A mum-of-eight dubbed the 'welfare queen' has raked in around £500,000 in government handouts – and used it to fund a luxury transformation. Marie Buchan, 42, from Birmingham, has been dubbed 'octomum' and has spent the majority of her adult life on benefits. Despite most people on benefits struggling to get through, that couldn't be further for the truth for Marie.
She openly admits that being on benefits has "never" held her back from "doing anything". Instead of dragging her family through on the breadline, single parent Marie has spent her benefits on a horse, a boob job and a 'designer' vagina - just to name a few things. Her extreme purchases through the assistance of taxpayers' cash has earned Marie relentless insults, such as people calling her 'scrounger', 'scum' and 'trashy'.
Although she recognises she has a lot of "luxuries", the mum, who lives in a four-bed house near Birmingham, understands that relying on benefits might not have been the best route. Marie is now looking to transform her life from the 'welfare queen' to a 'working queen', she tells . Though, she's faced her fair share of backlash for her benefit bagging ways.
Controversy kicked off back in 2018 when the mum with a big brood admitted she splashed £1,500 to travel to cosmetic surgery hotspot Turkey. Marie used her benefits money to take her chest from a 34A to a 34D. She then spent £600 on a horse and an additional £100 to keep the animal at a yard.
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