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Brit Mother of 13 Still Has a Size "0" Figure (#14 on the way)
Sify News ^ | 07.21.2008 | Sify News

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.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: babies; babymaker; bravoindeed; industrial; pregnant; whattheukneeds
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To: RosieCotton

I agree. This is a beautiful family, and they’ve been blessed with a good number of kids. Not an “unusual” number of kids, historically speaking.

I get tired of people who hate children, even though they may not realize that’s what they’re doing.


81 posted on 07/22/2008 1:34:29 PM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: Age of Reason

I think you need to gain weight when you get older, or your face will end up looking like a raisin.
I was a size 0 my whole life until I hit 38. I am now a size 4 and I look younger because of the extra weight.


82 posted on 07/22/2008 1:45:14 PM PDT by kara37
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To: Perdogg
Wow look at all those muslims.

Do I need the sarcasm tag? I bet I do.

</Sarcasm >

83 posted on 07/22/2008 1:49:28 PM PDT by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: Little Bill

Obviously a practical advantage to polygamy, in an era when maternal deaths in or shortly after childbirth were awfully common.


84 posted on 07/22/2008 1:57:48 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Perdogg

First thought that comes into my head: “Mommy, she stole my dress because hers has a stain on it!” “No, I didn’t, the stained one is hers” (I should know, my sister and I have been through this countless times, ie, arguing about who got the smaller size of two otherwise identical free t-shirts). The mom has to have so much energy to keep up with all those kids - I could hardly handle working at the local YMCA for a few hours each weekend.


85 posted on 07/22/2008 1:57:57 PM PDT by Hyzenthlay (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: HamiltonJay
11 females under the same roof... my brother had 4 daughters, said he never answers the phone or goes to the bathroom.
86 posted on 07/22/2008 2:01:32 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: WakeUpAndVote
LOL!


87 posted on 07/22/2008 2:24:48 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made.")
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To: buffyt

Never had a white couch. But my kids still mock me with “DON’T TOUCH THE WALLS”. I guess I said that frequently while they were growing up?


88 posted on 07/22/2008 2:25:54 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: GovernmentShrinker
Could be, I think that age might have something to do with it, along with stupidity on the part of the midwife, this place was out in the booners.

As for polygamy, there was always a reserve of mommies in this case, one, a real good woman. My fathers Grandmother a was a cousin, this was on the frontier, who else are you going to marry.

If old Oscar wanted a second wife, he would have faced the knackers knife, she had 12.

89 posted on 07/22/2008 2:27:59 PM PDT by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

Beautiful family with only one exception. Tell me which one is you and I’ll tell who the exception is. ;)


90 posted on 07/22/2008 2:43:10 PM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Alouette

Good for you!!!! When western civilization breeds itself into extinction nobody will blame you! I’m the oldest of 7 and love big families. We always had a cousin or two living with us...my mother was the family fixer...and we never wanted for anything. For the most part my dad worked and mom stayed home. It seems like they never had an extra nickel to spend but we ate better than anyone else around. My mom was a sensational cook!


91 posted on 07/22/2008 2:46:33 PM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Perdogg

Yikes, they are raising blonds.


92 posted on 07/22/2008 3:37:34 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: CarrotAndStick

It’s pretty obvious they all have the same Dad.


93 posted on 07/22/2008 3:39:02 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: tx_eggman; muleskinner

So clever, so original...Y’all should do stand-up. Really.


94 posted on 07/22/2008 3:46:15 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (We are all humans, and humans poo.)
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To: Coffee200am

England needs more women like her.


95 posted on 07/22/2008 4:59:45 PM PDT by mockingbyrd (rest in peace Tony Snow)
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To: Coffee200am

Wow! I thought I was doing ok at 60+, 5’0’’ tall and 112 lbs.


96 posted on 07/22/2008 6:47:18 PM PDT by ArmyTeach (If you don't like your middle name, that's your problem.)
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To: buffyt

Ok...I hate you! LOL Just kidding. With my last, I stopped vomiting about two days after we got home from the hospital.
There’s just something wrong when you are in the bathroom (sick) while daddy takes the baby for a “sleepytime” ride in the van. LOL


97 posted on 07/22/2008 8:26:34 PM PDT by TNdandelion (It's Buh-rack Uh-bama for uh hope and uh change.)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

In that family, which “ones” would Bill Clinton “hit”?


98 posted on 07/22/2008 8:58:29 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (Vote for conservatives AT ALL POLITICAL LEVELS! Encourage all others to do the same on November 4!)
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To: Tax-chick; Scotswife
Like, *PING*, ladies.

Cheers!

99 posted on 07/22/2008 9:08:21 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: dawn53
OK. I'm counting, also. Eight girls and five boys equal thirteen children. Look at the pic again.

Will we ever hear whether their 14th is a boy or girl? These five young guys have plenty of sisters...they could use another brother!

100 posted on 07/22/2008 9:08:22 PM PDT by IIntense (o)
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