Meet the Parents
Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey were an utterly normal couple from Carlisle, near Des Moines, Iowa. Bobbi was a seamstress and was known for her quiet, shy personality, while Kenny had worked at a car dealership before shifting to a powder-coating factory in Des Moines at the recommendation of a friend in 2000 after the kids were born. Not much is known about their life before the period of the pregnancy and birth of the septuplets, mainly because the two were regular folks.
KENNY, BOBBI & MIKAYLA (Photo by Ambassador/Sygma/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
Both of them are Baptists and have always had a close relationship with the church. Little did they know before 1997 that their faith would be put to trial spectacularly, leading to debates and controversies all over the world.