Filmmaker Mark Laita documented the Whittaker family, considered America’s most inbred, in a YouTube video as they introduced their baby boy, Braxton, at their home in West Virginia
A West Virginia family that has been deemed America’s most inbred has welcomed a baby boy, whose grandmother proudly held him in a recent video by documentary filmmaker and photographer Mark Laita.
Laita has been filming the family for years, posting clips of them that show their lifestyle in a quaint community in the mountainous state to his 4.9 million-subscriber YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly.
Last week, he took the Whittakers to the state fair and documented the experience in a video titled “The Whittakers Go To The State Fair.” It opens with him and his partner approaching their humble house, where they’re immediately greeted by Betty, the family’s matriarch.
“Who’s the little baby?” Laita asks her, and she points to 20-year-old Brandon, who’s sitting in a chair nearby talking to his grandfather, the family patriarch, Larry.