Regrets, Octomom Is Having a Few
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.
Copyright 2010 CBS. All rights reserved. "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.
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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.?
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.
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.