And four times wed Nanu Ram Jogi, a farmer in the Indian state of Rajasthan, says he plans to have more.
Nanu who cannot remember exactly how many children he has produced with his four wives, but estimates that he has twelve sons, nine daughters and at least twenty grandchildren.
“Women love me,” he boasted as dozens of relatives came to see his 14-day-old daughter, Girija Rajkumari. “I want to have more children. I can survive another few decades and want to have children till I am 100. Then maybe it will be time to stop.”
Nanu married his first wife, Lalki, in 1942 when he was 25. He fathered his eldest daughter, Sita Devi, a year later.
He married his second wife, Punni, when he was 50 and his third marriage, to Rukman, came 20 years later in 1987. He married his current wife, Saburi, in 1997 when he was 80.
Saburi, who is 50 and has given him seven children, was previously married to his eldest son, Shiv Lal, who died ten years ago.
“At first I didn’t want to stay here after my husband died,” she said. “It was a bad time and I was going to go back to my family, but Nanu insisted. He promised to look after me and said he would take care of my family, so I stayed and now we have seven children.”
Nanu said many of his children and grandchildren live in sisx houses attached to the two storey family home.
He attributes his virility to daily walks and eating lots of meat, but said he had to sell some of his land to feed his growing family.
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