00:00I had four children by the age of 19 and now I have seven.
00:04I get comments like maybe you should have kept your legs closed.
00:07This is shameful, that many kids at your age.
00:09Becoming a teen mum at 16 was definitely a shock.
00:13My mum was devastated when she found out.
00:15I was very disappointed and I was thinking that because of her age
00:18she might not be able to give them what they need
00:21because she was still a child herself.
00:22I don't know if my mum and sister know that I want to have more children
00:25and I'm really nervous because I want to talk to them
00:27about the potential thought of having another baby.
00:30How would you guys feel if I was to have another baby?
00:37Kids are starving right now.
00:38They are hungry every morning.
00:40That's the first thing they want, breakfast.
00:42So I'm doing the five kids first and then I'll do the babies.
00:45I tend to feed them together.
00:47So how many kids have we got in here?
00:49We've got seven kids all together.
00:51Guys, breakfast time.
00:53Hurry up, come on.
00:55This is Kazea.
00:57She's my eldest.
00:58She's 10 years old.
00:59We've got the twins.
01:01Isaac and Isaiah.
01:03Yeah.
01:04We've got Jeremiah.
01:07And then we've got Saraya Nicole.
01:09And we've got Azari.
01:11And then we've got Kehlani Ray.
01:13This is my partner.
01:15He's very camera shy.
01:17And then my brother Ezreal.
01:19Hello, hello.
01:20And I'm mum.
01:22My house is very chaotic.
01:26It can get very noisy, but it's full of love and I wouldn't change it for the world.
01:30My kids are very loud.
01:32I don't even speak.
01:34You're loud.
01:35You're not loud.
01:36No.
01:37It's passionate.
01:38It's passionate.
01:39It's passionate.
01:40So in the morning the kids will get up, brush their teeth, have a shower, come down for
01:44their breakfast.
01:45And then they'll probably go straight on their tablets for Sunday, so we tend to do some
01:49homework, do some uniform prep.
01:51And yeah, it's quite a busy day.
01:54Once the kids are in bed by 6.30, I will, yeah, 6.30, that's when I get me time.
02:00All right, upstairs, let's go, let's go.
02:02What are you doing?
02:03Why are you walking somewhere like this?
02:05So this is the boys' room.
02:07I had to get a triple bunk bed to make use of the space.
02:09Are you happy with your beds?
02:11Yeah.
02:12I was 16 years old when I fell pregnant with my first child.
02:17Being a mum at 16 is definitely very overwhelming.
02:20I was very overwhelmed.
02:21I'm still a child myself.
02:23Having my first child, I felt a lot of judgement from others.
02:27I felt embarrassed.
02:28I felt like I let my mum down.
02:30It wasn't a nice feeling.
02:31I was very scared to tell my mum, so I spoke with my sister.
02:34I wrote a message to my mum on Facebook and I said to her, like, it was a paragraph of
02:39me explaining how much I love her and how she's so lovely and she's not any less of a mother.
02:44And then I told her I was pregnant and all I got was seen.
02:48No response.
02:50Look, you draw me on this side and you draw me on this side and don't make my head look big.
02:53When she came home, she didn't speak to me.
02:56She stayed in her room.
02:57We didn't have any conversation.
02:59And then eventually my mum came upstairs and she literally said to me, so, are you not
03:05going to speak?
03:06I said, about what?
03:07And she's like, what's in this?
03:10And immediately after that she gave me a hug.
03:13So that made me feel like she was going to support me.
03:16Isaiah?
03:17What?
03:18Who's that supposed to be?
03:19Me.
03:20Me?
03:21That does not look like me.
03:22That does not look like me.
03:24That does not look like me.
03:25Do you like having a boys' room?
03:27Yeah.
03:28What do you like about a boys' room?
03:30We like about a boys' room.
03:32If all the walls were split and then I'd probably be scared.
03:35Because we don't like monsters.
03:37You don't like monsters?
03:39No?
03:40Are there monsters under the bed?
03:41No.
03:42I hope not.
03:43So this is the girls' room.
03:46Hello.
03:47Hello.
03:48I wanted to give my daughter a double bed because she's going to high school.
03:52So she needed that space and then Soraya's at the top.
03:55Are you drawing?
03:57I'm proud of you, Kazelle.
04:00She shows me that I'm doing a good job because she really does help with her siblings.
04:05Like, she genuinely helps them.
04:07Like, when it comes to school, she helps them in the morning.
04:09Like, she tells them, like, guys, remember, you brush this way when you're brushing your
04:12teeth or she will guide them with how to do their laces instead of doing it.
04:16These are orange.
04:17Orange.
04:18So this is the baby's room.
04:19This is the smallest room in the house.
04:21It's like a very small box room.
04:23We've got Azari in this bed and then we've got Kalani in this bed.
04:26Are we going to change your nappy?
04:28Because your smell.
04:29So I have three baby dads.
04:31I had one child for the first dad.
04:34I had four for the second.
04:36And my current partner right now, we have two children together.
04:39Me and Mario, we've always known each other.
04:42We would talk online.
04:43So around 2021, you know, we just started talking a bit more.
04:48He was coming over a bit more.
04:49He was playing with the kids.
04:51He made me feel like, okay, let's go to the park with the kids.
04:54He would come to my house and bring nappies and he would just do things that I never asked.
04:58And I instantly like fell in love with him for that.
05:08Two.
05:09Now we can start cleaning.
05:13So in my TikTok videos, I post a lot of voice overs and I do a lot of clean with me's.
05:19I'm going to organise the boys wardrobe with me.
05:22After I've done my video, I'll try and trim it down to about three minutes.
05:25And I'm going to start my voice over.
05:27In this video, I'm going to be tidying up the baby's room.
05:30The baby's room looks very messy.
05:32The kids were playing up and down all day today.
05:34So there's a lot of things that I need to do.
05:36When I first started, I got quite a few hate comments.
05:40I mean, I still do sometimes.
05:42I get comments like, maybe you should have kept your legs closed.
05:45Why don't you use contraception?
05:47This is shameful.
05:48That many kids at your age.
05:49And then I've got any fathers knocking about.
05:52The benefit check of my tax must be good.
05:54I'm not going to lie.
05:55It used to really bother me.
05:56I used to cry about it.
05:58They used to just have such an input on my life.
06:00Now I'm like, you know what?
06:01Say whatever you have to say.
06:03Cuss me out.
06:04Just give me a comment, whatever.
06:05It's helping me.
06:06It's paying me.
06:07People are going to say things no matter what.
06:08It's not going to change my kids.
06:09It's not going to change how I parent them.
06:11My mum and my sister are going to be coming over today.
06:14Hello.
06:15And I'm looking forward to that.
06:16They always help me with the kids.
06:18Hi!
06:19Hey!
06:20Hello princess!
06:22It definitely takes a village to raise a child.
06:25Without my support system, genuinely, I don't know where I would be.
06:29How many grandkids all together then?
06:30So we've got...
06:3124 mum!
06:32You've got 24!
06:33That's so greedy.
06:34How greedy!
06:36How did you feel when you found out I was pregnant at 16?
06:41I didn't like you.
06:42I was very disappointed.
06:44To be honest, I felt wounded.
06:46I felt like...
06:47I can't explain.
06:48I felt like I'd lost you.
06:50And I was thinking that because she was...
06:53Because of her age, she might not be able to give them what they need
06:56because she was still a child herself.
06:58Yeah.
06:59But she proved us wrong.
07:01I remember her coming and saying to me...
07:03And I was like, oh my gosh, you're pregnant.
07:06Like, oh my dear, oh my dear.
07:08God works in mysterious ways because I feel that the way me and her relationship was prior
07:12to having Kazaya.
07:13Had she not had Kazaya, I don't think we'd be like this now.
07:17Because she was different.
07:19I told you you'd be best friends when you got older.
07:22I'm open to having another child.
07:25I don't know if my mum and sister know that I want to have more children
07:28and I'm really nervous because I want to talk to them about the potential thought
07:32of having another baby.
07:34How would you guys feel if I was to have another baby after marriage?
07:40One's not going to make no difference.
07:42I was going to say, you've got like...
07:44It's going to be shocking.
07:45I know, I just thought you guys were being happy because I know of it.
07:48I'm so used to it now.
07:49Absolutely not.
07:50So you're happy with the kids I've got you?
07:52I do.
07:53I love my grandkids.
07:54I'll always support her.
07:55I don't agree with her most times, but I love my grandkids, so I'll always support her.
07:59She has been looking after children from she was 12 because her older siblings have
08:03always had children, so I've never been actually worried about her looking after kids.
08:07There'll be a lot of young girls out there today who are going to be in your situation
08:10and they're going to get the same stigma that you get.
08:13And I feel you telling your story is going to help a lot of others.
08:16And just because you've got seven children, I don't see why that wouldn't make me proud
08:21of you.
08:22It doesn't make sense.
08:23I was saying keep it up.
08:24Proud of you're a racist.
08:25Proud of you're a racist.
08:26Having kids don't...
08:27It doesn't change anything.
08:28Guys!
08:29Come downstairs.
08:30It's a stair gate.
08:31Good girl.
08:32I hope one day that my kids, you know, come out of school and
08:36you know, have their education and basically, you know, just do well for themselves.
08:43I can't even do it.
08:48I wouldn't mind going back into work, but whilst I have so many young kids now, being
08:53a stay-at-home mum now, it just works best for me.
08:57I'm super excited for my future with my kids because I just know that we're going to make
09:06it.
09:07I just see it.
09:08I just have really good hope and faith that we're going to make it and that they're going
09:12to see that this was all worth it.
09:27Perfect.
09:28Now we've got his Therapy right?
09:29I loved our substance and we need to maintain
09:45some more problems and work.
09:46ygrap
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