In this month of April 2022, new tribes have landed on the air of Large families, life in XXL. In front of the TF1 cameras, in addition to Amandine Pellissard and her eight children or even Nasser and Rofrane Bambara who are raising their quadruplets, the Servières clan arrives. Laëtitia, pregnant and on maternity leave, and her companion Sébastien, a construction worker, are at the head of a family of eight children: Maëva (17 years old), Maëlys (15 years old), Mandy (12 years old), Leny ( 10 years old), Manaëlle (8 years old), Melya (soon to be 6 years old), Milyana (3 and a half years old), and the youngest Léo (1 and a half years old).
The purpose of this participation in the hit show on the front page? “We want to prove that we are ordinary people and break the clichés around large families. We are given a hard time because we have lots of children when we are like everyone else!“, explains the mother to our colleagues from Entertainment TV. And, above all, Laëtitia promises to prove that her family can work miracles with a limited wallet. “You will see that with an XXS budget and an XXL family, we manage to get by and have projects. You just have to organize and save a minimum“, she assures.
This is how the clan settled in Ariège, in Occitania, pays attention to the slightest expense, especially food. “Typically, we set an amount for shopping. He turns around 150 and 200 euros per week. But I recognize that it is often outdatedconfides the mother of the family. So I try to cook as many homemade dishes as possible so as not to spend too much.“And then, sometimes, Laëtitia and Sébastien have to make sacrifices…”There are little extras that we cannot afford all the time, such as snacks, which are quite expensive for us“, explains this mother.
The Servières have a shopping budget that differs from some other clans in Large families, life in XXL. Indeed, the Blois had indicated spending between 300 and 350 euros each week to feed the tribe made up of eleven people in total. For her part, Amandine Pellissard revealed that she spends 590 euros weekly, “around fifty euros“, in food shopping. A sum that had turned the heads of internet users…