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Can you freakin believe this chick???
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Talk about GREED!
Octuplets’ mother wants Oprah to turn her into a $2m TV star
THE single mother of octuplets born in California last week is seeking $2m (£1.37m) from media interviews and commercial sponsorship to help pay the cost of raising the children.
Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television childcare expert after it emerged last week that she already had six children before giving birth on Monday. She now has 14 below the age of eight.
Although still confined to an LA hospital bed, she intends to talk to two influential television hosts this week — media mogul Oprah Winfrey, and Diane Sawyer, who presents Good Morning America.
Her family has told agents she needs cash from deals such as nappy sponsorship — she will get through 250 a week in the next few months — and the agents will gauge public reaction to her story.
Her earning power, though, could be diminished by a growing ethical and medical controversy. Experts believe that the unnamed fertility specialists who gave her in vitro fertilisation (IVF) should not have implanted so many embryos, and in choosing to carry all eight to term, Suleman ignored guidelines, risking both their health and her own.
US public reaction has been mixed: many have asked how an unemployed single mother can raise 14 children, as her first six have already strained the family budget. Angela and Ed Suleman, Nadya’s parents,bought her a two-bedroom bungalow in the suburb of Whittier in March 2007, but soon after got into debt and had to leave their own home.
They filed for bankruptcy and moved in with their daughter and grandchildren. Last week her father said he would return to his native Iraq to work as a translator and driver.
Angela Suleman, who is caring for the first six children — one of whom is autistic — while her daughter is in hospital, said yesterday that she had consulted a psychologist over Nadya’s “obsession with children”.
Nadya Suleman, who describes herself as a “professional student” living off education grants and parental money, broke up with her boyfriend before the birth of her first child seven years ago.
The identity of the octuplets’ father remains unknown, but local reports suggest they were conceived with frozen sperm donated by a friend she met while working at a fertility clinic. He is the father of her twins, born two years ago.
Michael Tucker of the Georgia Reproductive Clinic, Atlanta, said Suleman’s story stunned him. “We are policed by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, which frowns upon implanting more than two or three embryos at a time. It is remarkable that any practitioner would undertake such a practice.”
The babies, born nine weeks prematurely by C-section, were attended to by 46 medical staff, who expected seven babies. When the eighth — a boy — appeared, doctors were “confounded”.
Angela Suleman said her daughter was advised to terminate some of the embryos in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy for the sake of her health, but she refused because she did not know how to make such a life-or-death decision.
“She doesn’t have any more, so it’s over now. It has to be,” said the grandmother. |
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| Kismet7 |
| She must have a sickazz agent. lol |
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| Electrophile |
| At least she isn't Mexican. We already look bad enough when it comes to uncontrollably having kids. |
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Yeah but Mexicans do it naturally, one by one.
BTW... Why should this lady get so much money for making a decision that could put her octuplets at risk? She's trying to make a profit off of her children already.
Petition to stop Octuplets' Mom from MAKING MONEY. |
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| henryv |
| quote: | Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
is that your choice as an event promoter? ;)
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thanks! but seriously! let this young mother get her CHIPS! she's a 33 year old single mother trying to make it happen....why not make some money to better her situation. |
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| DaveT |
| quote: | Originally posted by henryv
thanks! but seriously! let this young mother get her CHIPS! she's a 33 year old single mother trying to make it happen....why not make some money to better her situation. |
Because the way I see it, she did this with the intention of trying to get money out of it....I think she did it more for that than for her kids.
Company interest in her is already falling apart apparently.
The doctor who agreed to give her so many embryos should have his license stripped. He gave her way more than protocol says there should be.
This whole situation is so unethical.
I feel bad for the kids. I hope they get some assistance, but I don't want anything given that will directly help the mother. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by DaveT
I feel bad for the kids. I hope they get some assistance, but I don't want anything given that will directly help the mother. |
Exactly. She already also has 6 other kids! :eek: :nervous: :eek: |
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
| quote: | Originally posted by henryv
thanks! but seriously! let this young mother get her CHIPS! she's a 33 year old single mother trying to make it happen....why not make some money to better her situation. |
see that... got ya back! |
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| gerard6975 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Electrophile
At least she isn't Mexican. We already look bad enough when it comes to uncontrollably having kids. |
that was the first thing that came to my mind. :P |
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| blakh0rse |
| OMG, who wants that many kids in this economy? She MUST be insane. I mean even her parents went broke. Glad they got her a psychiatrist. I feel real bad for those kids. This kid should have been raised in China... |
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
I didn't realize that she was a single mother with no source of income. or did i read that wrong.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/06/oc....mom/index.html
| quote: | LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The mother of octuplets, whose story has sparked controversy around the world, rejects suggestions that she may not be able to care adequately for all 14 of her children and that her decisions have been selfish.
Nadya Suleman, speaking to NBC, said of her 14 children: "I'll stop my life for them."
Nadya Suleman, speaking to NBC, said of her 14 children: "I'll stop my life for them."
"I'm providing myself to my children," Nadya Suleman told NBC in her first interview. "I'm loving them unconditionally, accepting them unconditionally, everything I do. I'll stop my life for them and be present with them and hold them and be with them. And how many parents do that? I'm sure there are many that do, but many don't. And that's unfortunate. And that is selfish."
NBC's "Today Show" ran a portion of the interview Friday.
Suleman, a 33-year-old single mother, had the octuplets through fertility treatments, while already having six young children and no clear source of income.
"I know I'll be able to afford them when I'm done with my schooling. If I were just sitting down, watching TV and not being as determined as I am to succeed and provide a better future for my children, I believe that would be considered to a certainly degree selfish," she said.
She said she plans to go back to college to pursue a degree in counseling, NBC reported. She also said all 14 children have the same biological father, a sperm donor whom she described as a friend. Video Watch what Suleman told NBC »
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A spokeswoman for Suleman has told CNN that she is being deluged with media offers but denied any suggestions that Suleman may have had a monetary incentive for having so many children.
The spokeswoman, Joann Killeen, told CNN's Larry King Live that Suleman "has no plans on being a welfare mom and really wants to look at every opportunity that she can to make sure she can provide financially for the 14 children she's responsible for now."
Suleman, in the NBC interview, complained that she is being judged differently from how couples are judged, because she is a single mother. "I feel as though I've been under the microscope because I've chosen this unconventional kind of life. I didn't intend on it being unconventional. It just turned out to be. All I wanted ... was to be a mom. That's all I ever wanted in my life."
In quotes from the interview NBC posted on its Web site, Suleman linked her decision to what she felt was missing from her youth.
"That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family, and I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up," she said. Asked what was lacking, she cited a "feeling of self and identity ... I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability. Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?"
Of the octuplets' birth, Suleman said she had been hoping to have one more child and had six embryos implanted, two of which led to twins.
She said she knew she would not selectively reduce. "Sometimes we have that dream and that passion and we take risks. And I did and it turned out perfectly."
The babies were born nine weeks premature, but all survived.
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Doctors say giving birth to extreme multiples comes with tremendous risks for the mother and the babies. Risks for the children include bleeding in the brain, intestinal problems, developmental delays and lifelong learning disabilities.
Suleman said her fertility specialist told her about risks for the children. But she did not want to have only one or two embryos implanted. "Of course not, I wanted them all transferred. Those are my children. And that's what was available and I used them. I took a risk. It's a gamble. It always is." |
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