A mum-of-11 who had her first child aged 14 has revealed she is expecting her 12th baby.
Veronica Merritt, from New York, uploaded a video of her ultrasound to her popular Instagram and TikTok accounts @thismadmama.
Despite rules prohibiting photography at appointments, the mum-of-many wrote that she couldn't resist capturing the moment.
'Unjust rules must be broken. Or something like that,' she wrote as a caption, adding hashtags '#12kids' and '#cheaperbythedozen.'
Veronica was just 14 and in ninth grade when she found out she was three months pregnant with her first child Victoria, who is now 21 years old.
Her son Andrew, now 16, came five years later during her first marriage.
Veronica's has received negative comments from social media users who think her children are all from different fathers - which isn't true.
After her first marriage broke down, she married Marty, 37, who she had seven more children with.
Marty and Veronica had Adam, 15, Mara, 13, Dash, 12, Darla, 10, Marvelous, eight, Martalya, six, Amelia, four, Delilah, three, and Donovan, one, as well as the child she is currently expecting.
Speaking to The Sun earlier this year, Veronica revealed she doesn't use contraception due to health concerns.
'I graduated high school with honors. I attempted college but got sick both times,' she said. 'I have kidney disease and lost my kidney last year.'
'Some of the children were planned,' she added. 'But I can't take hormonal birth control because my illness means I am prone to blood clots.'
The mum-of-12 has spent over eight years of her life pregnant.
But earlier this year she had a miscarriage, and didn't believe her body would be able to carry another child - despite her wanting even more.
'I haven’t ruled out more children,' she said in Augsut. 'I would like to have six more.'
The enormous family live in a nine-bedroom home they bought for around $20,000 to renovate.
To get the kids to class, Veronica piles them into a school bus.
The 36-year-old has almost 100,000 TikTok followers and she uses the platform to share details of her life with 11 kids.
She uses a colour-coding system to dress each of them, which started with dressing her two eldest Victoria and Andrew in pink and blue based on their genders.
Veronica says her colour-coding system is "incorporated into almost everything".
"It's almost obsessive", she said.
