The story was covered by Colombia Reports, a large news website in the country.
It claims the unnamed woman told doctors: ‘My mum told me that if I didn’t want to get pregnant, I should
put a potato up there, and I believed her.’
The discovery was made when the woman, from the central Colombian town of Honda, went to hospital complaining of abdominal pains. When a nurse examined her, she found roots from the potato that had grown.
However after removing it, doctors confirmed there would be no lasting damage to the woman’s health.