Barbara Bienvenue told Paul Servat that she became pregnant one month after they connected through an online dating site. She later told him she was going to have five babies. A visit to the doctor eventually exposed her.
A Quebec woman somehow duped her boyfriend into believing she was going to have quintuplets until the ninth month of her “pregnancy.”
Paul Servat said he was devastated when he found out that Barbara Bienvenue had never been pregnant when they went to the doctor last week. “I lost everything, it was my whole life,” Servat told
Servat said Bienvenue told him she was pregnant about one month after they met through an online dating site last summer. She told him they were expecting twins, and and eventually the baby number swelled to five.
Bienvenue not only fooled her boyfriend, but the Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu community, who showered them with gifts.
“I gave her tips on how to handle it, where to get financial support, where to get sponsors for diapers,” Geneviève Laflamme, a mother of triplets herself, told. Unbelievably, Bienvenue apparently had some practice.
“This isn’t the first time she’s done it,” a relative told QMI Agency. “But honestly, we never would have thought she was sick enough to do it again.”
The 37-year-old Bienvenue may have been suffering from pseudocyesis, which is “the belief that you are expecting a baby when you are not really carrying a child,”. Women with this condition have many of the symptoms of pregnancy except the actual fetus itself.
Bienvenue is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. Servat says on Facebook that he is not seeing Bienvenue anymore and that he is returning all gifts from the faux pregnancy, according to CTV News.
“She let me choose the names,” Servat told QMI Agency. “We were so happy. Even my parents, they were so looking forward to having grandchildren.”
Source: Daily news