A woman who discovered that she has been celebrating her birthday on the wrong day for the last 50 years is now more confused than ever.

Sandra Blackman, 53, thought it was November 10 but then she saw her birth certificate said November 11.

But now she’s looked at an old school letter that tells her she was born on November 12. Now she’s considering having a three-day party just to be sure. Well why not?

She said: ‘I’m more confused than ever before but I am still going to have a good time and a great party. The Queen has two birthdays so why can’t I have three birthdays?

‘I think it is something that runs in the family. My mum celebrated her birthday on the wrong day for 16 years.

‘My nan had a lot of kids and just got confused with the date. It turned out that her real birthday was almost a week later.’

Sandra, who has six children, added: ‘I’ve only just got used to having two birthdays so I was stunned to find out I actually have three.’

Sandra had never seen her birth certificate before because she has never held a passport or driving licence.

But when she went to get a copy earlier this year she noticed she had been celebrating her birthday wrong all her life.

It means the details on all of Sandra’s bank accounts could be wrong – as well as her children’s birth certificates as they have the incorrect date of birth for her on them.

Unfortunately, her mother died last November so she can’t check with her.

‘Everything I have, all my bank accounts and my children’s birth certificates, all say the wrong birthday on them,’ she said, speaking in February.

‘And now it all needs changing and I don’t know how much it will cost to get it all sorted.

‘But I am worried that I am going to be accused of fraud if I don’t sort it out.’

In 2006 it was claimed Sandra was branded a ‘walking social disaster’ by a doctor because of her promiscuity.

His hospital trust later apologised for the language he used.

It was also claimed she couldn’t remember the name of one of the dads of her children or her three-year-old granddaughter.

Speaking in 2006 Sandra insisted that she was a ‘good mum’.

She was 17 when she had her first child, Marcia. By the age of 21, she had three more children and had the last child, Paris, in 2004.

In 1988 Sandy, who says she conceived one child while using contraception, had daughter Misha, with

another man.

She once apparently said that the pregnancies ‘just happened’.

By 21 she’ had three more – Daryl, by one man, and Chantel, and Junior, by another.

Speaking in 2006 she said: ‘I was married to Misha’s dad, the others were sort of one-night things or accidents.’

Source:
courtesy of METRO

by Richard Hartley-Parkinson

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