EXCITED to be leaving the maternity ward with her new baby girl, Le Anne Carol rifles through her hospital bag and picks out a £200 bespoke Gucci babygrow. Only the very best will do for her daughter Rae who has been kitted out in expensive designer gear since the moment she was born. She’s now six months old, has a £1.
7k white leather pram that she's yet to use, and a wardrobe worth an eye-watering £8k which is bursting with clothes from Versace, Ralph Lauren and Armani. And because Rae is always dressed so immaculately, she’s often mistaken for a doll. But Le Anne, 37, isn’t rich, she’s a single mum who pays £130 a week for a four-bed council house and claims benefits so her six kids are clothed and fed.
She says she goes without so she can keep Rae, as well as her five siblings Pierre, 15, Harry, 12, Tyler, five, girls Leigh, 11, and May who is ten, kitted out in designer clothes and trainers. READ MORE ON SPOILT KIDS And while Le Anne is used to being judged for her spending even by strangers, she couldn’t care less. “I got shocked looks from other mums on the hospital ward when they saw me pulling out tiny Ralph Lauren, Armani and Burberry baby clothes,” she says.
“When I took Rae home, she was decked out in a bespoke Gucci especially for the occasion and since that day, putting Rae in designer outfits has brought me joy. It makes me happy. “People moan how I dress my little girl and when I take her shopping I hear women whispering that she looks li.