Infamous off-grid mum confesses she breastfed kids until age SIX and has been doing it for the last 10 years

OFF-GRID mum Adele Allen told how she is STILL breastfeeding ten years after first starting - and will happily whip out her 'boob' in public.

The controversial mum, who found fame when her daughter peed live on This Morning, spoke about her unusual decision to extend breastfeeding on a parenting podcast - adding people who criticised her for it probably weren't breastfed themselves.

Adele, husband Matt and three children Ulysses, nine, Ostara, four, and Kai, 18 months, live in Brighton, East Sussex, and follow an 'off grid' way of parenting.

Adele, who previously told Fabulous how she didn't really follow lockdown with trips to the park and seaside, hanging around outside and sprawling in the sunshine, has now revealed she fed her oldest son until he was six.

She told podcast - hosted by Natalie Rees - how she didn't believe in formula or breast milk substitute but initially struggled with feeding Ulysses and for the first two days he didn't take.

But thanks to her "grit" she refused to give up, she said - and since then hasn't stopped.

"It was painful at first," she said. "It took probably a week to really get used to it. It was really my grit and determination that I will not go onto formula milk or any substitute but I just persevered and nearly 10 years on I am still breastfeeding."

Adele explained how she had been criticised after revealing in 2016, when he was then five, that he was still being breastfed.

But she is fine with the criticisms, believing those who mocked her probably hadn't been breastfed themselves.

"The best thing we do as breastfeeding mothers is doing it unashamed in public," she said.

"You can't post [on online forums and in comments] that he [her son] will grow up and be so angry [that he has been breastfed].

"The kind of people who say that are the kind of people who weren't breast fed. They grow up and remember it fondly."

Adele said she breastfed "not with a delicate cover over".

"Have your boob out and be doing it," she said. "It's totally natural. The boobs were not designed as a sexual object. They were designed as a tool to feed babies.

"Even when people are criticising us too, continue to do it and don't be ashamed."

She also told how for the first few days of her eldest son's life she wasn't concerned when he didn't feed.

"He looked fine to me, his lips were hydrated and everything about him looked very peaceful," she told - explaining his very first days.

"I decided I was going to step back and not give him formula - I don't believe in formula.

You can't post that he will grow up and be so angry. The kind of people who say that are the kind of people who weren't breast fed. They grow up and remember it fondly.

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"Then, on the second day, the milk did come through."

Previously husband Matt, 36, has come under fire after he told how he wouldn't work as it wasn't in his 'psyche' - but admitted he was happy to rely on state handouts.

"It takes all of our money pretty much," he explained, revealing how they had recently moved into a three-bed council house after falling out with their previous neighbours and being forced to move into emergency accommodation for around a year.

"It's mostly benefit but we claim the very bottom line, just housing benefit and child tax credit which everyone gets anyway. That's it, which I think if I check in on it is £190 a week."

But Matt was adamant he and Adele were not abusing the system, with him working so few hours.

"I really honestly don't think we are," he said. "We have a minimalist impact on society in many respects

"Adele didn't have births at hospitals so we saved money on that. It is what it is."

And he refused to work a more traditional job for longer hours. "It's simple, I have no intention of spending 45 to 50 hours a week working. It is not in my psyche," he said.

Adele and Matt let the kids decide everything from what time they go to bed (usually around 9pm for Ostara but often as late as midnight for Ulysses), whether they brush their teeth (occasionally) and if they are going to go to school (no, never). 

The kids, despite their young ages, are treated like adults - dictating if, when and what they eat. 

She has not vaccinated any of her children, going so far as to say even if they were to visit a malaria-hit region they would not get the necessary jabs.

She wouldn’t get any future coronavirus vaccination. “I just don’t think it’s necessary,” she said. “The body has its own immune system and I trust in that.

It took probably a week to really get used to it. It was really my grit and determination that I will not go onto formula milk or any substitute but I just persevered and nearly 10 years on I am still breastfeeding.

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"In fact, the coronavirus vaccine is the least likely vaccine I would consider as it has been rushed through development and missed important stages of safety testing.

"My family are not big pharma’s guinea pigs and neither should anyone else’s be.", 

Asked whether she'd take her kids to hospital if they were struck down with coronavirus, she said she'd only do so in the case of an emergency - but doesn't rule out going during the pandemic.

Adele said: "I would only take my kids to hospital in the event of an emergency which I felt I could not handle myself.

"It is very unlikely that I would not take my kids into hospital for flu-like symptoms."

And while lockdown as at its most stringent Adele’s tried to stick to as normal a way of life for her and her family as possible.

 Adele was entirely anti the lockdown measures, thought it was an overreaction and feared it was the government’s way of controlling the UK population.  

It was on this basis Adele publicly announced she would reduce her council tax payments.