After famously telling Life & Style magazine that she would “absolutely not” do a reality TV show about her life or the lives of her children, Nadya Octomom Suleman confirms to L&S that she has signed on to do a TV show after all. Suleman makes a point to clarify that her TV show will not be a reality TV show but, instead, a sort of documentary that will follow her children’s lives up until the age of 18. But really, aren’t documentaries (at the heart of it all) really just fancy reality TV shows?
After weeks of speculation, Nadya Suleman confirms to Life & Style exclusively that she will be doing a television show with her 14 children! “Yes, it is official. I’m going to be doing a show, but it’s not a reality show,” Nadya tells Life & Style. “What I’m doing with this TV show is basically creating documentaries about the lives of my children. It’s going to be an ongoing thing, and it will follow them from now until they are 18. It’s being done by Eyeworks; they’re in the UK. It will air in the UK and then we’ll see if the US is interested.” Nadya adds that the documentary style of the show won’t infringe on her family’s privacy: “The producers will come here to film six times a year. They’ll come by and take some footage and then they’ll go. They won’t be invading my life or my children’s lives.” Plus, the filming will help this busy mom remember the important milestones for her children. “It will give me the opportunity to have incredible home movies that, believe me, I don’t have the time to make myself. Having this documentary crew allows me to focus on raising my children and still have great movies of them.”
You gotta hand it to the lady, she does know how to work things out in the manner that best benefits her. By signing on for this TV deal, she can say that she is not doing a reality TV show and still get her reality-like TV show. Additionally, she gets a professional production company to film her crazy life for her … footage that will, no doubt, be sold every place possible so as to maximize her monetary gain. It’s almost as if she’s squeezing her babies for every penny she can get. Now that the 8th baby has been released from the hospital and is in her care, there’s no reason why production of her new show can’t get underway immediately. I weep for those poor babies.
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this lady disgusts me, there is no way I would watch this crap! she just wants attention! CPS where are you???
Um, who is going to watch this shit till the kids are 18?? She is straight nuts!!!
I don’t know who I’m more disappointed in…This nut-case and the children that she clearly shouldn’t have or myself for clicking on stories about her. Sad all around!
She’s really pathetic. A documentary is the ORIGINAL reality show, moron. You’re exploiting your bad decision-making and 14 kids (aka 13 too many) to make money.
Ugh.
I can’t stand this freak.. And I don’t know why she reminds me so much of Tom Hulce, the actor who played Mozart in the movie Amadeus. i think it’s the HUGE forhead
Someone asked me the other day why we call her Octomom instead of Octopussy. I told him it was because the censors liked the former better, but that the latter was about eleventy-billion times more appropriate. :)
If she thinks the American media and public can be scathing wait until she gets a taste of the good folks in the UK. The media over there will be relentless in destroying every little delusion she holds in her head, trust.
For the millionth time, she may be crazy and need help and all but the “doctor” is to blame ultimately. And I don’t understand why everyone hates her so much. People on welfare have more babies just to get more money, they just don’t get the attention and didn’t have 8 at once. Also, why weep for the babies? At least she’s going to be making money to support them AND it will shut up anyone who thinks she isn’t taking care of them right because they’ll be seen all the time. She’s making the best of her situation, however nuts she may be and it could be a lot worse.
She should have totally planned this whole thing better, and just NOT lied about anything. If you’re on welfare, say you are. If you want media attention, SAY you do. Don’t try to act all like “I dunno WHY everyone’s interested in lil ol’ ME…”
She keeps saying she’s not in it for this or that and then she goes and does whatever she says she wouldn’t do… like people won’t notice….. She disgusts me.
I agree with lucy she hasnt done anything majorly wrong except have children whom she needs help supporting like many other people living in the US and the UK. I pay taxes and accept that people need income suport, and i dont mind. The programme will proberly only put her in a good light. I think its facinating that this lady has given birth to eight babies, despite all the negative media coverage about her being crazy etc. The babies would not have been released from hospital into her care if she was that bad.
not that im a fan of her’s or anything…but we all know people will watch her…just like they watch Jon & Kate plus 8. the only difference between the two are.. ones a single parent. both moms are nuts.
I cannot stand this woman. It’s not like she accidently got pregnant with multiples. she paid $100,000 to get pregnant. Now she is asking for handouts. she is calculating and manipulative and I think she belongs in jail.The last thing I want to watch is a bunch of dumbf*ck kids running around. I guess I am very picky about watch.
OMG she FREAKS me out. The giant forehead, hughmongo lips, and just general freakiness. Freaky McFreakertons
It’s hilarious she thinks people will watch until they are 18 years old. People will be over it long before they are even 18 months old!
she is smart enough to have read the population and has taken an overseas deal. i have read so many comments and every time someone is from outside usa they are not upset about what she did. america is the only industrialised country that doesn’t have nationalised medicine. ivf is covered under nationalised medicine that means that everyone pays for the few that cannot have children by natural means. no one is upset.
something truely ugly has happened to americans. i think it is the financial meltdown that has created the meanness in people’s hearts. some comments are downright sick and those people need psychiatric care urgently. boards need to alert authorities to the ip addresses of those people.
the fact that so many people have commented reminds me of the lewinsky lynch mob. people cannot understand a lot of what happens on capital hill any more than they can understand why this meltdown has happened. so they talk about what they can understand. sex or reproduction.
i am not in usa and i would watch nadya and the kids. since 6 embryos were implanted and she got 8 babies, this means she could have 4 singletons and 2 lots of twins or perhaps 4 took and she got 4 lots of twins. there are other permutations as well. i think it will be interesting to watch.
if i lived locally i would help nadya out. not all help is financial. you could help with a load of washing and folding (or ironing if you are feeling really generous). i am disappointed that people would drive to her town just to drive past the house but wouldn’t take over a meal for the older kids and introduce themselves. what is wrong here?
I am truly looking forward to the day that I click on a website concerning her and read that she has passed away – forever.
To Sushshaf – I don’t think any American network wanted her. The spin that she was talking to 4 different production companies was probably because she and Jeff had to do a lot of fancy steps just to get them interested. Are you still not getting it – she was in it for the money all along.
we need to boycott this woman!!! No way should she be allowed to exploit those babies so she can sit on her ass and collect. She doesn’t have enough sense to be ashamed of herself. What a disgrace! We can all send her a message by turning out back on anything she touches. Yes, the kids will not get any money from it, but she also won’t be able to support them and will have to give them up. In the end let them suffer a little now, or make them suffer 18 years of this selfish, disgusting woman.
Sushaf- unless you live in america, and have to pay for her to raise those kids, you probably shouldn’t care and go ahead and watch her show… it just shows you as someone that doesn’t live here, but thinks they know what is best for us. You come and live here and be taxed to death so people like her can just sit back and breed. then we’ll see how interested you would be in watching a show of her spending your tax money.
to franki, I have to agree with you. If she were gone, the babies would have a chance at a normal life. But unfortunately, I’m sure she’ll be around to milk every penny out of those kids that she can.
to Morgenne – I don’t know. There are crazier people in the world than that twit. Someone smarter than her is going to come along and milk her out of all her money. She thinks she’s slick, but there’s always someone slicke. Or someone angrier than all of us is just going to be waiting for her some day – no one is invincible. For now, I spit in her direction.