Octuplet Mom: Big Family "Was Always a Dream of Mine"

Us Magazine - February 5, 2009 3:52 PM PST
Story photo: Octuplet Mom: Big Family In an exclusive interview, NBC News' Ann Curry sat down with Nadya Suleman in her first interview since giving birth to octuplets last week.Us Magazine
Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to eight babies last week, admits that she has always longed for a big family as an only child.

"That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family, and -- I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up," Suleman said in an interview with NBC's Ann Curry on Thursday.

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Suleman, who sat down with Curry on the same day she was discharged from the hospital, said she liked a sense of "self and identity" from a young age.

"I didn't feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment," she told Curry. "I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability. Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?"

Suleman's mother, Angela Suleman, had told Usmagazine.com exclusively that her daughter did blame her childhood on her desire to have so many kids.

"She was always upset I didn't have more," Angela told Us. But I dont think she really knew. If she had brothers and sisters, I dont think she would have been happier."

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In the interview, Suleman -- who already had six children before giving birth to the octuplets -- used the same donor, a friend, for all 14 kids. All of the children were conceived through in vitro fertilization.

"I went through about seven years of trying -- through artificial insemination," Suleman said. "And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful. And then the first -- IVF procedure from that-- from that facility -- it was successful. And then I just kept going in."

A first look at the exclusive interview will air on NBC's Today Friday.

Watch the full interview on Today this Monday and on Dateline Tuesday at 10 p.m. EST.



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  • jc
    she's selfish to no end! i feel sorry for the poor kids who had no choice in this situation. i don't care what she says - there's no possible way she can give all 14 kids the attention they deserve! somebody needs to step in and make this type of thing illegal. the kids should go up for adoption so they can have a fair chance at life, which she obviously cannot give them!
    report abuseposted February 12, 2009 6:51 AM PST
  • Pamela G
    i agree cher!!
    report abuseposted February 8, 2009 12:05 PM PST
  • cherbear
    Like many surmise, she'll most likely get welfare. She's unemployed, single, living with mommy & daddy, & an exhibitionist that'll garner the press she needs to make a living pimping 14 kids! Meanwhile, her dad's to go back to work in Iraq to support HER kids! Selfish,obtuse loon!
    report abuseposted February 7, 2009 1:12 AM PST
  • karen
    These facilities need to be sure that the recipient has had a psych evaluation before inseminating them. This women has to be insane to want to have all these kids and raise them alone. However now that she has done it she will become rich from interviews on talk shows which is actually using innocent children for her own financial gain.
    report abuseposted February 6, 2009 10:56 AM PST
  • Pamela G
    clearly there's something very wrong w/some1 who thinks having 14 kids can make up 4 a siblingless childhood. seems she has the maturity of a child, herself. she can never take care of 14 kids alone & any rational person would realize that.
    report abuseposted February 6, 2009 4:13 AM PST
  • awchew
    Wonder how much she got for this interview, she just thinks someone or many will pay for all these kids and she'll get money for mags and rags and TV and a book, Oh all the possibilities and $$$$$$$$$$
    report abuseposted February 5, 2009 7:07 PM PST
  • M
    I can't wait for her to explain to her kids that they were a ll created by a sperm donor. Can you say dysfunctional? Yeah, they will be normal, NOT. I hope she had her tubes tied.
    report abuseposted February 5, 2009 6:51 PM PST
  • hello
    The problem is that will she be able to financially, physically, and emotionally take care of these kids. She talks about what she wants...how she always wanted a big family and how it has always been a dream of hers, but what about the babies. With 14 kids now how is she going to be able to take care of them.
    report abuseposted February 5, 2009 6:51 PM PST
  • Susie Q
    6 kids wasn't enough!! She must be out of her mind! That's O.K. she'll probably get her own reality show and make a fortune. 14 kids and not married??? Who's going to help change all those diapers?
    report abuseposted February 5, 2009 6:35 PM PST
  • Alan
    Psychotic people like her belong in the nuthouse - this world is already overpopulated and polluted enough.
    report abuseposted February 5, 2009 6:28 PM PST
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