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World's Oldest Woman Celebrates 116th Birthday, 'I Don't Eat Junk Food!' She Says

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Aug. 27 2012, Published 3:00 p.m. ET

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By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

She doesn't look a day over a hundred!

The world's oldest woman turned 116 years old on Sunday and the landmark date was immortalized with a bridge being named in her honor.

Besse Cooper, of Monroe, Georgia, is now not only included in the Guinness Book of World Records, but will also now be the namesake of a bridge over the Alcovy River in her rural home town, reported the the Walton Tribune.

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“She acknowledged it and seemed to be pleased,” said her son Sidney Cooper. “We’re all very pleased by it. We think it’s really great and we are very appreciative to the county for it.

“The older she has gotten the more wittier she has gotten,” he added about his age-defying record-breaking mom. 

Cooper recently revealed her secret to longevity. “I mind my own business,” she told the Guinness Book of World Records. “And I don’t eat junk food.”