A woman has opened up about her dad's relationships after revealing he married 27 times.
Mary Jayne Blackmore grew up in a huge family where she'd sit at the table with her parents as well as her dad's 12 other wives.
But having 40 siblings at 14 wasn't anything out of the ordinary, in fact, it felt normal to Mary, who grew up in Bountiful, Canada.
Although the Mormon church banned polygamy in 1890 and it was illegal where they lived, her parents refused to give it up.
Her mum Jane was her dad Winston's first wife and they married at the age of 18 in a small fundamentalist Mormon community.
When her mum was pregnant, Winston, who was made into a bishop, married his second wife Christina, then his third Mary Ann.
It was a loud childhood for Mary, but also there were chores for the young children as jobs were divided by sex.
Girls and mums would prepare meals, while the men and boys did farm jobs, the Sun reports.
Mary claimed: "Make-up and haircuts were banned and we had to be covered from our neck to our wrists and ankles.
"Cigarettes, alcohol, tea and coffee were forbidden. Television, the latest music and modern novels were banned.
"Our free time was spent playing instruments, singing and dancing."
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Even though the rules were strict as Mary grew up, she still enjoyed a normal childhood playing outside with her siblings and friends.
Winston tried to be fair with his kids and he divided his time between an ever-growing number of children, wives and church duties.
And when Mary was 17, she claims a church leader selected a husband for her even though she hadn't even kissed a boy at this point.
A few months later, Sam, 19, travelled from his home for their wedding in April 2000.
By the following summer, Mary and Sam fell in love and they welcomed their daughter in June that year.
As her family was growing, her dad continued to marry and by then she had 80 siblings, ranging from 27 to a few months old.
While her dad's family was expanding, Mary's was too as she welcomed a second child with her husband.
But by 2010 their marriage came to a crumbling end after growing distant due to work and life.
She added: "Our divorce was heartbreaking, but it spurred me on to explore the outside world.
"I tried manifestation and Buddhism, and went on holiday to India and to a music festival in 2012."
Then in 2017, Winston was charged with polygamy even though he was legally married to Mary's mum and the others were "spiritual marriages".
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The following year he was convicted and given six months' house arrest, it was the first polygamy conviction in Canada for more than a century.
Although he is committed to his faith, Mary no longer considers herself a Mormon.
Now with 150 siblings from her dad's 27 marriages, Mary doesn't have close relationships with all of them.
She admitted: "Half of them follow the church, but the rest are finding their own way, and two of my brothers have also practised polygamy.
"At Thanksgiving and New Year, it's nice that many of us still celebrate together. To sit with 200 or more of your relatives is something I will always treasure."
You can buy your own copy of Mary's book "Balancing Bountiful: What I Learned about Feminism from My Polygamist Grandmothers".
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