Octuplets mom is not getting showered with gifts

[Ilsa]

Octuplets mom is not getting showered with gifts

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OCTUPLETS?SITE=CADIU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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The news that she is a single mother with six other children - and that all 14 were conceived by having embryos implanted - seems to have turned off many people, and companies are not exactly rushing to get publicity by piling on the freebies.

Nadya Suleman, 33, has been lambasted by talk-show hosts, fertility experts, even her own mother, who has her hands full taking care of Suleman's other children, ages 2 to 7.

A veteran Hollywood publicist said Suleman's handlers have their work cut out for them in trying to win public sympathy for her.

"I think it's a calamity," said publicist David Brokaw, who has handled crises for celebrities. "I don't see, the way this is shaped, how you can say much about it in terms of something favorable."

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TLC President Eileen O'Neill said production companies that work with TLC have already made offers to Suleman's family, but the network is waiting to see how TV-friendly the family is.

[Critters2]

1. Wait til the media find the doctor who implanted those embryos!

:nuke:

[we can do it]

2. Good - Excessive Breeding Pigs Should Be Ignored

[Ilsa]

3. I hope she doesn't end up on Oprah. nt

[cynatnite]

5. Of course, the children should pay the price for parents irresponsibility...

:eyes:

[Demobrat]

8. You are very welcome to send her money and gifts.

Heck, put a kid or two through school if you so desire. I'm sure it will be greatly appreciated.

[cynatnite]

11. I just don't believe in making a kid pay for a parent's irresponsibility...

It's bad enough these poor babies will pay for what their mother did. I can't comprehend not helping them.

[aquart]

15. And I'm sure you will send them every dime you can spare.

There are lots of other children in need, too.

[cynatnite]

16. We do contribute to a few charities when we can...

Making a child pay for a parent's irresponsibility is unconscionable, IMO.

[we can do it]

32. The Stupid Bitch Should Lose All the Kids - Who Said Its the Kids Fault?

Do you really think the idiot is capable of bring the kids up in any sort of reasonable manner? GMAFB

[MedleyMisty]

4. Maybe she just chose the wrong time

The market has really been saturated with human litters and it's so old news now.

[LisaL]

21. What she doesn't have for the companies to shower her with gifts

is a husband.
Isn't it obvious?

[CLANG]

6. It's really a form of mental illness - she should get help.

[panader0]

7. I think it's very wrong. I think she's mental.

I'm sure the taxpayers will pay for her weird obsession. How much do you think the delivery operation cost? How much to feed, clothe, and care for 14 children? It's gonna be millions before it's over. She should have her tubes tied permanently.

[kestrel91316]

12. I fully expect her to try for ANOTHER litter.

I mean, really, it takes SOOOOO much to get noticed these days.......

[LisaL]

18. She is only 33. What she got, close to 10 more reproductive years?

[theHandpuppet]

37. Oh I do think she will try for more

But because she has an ongoing obsession with babies and has not sought professional psychological help. Once these babies cease to be infants she will lose interest and want to fill her basket with even more living dolls.

[juno jones]

27. Apparently nature already took care of that.

All these kids have been in vitro.

The unwillingness to have a partner in the process creeps me out tho.

[MichaelHarris]

9. I'm fully prepared

to boycott any company that gives this nut anything. TLC, you want a story? Cover the single mom with 3 kids working 2 jobs. Do a show about a single father traveling thousands of miles to see his kids. Feature a story of parents struggling to feed their "normal" family. I will start a mail and boycott campaign, the likes you've never seen!

You want stories? Look at all the children George Bush left behind. I'm dead serious, I will stalk the company that glorifies this.

[we can do it]

33. EXACTLY - These Pigs and Their Litters Make Me Sick

Re

[hamsterjill]

35. Me, too.

I hate to see mega-birthing glorified.

[kickysnana]

39. "all the kids that George Bush left behind"- LOL- thought of LBJ first. n/t

[LibbyTreehugger]

40. I feel the same way

I have an almost 1 year old, and expecting another.

If Huggies or Pampers or any of them decide to glorify this lady, they won't see a penny from me.

She's allowed to have as many kids as she wants, and I wish the kids well, but that doesn't mean that I agree with how she had them, and the apparent motives behind it.

[avebury]

43. Boycott Octuplet Mom

Ditto! Does anybody know how to contact The Learning Channel. I would like to write them in protest to any effor to put this crazy lady on tv.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. I guess her plan is working. The physician who did this should still be prosecuted.

[SoCalDem]

13. "TV-friendly"...codespeak for ..better be white enough and cute..and slim

and those babies better not look like emaciated little aliens..the other kids better look good too..

[LisaL]

20. Yea, cause Jon and Kate and their 8 offsprings are just

so gorgeous.
:eyes:

[SoCalDem]

23. I don't watch "schlock" TV, so I don;t know who those people are

but I can assume they are a milder version of the Duggars..out to have advertisers "sponsor" their lives..:shrug:

[LisaL]

24. They are a couple with eight kids that have a show on TLC.

Six of those kids were born at the same time. I would say Jon and Kate are average looking, and Jon is part korean. The children look more korean than caucasian. So the looks or race don't have much to do with whether the mother of 14 can get a TV show.
I bet if she had a husband she'd have it made.

[slampoet]

34. Then why weren't the African British Septuplets offered a show?

The fact is Asian is "as good as white" in most racists eyes as long as you are assimilated.

[LisaL]

38. Frankly I don't see why anyone should get a show just because

they got many kids.
:eyes:

[ProfessorGAC]

42. Confuses Me Too, Lisa

It's not an accomplishment of any kind. It's sheer biological luck.
GAC

[slampoet]

46. My Grandma had 10 kids. 9 that lived and no body gave her nothing except a good burial.

She worked hard to survive and made sure all my aunts and uncles went to school or owned a business.

You are right. The real heroes are people who raise their children well, not those who make more of them.

[nonconformist]

47. The only surving African American sextuplets have a show on Discovery Health nt

[petronius]

31. That phrase struck me too - my first guess was that it means what you

suggest, but on the other hand it could mean "batshit crazy enough to explode into a huge trainwreck, but not so much that the network is left with liability or a bad image." These TV execs have to walk a fine line, and it has nothing to do with the health of the family or the well-boing of the kids...

[Oregone]

14. Damn, I wish I could have 8 kids

I lack the uterus and idiocy

[LisaL]

17. Gee, is that so?

Usually it's couples with broods of children who get their own TV shows. She is single. TLC is trying to figure out whether her family is TV friendly? Good luck with that.
:eyes:

[bigwillq]

19. And why should they be?

:shrug:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. I'm guessing girlfriend doesn't have a lot of friends. Just the vibe I'm getting from

the various particulars of the story, ya know?

If she had half a brain, even if she DID want to angle for TV appearances etc. she should have been lining that shit up long before being hospitalized for delivery.

But that would raise the spectre of all the negative publicity if all the babies died etc.

Not that the publicity could be much worse for her now.

I'm guessing thinking is not really her long suit.

It's like she's thinking in her mind that all America is going to adore and worship her and her raisinet babies, and the reality is that everyone is thinking "wotta freakshow".

I can't think of someone who is becoming so loathed before they've even been introduced to the public.

If she wants a career after this, she better stay away from PR, I can't think of a worse disaster.

[Canuckistanian]

25. She's a human ant queen

People see her as a freak, not as a role model.

Moreover, it wasn't a natural process at all. Therefore, the fundies won't even rally behind her.

Sucks to be her, both in real AND public life.

[jmowreader]

26. The "gimme two million dollars" thing is a definite turnoff

She made it clear early she was a money grubber.

[pipi_k]

29. You got that right!!!

The umbilical cords probably haven't even dried up and fallen off yet and already she's got her slimy paws out looking for the money.

Well, as someone upthread said, and I agree...anyone who thinks she's getting a raw deal from those of us who think she's a moneygrubbing pig is welcome to send in weekly or monthly donations to support the kids.

[cherish44]

30. It's not just her

There are publicists, lawyers, media outlets, book, film, tv and companies and plenty of others just salivating over the thought of cashing in on exploiting these innocent children...Can you imagine how much money the first pictures of these babies are going to worth?

[TK421]

28. Well this is good news, because she is a fucking idiot

if she thinks that she is entitled to some kind of special treatment or celebrity status because she can pop them out like she has....she can rot

[Uzybone]

36. Excellent

I hope the 14 kids have a better life than their idiot mom intended for them.

[Blue_Tires]

41. well for starters, the way it has been handled has been a PR nightmare

the mother is never going to escape the assumption that she did this just for the attention and subsequent millions in swag...the enablers (family, friends, fertility doctors) who let her do this are just as guilty...


second, the economy is in the crapper, so the corporations are not in the usual giving mood (especially with the high-end items)...and even if this was still the 90s, how does a company say "these free lavish gifts are for your octuplets, but not the other 6 kids you crapped out"

third, the multiple-births thing is old-hat...it's been done with more media-friendly and likable people the past 15-20 years, and it's STILL old and tiresome...

[avebury]

44. Contact Public Relations Firm

Contact Killeen Furtney Group -
http://www.killeenfurtneygroup.com/Public-Relations-Contact.cfm

I would encourage people to contact her public relations firm and let them know that people do not view her actions in a positive manner and frown upon the crass approach she is taking to making money off of these innocent children. I emailed them and thanked them for taking her on as a client as it would become easier to determine which movies/tv shows/books/magazines and products to boycott.

I would vote to give her psychiatric treatment and a hysterectomy. Nothing more. If she can't provide for her children then take them away and find loving homes for all of them.

[Nye Bevan]

45. A gift certificate to have her tubes tied

would be the most appropriate present in this case.