Yes, you read right! 24-year-old Kristina Ozturk is the proud mother of 22 children with a love story that is just like a fairytale. She met her millionaire husband, 57-year-old Galip Ozturk during a holiday trip to Georgia. She has a six-year-old daughter named Vika from a previous relationship while her husband has 9 children from his previous marriage. Together, they welcomed their first son, Mustafa in March 2020 and proceeded to have 20 more children who were all born between the 10th of March 2020 and 16 January 2021 via surrogates. Kristina and Galip are the biological parents of all 21 babies.
Kristina and Galip have always dreamt of having a large family and have made that dream a beautiful reality. Kristina Ozuturk is a mother of 22 children while her husband Galip is the father of 30 children. She was quoted by Daily Mail just after their 10th baby was born saying ‘I don’t know how many there will eventually be, but we certainly don’t plan to stop at 10.’ And she wasn’t joking about that at all.
As you can imagine, having such a huge family comes with huge financial commitments and responsibilities. They’ve spent £138,000 on surrogates in the last year in order to grow their dream family with each surrogate being paid £7,700 per pregnancy. They currently have 16 live-in nannies who work on a ‘four days on, two days off’ schedule with their own kitchen and bedrooms close to the children’s room. Each nanny earns £350 ($500) per week and this costs the couple £67,700 a year.
Kristina told The Sun that it costs about £3500-£4200 ($6500-$7700) a week to get all the children’s essentials. The family goes through a whopping 20 large packs of nappies and 53 cartons of baby formula every week!
Take a deep breath while we unfold this. The couple are parents to Mustafa, 17 months; Mariam, 16 months; Ayrin, 16 months; Alisa, 16 months; Hasan, 15 months; Judi, 15 months; Harper, 14 months; Teresa, 14 months; Huseyin, 14 months; Anna, 13 months; Isabella, 13 months; Ismail, 12 months; Mehmet, 12 months; Ahmet, 12 months; Ali, 11 months; Kristina, 11 months; Sara, 10 months; Lokman, 10 months; Galip, 9 months; Olivia, 8 months as well as Vika, 6 years.
They’ve put off having any more babies for now as they’d like to focus on caring for all their children. Regardless, Kristina isn’t ruling out having more kids naturally. She once told a Russian publication that she wanted to have 105 children and later clarified that it was a joke.
The Ozturk family lives in a three-story mansion located in Butami, Georgia. About their home, Kristina is quoted by The Sun saying “For now we have three floors at home. In the future, maybe we will build more floors, maybe we will buy a bigger house. We don’t have an exact plan, because right now we have enough space for everybody.” In their mansion, two to three babies share a room.
Hats off to Kristina @batumi_mama and Galip for going after this dream. We wish them the very best as they embark on this courageous journey.
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