Octomum Mandy Allwood, who stunned the world when she announced she was expecting octuplets before she lost them all at 24 weeks, has died aged 56 after a cancer battle.
Her announcement that she would be having eight children with Paul Hudson, her boyfriend at 31, made headlines around the world.
However, the six children, two of them girls, were not able to survive after being born three days and three night ago.
Octomum Mandy Allwood (pictured in 2018), who shocked the entire world by announcing she was pregnant with octuplets, but lost all of them at 24 weeks.
Her 1996 announcement that she would be having eight children with Paul Hudson made her global news (pictured).
Following the deaths in Kypros, Adam and Martyn, Cassius and Nelson’s deaths, Donald, Kitali, Donald, Donald, Kitali, and Kitali, there was an outpouring from grief that led Mandy to appear on Oprah for lunch with Princess Diana.
After splitting with Paul, she was unable to accept her loss. She spiralled into depression and attempted suicide.
Also, she suffered from phantom pregnancies and claimed that she still felt babies kickin’ inside of her daily.
In 2008 she hit an all-time low. She would drink wine every morning, ordering taxis to transport her, and even order more when her driving license was suspended.
Her attempts to kill herself were unsuccessful on two occasions.
Ms Allwood is due to be cremated on Friday morning in a service in Stratford-upon-Avon funded by her local council with no mourners present.
The Sun learned from her family that they won’t be there.
After the tragedy she was left unable to cope with it all and plunged into depression, suicide attempts, and an addiction to alcohol. PicturedL is the neglected grave for the octuplets
Her friend, Mark Beard, 58, the landlord of the Yard of Ale pub, said: ‘She had been struggling with cancer for a while and had an operation before Christmas but told us recently that it had come back. I do not know the type of cancer.
Mark said Mandy would pop in to his pub twice a week and ‘was a bit eccentric and nutty but that’s why we loved her’.
He told her that she will be remembered by a dozen friends who raise glasses to her.
Oprah Winfrey invited her to appear on their show, and she even got a message from Princess Diana.
Prior to the tragedy, Mrs Allwood was blessed with a son named Charlie from a failed marriage.
After longing to have children with her new partner Paul, and experiencing repeated miscarriages she began taking fertility drugs.
There were claims that Mrs. Allwood had refused medical advice and undergone fertility treatment.
But Mrs Allwood, who had three children herself, always denied the allegations and stated that she shared her story to help other women who’ve experienced miscarriage.
She said that she used to be angry when people judged her because she decided not to have any foetuses aborted to preserve the lives of others.
Kypros and Adam, Martyns, Cassius, Nelson Nelson, Donald Kitali, Kitali, Donald, Kitali, Donald, Kitali, Donald, Kitali, Donald, Kitali, Donald, Kitali, Donald, Kitali, Layne, all of them died in less than an hour after being born
At the Ritz and Dorchester, in London, Princess Diana was twice met by Mrs Allwood. in later October 1996 where they would chat about their struggles with depression, a year before the royal’s death.
She stated, “She hugged me and showed me lots support.”
“When she first met me, she told me that I had kept her off the top pages.
“We spoke about my depression and panic attacks, and she said she was there.” She talked about Charles and Camilla, and we also discussed her family.
Diana was contacted by her five weeks later, when she sent an invitation to lunch.
They were private meetings and Mrs. Allwood wasn’t allowed to exchange numbers or take photos.