TLC viewers will get to satisfy the de la Motte household as a part of a brand new particular referred to as Massive Metropolis, Massive Household. The household of 13 is led by dad and mom Marc and Amber de la Motte, who’ve 11 youngsters ranging in ages from one 12 months to 22 years previous.
Apart from the 2 youngest, the de la Motte youngsters all play devices and may usually be discovered busking on the streets of New York Metropolis.
“Just lately relocating from the peaceable suburbs of San Diego to the colourful streets of Harlem, NY, Mac and Amber have rapidly found that elevating 11 children within the Massive Apple is just not for the faint of coronary heart,” a press launch for the particular reveals. “As they juggle their rising household, a brand new way of life, and the challenges of busking collectively on the streets, the de la Mottes are discovering that the fast-paced metropolis life is each exhilarating and overwhelming. With worldly influences at each nook and mounting strain to make it within the metropolis that by no means sleeps, they’ll need to adapt quick—or danger shedding the closeness they’ve labored so exhausting to construct.”
Scroll all the way down to study extra concerning the de la Mottes.
How did Amber and Marc de la Motte meet?
Amber and Marc met in 2000 at an evangelical church in San Diego, in response to The Reduce. Whereas Marc is a contract graphic designer, Amber is a full-time keep at house mother who edits social media footage of the household for his or her The Comfortable Caravan account.
Are the de la Mottes Mormon?
The household is just not Mormon. Amber addressed questions concerning the household’s faith in an October 2022 Instagram submit. “As a mother of 10 I get requested what faith we’re on occasion,” she shared. “We’re simply born once more Christians. Nothing fancy.”
The de la Mottes attend a church in Chinatown. “It’s a regular Christian nondenominational church,” Marc instructed The Free Press. “We go each week however we by no means get there on time.”
When did the de la Mottes transfer to New York?
The household moved to New York throughout summer season 2022. On the time, Amber and Marc had 10 youngsters, with the 9 elder children all taking part within the household’s music group. The household lived in San Diego till 2019 after they briefly relocated to San Francisco earlier than taking their Airstream east.
The choice to maneuver to New York got here after one in all Amber and Marc’s daughters, Pearl, was accepted to Juilliard on full scholarship. Her brother, Josiah, the eldest baby, was attending the Manhattan College of Music as of 2023, whereas siblings Naomi and Noah finally bought accepted into Juilliard as nicely.
The de la Mottes stay in a 4.5 bed room, 5 toilet house in Harlem, paying round $10,000 in hire. Their way of life is just not lavish, as they depend on revenue from their social media accounts to pay the payments.
Who’re the de la Motte children?
In April 2023, 9 of the de la Motte youngsters had been a part of the household’s busking enterprise, which pays for his or her music classes. On the time, the youngest baby, Moses, was a bit too younger to partake, however he was already studying the cello at beneath two years previous. They welcomed child No. 11 in December 2023.
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The youngsters had been all homeschooled earlier than being accepted into varied music packages.
The de la Motte youngsters play string devices. Josiah, Naomi, Chloé, Enoch, and Melody all play violin, whereas Pearl is the viola prodigy. Elijah, Anna, and Moses are skilled on cello, and Noah performs the double bass. Child Neta continues to be too younger to have a specialty simply but.
Amber and Marc haven’t written off the thought of getting extra youngsters. “It’s like, ‘Yeah, why not?’” Marc instructed The Free Press (though that was a couple of months earlier than Neta was born).
Massive Metropolis, Massive Household, Premiere, Tuesday, February 25, 10/9c, TLC