Woman opened her birth certificate after 15 years — one wild 'typo' about herself made her do a double-take
Most people keep their birth certificates safe but away, filed, forgotten and barely checked unless absolutely necessary. For 24-year-old Ruby Jade (@motionthiccness on TikTok), a graphic designer from Victoria, Australia, it had been a long time since she last checked her certificate and now, when she finally did, she was expecting revelation or nostalgia; instead, she got a shock. For sure, she certainly wasn’t expecting information so bizarre that it would send the internet into fits of laughter. As Ruby shared the moment on TikTok where she confessed she “hadn’t really looked at it in like, 15 years.”
But something on the page left her speechless and it was not a name, not a date, but her birth weight. She first showed her brother’s certificate as a reference: a healthy 3.650 kilograms, just over eight pounds and then came her own. “Would anyone like to guess what is mine?” she said in the TikTok Video, before flipping the document to the camera. Her recorded birth weight: 2,200 kilograms, which is roughly 4,850 pounds. It was so huge that even the wildest world records didn’t come close because the heaviest known newborn in history weighed 9.98 kilograms. Modern medical marvels occasionally reach 13 pounds. Ruby’s supposed stat? A number more suited to a car. “It was the first time I had noticed the mistake,” Ruby told Newsweek. “I am surprised my mom didn't notice, as a typical Virgo she's usually first to pick up on things like that, but I imagine she was arguably distracted by recent events.”
The absurdity of it all left her more amused than anything else because Ruby wasn’t a particularly big baby and the typo was, in her words, “insane.” A number so detached from reality that irritation quickly dissolved into humor. She decided to share it with TikTok “just because I felt like talking about it.” Ruby wasn’t trying to chase views; she’d been posting casually while trying to grow her graphic design business, though without much of a view or traction. But this revelation video, unexpectedly, became a turning point in her social media journey. It soared past 380,000 views, a big jump from everything she had posted before. The comments section became an interesting spot for people to share their crazy paperwork error stories. One user, @nay.daw, wrote: "Mine has my mum’s name as Deideir. Her name is Debbie.” Another, @ronny_the_sinner, joked: "I love Birth Certificate errors. Mine means I'm Legally 125 years old.”
Ruby watched the comment section fill up with others sharing their stories of typos, misprints and clerical errors, some hilarious, others very strange and weird. Yet all of them created an oddly comforting sense of shared human chaos. “I believe it got attention because lots of people were quick to comment with similar stories,” she said. “Many comments recounted experiences which were much funnier or tragic, I suppose, than mine.” The viral moment became a reminder of how small, unremarkable documents can suddenly spark collective storytelling
A mistake made decades ago in a hospital office turned into a domino effect of similar stories, laughs and connections among strangers. In the end, Ruby’s discovery didn’t change anything about her, except perhaps her appreciation for double-checking official paperwork, but for all the viewers, her story became a way for a lot of people to revisit their own documents, if only for the chance of uncovering a typo worthy of TikTok fame.
@motionthiccness get Jenny Craig on the line I'm finally spilling my secret 💔 YALL I'm using this to say im a freelance graphic designer so <3 shoot me a message if you need branding/websites/print media only a tank like me could create 😁 insta: RubyGraz.design
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