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Octomom’s tragic new low

Tue, 01 May 2012 15:30:00 +0000

There's one thing even more pathetic than the news that Octomom Nadya Suleman is facing bankruptcy and mulling a career move into masturbation porn. It's the idea that anybody anywhere would enjoy this.

This week Suleman, World's Greatest Bumpaholic and, according to Suze Orman, the woman "everybody hates," managed to yet again redefine "rock bottom." On Monday, she filed for bankruptcy, stating in court that she is up to a million dollars in debt. The Orange County home she lives in with her 14 children is in foreclosure -- and she owes $30,000 in back rent, as well as additional debts to "her father, the city’s water department, DirecTV and Whittier Christian School." She had a visit from child welfare services just a few weeks ago, and despite her vow to not go on public assistance, now admits she takes in $2,000 a month in food stamps.

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Why we won’t stop punishing the Octomom

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:15:00 +0000

"Everybody already hates you." That's what Suze Orman told Nadya Suleman, the woman better known by the James Bond-like nickname "Octomom," on "Oprah" last week. And then, just to make sure there was no confusion over her meaning, Orman added, her words dripping with emphasis, "They do." Did Orman ever issue a truer statement?

Suleman certainly doesn't lack for eager benefactors, sensation-hungry reality show producers, and freak show gawkers, but she may also be the most friendless woman in America. It's been two years now since Suleman, already a single mother of six, gave birth to octuplets via the modern miracle of IVF. Her story gained international attention -- almost all of it negative. It's hard to project an air of "It's OK, I know exactly what I'm doing here" when you've just dropped eight kids at once, but Suleman didn't endear herself to a gawking public with her seemingly cavalier attitude about mass reproduction, or her willingness to set up a website begging for "donations."

“Octomom” doctor accused of implanting 7 embryos

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:13:00 +0000

The fertility doctor of "Octomom" Nadya Suleman implanted too many embryos in one patient, resulting in the death of a fetus, and failed to refer another woman to a cancer specialist after finding cysts on her ovaries, the state licensing board said.

The new allegations by the Medical Board of California bolster its ongoing negligence case against Dr. Michael Kamrava.

The board said a 48-year-old patient identified only as "L.C." was implanted with seven embryos in September 2008 -- several months after the 33-year-old Suleman had embryos implanted.

Implanting more than two embryos in a patient over age 35 meant Kamrava "placed L.C. at great risk for high-order gestation, which was confirmed by a quadruplet pregnancy that ended with catastrophic results," the filing said.

Kamrava is scheduled for an Oct. 18 hearing before the medical board to determine if his license should be revoked or suspended. His public relations representative David Langness and his lawyer Henry Fenton said they could not comment on the open case.

Kamrava, whose office is in Beverly Hills, has declined repeated interview requests from The Associated Press and other news organizations. An interview given to "Nightline" on ABC was scheduled to air Tuesday night.

Octomom puts pet birth control sign on her door

Wed, 19 May 2010 20:44:00 +0000

It's official. Octomom Nadya Suleman doesn't want your dog or cat following in her footsteps.

As a front yard full of paparazzi cheered her on, Suleman unveiled a 3-foot-by-4-foot plastic sign Wednesday that reads: "Don't Let Your Dog or Cat Become an Octomom. Always Spay or Neuter."

"Turn left. Pose. Smile, Nadya," photographers jockeying for position shouted as Suleman stood in front of the sign.

A few curious onlookers stopped to watch as a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals mascot (a person in a dog suit) gave her a hug.

PETA is paying Suleman $5,000 to keep the sign on her front door until June 9, the deadline when city officials say it must be removed. The organization is also throwing in a month's supply of veggie hot dogs and burgers for her and her 14 children.

Suleman acknowledged she put the sign on her door partly for the money but added her support of PETA is sincere.

"I love animals and I do believe they should be spayed or neutered," she said. "Humans of course are much different."

Her children, the oldest of whom is 9, want a dog, Suleman said. She told them they can have one when they are old enough to care for it.

The triumph of the uncelebrity

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:25:00 +0000

These last few weeks may go down in history as the tipping point when ordinary people replaced celebrities at the pop cultural whipping post. First sextuplet parents and reality stars Jon and Kate Gosselin fell to pieces before our eyes, then Kate's brother, Kevin Kreider, made a teary-eyed appearance on "The Early Show" to decry the fact that his nieces and nephews were being exploited and "viewed as a commodity." On Sunday night, awkward cat lady and overnight star Susan Boyle was taken to the hospital to be treated for "exhaustion" after her loss to dance group Diversity on "Britain's Got Talent." Then early this week, reality dilettantes Heidi and Spencer Pratt quit "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here" (twice), but allegedly called the whole thing a "mental fake-out to mess with the competitors" -- see also, yet another publicity stunt the likes of which formed the two-headed monster Speidi from the molten ashes of two unexceptional humans in the first place.