I'm sorry - I didn't laugh when I read it this morning and I think she should go to prison if she doesn't pay. She deliberately defrauded those companies - because if she'd been honest, they'd not have loaned her anything. She used the money to buy presents - not food or clothes or heating, with which I might have had some sympathy. Now she's in the papers, hoping to get it paid off or dodge the consequences by blaming the loan companies and playing the victim.
And let it please or offend, there's a picture of her two children with that article, and it is blatantly obvious they have different fathers because her son is mixed race and her daughter is white. So there are TWO fathers and this lazy creature involved, and yet the rest of us are paying her way and looking after her kids whilst she thieves still more.