Alleged reports of a Mexican woman expecting nine babies has turned out to be a hoax. Local media and Mexico's main broadcaster Televisa reported Thursday evening that 32-year-old Karla Vanessa Perez Castaneda of the Northern state of Coahuila was pregnant with nine babies in her womb after she supposedly gave welfare officials evidence of a multiple pregnancy.

It was reported that Perez conceived the nine babies after having fertility treatment. Perez even gave interviews with local media. "The [c-section] delivery is scheduled for May 20, but the doctors are telling me that I could endure another month so that the babies can form completely and they don't spend too much time in the incubators," she had told local media. She had also expressed her concern for her family's financial situation.

However, health officials said yesterday that the whole story is false. When doctors carried out tests on Perez, they realized she was not even pregnant. Reasons as to why the woman fabricated the story about her pregnancy is unknown.

A newspaper official said: "She made it up. And, because the number of babies would break the world record, everyone just ran with it."

Perez has three children aged 15, 12, and 4.