22 Kids and Counting's Noel Radford, dad to Britain's biggest family, detailed his account of when his now-wife Sue Radford fell pregnant at the young age of 13, and defended their four-year age gap.
Noel, 53, said that they "were both just kids" when he discovered he was going to be a dad for the first time. At that time, Noel was 17 while Sue was below the legal age of consent.
In their book titled The Radfords: Making Life Count, Noel opens up about the scrutiny they faced when their youthful fling resurfaced due to their public image on television.
He said: "People have inevitably talked about the situation and it has been written about in the newspapers and discussed on social media.There has been a lot of focus on it and, in a way, it was probably worse for us than when it actually happened.
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