Octomom at crossroads, broke and considering porn

From Miracle Mom to Octomom and now, perhaps soon, Homeless Mom, the bizarre life of Nadya Suleman and her 14 children has been a subject that rarely fails to hit a nerve among those who have followed her personal soap opera.

Now, with Suleman on the verge of losing her home after filing for bankruptcy this week and revealing she owes as much as $1 million to everyone from her parents to her baby sitters, could the Octomom Odyssey finally be grinding to an inglorious halt?

And if it is, what might be the fate of the children borne from her zeal for in vitro fertilization?

Suleman has said three of her six older children have disabilities for which she receives government financial support. One is autistic, another has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and the third a speech impediment. The older children range in age from 5 to 10.

One thing that keeps driving interest in her is whether authorities should step in and take the children. There’s also a fascination with watching her very public foibles. As she struggles to stay afloat, Suleman has posed topless for an obscure British magazine and said she would make a porn film.

Not only is she broke, but it has come to light in recent weeks that the Southern California home where she and her children have lived the past two years is going on the auction block Monday.

Child welfare officials visited the La Habra home last week following a complaint that her children were living in squalor. They took no action, and Orange County Social Services spokeswoman Terry Lynn Fisher said Thursday the law prevents her from even confirming or denying the visit.

Speaking in general terms, however, Fisher said it’s not illegal for families to be homeless, to live in dirty homes or even in their cars, as long as that doesn’t place their children in danger.

University of Southern California sociologist Dorian Traube said that given Suleman’s notoriety, it would be surprising if the welfare agency hasn’t been monitoring her and her children for some time.

“Here you have 14 children whose mom is living on welfare, who has now declared bankruptcy, who is going in the media and posing topless and who most recently said she would be willing to do porn films if it meant that she could provide for her children,” said Traube, who has studied and written extensively about parent-child relationships.

If the Suleman saga is wrapping up, it would mark a sad end to something that, if only briefly, once seemed to some like the feel-good story of the year.

That was on Jan. 26, 2009, when Suleman’s octuplets were born at a Southern California hospital and made medical history when they all survived. In the days that followed, she was reportedly showered with offers for book and movie deals, reality TV shows and a mountain of free baby stuff.

Things changed quickly, however, after it was learned that Octomom was also Single Mom and Welfare Mom. And that she already had six children under the age of 8 and was living on a combination of welfare checks, food stamps, student loans and her parents’ largesse.

The movie, book and TV deals faded, and Suleman, now 36, turned to increasingly bizarre means of making money.

She endorsed birth control, but only for dogs and cats. That earned her $5,000 and a month’s supply of vegetarian hot dogs and burgers from the animal rights group People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

She once told Oprah Winfrey that she hated the term “Octomom” but then had it emblazoned on the back of the robe she wore into a boxing ring last year for a “celebrity” match against Amy Fisher, who gained fame in the 1990s as the “Long Island Lolita” when she shot the wife of her much older lover in the face.

Over the years numerous people tried to help and offer advice to Suleman, including such TV personalities as “Dr. Phil” and money guru Suze Orman.

Instead, she went through one publicist and attorney after another. At one point she even spurned six months of free child care by the group Angels in Waiting that had been arranged by celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred. The group’s co-founder, Linda Conforti-West, said at the time that Suleman seemed more interested in lining up a reality TV show than caring for the kids.

“Clients have to be willing to accept advice from those who have the experience and expertise to provide for them,” Joann Killeen, Suleman’s first publicist, said Wednesday. “I think it’s obvious why she’s gone through so many managers and attorneys and professional staff in the three years she’s been Octomom. Clients who don’t listen don’t make good clients.”

Suleman declined to be interviewed for this story.

“She is not interested in having any filming or doing any interviews of any sort, especially entering her home and filming her kids for no compensation,” said her current spokeswoman Gina Rodriguez, whose other clients have included Tiger Woods mistress Joslyn James, reality TV star Tila Tequila and Lindsay Lohan’s mother, Dina.

Rodriguez didn’t say where Suleman plans to move after the house is auctioned but said she is looking forward to the next chapter of her life.

“She is excited about moving. She has been preparing,” she said in an email to The Associated Press.

Documents filed in court Monday for Suleman’s bankruptcy case list assets of no more than $50,000 and debts of $500,000 to $1 million. Her creditors include her parents, her gardener, a babysitting company, private school, pest control company, mortgage holder and state Department of Motor Vehicles, among others.

Orange County businessman Amer Haddadin, who sold Suleman’s father the four-bedroom home that’s about to be auctioned, said he’s owed $483,000, including 11 months of unpaid rent and a $450,000 note that Suleman never paid off. He says he has no sympathy for her, adding her actions led his mortgage holder to foreclose on him and destroyed his credit.

“She’s not only using the system, she’s abusing the system,” Haddadin said.

Lately, Suleman has made money posing topless for the British magazine and has a possible porn deal in the works, although the latter comes with a catch. She had said she’ll only do it if, to put it delicately, she is the only one being filmed. It would be what the industry calls a solo tape.

That led Vivid Entertainment Group co-founder Steven Hirsch, who once offered Suleman $1 million to do a porn film, to say he doubts his company would be interested in working with her in the future.

“I’m not sure that after that’s released that it would make sense,” he said.

Suleman says she was drugged

Nadya Suleman on Thursday blamed the creation of the “Octomom character” that she has become synonymous with in part on a California fertility specialist who, she said, had her sign a consent form while she was drugged.

The California woman said she did not mean to have eight children in January 2009, in addition to the six she already had. But while she admitted she did want more children, she insisted she was in no condition to understand a form Dr. Michael Kamrava put in front of her before implanting 12 embryos.

“He wrote something, he gave it to me to sign,” Suleman told HLN’s Dr. Drew Pinsky on Thursday night. She said she was then on “a cocktail of drugs” including Valium at the Beverly Hills doctor’s office because her uterus was contracting. “I signed it, and I didn’t read it.”

Kamrava lost his California medical license July 1 after state officials ruled that he committed “gross negligence” with “repeated negligent acts, for an excessive number of embryo transfers” into Suleman in 2008, the state’s medical board wrote. The same report determined that the doctor felt the implantation was driven “by the patient’s wishes.”

During a hearing for the doctor last October, it was revealed Suleman still has 29 frozen embryos in storage. Contrary to some reports, though, the 36-year-old woman insisted Thursday that she doesn’t want any more children.

That said, the single mother — who said she has been celibate for 12 years, and had all 14 children by in vitro fertilization — admitted that she chose to have children in part to address her emotional baggage.

“Is it fair to have a bunch of kids help solve your emotional issues? Of course not,” she said.

“With children, I feel so safe in my predictable world. They will never leave me. Kids love you, unconditionally.”

Suleman admits that she has a host of problems, including anxiety, panic attacks, hyperactivity and obsessive compulsive disorder. “My brain and body are racing constantly,” she added, noting she exercises extensively and only gets two hours of sleep a night.

But expressing regret for contributing to “this mess (that) has deleteriously affected my kids,” Suleman said that she’s now speaking out in part to refute having been made into what she called a “parody without permission.”

“I have the spotlight, I know it’s my responsibility (for my kids) to brush it away and get rid of the Octomom character,” she said.

With no steady income and expenses of over $18,000 a month, Suleman has struggled to get by raising her children. She has previously hosted a yard sale at her La Habra, California, home to deal with the hardship, and had reportedly signed on to be on the HDNet reality TV show “Celebridate.”

And now, Suleman said she is grateful for money she gets from media interviews, especially with overseas outlets.

She also claims to have received “hundreds of death threats,” some targeting her children, as well as a few female stalkers.

“I am hated in my hometown,” she said.

Still, Suleman said that despite the difficulties she feels things are improving. And despite her admitted anxiety, paranoia and continued efforts to shield her children — barring any television or Internet in the house — she is most at peace at home.

“I feel safest at home with my kids,” she said. “And I want to be only there, that’s my favorite time at night, in my pajamas playing Twister.”

 

 

OctoMom Offered a Porn Industry Job

OctoMom Nadya Suleman was offered a job yesterday for $1,000 a day by a porn company. Exciting, uh? Not really. The job is a behind the scenes gig that does not include sex or nudity.

After she went on welfare a couple of weeks ago and announced she wasn’t able to pay her mortgage or clothe her kids, no other company has offered OctoMom a job, let alone one as generous as this one, so she better screws her head on the right way and accepts it.

The letter offering her the job was signed personally by Steve Hirsch, the owner of Vivid Entertainment, and it reads:

We are offering you an opportunity to work on an upcoming Vivid production as a member of our crew. The position would pay $1K per day.

Let me be clear, you will not have to perform sex and no nudity is required.

Who Is Nadya Suleman

Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman Gutierrez (born Natalie Denise Suleman, July 11, 1975) known as Octomom in the media, is an American woman who came to international attention when she gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. The Suleman octuplets are only the second full set of octuplets to be born alive in the United States and, one week after their birth, surpassed the previous worldwide survival rate for a complete set of octuplets set by the Chukwu octuplets in 1998. The circumstances of their high order multiple birth have led to controversy in the field of assisted reproductive technology as well as an investigation by the Medical Board of California of the fertility specialist involved. Public reaction turned negative when it was discovered that the single mother already had six other young children and was unemployed and on public assistance programs. She conceived the octuplets and her six older children via in vitro fertilisation (IVF).