Zoe and Ben Sullivan are parents to 12 kids, making them one of the largest families in Scotland.
A mum-of-12 has told how she lived with a baby bump for nearly 20 years as she navigated her extraordinary pregnancy journey. Zoe and Ben Sullivan, from Lossiemouth, Moray, are parents to one of the largest families in the country and all fourteen of them live in a four-bedroom house on military quarters, the Mirror reports.
Zoe managed to allow herself a break in 2010 before she announced she was pregnant again in 2011. However, they weren't done there as between 2012 and 2013, the mum found herself with a bump once again. "As much as I’d love to have a pristine house all the time, there’s 14 people living in my house and we haven’t got much space. So what others might see as messy clothes is actually individual piles of people’s things that they’re kind of in the process of wearing or have only worn for an hour and are going to wear later.
Zoe said their bills have nearly doubled from £240 to £400 a month, despite not using the central heating in the summer. The family also own two seven-seater cars, one of which is used by Ben to go to work while she uses the other one for shopping trips. She roughly spends about £320 a week on groceries, which works out at around £21 per person on food. The family will soon need to find a five-bedroom home to move into which Zoe said was daunting as they've had to give up other luxuries such as alcohol to save up some cash.
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