Today Show interview with Octuplet Mom...

[hentob]

This lady has severe mental issues

 

[olena]

OK now. All you who said you wouldn't tune in, buy or patronize any of her ventures....will you stick by that and not watch Today? I won't be watching, but I never watch morning or daytime TV, so I'm not going out of my way to avoid her. I'm sure there will be rubber-neckers aplenty who will be tuning in.

 

[Mellie2162]

I must have missed it too, but I dont watch morning shows either. I would watch an interview with her though to hear what she has to say.

 

[jen0610]

Octuplets mom once feared she could not give birth


WHITTIER, Calif. – Nadya Suleman once feared she could never give birth. She was depressed after enduring multiple failed pregnancies and the anguish of not having children.

Now she is the mother of 14, including octuplets born last week. The disclosure that the single mother already had six children ranging from 2 to 7 years old prompted a torrent of criticism and questions about the ethics of her fertility treatment.

"That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family," Suleman told NBC's "Today" show on Thursday in an interview scheduled to air next week. "I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that ... I really lacked, I believe, growing up."
The interview, along with public documents obtained by The Associated Press, lifted the veil of secrecy in which Suleman shrouded herself after the Jan. 26 birth of her octuplets.

She told NBC she struggled for seven years before finally giving birth to her first child. According to state documents, Suleman told a doctor she had three miscarriages. Another doctor disputed that number, saying she had two ectopic pregnancies, a dangerous condition in which a fertilized egg implants somewhere other than in the uterus.

Suleman said all 14 of her children were born by in vitro fertilization from sperm donated by a friend.

Suleman's publicist, Mike Furtney, said Thursday that Suleman was "feeling great" and looking forward to being reunited with her octuplets, who were born prematurely and are expected to remain in the hospital for several more weeks.

The state documents describe Suleman, 33, becoming pregnant with her first child after a 1999 injury during a riot at a state mental hospital where she worked.

Suleman feared she would lose the child and sunk into an intense depression, according to a psychological evaluation in her workers' compensation case.

"When you have a history of miscarriages, you think it will take a miracle," she told Dr. Dennis Nehamen. "I just wanted to die. I suspected I was pregnant but I thought, 'That's ridiculous.'"

But the 2001 birth of the baby "helped my spirits," Suleman said.

More than 300 pages of documents were disclosed to The Associated Press following a public records request to the state Division of Workers' Compensation.

Among other things, they reveal that Suleman collected more than $165,000 in disability payments between 2002 and 2008 for the work injury, which she said left her in near-constant pain and helped end her marriage.

Details of the documents were reported the same day that NBC released excerpts of Suleman's first interview since giving birth.

In the interview — which was scheduled to air on the "Today" show Monday and again Tuesday on "Dateline" — Suleman calls her childhood as an only child "pretty dysfunctional."

In the state documents, however, doctors quote her as indicating she had a happy childhood. She told them she was an above-average student at Nogales High School in La Puente, where she enjoyed being a cheerleader, had many friends and stayed out of trouble. She said both her parents were loving and supportive.

According to the state documents, Suleman was injured Sept. 18, 1999, when a riot involving nearly two dozen patients broke out in the women's ward of the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, where she worked as a psychiatric technician. As she was helping other staff members restrain a patient, a desk thrown at her by another patient hit her in the back. It damaged her spine and left her complaining of headaches and intense pain throughout her lower body for years.

Suleman attributed the lingering pain in part to the breakup of her marriage to Marcos Gutierrez, whom she wed in 1996 and divorced in 2008.

She told a psychiatrist the bouts of depression she was suffering as a result of her injury were unfair to her husband.

"I don't want to keep bringing him down," she said. "I want him to move on with his life."

Public records show Suleman was listed on the Metropolitan State Hospital payroll from 1997 until last year, although it appears she did little work after September 1999 because of her injury.

During a hearing on her case in December 2001, Suleman said pregnancy aggravated her back condition. She said she spent most of the day in bed and was unable to care for her first child, according to a report by workers' compensation judge Jerome Bulavsky.

After examining her in August, Dr. Steven Nagelberg attributed 90 percent of her condition to the work incident and 10 percent to her pregnancy.

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Associated Press writers Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Raquel Maria Dillon and Thomas Watkins contributed to this report.

(This version CORRECTS the date of birth of the octuplets, Jan. 26 instead of Feb. 26).)

Things that just make you wonder why any Dr would treat her. Taking my info from the bolded areas of the interview, which is posted on both the Yahoo and MSN home pages.

She's 33.
She already had kids the oldest being 7.
So that made her 25/26, when she had the first.
Prior to having the first, she suffered for 7 years trying to have a child. That would have made her 18/19 trying to have a baby.

It sounds like she needed to be a patient at her workplace, not a psychiatric technician. If she has been planning since her teens to have a very large family, it was for nothing more than the money it would make her and her not having to work for a living.

 

[allison443]

OK now. All you who said you wouldn't tune in, buy or patronize any of her ventures....will you stick by that and not watch Today? I won't be watching, but I never watch morning or daytime TV, so I'm not going out of my way to avoid her. I'm sure there will be rubber-neckers aplenty who will be tuning in.

Don't worry, it will be on Dateline as well! I'm sure NBC is going to milk this for all they can.....
I wonder if people will watch-kind of reminds me of car wreck!

 

[luvgrumpy]

She looks like Angelina Jolie.

 

[Jennasis]

She looks like Angelina Jolie.

OMG YES!!! I was watching this morning and when I saw her face I thought "She thinks she's Angelina Jolie!" That's what this is about and nobody will ever be able to convince me differently.

 

[agnes!]

The big difference is that Angelina Jolie has the money to raise however many kids she wants to have, however she chooses to have them, by adoption or by birthing. This woman is unemployed, hasn't apparently worked since 1999, is not married, lives with her parents, is supposedly debilitated by a work injury and YET has been pregnant with multiple-birth pregnancies.

And I wonder how her parents feel with all this stuff coming out where Suleiman(sp?) claims her childhood was pretty dysfunctional...Grandma and Grandpa's feelings might be a little hurt right about now, maybe they think their daughter has just used them.

Unless they're *ALL* playing the system.

Hmmm.

And I wouldn't have any product that this person endorsed in my home, even if they were giving it away. And I didn't tune in either. Gack, the whole situation just gives me the creeps.

agnes!

 

[tekmom]

She looks like Angelina Jolie.

It's the trout mouth.....and the mental issues seem about right.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

so by the timeline, she started trying to get pregnant as a young unmarried woman at 17,,,am I correct? (ETA" ok, 18/19)Her own mother said she was obsessed at a young age with getting pregnant and luckily could not naturally (her mother's words).

I am thinking that settlement paid for some plastic surgery.....maybe something to that, maybe not.

seriously think this woman has issues. I would hope someone would look into that and into the circumstances surrounding the latest implantation!!!!

ETA: is there such a ting as an addiction to babies? I saw a show that involved that once. The woman kept having babies, was a nurse working in a maternity ward, etc. The problem was that once they were no loner babies, she no longer had the time for them and moved onto the next.

 

[allison443]

She claims she had a dysfunctional childhood yet is raising her kids in her parents' home? Makes no sense.
I wonder if Ann Curry asked her any tough questions...Also, if she asked the mom what doctor did her ivf procedure. I don't think that has come out, has it? I've seen a lot of doctors interviewed regarding this case and most seemed to state that sound medical standards were not followed here...

 

[lovemygoofy]

I watched it. I really don't have an opinion one way or the other about her having so many babies other than hell no I wouldn't do it. I do think that the doctor should be held accountable to some degree.

I feel bad for her. She has some issues big time. I imagine she has always had issues and her parents coming out against her just proves that the family home is not all that. Any girl that is actively trying to have a baby at 18/19 is trying to find love. Most girls that age trying to have a baby do it thinking they will have someone that will always love them and be there for them.

I really hope that someone sees the interviews and will offer to help her. Give her some counseling. No matter whether we agree or not, the babies are here and the other kids are counting on her. I hope she can find some support and love to turn her life around and raise her children with some stability. I would also hope that she gets her tubes tied, burnt, and snipped off!

 

[welovedisneyx4]

My Dad brought me to work this morning (I dropped my car off for inspection) and we heard on the radio that she was trying to compensate for her feelings she had b/c of being an only child. We both started laughing. I am an only child and was always complaining growing up about not having a brother or sister. I asked my Dad wasn't he glad I didn't feel like that?

I knew I wanted to have more than one child, but that many? I don't think so!!!

 

[TeresaBelle]

"Suleman said all 14 of her children were born by in vitro fertilization from sperm donated by a friend."

"Suleman attributed the lingering pain in part to the breakup of her marriage to Marcos Gutierrez, whom she wed in 1996 and divorced in 2008."

Regarding these two pieces of the article...is her ex-husband not the bio father of any of her children?

 

[kinntj]

I really hope that someone sees the interviews and will offer to help her. Give her some counseling. No matter whether we agree or not, the babies are here and the other kids are counting on her. I hope she can find some support and love to turn her life around and raise her children with some stability. I would also hope that she gets her tubes tied, burnt, and snipped off!

This has Dr. Phil written all over it. I can see him stepping in and doing a show or getting involved. I don't think he's the be all, but maybe he can refer her to someone who can help.

I don't need to watch her to know there's something wrong with that family with the facts out there.

 

[Fantasmic303]

I saw the interview this morning only because I can't start my day without Matt Lauer.

My favorite part was how she's going to return to college to get a Master's degree in counseling. I assume that means she'll be providing therapy for her kids, since Lord knows they're going to need it!

On a serious note, however, I work in a mental health clinic, and I definitely agree she needs an intervention. We often have teens coming in who are obsessed with having kids to fill some sort of "void" in their lives...and I'm sure you can guess how that usually turns out.

I'm glad Today followed up with an "expert" segment who agreed with my armchair assessment - I was a little nervous that, now that she's done the interview, they might have decided to treat the case with kid gloves.

 

[Fantasmic303]

"Suleman said all 14 of her children were born by in vitro fertilization from sperm donated by a friend."

"Suleman attributed the lingering pain in part to the breakup of her marriage to Marcos Gutierrez, whom she wed in 1996 and divorced in 2008."

Regarding these two pieces of the article...is her ex-husband not the bio father of any of her children?

I read in another article that the ex is NOT the bio father. I also read that the separation occured prior to the birth of ANY of her children - it's just the divorce that wasn't finalized until last year.

 

[hoosll]

I also saw the Angelina Jolie resemblance and I even wondered if she had dabbled in some plastic surgery along the way ...

If she was married for so long a time WHY did she have someone other than her husband as the sperm donor.

Once you are on disability, don't they ever come back and check to see if you are STILL disabled. This woman carried and cared for 6 children (before the latest pregnancy), that's a pretty strong back.

I agree that she may be one of those people who loves babies, the dependency and helplessness but then WHY all eight at once ....

The doctor involved in this case should lose his license.

 

[Fantasmic303]

I also saw the Angelina Jolie resemblance and I even wondered if she had dabbled in some plastic surgery along the way ...

If she was married for so long a time WHY did she have someone other than her husband as the sperm donor.

Once you are on disability, don't they ever come back and check to see if you are STILL disabled. This woman carried and cared for 6 children (before the latest pregnancy), that's a pretty strong back.

I agree that she may be one of those people who loves babies, the dependency and helplessness but then WHY all eight at once ....

The doctor involved in this case should lose his license.

Well, my thought re: the 8 at once was that it likely just wasn't thought out. She knew there could be multiples, but my guess is that she never thought it would be EIGHT. Supposedly they "only" put 6 in (which is still unethical, I would think) and two split (though I wonder how likely that is...and won't that mean she has two sets of identicals within those 8?), so maybe she figured she could handle another three or four, not really expecting it to be ALL of them plus two.

Of course, the reports the other day said she "just wanted one more girl", which totally throws that idea out the window because with that many going in, you HAVE to realize how high the chances are for multiples.

I don't know...good friends of mine have been trying to get pregnant for a while and have done extensive fertility treatments, and I just don't get how someone could take it so lightly and NOT think about their responsibilities. I mean, every time my friend has to make a decision about what to do each month, it's hard for her. As much as they want to have kids (and just one will do for them), they also will not take the chance of having high-order multiples. If adoption is their only safe option, then that's what they'll end up doing...not implanting a dozen eggs just to hope one takes.

 

[bebelle]

Beautiful women but VERY messed up! This has reality TV show written all over it. IMO-right or wrong--I think she watched alittle too much JK+8 and figuired she could get some of that action.