A California woman who has spent 16 years of the past two decades pregnant with 12 children said she believes children are “a blessing.”
“And if it’s a blessing, then who am I to stop it?” said Iris Purnell, 38.
Purnell said she first gave birth to a son in 2004 and then married Cordell “Storm” Purnell, who already had a son himself.
The couple had a son together shortly after getting married, so “we had three children at the start of our marriage,” Cordell Purnell said.
Purnell said she did not plan on being a stay-at-home mother, but things changed for her in 2006 when she gave birth to a daughter.
“I was trying to find life at that time because I never wanted to be a stay-at-home mom,” she said. “That wasn’t what I wanted to do, so it was a struggle for me mentally because I didn’t know how to articulate that I wasn’t happy.”
She said she was saved and “found a new life and a new meaning of purpose.”
“That’s when I…
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