Octo-Mom Admits To Oprah: Having More Children Was "A Childish Desire"
Posted on Apr 20, 2010 @ 11:51AM
Octo-Mom Nadya Suleman went head-to-head with chat show queen Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday and admitted that having octuplets on top of the six children she already had was "childish."
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Suleman explained to Winfrey that she was, "caught-up in a childish desire to have more children" to compensate for being an only child. She was using the children to "fill a void."
She also claimed that she would never do porn or reveal the identity of the father of her fourteen kids. “I feel like they are trying to steal a piece of the situation, exploiting me, disrespecting me as a mother, my children," Suleman said about the offer she received to join the adult entertainment industry. “They have offered this three times but it is disrespectful to me as a mother. I would never, never do something like that.”
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A crew from Oprah’s show visited Nadya's La Habra, Calif., home -- the one that she could still lose -- in order to take a real look at how she manages to run her large brood.
While the crew toured the house they discovered that Nadya has three nannies to help her during the day (not at night), spends around $1,000 a week on groceries and she has one car to ferry all 14 kids around.
At one point she could not find one of her kids, Caleb, and seemed to have problems keeping track of them all. One of her other sons, Jonah, got an ear infection during the taping and a friend had to take him to hospital while Nadya stayed at home. The octuplets are put to bed at 5:30 pm after their evening meal before the older kids are fed. Often the kids cry all night and Nadya spends the evening in the nursery and barely gets any sleep before they all wake up again by 6:30 am.
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When Oprah asked Nadya if she had considered giving her kids up for adoption so that they could be better cared for, Suleman countered that she would do everything in her power "to avoid that at all costs."
Oprah also pressed Nadya about revealing the identity of the father. Nadya replied that she "did not feel that was her place and that it would be completely disrespectful to exploit him."
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She continued to be reflective about her life decisions throughout the show. “I have been ashamed of myself for going through media outlets to take care of my children. I had never been interested in the media industry before having children," she added. "I never ever could have conceptualized this... due to the selfish choice I made.
"I thank you [Oprah] for finally allowing me to tell the truth."
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She "wouldn't do a reality show" because Eyeworks dropped her contract! ****://cbs5.com/wireapentertainment/Octomom.says.nickname.2.1644739.html
Posted Wed, 04/21/2010 - 10:24am
Wrong! Eyework did not drop Nadya. In fact, they just released the do****entary on TV in UK- (Octomom: Me and my 14 kids) aired I believe on May 12 of this year. At least that is what I've read.
Posted Mon, 05/17/2010 - 6:20pm
It wasn't childish...........it was stupid and cruel, inconsiderate, selfish, calculaing, irrational,....... to do what she did..
Posted Wed, 04/21/2010 - 8:52am
I'll bet her children will never have kids of their own when they are adults after living wih the hell they live with now...shame on her for saying her 8 year old is too demanding..her kids don't have ANY parents.
Posted Wed, 04/21/2010 - 8:45am
I saw her on Oprah and she was complaining that her eight year old son was too demanding???? What does he get? 8 seconds a day with his mother and he has no father...he has to share her with all those other kdis..
Posted Wed, 04/21/2010 - 8:41am
Nadya, I always was on your side, bc I'm on the side of faulty individuals like me, but please don't be hypocrite:don't blame Kate for earning the life with reality shows, you just couldn't get. Be solidary with mothers, as I'm.
Posted Wed, 04/21/2010 - 2:01am
Nadya said she'd never had plastic surgery. What is breast augmentation? The augmentation is do****ented in the report for her disability claim. I think she defines things different than the rest of us, kind of like welfare or assistance.
Posted Wed, 04/21/2010 - 1:13am
Just like Kate is SO RIGHT. The "solution" for this woman IS NOT to give her hair extentions and botox and stick her on DWTS either. Both of these mentally ill baby factories are DEPLORABLE and selfish.
Posted Tue, 04/20/2010 - 11:57pm
She was complaining about money while wearing Hollister clothing...that stuff isn't cheap.*******
No different than Kate! No different than Kate! No different than Kate!!!!!!!!!
Posted Tue, 04/20/2010 - 11:44pm
Actually it depends where you buy it.
Posted Wed, 04/21/2010 - 4:55pm