Posted on 07/22/2008 12:21:44 PM PDT by Coffee200am
London: A British mom has managed to retain her size zero figure – despite giving birth to 13 kids, with the 14th on its way.
The 37-year-old Joanne Watson, in her first trimester, loves being pregnant and always manages to get back her 7st 5lbs ideal weight after giving birth.
"I''m lucky because I always sail through my pregnancies and have no symptoms whatsoever at the moment," Mirror quoted her as saying. Joanne, who is 5ft 2ins, said: "Some people say I'm mad. But we're as thrilled that we're expecting for the 14th time as we were the first time.
"Some say surely this will be the last. But I always say we'll stop having kids when we're good and ready. And I'm nowhere near ready to retire my maternity clothes yet," she added.
Truck driver husband John, 43 considers himself lucky to have a healthy brood and a size zero wife. "To have so many healthy happy children, and a wife who has such a fabulous figure, is amazing,” he said. "I feel like I''m the luckiest daddy in the world. I love going home after a day's work to a big family,” he added.
The family already has 10 daughters and three sons.
Europe is driving itself into extiction by their lack of a willingness to reproduce. This family should be commended and I hope that many, many other europeans follow their example.
Age gets everyone. At least, she’s not wasting money of face lifts. It looks like her efforts go elsewhere.
I have 9 kids, maybe if I had 9 more I could be a size 0... (OK, enough wishful thinking!)
LOL!
Yeah, something like that’d be one solution. ;-) Without the “mine,” though.
I'm in a business that has large swings in income. One of my buddies says I eat better the broker I get. ;)
Homecooked (from scratch) poverty food is pretty good.
/johnny
I remember my grandparents having chickens in the back yard in Fort Worth (1963) and a vegetable garden in the very back. Whenever us grand kids spent the weekend we always had fried chicken, green beans, squash and mashed potatoes. I can remember pulling pears and figs and pecans off their trees and eating them fresh...bugs and all!
I was 5th of 6. I'd love to add to our brood, but I don't think it's "in the cards." I never give up hope, though.
That’s certainly true to an extent (I live in the UK and I get bupkis, being in all ways a ‘donor’)
But yes, a family of this size will be getting 300+ USD a week as “assistance”. Thinking of it as “getting some money back from the oppressive Overlord government” is actually pretty fair.
At 300 USD a week they are basically getting my tax receipts, and - seeing them - I am glad of it. It’s the other daft schemes of the UK govt which I don’t want to pay for: AGW, various NGOs, free housing for Muslim Terrorists and so on.
Your boys are adorable — good on ya for raising them right!
Beautiful family, one hot Mama, hardworking, diligent husband....
Having said that (clearing throat)
A little boy walked in on his mother stepping out of the shower, she forgot to lock the bathroom door. He saw her breasts and asked, “What are those?”
She hesitated, then said, “Those are my, um, balloons. When I die, they get bigger and take me to heaven.”
The next day the little boy met his father at the door: “Daddy, is mum going to die?”
“Heavens no! Why do you ask?”
“Because I saw the milkman blowing up her balloons and she was saying, `Oh God, I’m coming!’”
Ha!
I have 21 grandkids and I’m fiftysomething. Heh.
One of my great grandmothers came from a very large brood. Her father had 10 to 12 children with wife #1, who died while the youngest was very young. He then remarried and had another 9 or 10 kids with wife #2. My great grandma was from wife #2, I think.
We used to have a home in Arrowhead! Saw your profile, and it made me homesick. West Tenn. is so flat.
I’m sorry, but “The Meaning of Life” pops into my head as I’m reading this. Hope he doesn’t have to sell them all for scientific experiments. :D
Geez. She looks at least 50.
He has a lot of daughters. He needs to have plenty of shotguns when the girls start to date. Why would anyone want so many kids. I have 2 and love them but it is all I can handle mentally.
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