World's First Surviving Septuplets

 

L-R, Nathan, Brandon, , Kelsey, Natalie, Brandon, Kenny (light blue shirt), Joel and Alexis (laying across laps). The septuplets generated world wide attention after they were born November 19, 1997

The McCaughey septuplets (with their parents, Kenny and Bobbi, center, and their big sister Milayla, back left) are turning 16 on Tuesday Nov 19,2013. They are the world's first surviving septuplets

Bobbi McCaughey, pictured in 1998

The septuplets were born after their mother, Bobbi, took fertility drugs

Bobbi and her husband Kenny famously declined selective reduction after learning they were pregnant with seven children following fertility treatment