I had 12 kids ‘for child support’ – trolls say I should ‘close my legs’
A MOTHER OF TWELVE has gone viral after insisting she only got pregnant to get the ‘child benefit’ money.
Mother Britni Church shared the alleged plan behind her twelve pregnancies via Instagram.
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According to the parent, who emphasizes that she is “not ashamed” of having a large brood, all her children have different baby daddies, there are three in total.
But while Britni may have had big plans to get some serious money coming her way, unfortunately for her, things didn’t quite work out the way she supposedly hoped.
In a short – and satirical – video posted to her platform, the mother revealed the actual amount she receives in child support.
”Having twelve children from three different men for child support…
”Only to get $17 [£13] a week,” she joked the clip.
“All that work and what did it get me?” Britni continued, suggesting that this was never the true intention behind having twelve pregnancies.
“Apparently I have to say this… it’s a joke guys,” she recalled in the comments, after the light-hearted video took the platform by storm.
But while Britni insisted the child support comment should not be taken seriously, social media trolls quickly rushed to criticize the mum-of-12.
One mean one said: “Sounds like a you problem. Should have kept those legs closed.”
Another thought: “Purposefully giving your child a harder life just to get money is insane.”
“McDonald’s money,” someone chuckled.
“Weird that you have to explain this is a joke,” a fourth was stunned by the amount of negative comments.
Britni regularly shares snippets of her daily life as a mother of 12 on her page, @our_big_family_lifewhich has been verified and gained the largest number of followers, almost 160,000 followers.
She first became pregnant at the age of 16 and has since spent a total of more than 110 months of her life, we previously reported.
She said: “There’s a lot of negative things about big families in TV shows and things like that.
“I’m not angry when people automatically think that having lots of children is shameful or bad.
“I just don’t let them make me feel bad about it.”
Now I’m so proud of my children, I’m not ashamed, I’m not ashamed
Britni Church
The US-based Kansas mother had her first child, Crizman, six days after celebrating her 16th birthday with her ex-husband.
The loving couple got married five days before giving birth and had four more children together: Jordan, Caleb, Jace and Cadence.
After the divorce, the mother unexpectedly became pregnant with her sixth child, Jesalyn, in 2012.
She raised six children as a single parent for three years before meeting her current partner, Chris, a subcontractor, in 2014. Since then, the family has welcomed another six children.
After Rowyn’s birth in 2021, Britni insisted she was done having more children, and also defended the fact that not all of her offspring have the same father.
“Honestly, when I was a single mother of five and six, I wasn’t really ashamed, but I was embarrassed.
“I felt like having so many kids was a bad thing, I wouldn’t have traded them for the world.
“I felt like I had to make excuses for them as to why I had so many.
“Now I’m so proud of my children, I’m not ashamed, I’m not ashamed.”