Britain’s biggest family is about to get another member!
Sue and Noel Radford have announced they are expecting their 21st child.
The couple already have 19 children aged 28 years old to eight months old, while sadly one of their babies was stillborn.
Now they have revealed their delight to be expecting again.
Sharing an image of their scan on Instagram, they wrote: “We can’t wait to welcome you into the family precious little one. If you missed the vlog yesterday head over to watch it the link is in our bio #soblessed.”
Hundreds of their fans congratulated them, with many asking how they cope with such a large family.
“A massive congratulations to you all @theradfordfamily I honestly don’t know how you do it…. I can barely cope with one,” said one.
“Baby 21 ?! Wow fair play… going to be hard choosing names haha!” said another.
In their vlog, the couple, from Lancashire, revealed they are expecting a girl. They break the news to their other children by firing pink confetti into the air.
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Sue, 42, admitted the gender has come as a surprise.
“Normally I have an inkling of what the baby is going to be, I thought it was a boy,” she said as she cradles her latest bump.
Her pregnancy will also come as surprise to many after the couple said they would stop having children after welcoming Archie last September.
As they appeared on This Morning in January, Sue said she was happy to stop on a “nice even number”.
She said: “Archie is definitely going to be the last Radford baby.”
However her eldest daughter Sophie, who has three children herself, didn’t believe her and said she “couldn’t see her mum stopping”.
She was right, and now the new addition will join Chris, 28, Sophie, 23, Chloe, 22, Jack, 20, Daniel, 18, Luke and Millie 16, Katie, 14, James, 13, Ellie, 12, Aimee, 11, Josh, ten, Max, eight, Tillie, seven, Oscar, five, Casper, four, Hallie, two, Phoebe, 13 months, and Archie, eight months.
Sue and Noel, 47, have known one another from a young age and she first fell pregnant when she was just 14.
The parents have appeared in numerous Channel 4 documentaries about their lives raising so many children, the latest called 20 Kids and Counting.
Noel works as a baker and the couple do not receive any extra help from the state except the regular child benefit.
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