Earlier this week, the 33-year-old's publicist Mike Furtney confirmed that his client was receiving $490 (£340) a month in food stamps and an undisclosed amount of "federal supplemental security income" to help care for three of her older children, who suffer from unspecified disabilities. She had initially insisted that she was raising her family without governmental aid, something Mr Furtney said was down to her not considering the payments to be "welfare".