Octomom Nadya Suleman and six of her famous octuplets, born in January, have been photographed together for the first time on the cover of In Touch Weekly.
If she has her way, it won't be the last.
In the photo, a sort of normal-looking Nadya Suleman appears with sleeping newborns Isaiah, Noah, Nariah, Maliah, Makai and Jeremiah. The other two babies, Jonah and Josiah, are stable but remain in neonatal intensive care in Bellflower, Calif.
“They need a little more time to develop, grow and tolerate food,” Kaiser Permanante Medical Center spokeswoman Beth Trombley told the celeb news mag.
The magazine details the conflict between Octomom, who wants to raise her 14 children alone and hopefully on a reality series coming soon, and the "concerns" of TV blowhard shrink Dr. Phil McGraw and publicity hound lawyer Gloria Allred.
According to reports, Nadya Suleman is interested in starring in a reality show as soon as the final two octuplets, Jonah and Josiah, leave the hospital.
The magazine quotes a source who says a deal is in place. “It’s about Nadya trying to raise 14 children while looking for love,” the insider explains.
That sort of shameless fame-whoring has just about everyone up in arms.
“These babies should be placed in foster care,” Gloria Allred, an attorney for Angels in Waiting, which provided free nurses to Nadya, says. “There they would receive the individualized care that the babies need and deserve.”
Nadya Suleman admits in the magazine interview that her babies’ homecoming was a “total fiasco,” She had a “meltdown” and fired Angels in Waiting on March 22 after she accused them of spying on her and setting her up to fail.
“I felt like a stranger in my own home,” the 33-year-old single mother, who has six older children, says. “I felt ostracized. I felt excluded.”
But Allred said that Suleman, who was the victim of vandalism outside her home this week, is far more interested in cameras than babies.
“There’s only a few hours beyond when cameras were rolling that she actually came into the nursery to care for her babies, and that’s wrong,” Allred said.
If she does receive her own reality show (heaven forbid), it will be on one condition: no more calling her Octomom. Nadya Suleman is believed to hate the moniker, and has been assured it won’t be part of the reality series’ title.
The In Touch article also addresses questions about Suleman’s sanity.
Some of her neighbors in La Habra, Calif., are convinced she needs psychiatric help. “I really can’t believe anyone can be that screwed up in the head,” Debra Collins said.
Adds another neighbor, Gloria Beck, “The woman is completely nuts. She thinks she’s famous. She doesn’t know that people are laughing at her, that she’s a freak.”
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April 2nd, 2009 11:01 AM
you dont even kno what a mom from hell is. dont use words you cannot even comrephend. shes a great mom. what a jerk to write such clueless rubbish about another person who does not even vaguely merit it.
April 2nd, 2009 12:16 PM
So, what happened to HER prior claims that "it would be exploitation" to use the children for a reality show unless THE KIDS agreed? I guess the octuplets are now capable of communicating their desire to do such a show ???? Amazing, truly amazing. Now that she will be "looking for love" does that mean she(gasp)LIED when she said she would not date until the children turned 18 because it would be selfish to take the time to do so? Lie after lie after lie......
GO AWAY NADYA.
April 2nd, 2009 12:44 PM
Mom From Hell doesn't even begin to describe this nut.
April 2nd, 2009 6:36 PM
nomo...haven't you figured out by now everything out of octofreak's mouth is a lie. She's a pathological liar and can not even keep her stories straight. I also belieeve she posts in her own defense on these threads during the hours and hours she locks herself in her room to respond to 'mail'. So vain, selfish, and absolutely pathetic. She really thinks she's fooling people, and doesn't even realize she is probably the most hated woman in America. Those poor children. They will grow to have such contempt for her I ALMOST pity her.
April 2nd, 2009 9:38 PM
This kind of sludge shouldn't be searchable on Google News. Don't they have another category called "Blogs" or "Crap?"
April 3rd, 2009 1:41 AM
This lady is not crazy. She is a big time scam artist only second to Bernie Maddoff. She planned all of this from the start. Nadya's fake disability money ended after 6 years of receiving it at a total of $168K of our hard earn tax payors' money. She needed more money for her expensive taste and more plastic surgeries and other pampering (manicures, pedicures, lip injections, etc). Nayda does not want to work, so this is her only way of sitting on her fat ass for a real long time by having 8 babies. This is not a miracle from GOd. God made Nayda infertile for a real good reason and she changed it by using science. She looks like a cross between Michael Jackson & Mona LIsa. And yes, Nayda continues to lie, lie and lie. I won't watch that lady on TV. SHe is a disgrace. I rather be watching something.
April 3rd, 2009 4:37 AM
Suleman appears to be suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder and below par intelligence. She seems to have a skewed perception of reality and is headed for a downfall of one sort or another. I think that her behavior will become increasingly extreme as her "fame" fades, and her children will be further affected by the pathology of their living situation and their disturbed mother.
Let us hope that she does not get her own show. What a horrible example to others of her ilk that this would be. If our society keeps rewarding sociopathy and irresponsibility, we can expect to encourage more and more of it.
I will never purchase a magazine which pays her for use of her photographs or interviews, I will refuse to buy any products whose manufacturers have donated to her, and I will never watch a reality show that features this maladjusted and extraordinarily unappealing woman.
April 3rd, 2009 7:30 PM
Suleman is an exceptionally unattractive and repulsive narcissist with low intelligence, distinct sociopathy, and a total disconnect with reality. Anyone saying they would watch her show is disingenuous as heck or as dumb as she is and will have no discretionary income to spend on any products advertised during her show. I predict that there will be no reality show, but if there is, it'll have the shelf-life of a carton of eggs;)
April 4th, 2009 5:54 PM
If anyone is interested...
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-companies-from-giving-to-nadya-suleman
April 4th, 2009 10:50 PM
nomorenadya Says:
April 4th, 2009 5:54 PM
If anyone is interested...
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-companies-from-giving-to-nadya-suleman
What I don't understand is why people who are, supposedly, so upset that they might be paying for this family through their taxes want to close other avenues of support for them--avenues of support that have always been acceptable in the past for families with a huge number of multiples.
Removing the kids from her home would also involve tax dollars.
Why are some people hating on this woman? Is this like the thing about gay marriages destroying the institution of marriage? Does this woman going it alone to bear children pose a threat to the institution of marriage somehow.
The only thing posing a threat to the institution of marriage is how people get married for all of the wrong reasons.
If you get married for the wrong reasons, you don't need a gay couple or a single mom to put your marriage in the toilet, because it's already there.
I wish that people wouldn't set this family up for failure! At least, keep the playing field fair so that this family with multiples gets the same opportunities for help as others have in the past.