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How long would you have been fooled by this woman?

Asked by keobooks (14327points) January 19th, 2015

This woman claimed to be pregnant with quintuplets by her boyfriend. Thirty weeks later, there were no babies. I keep thinking there had to be some red flags up at some point that the pregnancy was a hoax. I would have been especially suspicious if she made it over thirty weeks with no problems while pregnant with quintuplets.

So when would you have figured out the pregnancy was a hoax? How long would you have gone along with it?

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Cruiser's avatar

The second she told me I couldn’t attend the ultrasound.

dappled_leaves's avatar

What @Cruiser said. He had to be remarkably uninterested in the pregnancy to not have attended any ultrasound (and for quintuplets – who wouldn’t have questions for the doctor?) or seen a photograph from the ultrasound. Pretty hard to fake a photo of five fetuses. Why didn’t he want to see a photo if he couldn’t be present? These people both sound a little crazy to me.

keobooks's avatar

Here is another famous story about a man fooled by a fake pregnancy. This guy thought he fathered a baby, but the mother was actually a man. He was with his partner so many years and had no idea of his gender. I guess he didn’t understand where babies came from either.

Here2_4's avatar

I have heard the expression “Kept in the dark”, but that takes it to a new realm! Some things, I would think, requires no light to know.

keobooks's avatar

I just found a *picture and short bio of the man who pretended to be a woman and also pretended to give birth. NOT AT ALL feminine looking, IMO, even with the tons of makeup he wore. The guy had to have been pretty desperate to fall for that disguise.

*the link may have you click to agree to go into the site and view questionable content, but there’s nothing questionable in the link.

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