The World's First IVF Baby Turns 40 — See How PEOPLE Covered Her Historic Birth in 1978
Exactly 40 years ago on Wednesday, around the time when a 100-page issue of PEOPLE magazine featured an ad for “enriched flavor” cigarettes and a cover story on the return ofStar Wars, Louise Brown was born. Leon Neal/Getty For her 40th birthday on Wednesday,Brown sat down with TIMEand reflected on the media circus surrounding her historic arrival, and the public criticism at the time of her parents, Lesley and John, for allowingdoctors to film thecaesarean sectionbirth....