The Radford family gushed over their mum Sue as they celebrated her 48th birthday at home on Wednesday.
The mother of Britain’s biggest family, from Morecambe, Lancashire, received a sweet tribute from her husband Noel and her children on Instagram.
The star of Channel 5’s ’22 Kids and Counting’ reality show was treated to a home- cooked dinner from her children Katie, 19, and Aimee, 16, and a birthday cake.
Leading the tributes Noel, 52, posted a sweet throwback snap of his wife at the beach to his Instagram stories.
He wrote: ‘A big happy birthday to this beauty. We all love you sooooo much. Won’t say how old, but still younger than me.’
The Radford family gushed over their mum Sue (pictured) as they celebrated her 48th birthday at home in Morecambe, Lancashire on Wednesday
Elsewhere, the couple’s daughter Katie gushed over how young her mum still looks in her late 40s.
She wrote on her Instagram stories: ‘Happy birthday to my favourite lady ever. I love and appreciate you so, so much. Another year only and I would say you don’t look a day over 20.’
Sharing a snap of her daughters cooking her a birthday dinner of sausage rolls and burgers Sue gushed over how ‘lucky’ she is.
She wrote: ‘Being told to sit down while @katieradfordd and @radford.aimee do my birthday tea. I’m so lucky.’
Sue also took to her own Instagram account to share her gratitude for being spoilt by her adoring family.
Sharing a snap of her blowing out her birthday candles she wrote: ‘Huge thank you for all my birthday wishes. I’ve had the best day and been thoroughly spoilt. Feeling very loved.’
It comes after Sue managed to dodge serious injury after being involved in a terrifying car crash.
The reality TV star recently told her 507,000 Instagram followers that nobody was injured in the smash on Monday.
Sharing a snap of her blowing out her birthday candles she thanked everyone for their birthday wishes
The star of Channel 5’s ’22 Kids and Counting’ reality show was treated to a home cooked dinner from her children Katie, 19, and Aimee, 16, and a birthday cake
Elsewhere, the couple’s daughter Katie gushed over how young her mum still looks as she marks another year older
She wrote: ‘Not how I expected my day to go but thankfully everyone was ok. The car isn’t but it’s only metal and can be sorted.’
The crash comes after an announcement that the family would be taking a ‘well-earned little break’ from filming ahead of the start of the new series.
The Radfords share their 10-bedroom house, formerly a care home, in Morecambe with 19 children.
They list their children as Chris, Sophie, Chloe, Jack, Daniel, Luke, Millie, Katie, James, Ellie, Aimee, Josh, Max, Tillie, Oscar, Casper, Hallie, Phoebe, Archie, Bonnie and Heidie.
The parents lost their 17th child, Alfie, in July 2014.
The show ’22 Kids and Counting’ provides an insight into their day-to-day lives together, with the parents reflecting on different challenges and why they have such a big family.
Leading the tributes Noel, 52, posted a sweet throwback snap of his wife to his Instagram stories and joked he won’t reveal her age
The mother of Britain’s biggest family received a sweet gushing tribute from her husband Noel and her children on Instagram
The mum-of-22 Sue ended her ‘perfect’ birthday by watching Benidorm in bed with chocolates
Season three followed the Radfords as the United Kingdom prepared to go into lockdown during the Covid pandemic.
British viewers were introduced to the family in ’15 Kids and Counting’ in 2012, a series looking at how big families organised and coped with ordinary tasks.
Over the last 11 years, they have built a steady following, garnering 359,000 subscribers and over 71 million views on YouTube, where they share vlogs, hauls and ‘challenges’.
Addressing fans last week, they wrote: ‘We truly appreciate each and every comment and message we’ve received so thank you.
‘So chuffed to say our programme was no.1 on ch5 most Sundays and doing really well on my5 every week with it being the most watched programme on my5.’
Noel and Sue met when she was seven.
In 2019, on their Channel 4 documentary ’21 Kids and Counting’, the narrator revealed that the then-42-year-old mother first became pregnant with Christopher ’29 years ago’, which viewers worked out would have made her 13.
Her husband, five years her senior, would have been 17 or 18.
After marrying in 1993, they welcomed their second child, Sophie, when Ms Radford was 17.
Most recently, Heidie was born in April 2020, at the start of the lockdowns.
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