A young mum who has nine children by four different fathers has revealed that she’s thinking about having “one more”.
Whittney Dawn first got pregnant when she was 16 years old and has had a baby nearly every year since.
Today she is a stay-at-home mum and a content creator and is married to William, 31, the father of her last three children.
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The 27-year-old said the other fathers have nothing to do with their kids so William is “everyone’s daddy”.
Whittney is mum to Brandilyn, 10, Kenleigh, nine, Namyiah, eight, Dawson, seven, twins Kambriella and Kamden, five, Octavia, four, Liam, three, and five-month-old Kyris.
“I never planned on having a lot of children,” Whittney, who lives south west of Louisville, Kentucky, US, told What’s The Jam.
“I originally wanted two, a boy and a girl.
“I had Brandilyn at 16 with ex number one.
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“Kenleigh, Namyiah, Dawson were with ex number two.
“I had twins Kambriella and Kamden with ex number three.
“Octavia, Liam, and Kyris are with my current husband.”
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Whittney described the challenges of raising such a large family.
She said: “On a school day, I get everyone ready, do everyone’s hair, they do their morning chores, and then they get on the bus.
“Then it’s just me and the baby.
“I will clean from 8:30am to 10am so I can do what I want for the rest of the day.
“I try to stay busy because I’m not used to having almost all my kids in school.
“From 10am to 11:30am, I’ll record some digital content and edit the videos.
“I then leave and pick up my preschoolers and my kindergartener.
“Depending on the day, if there is sports practice like on Tuesday and Thursday, I will come home to fix dinner, pack my lunch bags for snacks and dinner, and pick up the kids from school.
“My daughters have Girl Scouts on Monday and Thursday and my daughter has wrestling on Tuesday and Thursday.
“And then church is on Wednesday.
“When my eldest daughter starts cheer practice, I will have to wedge that into the schedule also.
“My husband normally doesn’t get home until 7pm and some nights at 8pm.
“He leaves around 5am depending on the weather as he works outside.
“Saturdays we wake up at 9am, do a deep clean, and then have family day for the rest of the day.
“That does not change.
“Sundays we relax and watch TV together.”
Whittney said she needs to channel her inner peace when the kids are arguing around the house.
She said: “There are difficulties no matter how many kids you have.
“Some have attitude, sometimes they wake up on the wrong side of the bed, sometimes they bicker and fight all day.
“But it’s normal kid stuff that you need a lot of patience for.
“We have a four-bedroom house that we are hoping to buy and extend, and we’re also looking into building our own house if we can’t.
“But we love where we are, we love our neighbours, we love our kids’ schools, so it would be hard to move away.”
Whittney said her online content often attracts trolls to the comments section.
She said: “I usually don’t get much of a reaction unless a video blows up and then I sometimes get people who are very rude.
“Some people tell me ‘get fixed’ or ‘close your legs’.
“They call me ‘disgusting’ and sometimes say pretty nasty things.
“They also say ‘you’re like a dog’ or tell me to use birth control.
“But I got pregnant twice on birth control.
“Most of the time, I get nothing but love from my TikTok Family.
“In real life no one ever says anything bad about the size of my family.
“Some will say ‘you definitely have your hands full’ or ‘are they all yours?’ and I have to say ‘yes’, but no one has ever been rude to me and I always have my kids with me.”
Whittney said she is totally committed to her growing family no matter what the haters say.
She said: “It’s okay if people don’t like this lifestyle of mine.
“That’s what makes everyone different.
“Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean you have to put someone down.
“Everyone has their own path in life and this is mine.
“I wake up every day and do everything I can for my kids until I close my eyes at night like a mother should do.”
And she apparently doesn’t have any plans to stop having children yet.
Whittney added: “We have thought about having one more.”
