OctoMom defends herself again

Feb 25, 2009 14:08 GMT  ·  By
Since making her first TV appearance, Nadya Suleman has become a genuine paparazzi magnet
   Since making her first TV appearance, Nadya Suleman has become a genuine paparazzi magnet

The story of Nadya Suleman, the OctoMom, is getting more and more complicated with each day. Now, not only is she having problems with her neighbors who are sick of the many paparazzi camped outside her home, and with the angry public, but she is also facing harsh criticism from her own mother and father – on national television, nonetheless.

In a recent interview with Radar Online, the two women, OctoMom and OctoGrandma, as the media calls Nadya and Angela Suleman, come face to face to discuss whether what the former did with having octuplets was fair. Or sane, for that matter.

In the interview, Angela questions her daughter’s ability to be responsible in any way for the 14 children, let alone provide financially for them. Nadya, on her part, says there was absolutely no other choice available than to have all eight babies.

“Angela denounces her daughter’s decision to have the in-vitro procedure that led to the octuplets and Nadya loses her cool and lashes out at her mother on this exclusive video. ‘I will never understand,’ Angela tells her daughter about Nadya’s decision to have in vitro. ‘You should have considered your other six children.’ ‘You can’t go back and alter the past. Done, done, done,’ an agitated Nadya tells her mom.” Radar Online writes about the explosive interview, the first of the kind with the OctoMom.

However, her mother is not the only person who says that the idea of having octuplets when she already had other six children at home, no job, no home, and living off government assistance denotes something is wrong with her. Speaking with Oprah on her show, Nadya’s father also admits his daughter is mentally ill, as he tries to fight back the tears that come from thinking he has to go to Iraq again to work as a translator to provide for the ever-increasing brood.

As if to add more fuel to the fire, one of Nadya’s few boyfriends, Denis Beaudoin, stepped up yesterday to reveal he had been tricked into becoming the father of the babies. According to his story, Suleman told him she had ovarian cancer and something had to be done quickly if she wanted a baby because she was running out of time. Beaudoin requested a DNA test to establish whether the octuplets were really his. In the meantime, below is a part of the interview, along with several commentaries from MSNBC and Radar Online.