14 DAY TRIAL // While Nadya Suleman, the California woman who recently gave birth to octuplets following in-vitro fertilization, is making the television rounds to defend her choice of having as many as six embryos implanted, her own mother is speaking to the media. Angela Suleman is painting a different picture of the mother of 14 who got the media on its toes, saying she is not able to provide for the children, and will not even try to do so.
Speaking with Radar Online, which also got to be the first publication to get a peek inside the bungalow where, soon enough, 16 people will live (including Nadya and her mother), Angela says the octuplets’ arrival ruined whatever life she still had. Nadya, her 33-year-old daughter, can’t and won’t provide for the children, because she has no source of income and all she cares about is making babies and not paying the bills, Angela shares.
“How she’s going to cope, I don’t know. I’m really tired of taking care of the six children and need her to think about how she’ll provide for all these children. The truth is that Nadya hasn’t worked since she started having her children, while [her father] Ed and I battled to pay her bills. Nadya promised to help me with the bills, but she never has. I lost a house because of it and now I’m struggling to look after her six. We had to put in bunk beds, feed them in shifts and there’s children's clothing piled all over the house.” Angela Suleman tells Radar Online.
Not only that, but Angela also hints that Nadya may be lying to the media as to the reason that prompted her to try to have as large a family as possible (namely, growing up in a “dysfunctional family”). “We raised her in a loving family and her father always spoiled her,” Angela reveals to the Radar reporters, after showing them the house in which so many people live, which is described as “filthy” and “with food on the walls.” In a couple of months, eight more children will come to live there, and Angela is obviously concerned that not even she will be able to handle it.
“I’m really angry about that,” Mrs. Suleman points out about her daughter’s decision to have yet eight more babies when she was barely capable of taking care of her other six.