Sue Radford shared a glimpse into her Britain’s biggest family’s Easter weekend as they enjoyed an egg hunt at a campsite.
The mother-of-22 and her husband Noel, from Morecambe, Lancashire, shared snippets of their oversized family holiday in their campervan with some of their youngest children over the weekend.
In a snap posted to the Radford family’s Instagram page, Hallie, 8, Phoebe, 7, Bonnie, 5, Heidie, 3, and Archie, 6 can be seen running around looking for Easter eggs .
The children beamed with enthusiasm as they completed a questionnaire, in the hope of winning chocolate treats.
Captioning a photo of the children, Sue, 48, wrote: “Such a lovely morning on the campsite Easter egg hunt, hope you have a lovely Easter.”
Sue Radford shared a glimpse of her family’s Easter weekend as they enjoyed an egg hunt at a campsite
The five children who participated in the egg hunt are the youngest of Sue and Noel’s 22 broods.
They are also the parents of Chris, 34, Sophie, 30, Chloe, 28, Jack, 26, Daniel, 25, Luke, 23, Millie, 22, Katie, 21, James 21, Ellie, 18, Tilly, 13, Oscar, 12 and Casper 11.
It comes after Sue revealed she considered leaving her husband Noel after he struggled with their business in the 2000s.
The couple – who are parents to the UK’s “biggest family” with 22 children – then invested in a location on the high street in Cumbria’s bustling Kendal district to expand their baking business.
But an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease – believed to have cost the UK economy a total of £8bn – hit the country and devastated both countries.
Speaking to the Mirror, Sue admitted she struggled to see how their “marriage would survive”.
“There were days when I thought: ‘that’s it, I’m leaving the business and Christmas, I can’t take it anymore,’ she revealed.
“But our marriage has always been strong – and having children has kept us going. We stayed together and got through it. It was sink or swim and we chose to swim.
Captioning a photo of the children, Sue, 48, wrote: “Such a lovely morning doing the Easter egg hunt at the campsite, hope you have a lovely Easter”
In a snap posted to the Radford family’s Instagram page, Hallie, 8, Phoebe, 7, Bonnie, 5, Heidie, 3, and Archie, 6, can be seen running around looking for eggs. Easter.
The mother-of-22 and her husband Noel, from Morecambe, Lancashire, shared clips from their family holiday in their campervan.
The Radford clan all reunited at Christmas, after a busy and eventful festive episode of 22 Kids & Counting, on Channel 5
The couple also spoke about the difficult time in a previous episode of Channel 5’s 22 Kids & Counting in March last year.
The parents explained that at the time they were “very proud” to have their own business in Heysham, Lancashire and “wanted to expand”.
They took out a “huge” loan to invest in their prosperous dream – only to find themselves faced with a national disaster.
“At first it went really well,” Noel said. “Things were going well – and soon after – foot and mouth disease hit the country and to be honest I think Cumbria was one of the worst affected areas.”
Cumbria, with some 893 cases, has been badly hit by the outbreak, leaving the region devastated.
“It just killed tourism,” Noel added, as the family was plunged into despair.
“I can’t even describe it, it just caused so much stress,” Sue revealed. “You went to bed thinking about debt, you woke up thinking about debt, you woke up at night thinking about debt…
“If anything was going to make us divorce, this was it.”