The last man of the XIX century Emma Morano and her secret

On November 29, Emma Morano from Vercelli, Italy, celebrated her 117th birthday. Emma is officially the oldest person alive on earth and the last living person born in the XIX century. Emma was born in 1899. It's hard to imagine, but she was already 14 years old when the First World War began, and 28 when television was invented.

(5 photos in total)

Source: Bored Panda

Emma's long life can hardly be called easy and cloudless. In her youth, she was engaged, but her fiance was called to the front during the First World War. Since then, she never saw him again and considered him dead. In 1926, Emma married another man and subsequently gave birth to a child who tragically died at the age of only 6 months. Emma admits that her husband blackmailed her and threatened to kill her. However, after the death of her son in 1938, she still decided to leave him and never married again.

The birthday girl has not left her apartment for many years, where she receives round-the-clock care.

Emma does not hide the secret of her longevity — for 90 years she has been following a very peculiar diet: three eggs a day (two raw and one cooked), fresh Italian pasta and raw meat. And now the diet of the long-lived woman has been reduced to the very minimum at all: "I eat two eggs a day. It's all. Although no, more cookies… But only a little, because I don't have teeth," says Emma. So if suddenly you need an extra reason not to deny yourself your favorite cookie — now you have it!

Happy birthday, Emma!