They say that when 23-year-old Rifca Stanescu of Investi, Romania was TWELVE she gave birth to her first child, a girl named Maria.

And now, at age 11, Maria has given birth to a son.

That also made Rifca's mother a great-grandmother at age 40.  It seems that she was downright elderly when she gave birth to Rifca at 17.

In small Romanian villages, there aren't really any age limits on marriages...people regularly get married when they're in their early teens, or even younger.

The previous world's youngest grandmother was a 26-year-old woman in Yorkshire, England.

Here's a picture of this granny:

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