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February 14th, 2009, 09:37 GMT · By

Delusional Octuplet Mom – The Closest Thing to a Supermom

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Nadya Suleman on the Today show, speaking out on parenthood and how people do not understand her
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Although still in hiding after having received more than 500 death threats by e-mail in just one single day, Nadya Suleman is still talking to the media about what made her make the decision to have as much as 14 babies. Criticism against her is unfounded, she tells David Jones of the Daily Mail, because her acts are not selfish, but the ultimate proof of true love for children.

She is now “the most vilified mother in America,” as Jones himself calls her, a woman half “delusional” who “parrot[s] chunks of psychobabble from textbooks she once read on a college child-rearing course and throw[s] in a few pearls of homespun wisdom.” But Nadya Suleman will walk the distance – whichever that may be – to show the world that she is, at the end of the day, the closest thing to a supermom.

“There’s no such thing as a supermom – but I’m trying!” Nadya tells Jones, for an instant apparently oblivious to the fact that she’s on all sorts of government assistance, has no job, has her parents working themselves to exhaustion for her desire to have children, and is seriously in debt because of several student loans. Nadya is also a single parent, and lives with her mother in a three-bedroom bungalow that looks more like a pigsty than anything else, with the living space stripped of furniture to accommodate bunk beds, food on the walls and chaos reigning supreme.

However, for Suleman, money is not the issue because she’s positive she can raise all her 14 children on love alone – or something to that effect. “People ask me how I will be able to afford to take them all on holiday. But children don’t actually need holidays. They’re just an adult creation. Children just need you to sit and talk to them in the beauty of nature. When it comes down to it, all they really need is grass and worms.” she says. This is not the first time that she shows herself to be completely above financial issues, as in a recent interview she also said that she was convinced God would find a way to provide for her and her impressive brood.

In a certain way, God did just that. Besides receiving help now from church volunteers in her hometown and the aforementioned welfare (which she refuses to consider so), Suleman also hopes to have other people as well chip in for the children’s future – and there is no better way to do that than by means of a family website where kind-hearted folks can make donations. Of course, California taxpayers will also contribute, much against the will of the majority of them: Suleman’s octuplets will cost them over $3 million in hospital fees and handouts, it has been revealed. Calling her “the most vilified person in America” right now does have a ring of truth to it.

For the full interview with the Mail, as well as for insight into what really prompted Suleman to have so many babies and some details on a shady “father figure” for the 14 kids, please go here


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Comment #1 by: marytee on 14 Feb 2009, 13:18 UTC reply to this comment

I'm sure right-to-lifers are falling all over themselves in an effort to help her...


Comment #2 by: Hilary Smith on 15 Feb 2009, 16:55 UTC reply to this comment

Witch burnings, lynchings, we haven't changed at all. Suleman should sue the Inquirer et. al. for causing the hate frenzy that is endangering her life.


Comment #3 by: NotNadya on 16 Feb 2009, 03:34 UTC reply to this comment

Never any mention of Superdads.

As a firm believer in equal rights I'm going to clone myself 14 times and go on welfare.

http://notnadya.blogspot.com/

You can't stop me.


Comment #4 by: on the way on 22 Feb 2009, 23:52 UTC reply to this comment

I don't think is such a big deal about a single mother having kids....they are wo many women that have many kids and know one is judging them. Let God judge her. What you think you are so perfect? if she can take care of them let it be, up until know she is able to take care of the 6 she have and you wasn't there to help so stop judging her.

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