Unemployed mum who has six kids with three different dads blasts critics and insists she’s ‘NOT a benefits sponge or a slag'

Natalee Carucci, 35, appeared on Who Needs A Man When You've Got A Spray Tan last week, which is a new series exploring how single mums provide for their children.

Described as having "six kids from three different fellas", Natalee's episode revolved around her efforts to organise her 13-year-old daughter Maddie's dream birthday party and driving around in a swish black BMW.

Delving into her financial situation, Natalee told cameras: "My current situation is I am claiming benefits and I have to budget. Some weeks are really tight but it’s me being creative.

"I am really good at budgeting, I don’t go out shopping buying things for myself, and the money that I would spend doing that instead goes into the children."

The show – which has been temporarily taken off the air after Natalee's episode – has been accused of reinforcing stereotypes about single mothers by unimpressed viewers.

However, the single mum – who lives in Knowsley, Liverpool – was unhappy with how the show was received and hit back at "haters" in a social media rant.

Sharing the clip on her Facebook page Natalee Singemums, the mum said she wanted to "set the facts straight" after letting "the world into my life".

She said: "The facts are, I am a single parent. I have six children to three different men.

"The first relationship, I was married for ten-plus years, second was three years, third was eight-plus years and we were engaged to be married."

"Things don't work out, s*** happens. You have got to move on with your life, that's what you gotta do."

Insisting that she never "asked to be a single parent", the mum added: "Clearly, it's not fun. It's hard.

"But we have to do what we have to do."

However, the mum made a point of hitting back at viewers who criticised how she was spending her benefits.

She added: "I am not a benefit sponge, I have always worked my whole life.

"I am not a slag because I have three different kid's dads.

"Yes I do claim benefits, I have worked all my life, I have worked heavily pregnant, through my pregnancies, I don't work now because I have two children with special needs."

One of Natalee's younger daughters contracted bacterial meningitis when she was a baby which has left long-lasting damage on the brain.

Natalee said: "This poor little girl has been to hell and back, she has been through lots and lots of stuff.

"She couldn't walk when she was little, she couldn't talk, she has had to have speech therapy, physiotherapy, you name it."

Additionally, Natalee's son was born with bowel problems which makes it difficult for him to go to the toilet on his own.

She added: "We have a machine that we used to help him empty his bowel. He has had several operations in the past couple of years with weeks of recovery after some of them.

"It's hard being a single parent, it is extremely hard being a single parent to a child with special needs."

Moreover, Natalee insists she's not a "benefit sponge" because her children's conditions mean she "physcially can't work."

She added: "I adore my kids, my kids are my whole world. Everything I do is because of my kids, my whole life basically revolves around them.

"They come before me every single time, I walk round in old clothes, if my kids need something, they are going to get it."

Responding to viewers who criticised her for spending her money on her appearance, Natalee admitted: "Yeah, I do get my hair done, obviously.

"The last time I got my lips done was about four years ago, I don't get it on the regular, just with all the comments that are being said, I haven't had it done since."

But overall, the reality star claims the whole premise of the series is about "empowering women, it's about showing women, single parents, single mums, single dads, that you can do it, it is hard, but you can do it."

Natalee also insisted that she's raising her six children to be "very respectful, well mannered" and "moral" people.

She added: "They don't hang around on street corners, like little thugs. My children are brought up, not dragged up. And there is a huge difference between that.

"I am far, far from perfect, I have never once claimed to be a perfect person or a perfect parent, I make mistakes on the daily, all the time, but I do the best that I possibly can, I try for the best of my ability to be a good mum and to be a good parent."

For more real life stories, this mum-of-ten on benefits has revealed she "never used a condom" and has vowed to have "no more babies".

And this rich kid who drives a £40k Mercedes-Benz moved in with a struggling family-of-three who survive on just £1k a month in this week's Rich Kids Go Skint.

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