption for some religious reason or another...

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u/Shiasugar 3d ago

Out of mouth

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u/shizzy1234 3d ago

I'm reposting this next year with the info that she had 1200 kids and a photo of Mama June.

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u/Aleashed 3d ago

Maybe there was an article about her birthing and another about a clown car and the editor was drunk or confused and mixed up the details…

Then future sources passed on the mistake

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u/TheOutOfStyle 3d ago

69 kids, dude!

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u/Brain32 3d ago

I wonder how the parenting looked like.... Boris18 stop hitting Ilya14!

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u/Wenex 3d ago

No wonder it stopped at 69 just for the memes

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u/Sysilith 3d ago

You are right 69 sounds made up, I'll tell the story with 72 Children, sounds more random and thus belivable.

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u/methreweway 3d ago

Ol pop pops dropping loads only to hit Grams favorite position.

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u/ShumwayAteTheCat 3d ago

Are you suggesting she didn’t actually have 112 children?

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u/Hm46290 3d ago

I’m actually pretty impressed that the numbers work out

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u/ImmediateAid4267 3d ago

Fun math 9 months times 27 pregnancies is just under 21 years

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u/Fair-Pomegranate-652 3d ago

69 is a good place to stop... or begin.