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.
I think that they’re beautiful!
It’s much more fun to grow up in a big family. I wish I’d been able to give my kids a larger family.
Well stated.
And when you really love what you’re doing, it doesn’t feel like sacrifice is the right word, does it?
The children are BEAUTIFUL! I meant the mom isn’t beautiful, but maybe she used to be. That has to be hard on you. The children are gorgeous. They are blondies like my family.
Oh, but you’re thinking in modern terms, where the kids are just freeloading off their parents until they move out to freeload off the gov’t.
“A hundred years ago” every child was another helping set of hands in the business called “family” (once they were old enough to help).
Is she single? ;)
That’s a beautiful family. Someone should remove the frankly unpleasant caption and just post their picture up.
Governments like Russia and Germany are giving families child benefits as well in order to raise their birth rates.
I think there are 4 boys (I was counting too, LOL)...the one sitting on Mom’s lap appears to be a boy.
“Wow! He’s a truck driver and she must stay home with the children. How on earth do they eat?”
Road Kill?
I know...”Bad joke, brain hurt”.
How in the hell do you know that? For your information pal this is a conservative web site and Free Republic loves big families and is pro-life.
Yes it makes sense. Of course, it might be better for these countries and the UK to reduce taxes in the first place so that people are better able to finance their own families :0(
7 stone! I love that. So anti-metric.
Nope!
I'm the oldest of eight, and I had a great childhood, despite not having the latest gadgets or styles. I think the ship has sailed for me personally having a big family, even if I meet the right man, but my younger siblings may take up the slack... ;-)
Sad........
I grew up one of 7 kids and would have never traded that fun and closeness in for a small family.
what do you mean by that?
In England you are not allowed to not recieve state money, basically. Taxes are at punitive levels, and then you have to apply for various “credits” to get money back. Most people can’t make ends meet without the money they receive from the state. In this case, they will certainly be getting their child tax credit, over 600 pounds a month for a family that size.
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