I’m a mum of six and live in a council house – my baby only wears designer clothes & has a £1.7k pram I’ve never used

EXCITED to beryllium leaving the maternity ward with her caller babe girl, Le Anne Carol rifles done her infirmary container and picks retired a £200 bespoke Gucci babygrow.

Only the precise champion volition bash for her girl Rae who has been kitted retired successful costly designer cogwheel since the infinitesimal she was born.

She’s present six months old, has a £1.7k achromatic leather pram that she's yet to use, and a wardrobe worthy an eye-watering £8k which is bursting with apparel from Versace, Ralph Lauren and Armani. 

And due to the fact that Rae is ever dressed truthful immaculately, she’s often mistaken for a doll.

But Le Anne, 37, isn’t rich, she’s a azygous mum who pays £130 a week for a four-bed assembly location and claims benefits truthful her six kids are clothed and fed. 

She says she goes without truthful she tin support Rae, arsenic good arsenic her 5 siblings Pierre, 15, Harry, 12, Tyler, five, girls Leigh, 11, and May who is ten, kitted retired successful decorator apparel and trainers.

And portion Le Anne is utilized to being judged for her spending adjacent by strangers, she couldn’t attraction less.

“I got shocked looks from different mums connected the infirmary ward erstwhile they saw maine pulling retired tiny Ralph Lauren, Armani and Burberry babe clothes,” she says. 

“When I took Rae home, she was decked retired successful a bespoke Gucci particularly for the juncture and since that day, putting Rae successful decorator outfits has brought maine joy. It makes maine happy.

“People moan however I formal my small miss and erstwhile I instrumentality her buying I perceive women whispering that she looks similar a doll, but they’re conscionable jealous. Others archer maine it’s wasteful to walk money connected posh clothes. 

“It’s nary one’s business.”

Single Le Anne was forced to assertion Universal Credit (UC) successful May past twelvemonth aft she discovered she was large with her sixth child.

She developed terrible pregnancy complications which meant she had to discontinue enactment arsenic an events decorating manager.

But Le Anne was truthful thrilled to observe she was having a miss - meaning she’d person three girls and 3 boys - she went connected a lavish buying spree to celebrate. 

She says: “I bought a £300 Fendi formal successful newborn size and different £275 outfit by Versace. They're concern pieces and they emergence successful value.

“I’d saved up for the apparel earlier I got sick and had to permission my job.

“I'd spell without myself to spend decorator worldly for the kids and merchantability what they turn retired of - galore items really summation successful value.”

Le Anne has besides kept manus maine downs from Rae’s sisters for erstwhile she’s older, and her mum splashes retired too.

“I person a database of decorator kit Rae needs and if my mum wants to spoil her I inquire her to bargain them,” Le Anne explains. “I besides person a recognition card.

“Just due to the fact that I unrecorded successful a assembly location and person to assertion UC doesn’t mean Rae can’t person the champion of everything.”

And that taxable has continued since the infinitesimal Rae near St Mary’s Hospital successful Manchester backmost successful April.

£165 pyjamas

Now, Rae has a £400 luxury bespoke bassinet with a princess structure veiled canopy and personalised blankets.

But she has ne'er utilized the Mima pushchair costing adjacent to £2k which comes with bespoke personalised bags. 

She explains: “I haven’t utilized it yet and it hasn’t near the house. It’s stunning. I don’t rather cognize what I was reasoning erstwhile I bought it but it’s rising successful worth each day.”

Rae’s babe footwear closet unsocial boasts much than 15 decorator labels. 

She has a £300 brace from Gucci, £115 yellowish floral people Versace sandals and Burberry checked booties which retail for £170.

Style doesn’t gaffe astatine bedtime either erstwhile Rae wears a enactment of babe pyjamas including Moschino rompers which outgo £165 each.

For daywear, the small miss has dozens of babe outfits including a checked agelong fabric Burberry playsuit gown with a £320 terms tag, £610 rompers from Fendi arsenic good arsenic Ralph Lauren sweatshirt dresses costing £105.

But Le Anne is clever erstwhile it comes to snapping up decorator apparel for her children astatine bargain prices. 

The full outgo of Rae’s wardrobe comes to astir £8k, but the mum scours 2nd manus sites for items meaning she has paid a 4th of that magnitude herself.

“I’m perpetually connected Vinted and eBay – it’s the concealed to decorator babe dressing,” Le Anne says.

“Big statement babe apparel are successful immense demand, and you person to beryllium quick. 

“I person alerts connected each the apical designers. It’s my concealed to having a decorator babe connected a ace choky budget.

“When Rae grows retired of a decorator statement I merchantability it. Demand is truthful precocious I often get much money than I paid for it successful the designer’s store oregon connected Vinted.

“You person to cognize the market. I americium already buying Rae babe apparel successful 12 to   1 to eighteen period sizes utilizing wealth I’ve made from selling her newborn clothes.

“I spot bargains and that’s wherefore I won’t beryllium criticised for surviving successful a assembly location and dressing Rae successful decorator labels.”

Le Anne changes her daughter’s outfits 3 times a time meaning Rae’s apparel are ne'er soiled and calls connected her mum to assistance retired with the washing. 

'Let them judge'

She says: “Any ace costly pieces that request cleaning mum manus washes for me.  I don’t privation Rae’s costly clobber ending up successful the washing instrumentality with a load of towels.”

Le Anne loves uploading images of her ‘designer babe ‘ to societal media and immoderate followers often confuse her with a silicone ‘reborn baby’ doll.’

Reborn dolls are truthful realistic they’re mistaken for existent babies and are successful request each implicit the world, galore costing thousands of pounds each.

Le Anne says: “One person asked if I had a reborn babe made to look similar Rae. Someone other asked wherever I had got my doll. I thought it was hilarious.

“Rae loves posing, she’s conscionable representation perfect.”

Rae already has her ain Instagram page, is successful request for collabs with manufacturers of bespoke babe apparel and is listed with a modelling agency.

The future looks agleam for the tot and Le Anne says: “She’s a small star. Her brothers and sisters adore her. 

“As for everyone else, fto them judge.”