Friday, 1 February 2013
World's First Pregnant Man Divorces Wife
The world's first pregnant man, Thomas Beatie has separated from his wife of nine years. The 38-year-old father of three revealed that he and his wife, Nancy Roberts has split during the taping of the TV show, 'The Doctors'.
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"Like all marriages, we have our ups and downs, and we're going through a rough patch right now. At the moment, we are separated, "he said.
Beatie began life as a woman and legally switched to a male identity, but kept his female reproductive organs making the firsr legal mane to give birth.
During the interview, he also revealed that he had undergone the final female-to-male gender reassignment surgerfy. "Nancy hasn't seen the new me yet," he said. Beatie has given birth to three children- a girl named Susan Juliette Beatie in june 2008, a boy named Austin Alexander in June 2009 and another boy named Jensen James Beatie, in July 2010.
Roberts had two children from a previous marriage but was no longer able to get pregnant following a hysterectomy