26-year-old mom has 22 kids mostly born in the same year via surrogacy
What are your life goals at 26 years old? For a Russian woman, it’s having over a hundred children. She has 22 so far—with 20 of them born within a year.
Kristina Ozturk recently shared an Instagram Reel of her "huge and amazing family," which she describes as a "priceless treasure." The video showed her and her children—21 of whom were born via surrogacy—appearing one by one as they wear white shirts.
“Victoria, Mustafa, Maryam, Irene, Alice, Hassan, Judy, Harper, Hussein, Teresa, Anna, Isabella, Ismail, Mehmet, Ahmet, Ali, Christina, Alyona, Sarah, Lokman, Alparslan and Olivia—they are our happiness!” Kristina said in the caption. “Each of them gives warmth and love!”
The young mom, who’s living in Batumi in Georgia, is married to a 58-year-old millionaire named Galip.
The Sun previously reported the Ozturks paid $195,000 (P10.8 million) to surrogates between March 2020 and July 2021.
They also spend $96,000 (P5.3 million) on 16 live-in nannies in a year.
The Daily Mail reported that Galip was sentenced to eight years in prison early this year after being found guilty of illegal purchase and possession of drugs.
“At the moment our dad is far away from us and the kids miss him so much! We are looking forward to it!” Kristina said in her post.
She also noted that they’re putting all efforts "to raise our children healthy, happy, honest people, filling their hearts with light and kindness."
In 2021, the then-23-year-old Kristina, who had 11 babies at the time, said she and her husband were looking to have a total of 105 children.
Surrogacy is an arrangement in which the woman agrees to bear a child that someone else will raise, be it a couple or a single parent. The biological father may provide the sperm cell, though the surrogate can also be artificially inseminated with an already-fertilized egg in a process called in vitro fertilization or IVF.
