"I have not had joy, I think, since I was born."
Leave it to Americans to keep breaking world records!
After immigrating to America from Uganda at age 12 Mariam had her first child. The father of her first child was age 40 at the time.
At age 39, with 44 children, Mariam is currently on government assistance as her husband left her 3 years ago.
A year after having her first child at age 12, she had her first set of twins at age 13.
She's had 3 sets of quadruplets.
She's had 4 sets of triplets
She's had 6 sets of twins.
By age 25 she'd had 23 kids.
By age 36 she has given birth to 21 more children.
Detroit immigrant named world's most fertile woman had 44 kids by 36 - and she's raising them alone