Octuplets’ mother wants Oprah to turn her into a $2m TV star

[TahitiNut]

$250,000 per living implant?

Octuplets’ mother wants Oprah to turn her into a $2m TV star
John Harlow, Los Angeles

THE single mother of octuplets born in California last week is seeking $2m (£1.37m) from media interviews and commercial sponsorship to help pay the cost of raising the children.

Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television childcare expert after it emerged last week that she already had six children before giving birth on Monday. She now has 14 below the age of eight.

Although still confined to an LA hospital bed, she intends to talk to two influential television hosts this week — media mogul Oprah Winfrey, and Diane Sawyer, who presents Good Morning America.

Her family has told agents she needs cash from deals such as nappy sponsorship — she will get through 250 a week in the next few months — and the agents will gauge public reaction to her story.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5627531.ece

I suppose that's cheap. :shrug: Well ... something's cheap. :eyes:

[stray cat]

1. kids as cash cows?

[TahitiNut]

3. Where're the carnival side shows when they're needed?

:eyes:

[philosophie_en_rose]

7. Works for Jon and Kate plus eight.

:(

[HelenWheels]

20. I used to like Jon and Kate

until I saw how greedy they are. They've had plastic surgery, hair implants, a piano after mentioning the twins wanted music lessons, many expensive vacations, houses, vans, etc. Gets to be a little tiresome.

[LibDemAlways]

28. Re: Those Music Lessons

They fessed up recently on one of those "Jon and Kate answer your questions" shows that the daughter who had started the piano lessons quit after just a couple. Would be interesting to know if they got to keep the piano anyway. They certainly have plenty of room for it in their new million dollar digs. Nothing like earning a living off the backs of your young children. What a couple of scammers.

[Deja Q]

2. Sick. "I did something disingenuous, unethical, or whatever and I want to be made rich for it"

:popcorn:

If Oprah turns her down, who'll be the backup talk show personality? Maury Povich?

[LisaL]

5. Maury Povich? That's not his area. He loves to do the shows

on paternity testing, to figure out who the daddy is.

[aquart]

4. Her brain never touches the ground of reality.

This woman is NUTS.

[flvegan]

6. "television childcare expert ". Shit, give me a dozen Ferraris and I'll be a tv car expert.

[dysfunctional press]

8. "Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television childcare expert..."

i wonder if that was her plan all along...? maybe she's been watching a little bit too much of the duggars.

[lcdnumber6]

9. FUCK THAT.

This should not be rewarded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Diane R]

10. Jon + Kate jus bought a 1.3M mansion. They make money televising their kid's private moments.

[lcdnumber6]

17. I saw that show once....

It deeply disturbed me....particularly since it's on The Learning Channel. Where's the "learning" in watching the fruits of a fertilization job gone awry? Ugh.

[LibDemAlways]

32. They both quit their day jobs and have turned the tv show,

books, and public appearances where they ask gullible people for "love offerings," into their sole source of income. Every dime they make now depends on their kids' lives being open to the public. They've shown them on the toilet and in the bathtub. One episode centered on a little boy's constipation. Nothing is off limits. And the parents are greedy, greedy, greedy.....accepting vacations in Hawaii, trips to Disney World, ski vacations in Utah and on and on. Meanwhile, they have alienated their friends and family so the kids don't even get to see their grandparents. Truly horrible people.

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[LibDemAlways]

57. With Kate it's always all about Kate, how tired she is, all the

sacrifices she's made, etc.

The promo for a recent episode showing off the new $1.3 mil. house showed her standing at a window looking out on a vast stretch of property and cackling "All mine." With that attitude in this economy viewers will be tuning out in droves and Kate and Jon may soon have to seek gainful employment once more.

If the Whittier woman thinks she's going to star in the single mom version of that show, she's sorely mistaken.

[sarge43]

11. Those poor children. n/t

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. She's a sicko nt

[supernova]

13. Which is exactly why Oprah shouldn't do it

If this is a true representation of the mother, then it's reprehensible. Getting famous for procreating really shouldn't be encouraged.

[Faygo Kid]

14. This gets creepier all the time. Maybe she ought to found a PR firm with Blagojevich

Throw in Kwame Kilpatrick, too.

All the GOP sucks, so that would make it too big.

[DebJ]

39. Blagojevich, Palin, and Octomom

[Initech]

15. Wow, only one month in and 2009 already has a serious contender for dumbass of the year.

Maybe the decade. :wow:

[Historic NY]

16. She must have a serious obsession...or compulsive behavior

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Her daughter's obsession with children caused Angela Suleman considerable stress, so she sought help from a psychologist, who told her to order her daughter out of the house.
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Yolanda Garcia, 49, of Whittier, said she helped care for Nadya Suleman's autistic son three years ago.
"From what I could tell back then, she was pretty happy with herself, saying she liked having kids and she wanted 12 kids in all," Garcia told the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
"She told me that all of her kids were through in vitro, and I said 'Gosh, how can you afford that and go to school at the same time?"' she added. "And she said it's because she got paid for it."
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http://news.aol.com/article/octuplets-grandmother-upset-over/319875?icid=200100397x1218198633x1201188316

She must have some obsession to wanting to collect children..now trying to cash in on them.

[bluestateguy]

18. She'll end up making $150 on local cable access

nt

[madmax]

19. This woman needs to be institutionalized. n/t

[FreakinDJ]

21. What a Cow

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. 14 Little Bundle$ from Heaven. Maybe she can get a handout from the Pro-Lifer$.

[BlooInBloo]

24. Sorry - they're post-born. Republicans don't care any more.

[BlooInBloo]

23. Octomom sucks.

[marylanddem]

27. "Octomom" - Did you make that up? Great description!

this story just gets more and more grotesque...

[BlooInBloo]

30. Thank you, thank you very much.

:blush:

[NashVegas]

56. There's a Newspaper Site Where They're Calling Her Octopussy

[BlooInBloo]

63. I considered that, but decided it was going too far.

[TahitiNut]

33. Octomom is incubatty.

:shrug:

[DebJ]

38. LOL

[BlooInBloo]

40. (snarfle)

[lcdnumber6]

51. hahah!

You're awesome, TN

[Hekate]

62. I stole "Octomom" as soon as I saw it, Bloo. I've already used it 3 times. Thanks! nt

[sam sarrha]

25. she definately needs a mental evaluation before they put those babies in her care...

[zagging]

26. I hope she gets the dough

And uses it for more in vitro and has icosatuplets. Now, that would be something!

[YanquiUXO]

29. What's scary is..

Oprah is just as much a megalomaniac as this woman that she WILL pay for her child expenses, as long as it promotes the idea to her stupid viewers that Oprah is the female version of Jesus.

[SalviaBlue]

52. I am not stupid. Welcome to DU enjoy your stay.

[LibDemAlways]

31. As soon as the details of her circumstances started coming to

light I figured she had to be in it for the money. She's probably watched every episode of Jon and Kate plus 8 and figured with a set of octuplets, twins, and 4 more, TLC would surely come a calling.

I don't think she was counting on the backlash I think is building.

I have a feeling the social services people are going to step in to protect those babies. The whole thing is going to turn into a giant fiasco.

[Lars39]

54. Probably while still in the hospital.

All it would take is the grandma refusing to help and not enough people signed up to work and I'm betting those babies don't see the inside of that home.

[Gold Metal Flake]

34. She just might start a fad.

Don't worry, it's simply a matter of choice. Besides, if she can't make it in show biz she can always eat the little darlings.

[lcdnumber6]

36. LOL!

Good one, GMF

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. Child Services should take every child away from them, and she should die, forgotten and alone,

spending her remaining 5 or so decades of life devoid of any media attention or even remembrance of what she did other than to go down in history as "That unethical money-hungry baby-poppin' @*($(#(^%(%."

[BlooInBloo]

41. That might be goin a bit far, but yah.

[petronius]

46. Good idea - maybe the judge who takes her kids will force her

to legally change her name to your suggestion. But she might try to hide who she is, so it should also be branded on her forehead...

[KoKo]

37. She does need some help...I think Oprah could do it for her..

Everyone can be a Celeberity these days...Why Not? :shrug:

[TahitiNut]

44. Well ... she could move to Alaska and run for Governor.

:dunce:

[Carolina]

43. Un-fucking-believable

I hope they don't give her the time of day. Such irresponsible idiocy should not be encouraged or condoned by promoting it on TV.

[InvisibleTouch]

45. I would be disappointed in Oprah if she played along with this...

...though I could see her doing a show on the subject from a different angle: child hoarders. Not as a means to raise money for Crazy Octomom or to glorify the matter, but as an exploration of a compulsive disorder. And what might be done to treat it.

[lcdnumber6]

50. that would be the way for O to approach it...

as a cautionary tale of a personality disorder....with follow-up outreach to women considering acting upon their own destructive obsessions.

[Hannah Bell]

47. the gosselins, the duggars, now some new big family with a show -

what the hey, why not?

seems the ptb want people to imitate & have more kids.

[JI7]

48. i bet she is a shitty parent

fuck her

[grace0418]

61. No question. If she actually cared about her children, she'd have stopped a long

time ago. She doesn't give a shit about them or the fact that each one will get 1/14th the attention they should. She just has some obsessive need.

[Politicalboi]

49. Step right up

See the freak show. She belongs on Fox and Friends. LOL! This woman should be considered a saint in their eyes. She choose to have all 8 babies instead of aborting some.

[Hello_Kitty]

53. I thought Oprah never paid any of her guests.

She pays for their trip to the show but that's it.

[Sultana]

55. Cash wanting COW

Say no, Oprah.

Psycho, she needs some sort of mental help.

[ima_sinnic]

58. a "childcare expert" who supports her litter by parading them around like sideshow freaks

somehow . . . I don't think her "expertise" is very helpful.

what's the matter, "childcare expert," can't you take care of your precious tax deductions by yourself? the "expert" has to ask for help?

what a fucking joke! the sooner they place those babies with sane parents and end this train wreck, the better.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

59. I'd rather have Oprah paying her instead of the taxpayers.

[grace0418]

60. Absolutely sickening. I really hope no one gives this sick woman a forum. I'm tired of

greedy, self-absorbed people getting accolades for having more kids than they could ever responsibly raise even if they have the money.

[seabeyond]

64. she already loses as a child care expert. it is like that girl selling virginity and she wants

to be a marriage and child counselor? boggles the mind in contradictions.

[Vinca]

65. A television childcare expert? How about a self-centered brood mare instead. nt

[Beaverhausen]

66. This whole situation is so f'ed up. I feel bad for those kids