A MUM-of-12 has hit back at trolls who criticised her for having a big family.
Britni Church, 34, had her first child at 16 and has been pregnant for around 108 months in total.
In a clip on her @ourlargefamilylife account which has racked up hundreds of views, she said: “There’s a lot of negative things about large families on TV shows and things like that.
“I’m not mad people automatically think having a lot of kids is shameful or bad.
“I’m just not going to let them make me feel bad about it.”
The US-based mum from Arkansas City, Kansas, had her first child, Crizman six days after her sixteenth birthday with her ex-husband.
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The pair had married five days before, and had another four children together – Jordan, Caleb, Jace and Cadence.
After the divorce, Britni unexpectedly fell pregnant with her sixth child, Jesalyn, in 2012.
She spent three years raising six kids alone as a single parent before meeting her current husband, Chris, a sub-contractor, in 2014.
The pair have since had another six kids together.
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In 2021, she gave birth to baby Rowyn, and insists that she is done with having anymore kids.
Britni, who works shifts at Walmart to support her family, has also defended the fact that not all of her kids share the same dad.
Speaking in the video, she said: “Honestly when I was a single mum of five and six, I wasn’t really embarrassed but I was ashamed.
“It felt like it was a bad thing to have so many kids, I wouldn’t have traded them for the world.
“I felt like I had to make excuses for them, why I had so many.
“Now I’m so proud of my kids, I am not ashamed, I am not embarrassed.”
Britni and husband Chris spend the equivalent of £230 a week on groceries, and go through five boxes of cereal, 66 cartons of milk and 600 nappies.
She has previously defended her large brood and said they are "just like everyone else" after being criticised for her super-sized family.
Previously speaking to CafeMom, she said: "People assume a lot of things about us that just aren’t true – we are just like everyone else."
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People were quick to defend her in the video, with one saying: “You’re amazing Momma!”
Another added: “Why judge someone that takes care of their every single children, while some people don’t even take care of one.”
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