The Sun
GROWING up, Christina Ozturk always knew she wanted a big family.
The 23-year-old Russian mum – who lives in Batumi, Georgia, with millionaire husband Galip Ozturk, 56 – welcomed her eldest daughter Vika six years ago.
But when the couple decided it was the right time to extend their family, Christina had her heart set on having multiple babies and paid nine surrogates £7,000 each to carry their 10 biological children.
Speaking to Closer magazine, the mum-of-11 said: “I loved the idea of having lots of children the same age, growing up together.
“It made sense to use surrogates – the children would still be genetically ours, but we could have them all at once.”
As she’d already given birth once, Christina says she didn’t feel like she “missed out on anything” by using surrogates and claims her and Galip were “totally invested” in each of the pregnancies.
What’s more, Christina believes that not carrying the children meant she was “fit and healthy” and ready to take care of them when they started arriving from March 2020.
Although the couple didn’t know the surrogates, Christina says the greatest challenge was not knowing what they were eating – and so she came up with a diet plan so the babies got the right nutrients.
“One of the surrogates struggled to hand our baby over to us,” she added. “It must have been emotional for her, but the child was mine and Galip’s – not hers. Thankfully, she had no legal right to our baby, who is safely at home with us.”
Within just 10 months, Christina went from being a mum-of-one to having 10 babies under one roof.
In order to cope with the childcare, Christina has hired 11 nannies who “work around the clock” to help her.
Giving an insight into her daily routine, the mum-of-11 revealed that her and the nannies are up with the babies from 6:30am and then have playtime for a few hours.
During their 10am nap, Christina and her support workers will prep meals for the week and then take the kids out for a walk before spending the afternoon watching cartoons and reading books.
Earlier this year, Christina revealed that her and Galip are willing to spend up to £800,000 on having 100 babies by surrogate.
The millionaire couple revealed on their social media account they have discussed having a massive 105 children.
“I don’t know how many they will eventually be, but we certainly don’t plan to stop at 10,” said the baby-mad mum.
If the mum wants to hit her goal brood by the time she’s 30 she will have to have 12 kids each year for the next seven years.
The family live in the coastal town of Batumi in Georgia where it is legal to use surrogate mothers in pregnancy.
Moscow-born Christina was a single mum-of-one when she took a holiday in the seaside town and met now-husband Galip, a property and transport magnate originally from Turkey.
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