‘Leap year baby’ who should be 55 but has only celebrated 13 birthdays reveals that she loves to throw herself children’s parties – insisting she gets to be ‘young forever’

A ‘leap year baby’ who should be 55 but has only celebrated 13 birthdays has revealed she loves hosting children’s parties and insists she will be ‘forever young’.

Liz Duren was born on February 29, 1968, which is a leap year, and has always considered this rare birthday “lucky” and “special.”

When the date rolls around every four years, Liz loves throwing a children’s party: she’s organized a party fit for a 10-year-old girl, complete with a magician and games for her 44th birthday.

This year, the Southern California native will turn 56, although it’s only the 14th time the date has occurred in her life, and she plans to have an ET-themed party.

Liz, podcast host and local historian, sHared: ‘I am 55 years old but also 13. I can be young forever. I look great for a 56-year-old, but shit for a 13-year-old.’

Since she was little, Liz has always loved her leap birthday.

His family threw him a first birthday party when he turned four and he ended up on the front page of the local newspaper.

When it’s not a leap year, Liz celebrates it the next day, March 1, but she doesn’t mind when her friends wish her a happy birthday.

‘It’s very confusing for all my friends to know when to wish me happy birthday.

‘I have two birthstones. I’m actually very relaxed about how people want to celebrate my birthday. Yo [will] Try to make the 29th special.

This year Liz has said that she will celebrate her big day with a children’s party and will perform in a play on her birthday.

‘I consider myself the luckiest person in the world. I make a joke about myself.’

Liz, who is adopted, also said her rare birthday helped her locate her biological parents when she was 44 years old.

She was able to track down her birth mother, who does not want to be identified, by contacting strangers on Facebook who went to her mother’s high school and jogging their memories with her unique birth date.

She was also able to locate her biological father, Harry Bennett, 83, with whom she now has a close relationship.

‘Through my adoption documents I was able to resolve his high school.

‘I contacted people she went to school with. I was able to awaken people’s memories with the date.

‘By being born on a single day it was easier to find my biological mother.’

Liz hopes other bouncing babies feel “lucky” to have such a special and unusual birthday.

‘I’ve only met a handful of people who have my birthday. I hope they accept it,’ she concluded.