Tori Ferenc for BI
Sitting in her home on a leafy street in North West London, Rifka Meyer looks fondly at a framed photograph hanging above her dining room table.
The image, taken at her wedding, features her now-husband and the nine children — five hers, four his — who now form their blended family.
"I'm extremely happily married," she says.
But she wasn't always.
Meyer, a devout Orthodox Jew, once shared the house with her former husband, her second.