{"id":275443,"date":"2022-09-05T15:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=275443"},"modified":"2022-09-02T21:32:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T02:32:54","slug":"family-12-children-viral-large-family-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/family-12-children-viral-large-family-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Family with 12 children goes viral on social media: ‘Children are a blessing’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A family with children born over the course of the last 16 years has gone viral on TikTok for videos featuring their large family.<\/p>\n

Iris Purnell and her husband, Cordell “Storm” Purnell, have 12 children together, and post videos of their family adventures on TikTok, where they have gone viral. Purnell has over 500,000 followers<\/a> and over six million likes, and online, they’re known as the Storm Family.<\/p>\n

When the couple originally met<\/a>, both came to the marriage with one child each; by the end of their first year of married life, they had welcomed a baby together. “We got together, got to know each other,” Cordell Purnell told Fox News<\/a>. “We got married and had our first son together shortly after. So, we had three children at the start of our marriage.”<\/p>\n

From there, the children just kept coming, and Purnell said she would have more children if she could. Yet it wasn’t always easy for her; she had to take a break from her job as a choreographer to focus on her family, and initially, she struggled. “I was trying to find life at that time because I never wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. That wasn’t what I wanted to do,” she said. “So, it was a struggle for me mentally because I didn’t know how to articulate that I wasn\u2019t happy.”<\/p>\n

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