Posted on 01/31/2009 2:37:07 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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, since 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 nappies a week over the next few months - and the agents will gauge public reaction to her story. A veteran from the ICM agency said: “If she wins over Oprah or Diane Sawyer, she will have the world at her feet.”
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
This woman is delusional. All her kids should be taken way from her. She is clearly insane.
This woman is sick.
DITTO you beat me to it.
the irony of this woman: (from what has been said) is working on a graduate degree in counseling, has worked as a psych tech, and has a BS in child development, and yet would appear to me to have psychiatric problems.
many people might like to have more children, but the reality of having to pay ever increasing taxes to support other’s lifestyles, impacts our own lifestyle and we choose to not expand the family.
if everything that has come out is correct, she has problems, the doctor that did the IVF has problems.
one question i have, (if the taxpayers are paying for it, it is their business), who is going to pay the millions for the month-long hospitalization?
what about the other 6 kids that she has?
the whole story is really strange.
What will this mean for Obama if she steals his place in the spotlight? Isn't "pop culture" great?
True story..I had a part time job 15 years ago to sign up welfare recipents on free dental. I had a table outside the welfare office. The main complaint was that it was not free enough! These people should not be allowed to vote. I quit it after a week. There was a truck that came selling Lobster and Filet to people pulling up in Caddilacs and cashing in the food stamps. W-4 Revolt. 15 exemptions. Cut em off and let em try to collect...over. Better than a strike. A Taxpayer Strike. Eliminate AFDC NOW! You coldhearted Bitch.
Considering she now has 14 children under the age of 8, I agree.
Rules! How do we know she’s guilty?
Based on the accounts I've read, her mother is the [involuntary] childcare expert. Ms. Suleman is just an expert at child production, a much easier task.
"While her daughter recovers, Angela Suleman is taking care of the other six children, ages 2 through 7, at the family home in Whittier, about 15 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. She said she warned her daughter that when she gets home from the hospital, "I'm going to be gone."
Her daughter's obsession with children caused Angela Suleman considerable stress, so she sought help from a psychologist, who told her to order her daughter out of the house. "Maybe she wouldn't have had so many kids then, but she is a grown woman," Angela Suleman said. "I feel responsible and I didn't want to throw her out."
"She told me that all of her kids were through in vitro, and I said 'Gosh, how can you afford that and go to school at the same time?"' she added. "And she said it's because she got paid for it."
Nadya Suleman holds a 2006 degree in child and adolescent development from California State University, Fullerton, and as late as last spring she was studying for a master's degree in counseling..."
If that happens - count on a lot more women doing the same thing.
17 deadbeat Muslims will be living on YOUR dime.
She is obviously an Obama supporter after her share of the stimulus package. Great, now us Californians are gonna be responsible for those kids and the others too. She was already on welfare before giving birth to the 8 kids, and she has never worked a day in her life. What a scum bag this chick is. Put her ass away
I'll surely enjoy paying for this woman's too-numerous kidlets.
Racist! :0)
Where are all the posters from the “contraception is resulting in a dangerous population decline” posts? They should be happy with this woman. She alone has reproduced enough for 7 people.
If the market bears 2M, good for her. I don’t see how her interviews are worth that much (even in the aggregate), but I have no problems with her getting it if people are willing to pay it.
I’m not a psychologist but I’ve read where some women LOVE being pregnant cause of all the attention they get. I bet she is one of them.
I read on Yahoo where the grandmother of this breeder has told her that once she gets home from the hospital she is going to leave and let her daughter handle all those children by herself.
I wonder if these 8 (actually 14) will knock “Jon & Kate plus 8” off the air?
She turned herself into a puppy mill for fame and fortune? Disgusting!
Who’s her agent, the IVF doc?
Who’s been paying her?
That is all that need to be said on this thread.
Nadya Suleman....Bosnian muslim name????? Same last name
as the guy who shot people in a mall in Utah
That's less than five per baby per day. Does anyone think that is anywhere close to a reasonable number?
It appears that you've discovered the 'dirty little secret' of a number of folks in the mental health professions. They may have problems of their own, but they want to help others. In the process, they can screw people up badly.
Is she a woman or a hamster?
“She now has 14 below the age of eight.”
Are we sure she’s not a Puppy Mill? Yeesh!
It’s obvious this woman isn’t playing with a full one.
Cynical, are we? Shirley, you’re not implying that collsuion is involved here?
Right behind ya...Puppy Mill, LOL!
I’ll ask that question. It’s unethical for an IVF clinic to implant/transfer 8 embryos.
A friend reports that the mom was receiving payment. Who financed her IVF and schooling?
The whole thing is smarmy.
Here in California, we have well over a million people from other countries and states who come here breed
like rabbits and are supported by the California taxpayer.
It is costing the California tax payer billions a year
and we are fed up.
Golly, just yesterday we heard from the mother, grandmother and family friends that the mother just wanted to be left alone.
I’m. just. shocked. </s>
These people are lying every time their lips move.
“If the market bears 2M, good for her. I don’t see how her interviews are worth that much (even in the aggregate), but I have no problems with her getting it if people are willing to pay it.”
Yeah, it might be okay if she pays back the state of California for her education, welfare and medical bills.
What do suppose the odds of that are?
what a sick leech this ‘woman’ is.
I hear Arnie's going to be the kindergarten cop. And when she shows up on Oprah, everyone in the audience is going to be able to go home with a new baby!
This disgusting POS woman had 8 embryos implanted. She deserves to go back to her homeland, hooded in a burkha and beaten with a stick.
On many occasions here I have made the comment that the future lies in the womb; this wasn’t exactly what I meant to imply but it does take prostitution to a whole new level...
No, 16 deadbeat Muslims will rejoin Daddy/Grandpa in Iraq, and loudly curse the Great Satan America for 'not doing enough' to help poor, defenseless Muslims, and claim it is all the fault of the money grubbing Zionists and Joooos.
<This woman is delusional.
Yup. I can’t imagine too many soccer moms wanting to take parenting advice from a single woman w/12 children. The ethical issues alone re the in vitro would make her a unlikely candidate for TV stardom.
Most newborns use about 8 to 10 a day. Of course, that is for the normal weight range of 6 to 7 pounds at birth and 12 to 15 pounds at 3 months. Possibly the newer, more absorbent plastic diapers are more effective than the all-cotton diaper-service ones we used back in the 80s. And newborn octuplets are probably in the 3 to 4 pound range, if that. Still, it doesn't sound like enough.
Who is going to change all of them and make their formula? She can't have eight of them on just two motherjugs. The underweight babies scream for food every hour or so. Those two jobs alone would take 8 hours, not to mention laundry and taking care of her household.
do you think that it’s so they can understand themselves?
from the experience i’ve had, there are some real loonies practicing in the field of psychology; as counselors and psychologists.
I can’t imagine that she feels like an “awesome mom” with all that she has to do. I feel bad when i can’t give my kids all the time that I would like to.
How can you give 14 kids, (8 infants, toddlers esp.) enough time? provide financially?
Will the state of kalifornia pay for all of the daycare?
That was one of the issues with Kate Gosselin. Penn paid for a full-time nurse because the kids were preemies. Then Kate appealed the decision to not allow the state-paid nurse to continue after the tups were 1 year-old. Kate said that it was “societies obligation” to help because the science exists and she couldn’t “possibly take care of all six by herself”. She upset a lot of people in Penn with that attitude.
So, I assume that Kalifornia will probably provide a full-time nurse/nanny, and who knows, maybe pay for her mom to watch the kids?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.