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Jasmine Allday

Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen hits back at critics over kids' birthday plans

Amanda Owen says her critics will be "mortified" by how she celebrates her kids' birthdays.

The Our Yorkshire Farm star has nine children with her husband Clive but she thinks her fans will be less impressed that she celebrates her kids' birthdays "en masse" with a huge summer party.

Speaking on Sophie Ellis Bextor’s podcast Spinning Plates, she said: "When the children are little, because I’ve got various ones that have birthdays in the summer, we would also have birthdays en masse.

"They tend to bunch up through the summer, so you’ll have to make out of that what you like.

Amanda and her nine children (Channel 5)

"But basically, while they are little and they don’t know what day their birthday is, it makes absolute sense to just cram them all in."

She added: "Some people will be mortified and be like ‘oh but what about their special day!"

And Amanda does a similar thing when it comes to visits from the tooth fairy.

"Things have got so sort of bad at our house that we have an accumulated en masse visit of the tooth fairy," she said.

"We’re just like ‘put it under the pillow every night until the tooth fairy can actually be bothered to come to the house!'"

Amanda has Raven, 20, Reuben, 16, Miles, 15, Edith, 12, Violet, 10, Sidney, nine, Annas, seven, Clemmy, five, and Nancy, four, with her husband Clive and she recently said that she doesn't even feel contractions anymore after having nine kids.

"The only way I know that I am in labour is because I start feeling a bit off, grotty, queasy, not quite right," she explained in her book.

"Because I spend my time calving cows and lambing sheep, it seemed to me that having a baby was going to be the most natural thing in the world.

"I am no earth mother, hippy type, but I am a great believer in nature."

Amanda revealed she even gave birth to six of her children at the roadside because she wasn't able to reach a hospital in time.

"I was so fed up of spoiling people’s picnics and all the rest of it," she told This Morning earlier this year.

"So, I thought right well, this time I’m just going to go it alone."

Amanda described her love with Clive as a "slow burn" after they met in the middle of the night whilst searching for a lost ram.

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