Fashion victim Karen Gill buys so many designer clothes for her and her five children, she hardly has room to move.

Her bedroom is sometimes so full of the latest labels and her ample family that she is forced to sleep on the dining room sofa.

The former model dotes on her children and gives them with the best outfits money can buy - she just wants them to be the best dressed youngsters in town.

She and her partner Bobby Murray are proud to be described as one of the country's flashiest families. They spend up to £500 every month on bling designer clothing.

Karen and her five children share a two-bedroom house in Whitehawk Way, Brighton.

Daughters Destiny, six, and three-year-old twins Ocean Beau and Unity Vienna were wrapped in £80 Christian Dior blankets when they were born and now have £89 Moschino boots.

With so much money going on clothes they can't move to a bigger house so Karen, who works part-time in a delicatessen, and her three youngest children sleep on a sofa bed.

Meanwhile her older children Desi, 13, and Paris, 17, find space in the bedrooms.

Karen, 38, has no credit card and insists on paying cash, but admits to not checking price tags until she is home.

Cleaning supervisor Bobby, father of the three younger children, lives in a house nearby and shares Karen's attitude to spending.

Despite having a combined household income of £38,000 she insists on her children always looking their best.

She said: "I always had nice clothes from boutiques when I was a little girl because I did modelling. It's just carried on from there."

She added: "At the moment I need to buy summer wardrobes for Desi and Paris but the twins don't need much."

Bobby, 43, added: "Once you're dead you can't spend it can you?"