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| Ruben Noe Coronado (left) with partner |
A Spanish man is set to become the first man in the world to give birth to twins.
Transexual Ruben Noe Coronado, 25, is due to become a dad in September.
Ruben, born a woman called Stephanie, will bring the boys up with partner Esperanza Ruiz, 43. The pair plan to marry before they become parents.
The bearded American Thomas Beattie made headlines round the world last June after giving birth to daughter Susan Juliette. The 35-year-old, born Tracy Lagondino, is expecting a second child with wife Nancy this summer.
Like Beattie, Ruben is officially a man but retained his female reproductive organs.
When doctors told girlfriend Esperanza, already a mother of two, that she could not have any more children, she and Ruben decided that he should try to become pregnant with donor sperm after undergoing fertility treatment.
He plans to give birth at a hospital in Barcelona, where the couple recently moved from Malaga due to family problems.
Once he becomes a dad he will continue the sex change surgery, interrupted to enable him to fall pregnant and give birth. He is the first Spanish transexual to do so and it is thought he will become the world's first transexual father of twins if everything goes to plan.
Ruben, an epileptic who was adopted as a child, said: 'It's like being born with three hands.
'You take advantage of them while you have them and you get rid of one of them when they get in the way.'
Sparking what promises to become a bidding war for the first pictures of his pregnancy, he added: 'To protect my children I'm not going to sell my story now or in the future.
'I've gone public with this so people start to see transexual pregnancy as normal.
'But I am thinking of selling the picture everyone's going to want of me looking pregnant.
'If I don't do it, someone else will and they'll make a fortune.'
23 Mar 2009
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