Born in the USA

Elizabeth Carr and me

I don’t know about you but I have met lots of people over the years in different circumstances.

For example, I met my husband when he was guarding a door at a nightclub and I was waiting to get in!

But the meeting I had with Elizabeth Carr, the first IVF baby to be born in the US, has to rank as one of the most unusual and nerve-wracking of my life.

Elizabeth and I have a lot in common. We have both spent our whole lives pursued by the media for the simple reason that we were born!

We have both had to endure endless weird questions from people about the circumstances of our birth; and we have both sat watching a television quiz show and found ourselves the subject of a question – on more than one occasion.

I first properly knew Elizabeth’s name when I was about 10 but, apart from one brief chat over Skype last year, we had never met.