Regrets, Octomom Is Having a Few

Tells Us Weekly She's Having Second Thoughts About Having Had So Many Kids; Opens Up About Their Father

(CBS)  Nadya Suleman says, knowing what she knows now, she'd have done things differently, rather than having had octuplets.

"Octomom" tells Us Weekly magazine she never thought all eight embryos that were implanted would "take." The result was eight kids in addition to the six young ones she already had.

Perhaps, suggests CBS News Correspondent Terrell Brown, misgivings began to set in during a media crush when she brought the first of the eight home from the hospital.

"Running the paparazzi gauntlet," Brown points out, "a panicked" Suleman called police, saying, "They're trying to break down the garage door. We pulled in here and they're swarming the whole area."

Hindsight is producing regrets, Suleman tells the magazine.

"She said from the beginning that it wasn't her intention to have eight children at once all along; andthat's just the way the cards were dealt," Us Weekly Senior Editor Ian Drew told CBS News.

She also gave new details about their biological father, confirming that all 14 of her kids were conceived via invitro-fertilization, using the same sperm donor, someone she'd dated.

After having six children, Brown says, she reportedly asked the donor for help again, but he refused. Without his knowledge, she had doctors implant frozen embryos left over from the birth of her twins and didn't tell the donor about the pregnancy until a week before giving birth.

"She said that one of her great regrets is that, after having the kids, he is no longer part of their lives."

Perhaps most difficult for Suleman is trying to provide for all those little ones, Brown says. With $30,000 in monthly expenses, Suleman recently signed a deal to shoot a reality TV show, but so far, no network has signed on. And it's her constant search for a big payday that's brought charges that she's exploiting her kids and endangering their welfare.

"We wanted hjer to succeed," attorney Gloria Alred told "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith in March, after filing complaints with cild protection authorities. "But unfortunately, how can she be succeeding if she rarely comes in to even feed th babies, except when the (news) cameras are rolling?"

Suleman says she's also writing a memoir. And, just last week, a court appointed a guardian to make sure her kids' earnings from the TV series go to them and not Suleman.

[nirak2-2009]

I suggest if Suleman can't afford all those kids, she should give them to people who yearn to have a baby.

[sc122]

SOOOOOO is Nadya finally admitting none of the octs are identical???

[lbence-2009]

Nadya used Jon and Kate Plus 8 as her goal. She watched how they got bigger houses, vans, free clothes, food, trips, toys, and of course the tv show and she wanted in. By the time Nadya had her litter the public has wised up and viewership for J&K has dropped 81%. It doesn't look good for Nadya. A foreign film company signed her on but until a network signs her up, she is out of luck.

Perhaps Octo will get lucky because the show lineup on some of these stations DHC/TLC/WE/E is pathetic. Who thinks we want to be "entertained" by multiple screaming kids, watch potty training, women in prison, tattoo artists, heli-loggers, whatever that is, etc.?

[rwsmith29456]

She didn't want to be a mother again, she's a mental case seeking attention. No you can't hate the kids, it's not their fault the mother is a wart on society.

[andie52]

"Running the paparazzi gauntlet," Brown points out, "a panicked" Suleman called police, saying, "They're trying to break down the garage door. We pulled in here and they're swarming the whole area."


Give me a break! nadya contacted Radar Online to release the time and date that she would be picking up the two babies, Radar has paid her for every interview and has now been fined. Everything this woman does is for publicity and money and her childre are little cash cows.
Her first court date put a hold on her for now,lets hope the second hearing ends all of the freebies and makes her accountable for the money and service she and her family took over the years and were not entitled to.

[reconcile_us]

My dog just had a litter. Can she be in the news and get welfare? And... she is a great mom!

[rsmik]

No. She should get a fine for littering.

[animaltoo]

Tinkersgirl I can't imagine those kids growing up with that idiot for a mother. That situation cannot have good results for those kids' emotional or cognitive development.

[animaltoo]

Why did this woman tell her mother, "they were paying me," when asked how she could afford the medical cost of the implants. Was she looking for a pay day and attention that other multiple birth have gotten? Those poor kids, with a stupid cow for a mother and no father.

[Tinkersgirl]

The hate that is spewing in here is horrible. I'm sure 90% of you call yourselves Christians. I'm not a religious person at all. I beleive in God but I'm not going to preach it. I will say however..
that all of you seem to be so into the fact that she may or may not
get money..it sounds more like you're all jealous of her, than have
any feeling whatsoever for those children. Why on this earth would you
hope that a baby gets taken from its own mother and put in the hands of strangers? Do you not realize, this is no longer about Octomom...this is about those children. What happens when they grow up and find out that they were given away...it woudl not be a nice feeling. You'all need to quit spitting hate. Does it make a difference of a family w/ 5 or 6 kids on welfare while the mother AND father sit home and do nothing cause they're too lazy to work..it seems thats ok...but if she has too many children..she can't get it...I am totally against the TV shows..but give the girl a break. She had done this 6 times and the most she had was twins..she was not expecting to have 8 babies by doing what she did the other times...Quit spewing hate and give that chick a break. Or are you truly jealous??? I've seen several "families" with 5 plus kids sitting in the welfare office, w/ the pregnant mother..why are they
still having children..if you want to take kids away cause the parent made a wrong choice..then take the children away from ALL the families that have too many kids whether it be invitro or "sexual"..the end result is the same..more babies more welfare. I work my butt off..and I don't even have health insurance..all you welfare people do....maybe thats why she can't work..surprise.

[animaltoo]

Hello Tinkersgirl: Perhaps having eight embryos implanted on top of six children might have given her hint that she would end up with so many. Perhaps, if she were intellectually in tact, she would have determined that six kids and no job were a bit much for her to handle.

[anti-global2]

no i'm pretty sure she isn't working because she is a lazy pig. I call her a p i g based on the photos of the toilet she hed her kids living in. There was filth on the walls and dirty clothes everywhere. If she is to lazy to clean her house what makes you think she wants to work. The funny thing is she will lose the kids (which is good for the kids) and she will be on welfare since she won't make any money from s how nobody will watch. she deserves to spend the rest of her life paying back the taxpayers. She doesn't matter, they money she stole from the system is what matters.If she died tomorrow the world would go on and virtually nobody would care, if however money disappeared tomorrow everyone would suffer, so tell me what is more important the person or money?

[snurbette]

maybe if she didn't do this to herself by having 8 embryos implanted when she already had 6 children (maybe she should have used her money to take care of the six she already had instead of spending it getting pregnant with 8 embryos without the donors consent mind you) she couldn't take care of already and with plans of cashing in on them by having a reality show dancing in her head she might have gained some support, but her plans are clearly driven by greed or insanity or maybe both. and what kind of lives are these kids going to have? maybe being exploited on tv to make your mom some money or growing up poor on welfare? why not give these kids a chance by letting families who are better off adopt them? and yes we are all jealous of her, we ALL dream of being on welfare. and the families who you see in the welfare office usually aren't getting artificial insemination to try to deliberately have a herd of kids, they usually have large families due to ignorance in birth control, sounds like you are jealous since you can't get health insurance.

[rsmik]

Nadya Suleman says, knowing what she knows now, she'd have done things differently, rather than having had octuplets. She would have had puppies, as they are much easier to sell.

[SAMTORRES66]

Reality is coming to life.....She and the tax payers are screwed.

[animaltoo]

So far as her free public services, what is it compared to the millions of illegal hispanic/latinos currently receiving staggering amounts of tax dollars for their health care (public health) and education? There is a latino population explosion with the prenatal care bill being paid by the tax payers.

[Yeah-Me]

If memory serves... in that article, she claims it costs her 30k a month to raise her kids... the 250k she's getting from this TV deal, would then only last her 8 months. Provided she got it in one lump sum.

I forsee her still on welfare here...

[puzzler125]

I don't understand how photographers/papparazzi can destroy her property without being arrested? Also, how can they be ON her property, the lawn, driveway, etc.? Why don't police and/or security tell them to get off and stay off? Aren't they trespassing?

[ejcspau]

indivthinker.....Take away the kids and put them in loving homes with responsible parents, and perform a hysterectomy on this woman to make sure that she does not have another child again.

Perfectly said! Also, what about the doctor/clinic who did the unauthorized embryo implant? Why haven't they been fined, closed down? Are they accommodating more psycho women who want to make fast money? SICK, SICK, SICK!

[animaltoo]

Perhaps the doctor that implanted an unconscionable number of embryos in this woman would like to reliev the taxpayers of the burden.

[barbaram99]

I have Word on the computer. There are tools there to help the writers. Word is easy to use. Gramma and spell check are there. If ye using Word 07 Click ob review and that's where the spell and gramma are.
That woman gone knew what she did. I don't watch much TV.

[MalloryDavis]

Gramma and spell check? Wow, you need to use it as well.

[toldyouso29]

"andthats" "hjer" "cild" when the language, spelling and vocabulary goes--the culture and the country is not far behind.....

[emh1701]

Hjer?

Come on, CBS. You can edit your stories better than this. Even a quick run through Microsoft Word's spell checker would've caught that typo. Really, what has happened to the quality of online news lately? Hire someone to check this stuff so you don't look bad, for crying out loud.

[animaltoo]

I think they grab news and send it out so fast they often skip the editor.

[jinglebelle]

WAIT JUST A MINUTE!!! Did she say she had EIGHT (8) embryos implanted??? All this time she has said it was SIX each time, and that this last time two split to create EIGHT babies!!! Her story keeps changing like a weathervane!! Nothing this liar says can be true. She has played a game of premeditated manipulation and lies to suit her purpose starting with a fraudulent worker's comp "injury". Her own mother attests to that. She is nothing but a narcissistic user and pathological liar. WE must boycott this charlatan that has already cost taxpayers MILLIONS of DOLLARS for her selfish ways. Give the kids up to those who want the kids and can give then a decent home and upbringing with two loving parents!!

[animaltoo]

Eight embryos. The medical community condemed implanting this many embryos in a woman her age, not to mention all the kids she wasn't providing for. Oh yes, whe carried all eight after receiving workers' compensation payments for a back injury that would have made pregnancy with one very difficult.

[cattlekate1]

Good bird-dogging, jinglebell! Yes, the story was always it was only SIX embryos transplanted. I also don't believe for a second that the sperm is from an "old boyfriend." I think it was an anonymous donor who has no clue as to his paternity. However, you can bet California is investigating if the "old boyfriend" deliberatly donated sperm in order to produce a child, as then he becomes liable for support.

[toldyouso29]

In other words, if she had known the public's reaction would ruin her meal ticket, she and her family would have thought up another scheme to not work and pay their mortgage and other bills. What an eyeopener Suleman is getting. The public does not mind fame or notoriety, but no one wants to be taken for a dupe--and that is what Suleman tried to do to the public. It has backfired--BIG TIME.

I will let any network stupid enough to run her show know how much power the consumer has. Don