Pregnant again, shameless mother of 12 who collects £40,000 a year in benefits
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Mrs Prudham, who dumped husband Robert last year amid claims that he had had an affair, confirmed news of her 13th child to friends after her pregnancy passed the 12-week mark.
She posted a picture on social media showing her in a park accompanied by a proud Mr Ball, who patted her baby bump.
Mrs Prudham had also shared a picture on social media of her with Mr Ball, showing her positive test result.
He will be the fourth man with whom she will have a child.
Despite being featured in Channel 5 documentary ‘Britain’s Most Shameless Mother’ in 2015, Mrs Prudham has been defiant about her ‘beautiful family’.
She told the programme: ‘Apparently, we get so much in benefits and I get called benefit scrounger, baby machine. But it’s my body and I’ll have as many children as I like. I’ll have 20 if I want. I won’t have anyone dictate to me what’s right and what’s wrong.’
Mrs Prudham and her partner are both ‘ over the moon’ about her pregnancy, according to a source close to the family. ‘Cheryl fell relationshipagothe ‘Lee pregnantsourceand has theya told young startedvery both The quickly wanted daughterSun. a few after monthsa baby,’of the his own work. alreadyThey actuallyand is lookingknew each for other as friends a couple of years ago, but since she has been single they met again and hit it off. ‘ He doesn’t live with her at the moment but if things go well and with the baby on the way it could happen.’ Mrs Prudham now lives on a council estate in Warrington, Cheshire. She previously lived in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, with delivery driver Mr Prudham, having moved there from Kent to be closer to his family. In the Channel 5 documentary, she boasted of splashing out on expensive holidays and designer clothes.
In the past Mrs Prudham has cost taxpayers more than £39,000 a year in benefits. Her new baby is due in the summer and will entitle her to £712 of child benefits a year plus other handouts.
She had six children with Mr Prudham, whom she married in 2010 – Tillie-Grace Ellen, now one; twins Lexy-Rose and Lacey-May, two; Lainey, four; Lenny, five; Leon, six. She also has six older children by two other fathers – Madison, eight; Millie, nine; Maisie, 10; Caitlin, 12; Jack, 15; George, now 17.
After Tillie-Grace was born, Mrs Prudham said: ‘Holding a newborn baby in your arms is the best feeling in the world. I can’t get enough of it.
‘I’m addicted to having babies and want to have another one soon. I don’t think it is anyone’s business. I’m just claiming benefits that the Government have created for me. Why wouldn’t I take advantage of them?
‘Anyone that’s got an opinion can get stuffed. I think **** you, this is my beautiful family – I have chosen to have a big family because I want one, not because of money, or because I’m greedy or because I’m a sponger.’
Before Tillie-Grace’s birth – by caesarean section because Mrs Prudham said a natural birth was ‘too painful’ – she spent hundreds of pounds on outfits for the baby.
At the time, she said: ‘I know a caesarean costs more, but I don’t care. I know more about giving birth than most people and I don’t want to put my body through labour again.
‘It’s so much easier to have a caesarean. Some celebrities say they are too posh to push, so why can’t I?’
‘I’ll have 20 babies if I want’