Posted on 04/16/2009 2:26:06 AM PDT by Zakeet
Octuplets mum Nadya Suleman wants to trademark the moniker "Octomom" for a line of baby goods and a possible television show.
The 33-year-old single mum from California has filed two applications with the US Patent and Trademark Office to own the nickname, which was given to her by the media after she gave birth to eight babies on January 27.
According to The Smoking Gun website — which posts legal documents online — Suleman wants to cash in by splashing the name on "disposable diapers, dresses, pants, shirts and textile diapers."
Suleman, who is unemployed and already had six children before giving birth to octuplets, also wants to use the name Octomom for a television show.
The documentary-style show would feature major events in the lives of her 14 children, her lawyer Jeff Czech was quoted in the New York Daily News as saying.
"She wants to get off the public dole and be self-sufficient," Czech said.
Before the octuplets were born, Suleman supported her seven children with food stamps, disability payments, student loans and her mother's retirement funds.
People magazine reports that Suleman is considering applying for more food stamps.
She paid $1133 for the trademark application, according to the magazine.
Jonah Angel Suleman, who weighed 1 pound, 8 ounces when he emerged as OctoMom's eighth baby, has finally joined his 13 siblings at home. It's a good thing, too, because Octo (Nadya Suleman) needs the babe for her new job: Exploiting her kids for a British reality show."Yes, it is official. I'm going to be doing a show," Nadya tells Life & Style. "But it's not a reality show."
It's far worse: "What I'm doing . . . is basically creating documentaries about the lives of my children. It's going to be an ongoing thing, and it will follow them from now until they are 18." Imagine having 14 kids followed with cameras daily for up to 18 years - it'll be a Petri dish for neuroses, if not psychoses.
I wouldn’t buy toilet paper with her logo on it.
Octomom? Not so fast, lady.
The individual that actually coined the phrase might object.
Uh, hello in there...people don't LIKE you, mom. How do you turn that into money? It's like "NEW IMPROVED TRICONOSIS-BRAND PORK DRIPPINGS ("Now with MORE OOZE!:)
I guess “litter carrier” didn’t have enough zing to it?
Clown Car?
Hey - I happen to be a clown (seriously!), so I’d prefer to stick with her “littering”! ;-P
Octo-Bitch, Octo-Twit, Octo-Nutcase, Octo-Moonbat, Octo-Goofball, Octo-Mooch, Octo-Cheapskate, Octo-Loser...
She can have it. Sounds like a monster and if the shoe fits.
Now that Marilyn Chambers has passed there's an opportunity in the porn industry she should explore. I can see the marquee now.. "Octomom does Herman Hungwell."
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