An unemployed mother of eight has bragged about the estimated £500,000 she’s pocketed while on benefits. Marie Buchan, 42, has managed to get a boob job, a ‘designer vagina’ and a horse, despite spending her adult life living exclusively on benefits. She’s been dubbed Britain’s ‘welfare queen’, and the former lap dancer has faced outrage for her laissez-faire approach to money.
In 2018, she got a £1,500 boob job in Turkey – and told The Sun that being on benefits has ‘never held her back’, but she does have one regret. Marie, who said she ‘didn’t have a lot’ growing up, first went on benefits when she had her first baby at the age of 19. She stayed on them to ‘dedicate herself’ to raising her children, saying there was little incentive to work as they’re ‘better off’ on benefits.
Marie, from Birmingham, said: ‘I have had a lot of luxuries. I paid £600 upfront for the horse and then had to pay an additional £100 a month to keep him at the yard. Food was around £25 a month.
‘It was a big mistake. I was rubbing it in people’s faces and I was showing off and I really regret that. ‘He’s now gone because I couldn’t afford to keep him.
Maybe if I go back to work I could buy another one.’ She said she paid for her plastic surgeries with money from car boot sales, and added she understands why people were outraged. ‘It’s very easy to sit in the system for the rest of your life,’ she said.
She’s received a lot of backlash f.
