Octomom Keeps Her Critics Watching
Posted on Aug 20, 2009 @ 11:00AM
Compelling. Controversial. Crazy. Whatever your thoughts on Nadya 'Octomom' Suleman are, you can't help but to watch.
And Suleman returned front and center to the spotlight Wednesday with a Fox prime-time special, Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage. The two-hour special featured never-before-seen footage in the mother-of-14's odyssey after giving birth to eight kids in January, as well as clips RadarOnline.com compiled in tracking Suleman's daily activities the past seven months.
Reviews poured in nationwide over the scintillating TV special.
"The tabloid tale," the New York Daily News wrote, "was an oddly fascinating look into the life of a woman who alternates between totally dysfunctional and easily sympathetic. There was no host, or no narration, just off-camera producers asking questions and Suleman answering. Those moments were mixed with plenty of shots of screaming kids."
Describing the chaotic scene when Suleman brought the first two of the octuplets home, the New Jersey Star-Ledger wrote: "With thinly-veiled glee, she complains half-heartedly about how aggressive they are, bumping their cameras on the car windows trying to get a shot. 'What am I, the president?' she asks, a horrible parody of what an actual celebrity might say, puffed up with self-importance."
The Star-Ledger opined on one of the more poignant moments in the special, comparing Suleman to reality TV programs: "None of your Jon and Kate Plus 8 sanitized images of family bliss here: at one point, while on a trip to the park with half a dozen of the kids including some of the babies, her two-year-old started acting up, hitting the babies. She tried putting him in time out, which he ignored, and when she tried to put him back he bit her and called her 'Bitch.'"
The special, according to the New York Times, "failed to produce a second's worth of contrarian evidence that Nadya Suleman isn't a self-obsessed, publicity-driven lunatic."
"One of Ms. Suleman's explanations for why she had 14 children as a single mother is that she is an only child," the paper said. "That should scare anyone banking on a single-child family enough to reconsider."
The Los Angeles Times had more not-so-nice things to say about Suleman, calling her "the reigning queen of bad-parent porn. My guess is that today a lot of people are sitting at their breakfast tables secretly (or not so secretly) hoping that child protective services showed up at her door the moment the credits rolled last night."
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Posted Tue, 01/26/2010 - 11:10pm
man she's so ugly.. she look's crazy.lol
Posted Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:41pm
yes kate's kid's they don't cuss are hit there parent's and go to timeout when told...
Posted Fri, 08/21/2009 - 11:41pm
That's a damn lie. Kate Gosselin kids not only fight each other, they bite, kick, punch and push one another. That's one of the reason Kate put them in timeout... You never see Nadya spank her child on camera, something Kate's done.
Posted Mon, 05/17/2010 - 5:15pm
SHE'S HIGHLY INTELLIGENT!
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SHE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT SHE'S DOING!
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STUPID KATE WILL NEVER BE AN EQUAL!
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Posted Fri, 08/21/2009 - 9:04pm
Totally agree with you Jane Doe. RadarOnline need to bring back Nadya blog. I miss them lol
Posted Mon, 05/17/2010 - 5:17pm
Of course the kids are out of control! Do you think if she spanked their butts like she ought to, that people would approve? NO! She is in a no win situation there. Besides, most kids I see are out of control. Been in any grocery stores lately?
Posted Fri, 08/21/2009 - 7:46am
In the car she giggled as she complained while putting on lipstick and face powder. She loves the attention. And her kids are already showing major signs of stress and are heading for major issues. It is so sad.
Posted Fri, 08/21/2009 - 3:01am
The show was horrible. Those poor kids are out of control and definately need some structure in their lives, which they aren't getting and a lot more attention. My kids never bit or hit me or one another. This is just wrong
Posted Fri, 08/21/2009 - 2:55am
Another sad, sad situation. Fourteen kids that have been put in a horrible situation through no fault of their own. Where is child protective services? This woman has to be mentally incompetent.
Posted Thu, 08/20/2009 - 4:25pm