In a story that sounds straight out of a medical miracle book, Park Mi-sun, a 58-year-old woman from South Korea, has stunned the world by giving birth to healthy twins — 12 years after menopause.
Park’s extraordinary journey to motherhood began after more than two decades of heartbreak and hope. Married in 1985, she faced years of infertility and eventually went through menopause at 45. Most would have given up — but not Park.
According to reports by The Korea Times and Maeil Kyungje, Park decided to transform her life in her 50s — switching to a strict plant-based diet, quitting coffee and fried foods, and exercising daily. Two years later, doctors were astonished to find her body’s biological age had dropped to the equivalent of a 38-year-old woman.
That transformation opened the door to one final try at motherhood through IVF treatment — and against all odds, it worked.
In September 2012, Park gave birth by C-section at Asan Medical Center in Seoul to a baby boy and a girl, weighing 2.23 kg and 2.63 kg. Both babies were healthy, making Park the oldest recorded mother in South Korea at the time.
Her story has resurfaced this year(2025) after Park appeared on a Korean TV (tvN) program, sharing her emotional journey and revealing that her twins, now in their early teens, are thriving.
“I never lost faith,” she told viewers. “I believed that if my heart was young, my body would follow.”
The case has reignited debate across Asia about the limits of fertility science and the emotional pull of motherhood at any age. But for many, Park Mi-sun’s story isn’t about controversy — it’s about courage, persistence, and the boundless hope for motherhood.
Source: tvN