Nadya Suleman, the single woman who just gave birth to 8 babies in addition to the 6 children she already has, has decided to launch an official website in order to solicit the public for donations to help her raise her 14 children. At first, Suleman was adamant that she didn’t need public assistance to help care for her children and that she would be able to “provide” for her family once she gets her degree and starts working (I understand that she is currently unemployed, living with her parents and has no real source of income at the moment). Now, visitors to thenadyasulemanfamily.com are asked to send donations to her (all major credit cards are accepted) in exchange for photos of her 8 newborn children — Noah, Maliah, Isaiah, Nariah, McCai, Josiah, Jeremiah and Jonah:
In addition to the solicitation for money, the site also offers a heartfelt thank you to all the folks who have been offering their support to the family:
“We thank you for the love and good wishes sent to us from around the world. The octuplets arrived on 1-26-09. They are all healthy and growing stronger by the day”
I, for one, think this is some shady biz goin’ on here. I personally would urge people to NOT send in money for the mere fact that there is no way of knowing how the money will be used by Nadya Suleman. In fact, we don’t even know WHO will get the monetary donations — the site does NOT clarify who exactly the money will go to and for what purpose. I find this manner of solicitation very suspicious. If folks want to offer help to the children themselves, I would suggest either making donations to the hospital that is caring for the babies or sending in baby products (diapers, food, etc.) in lieu of actual money. But yeah … this is some shady biz. I am not at all impressed … and I really feel bad for those 14 kids :(
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I wonder how much the Kileen Furtney Group (website says donations are c/o this PR firm) takes from every donation? 10%? It’s obvious Nadya has no morals/values/ethics…guess she found a PR group that doesn’t either.
This whole thing is just so f-ed up. Those poor kids…
Is it rude that I want to comment on her website that she is a drain on society? She can receive $168,000 in workers comp because she is so unwell, but yet she can carry 8 babies for 7 months.
tiffany I already left a comment on hes site telling her she is crazy!
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Pathetic…. shes frickin sick… She wont be getting a dime from me.
This POS wants us to donate funds to her!?!?! Why so she can get more plastic surgery & lip injections to look like Angelina Jolie??? This whole thing makes me ILL. To think some a-hole implanted this SINGLE woman not even in her mid-30′s with embroys just drives me up the wall. She’s already draining the much needed funds from CA as it IS. Look into her previous lawsuits and HUGE settlements she got!
How come any nutjob can have kids…shouldn’t there be some rule somewhere. Who pimps out there children like this? I’m with Trent and not sending money but send needed baby items like food, diapers, etc.
This is a tragedy.
Trent I wholeheartedly agree with you and I encourage you to keep encouraging people not to donate to her, but instead donate items to the children.
@chrissy- NOONE is hating the children. We all think the mother is awful for doing that to her preexisting children and additional newborn children. The mother had a choice to abort a couple and make life better for the remaining. Because she chose not to, all 8 of the babies will suffer. No person’s body can nourish development of 8 separate embryos and fetuses, thus all 8 babies will have physical and mental problems throughout their entire lives.
The only problem with sending baby items is that she will likely return them for store credit anyways. Let the stupid cow flounder like she deserves to. I am a single mom and yes I have had to rely on *GASP* welfare a couple of times but that was related to health issues. I am able to work again now but there is no way in HELL that I would EVER go off and try to have 13 more children.
i feel for the kids. shes just using them for monetary gains
To Jenn from BC, Canada:
What if everyone sent gifts and just made marks on the packaging, making the gifts impossible to return? Perfect use for a sharpie, and she wouldn’t be able to return them because they would not be able to be resold!
I feel so bad for those kids. It’s hard to watch any news on her. I just wonder what kind of life they’re going to have. I understand loving children. I myself love kids and have 1 and personally cannot wait to have more but my husband and I are WAITING until we can afford it!
@sc – I completely agree with you!!!
This woman is ridiculous. The doctor who allowed her to implant AGAIN should definitely be removed from the medical field. Whoever cleared this woman to even have this done should be removed because CLEARLY this woman needs help! Who in their right mind (except Brangelina and Mia Farrow but we won’t go there) feels the need to keep having children even after they can’t properly raise the 6 they already have. The media should boycott any and all attempts for her to profit in anyway from this, and if anything (because after all it makes for an incredible newsstory) use whatever she would make and put it into taking general care of the babies like Trent suggested or put into a safe account for them far away from their mothers hands.
And where is Child & Welfare? You cannot tell me that living in a tiny bungalow house with your parents and 6 kids is a conducive environment to bring 8 babies home to. Unreal. I’m sure there are enough willing people out there that could give these babies a better chance at life, far away from their crazy mother.
Fuck that!! I would NOT give my money to someone who purposely had that many kids, without income OR a the help of a freakin partner!! If I wanted to send money for something like that, I’d have my own 14 kids, or start a freakin animal shelter!! I don’t see how she can even mentally tolerate having that many babies….. she needs money for mental help.
I think it’s very sad for the kids… they are going to be lacking a lot of things while they’re growing up. It just seems so SELFISH and ignorant of the mom..
She had to know how difficult this would be on EVERYONE (not just herself), and she went ahead and did it anyway.
i personally love how octopu$$y said she doesn’t receive welfare… then it comes out that she gets disability payments for herself and 2 or 3 of her older kids (and will prolly apply for the same for At Least SOME of these 8 new ones) plus food stamps for all – this is rationalized away by her PR team by saying she doesn’t consider disability payments and food stamps as welfare, but as payments made to those in need. DUMBA$$, that’s what welfare IS (*supposed to be) — payments made to those in need!! Wonder what would qualify as welfare to this dumb b!tch…
I find this incredibly selfish and irresponsible on the mother’s part. It’s not that she had 1 kid, tried again for a second and ended up with 8. She had 6 already! If you’re a single parent with 6 children, no job and you’re living with your parents, maybe you should stop having children until things change. Why should other people have to pay to support the children you decided to bring into the world?
I think we need to try to look beyond the fact that she did something selfish and stupid. These kids need all the help they can get. I say send items not money. I am lost for words to explain how I feel about what she has brought these innocents children into.
the whole thing is comepltly irresponsible… first of all, she’s alreadying relying on her mother to help take care of SIX CHILDREN!!!! and knowing what fertility drugs/ implanted eggs did the first time, she did it again! Im not even a mother yet and i know how difficult it is to take care of ONE child, not to mention SIX and then antother EIGHT!!! Both the doctor and the mother should be, i don’t want to say punished, but actions needs to be taken against both becuase this is unethical and irresponsible.
100+ years ago families needed many children to support thier families, and poor families who were unaware of family planning methods had large families, of which quite a few died young. As this is not the case today, and as a large amount of resposiblity and money is neccessary to raise such a family, it is extremly unwise to have such a large family.. especailly for her..
We can only pray for her children, i hope that the law does somthing to help them. otherwise they will likely live unsatisfactory lives.
As a Dr, I’m absolutely disgusted with the fertility specialist who performed this procedure. She/he was clearly financially motivated, and completely disregarded the ethical concerns. The mother is quite obviously disturbed, and is in no way capable of looking after these children (she couldn’t manage the 6 she already had). This is a shameful example of how the American medical system encourages dishonest practice. Fertility is not my specialty, but let me assure you, every doctor I know horrified by this story too. This practicioner should be struck off.