'World's oldest person' shares her secrets to long life on her 127th birthday
Leandra Becerra Lumbreras is reported to have turned 127 yesterday.
Not only would that make her the world's oldest living person, it would also make her the oldest human to have lived.
Unfortunately, she lost her birth cert moving house 40 years ago so she can't prove her age.
Ms Lumbreras says she was born on August 31st, 1887. That would means she was 27 when World War I began, 58 when the Second World War ended, 82 years old when man reached the moon and reached her 100th birthday just before the Berlin Wall came down.
According to her family, she credits her long life to eating chocolate, sleeping for days on end and never getting married - which is a life plan we can definitely get behind.
Mexico's El Horizonte newspaper reports that while, sadly, she has seen all five of her children and several of her grandchildren pass away, she still has an amazing 73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren.
"She is entirely lucid. She blows your mind with her stories from the revolution," granddaughter Miriam Alvear, 43, told El Horizonte.
"She was always a woman who fought. She was still sewing and weaving until about two years ago. She never ceased to be active, that’s why we think she’s lived so long."
Authorities in Mexico are working to provide Leandra with a new birth cert. Until her age is confirmed, the title of the world's oldest living human goes to Misao Okawa who is a comparatively sprightly 116 years old.
