14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday, news broke that Nadya Suleman was about to get her own reality show that would detail her life as a mother of 14, as well as her quest for a suitable partner. Although not a single mention was made of the network that would carry the show, word spread fast and even those who used to work once with OctoMom are outraged at her Audacity. Gloria Allred is one of these persons, and she’s making it a point of letting the entire world know her true feelings via an interview with OK! Magazine.
Allred worked with Suleman as she tried to broker for her a deal with the non-profit organization Angels In Waiting for competent nannies that would help her raise her 14 children. The deal went sour when Allred suggested that Suleman’s mother skills were far from what she made them out to be, and the outspoken attorney left OctoMom to her own devices. Hearing now that she is working on a reality show, Allred wants the world to know that Suleman is only using the children as props.
“It appeared to the nurses and myself that Nadya treated her babies as props and as part of a television set for those who were filming her. When the cameras were not rolling she was absent from the babies and the nurses for significant blocks of time and never volunteered to feed the babies herself. She also asked AIW many times if they would agree that she could have a reality show. AIW is on the record telling her that they would not allow it because of the risk of infection from the presence of dirty cameras, audio equipment and electrical cords – and the concern for the emotional well-being of all of her children.” Allred says of the time she spent in the same house with Suleman.
However, the fact that Suleman is now coming out with a reality show is irrefutable proof that she’s trying to profit off her children, even at the risk of putting their health in danger. Suleman, Allred adds, is far from the perfect mother she is trying to make the world see her, and going on with the reality series is testimony to that beyond all doubt.
Making money off the children, Allred underlines, should be last on Suleman’s priority list, and she should be focusing more on the wellbeing of the children. “If she goes ahead with it she needs to spend less time looking for a man and more time mothering her 14 children. If she is looking for men, she is looking for love in all the wrong places. Rather than doing a reality show, she needs to deal with the reality that she has 14 children (a number with special needs) who need her to be there with them to love them and be a real mother to them. That is the reality that she needs to face. Her children need a mother who will protect them and their privacy, not a mother who appears ready to auction off their privacy to the highest bidder.” the attorney further explains.