A young mother from Cranbourne Victoria has used Facebook to start up her first home based business.

Lizzy Charlton, 20, is the creator of the growing Facebook group ‘M.I.L.Fs’ – Mums in Love with Fitness – which has just recently gained over 2000 followers in the last 8 months.

Starting as a small group of local mums, MILFS has now reached to mothers not only around Australia, but internationally as well.

“We have members all over Australia but also America, Canada, England, Ireland, Germany, Korea, and heaps more too It’s actually so crazy!” says Lizzy.

The Facebook group offers its members fitness, health and well-being tips as well as on-going support. Lizzy has also started selling M.I.L.F singlets and jumpers to her members.

Lizzy wearing one of her M.I.L.F tops

“We have sold around 90 M.I.L.Fs singlets. In the beginning I was painting them myself at home with screen ink and a stencil we made and we now get them made professionally with a local business,” says Lizzy.

As of November 2013, there are 25 million small business pages on Facebook globally, with small business owners sharing their products and services as far as they can.

“One of the greatest things about my business being on social media would be that I’m able to talk to and help women all over the world not just the local ones,” says Lizzy.

Facebook recognises small businesses if they are posting monthly and are actively managed accounts, a standard which Ms Chartlon has exceeded.

“We all share our triumphs and slip ups, progress and photos of our yummy healthy food, our workouts, any questions and of course some photos of our cute kiddies – that’s what us mums do!” says Lizzy who is mum to 18 month old Oskar.

Lizzy’s partner Chris, 26, has been her main source of support since the group began in August 2013.

“I think it’s amazing what she has done, not only for her but hundreds of others as well. Her confidence and leadership skills grow every day. I really am so, so proud of her.”

In the near future, Lizzy hopes to run personal M.I.L.Fs bootcamps and training sessions, as well as create more merchandise for her members.

She is currently studying Master Training at the Australian Institute of fitness and hopes to complete the course by August this year.

The positive feedback from group members

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