Octuplets' Grandma Disses Daughter
Angela Suleman is caring for the six older children while her daughter is hospitalized after giving birth Jan. 26 to the octuplets.
"She already has six beautiful children, why would she do this?" Angela Suleman said in the videotaped interview with celebrity news Web site RadarOnline.com. "I'm struggling to look after her six. We had to put in bunk beds, feed them in shifts and there's children's clothing piled all over the house."
The Web site posted photographs from inside Angela Suleman's disheveled three-bedroom home, where Nadya and her brood also live. Heaps of clothing pour from an open closet door and a carpeted bedroom, where a bedsheet serves as a curtain, is cluttered with cribs.
Nadya Suleman's publicist Mike Furtney said that his client has been away for nearly two months, so shouldn't be held responsible for the home's current condition.
Furtney said his client planned to move into a larger home once the octuplets were healthy enough to leave doctors' care.
He declined to comment on any of the remarks Angela Suleman made about her daughter in the interview.
"Those are very personal issues between a mother and a daughter," he said.
Angela Suleman said Nadya's boyfriend was the biological father of all 14 children, but that she refused to marry him.
"He was in love with her and wanted to marry her," she said. "But Nadya wanted to have children on her own."
Nadya Suleman, a divorced single mother, told NBC's "Today" show that the same fertility specialist provided in-vitro fertilization for all 14 of her children.
Angela Suleman seemed to contradict that account, saying the fertility specialist who helped her daughter give birth to the octuplets was a different doctor from the one who aided in the birth of her first six children.
Angela Suleman said she and her husband pleaded with Nadya's first fertility doctor not to treat their daughter again, so Nadya found another doctor to work with.
"I'm really angry about that," Angela Suleman said of the doctor's decision to perform the procedure.
A Medical Board of California spokeswoman said Friday that it was investigating the doctor — who has not been identified — to see if there was a "violation of the standard of care." The spokeswoman did not elaborate on the nature of the potential violations.
Angela Suleman also challenged her daughter's remarks in the NBC interview that she always wanted a large family to make up for the loneliness she felt as an only child.
"We raised her in a loving family and her father always spoiled her," Angela said.
© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. "She already has six beautiful children, why would she do this?" Angela Suleman said in the videotaped interview with celebrity news Web site RadarOnline.com. "I'm struggling to look after her six. We had to put in bunk beds, feed them in shifts and there's children's clothing piled all over the house."
The Web site posted photographs from inside Angela Suleman's disheveled three-bedroom home, where Nadya and her brood also live. Heaps of clothing pour from an open closet door and a carpeted bedroom, where a bedsheet serves as a curtain, is cluttered with cribs.
Nadya Suleman's publicist Mike Furtney said that his client has been away for nearly two months, so shouldn't be held responsible for the home's current condition.
Furtney said his client planned to move into a larger home once the octuplets were healthy enough to leave doctors' care.
He declined to comment on any of the remarks Angela Suleman made about her daughter in the interview.
"Those are very personal issues between a mother and a daughter," he said.
Angela Suleman said Nadya's boyfriend was the biological father of all 14 children, but that she refused to marry him.
"He was in love with her and wanted to marry her," she said. "But Nadya wanted to have children on her own."
Nadya Suleman, a divorced single mother, told NBC's "Today" show that the same fertility specialist provided in-vitro fertilization for all 14 of her children.
Angela Suleman seemed to contradict that account, saying the fertility specialist who helped her daughter give birth to the octuplets was a different doctor from the one who aided in the birth of her first six children.
Angela Suleman said she and her husband pleaded with Nadya's first fertility doctor not to treat their daughter again, so Nadya found another doctor to work with.
"I'm really angry about that," Angela Suleman said of the doctor's decision to perform the procedure.
A Medical Board of California spokeswoman said Friday that it was investigating the doctor — who has not been identified — to see if there was a "violation of the standard of care." The spokeswoman did not elaborate on the nature of the potential violations.
Angela Suleman also challenged her daughter's remarks in the NBC interview that she always wanted a large family to make up for the loneliness she felt as an only child.
"We raised her in a loving family and her father always spoiled her," Angela said.
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It''s called emotional blackmail--like she said--she is being paid to have these kids and she is counting on us being stupid enough, and sappy enough to pay for them.
If I had a choice, she and the kids would be going back to Iraq--we could always give her 500.00 for each kid when we send her back. That is how much we pay Iraqis for each of the family members we kill--she could get a living bonus and good luck to her--in the old country.
I know people are ignorant.
Posted by vivaviva44 at 03:49 PM : Feb 09, 2009
LIAR. Japan did not have outside contact with any Western country until the late 1600s and then she closed her doors to all but the Dutch from the 1600s to the mid 1800s. The Dutch were confined to one small island, trade was severely limited and no religious ideologies were allowed to be shared until the opening up to the west in the middle of the 1800s. The primary religions in Japan are Shintoism and Buddhism with Christianity comprising less than 12%.
Posted by Itricia at 03:54 PM : Feb 09, 2009
Maybe.. the real point is that the criteria to have or not have IVF should involve way more than the ability to pay for the procedure. Maybe quality of life questions, stability and rationale should be considered. It is not usually considered when people have babies the old fashioned way and as a result we have a very dysfunctional society and more than our share of pedophilia, child slavery and neglected/abused/killed children. I think the psychological and social/nurturing environment of the potential parents should be considered, in the cases where people require outside help to conceive--we may not be able to control who has babies most of the time, but we certainly can limit who gets extraordinary help to nurture and raise babies when we are the ones holding the embryos. Nadya appears not so much to want to or help to raise babies as she appears to be stuck in the euphoria of being pregnant with and having babies.
Posted by iCi2i at 02:00 PM : Feb 09, 2009
Wrong. the bible commands humans to be fruitful and multiply--infertile people are not fruitful and without science--cannot multiply. Ever notice that when man sticks his nose into nature a clusterfvck usually develops? IVF and other scientific procedures are not necessarily God''s blessings more than they, like war, creating biological weapons, and other dilemmas are just other vehicles for trials and choices--not every choice or option God allows to exist is a good one, but all of each of them says something about each of us who deigns to exercise those options.
Posted by irreverent1 at 01:30 PM : Feb 09, 2009
You have a point. If God had wanted that fruitcake to have kids, he would have given her working plumbing--He knew best, but those 168K payments from the worker''s comp settlement are what she used to go around God and have them anyway. Oh the blessins'' of science" LMAO
How can you be agin'''' one hangin'''' and not the other?
Posted by Roachcrusher at 01:26 PM : Feb 09, 2009
You have a point. Maybe that is one of the reasons I am pro death penalty and pro choice--I''m also for spaying irresponsible women who breed litters on the tax payer''s dime. if you are for this--imagine all the other people who could bite this same bullet and just pop out baby after (sweet, wonderful baby) while they tax your pay check to care for them--maybe each indigent person in America (especially those ''fertile minorities" could each have 14 kids--with you praising God and paying for each and every one--even if it is your last dime) PUTZ.
Posted by mdalerwill at 11:13 AM : Feb 09, 2009
Not a need for infants-a need to be pregnant--there is a psychosis for the irrational need to create a physical condition for the perks that condition brings. Angelina Jolie has it but she can afford it, evidently Nadya thinks that with all of our help, she can afford to indulge her personal psychosis too.
Posted by sandy19731 at 09:22 AM : Feb 09, 2009
That is more like it.
Posted by wvu74621 at 09:14 AM : Feb 09, 2009
No she won''t. According to reports, Nadya has little to do with caring and raising the first 6 so she will probably have no problem dumping the next 8 on the stupid yet whining mom of hers. The fact is, this woman is disturbed and the ultimate high for her is having babies--not raising them or taking care of them. The other 6 are ages 2 -7. If this woman had been actually raising her own kids, she would not have wanted anymore this soon. It''s obvious she is ill and has them for the high of being a pregnant mom.
Then again, if she gets the money, endorsements and house, look for her to continually be out and about and in the limelight and look for the self sacrificing but stupid grandma to be eternally taking care of her daughters litter while Nadya is out preening for the cameras.