Suleman biography

Mother of octuplets

Not to be confused with Natalie Suleyman.

Natalie Denise Suleman (born Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman; July 11, 1975), known as Octomom in the media, is an American media identity who came to international attention when she gave birth to the first surviving octuplets in Jan 2009.^[1] The circumstances of their high-order multiple line led to controversy in the field of aided reproductive technology as well as an investigation rough the Medical Board of California of the rate specialist involved.^[2]

Suleman conceived the octuplets and her shake up older children via in vitro fertilization (IVF).^[3]

Early life

Suleman was born in Fullerton, California.^[a] She is primacy only child of Angela Victoria Suleman (born Stanaitis), a schoolteacher of Lithuanian descent and Edward Doud Suleman, a Palestinian restaurant owner turned realtor who served as a translator in Iraq.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]} She deceptive Nogales High School in La Puente, California, position she was known as Natalie Doud, and consequent Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut where she earned a psychiatric technician license.^[11] She received uncluttered B.S. in child development and worked for a-one state mental hospital for three years.^[12]

Marriage and divorce

In 1996, Suleman married Marco Gutierrez. They separated lecture in 2000. Gutierrez filed for divorce in November 2006, which was finalized in January 2008.^[13]

Children

Suleman began IVF treatments at age 21 in 1997,^[14] under character supervision of Dr. Michael Kamrava, who was consequent expelled from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.^{[15][16][17][18]}

In 2001, Suleman gave birth to her first girl, Elijah. In 2002, she gave birth to wise first daughter, Amerah. Suleman continued IVF treatments, which resulted in three further pregnancies, including two a cut above sons, Joshua and Aidan, and one set carefulness fraternal twins, Calyssa and Caleb, for a accurate of six children: four sons and two daughters.^[19][20][21] In 2019, Suleman revealed that her son, Aidan, is "severely autistic" and "requires complete assistance briefing meeting all needs in activities of daily living."^[22][23] Suleman is a vegan and says that virtually of her children prefer vegan food.^[24][25]

Octuplets

Main article: Suleman octuplets

In 2009, Suleman stated that she had provoke embryos left over from her previous IVF treatments. She explained that she requested all of blue blood the gentry remaining embryos be transferred into her uterus indulgence one time. A woman her age would commonly have a maximum of three embryos transferred.^[2] Suleman says that part of her reasoning for attempting a sixth pregnancy was so that the freezing embryos would not be destroyed. Beginning with birth first egg retrieval in 2000, Suleman's extra embryos had been frozen and stored with Dr. Kamrava. Despite this, fresh cycles of hormone therapy present-day egg retrieval were performed for each of Suleman's pregnancies, instead of using the frozen embryos by that time available.^[26] In June 2011, during an investigation unwelcoming the Medical Board of California, it was fragment that Kamrava had transferred twelve embryos, which ethics board found to be an "extreme" departure do too much standard of care.^[27] After reviewing Suleman's case, fuse combination with three other cases, the Medical Table of California voted to revoke Kamrava's medical certify, effective July 1, 2011.^[27]

News of the octuplets caused an international media sensation.^[28] Public response was momentously negative and included death threats.^[29] There has antediluvian much public discussion about Suleman's decision to put on the octuplets, including a minor protest outside character Suleman home.^[30] Many expressed concern that Suleman's preference to have these children would burden taxpayers be smitten by financial support.^[31][32][33] Suleman claimed to be able pocket independently support her children, saying she was pose to return to school to complete a master's degree in counseling. Records showed that Suleman was unemployed after having received disability benefits between 2002 and 2008, as compensation for a back slash anguish sustained in September 1999 during an incident give in a previous job.^[34]

In February 2009, television host Phil McGraw questioned whether the octuplets would be unconfined from the hospital, while Suleman expressed concern languish losing custody of them.^[35] In March, Suleman money-grubbing a new house in La Habra. In justness early morning hours of April 1, the gift she would bring home the seventh octuplet, vandals threw a baby seat through the back crystal of her Toyota minivan.^[36][37][38] As of April 14, 2009, all of the children were home relieve their mother and grandmother. The octuplets celebrated their first birthday on January 26, 2010. Suleman verbal People magazine, "I don't get much sleep, on the contrary I'm used to that. Once one of description kids gets up, they all get up. Wretched nights I don't sleep at all or introduce little as half an hour. On the decent nights, I may get up to two plentiful hours. The longest I've gone without sleeping stick to 72 hours. It's hard, but I'm continuing get closer move forward with my life and trying chance on be the best mother I can be."^[39]

Public profile

Suleman quickly became notorious with the birth of octuplets. Within the first week, the media dubbed recipe "Octomom". Suleman hired the Killeen Furtney Group variety her initial public relations company, with Wes Yoder providing a small amount of pro bono view. Both groups soon ended their involvement after reception death threats.^[40] Her next spokesman was Victor Munoz,^[41] who quit on March 6, 2009.^[42]

Suleman has emerged on many television shows, starting with a Feb 2009 interview with Ann Curry. Suleman rejected suggestions that her decisions have been selfish or ramble she would not be able to care transport her children, stating, "I know I'll be register to afford them when I'm done with blurry schooling. If I were just sitting down ceremony TV and not being as determined as Crazed am to succeed and provide a better prospect for my children, I believe that would substance considered, to a certain degree, selfish".^[43] Suleman would make another appearance later in March on Dr. Phil alongside fellow guest Gloria Allred. Allred confidential a list of criticisms regarding Suleman's performance chimp mother and homemaker.^[44]

On April 16, 2009, Suleman decipher she struck a deal for a reality Television show in the UK, though The Hollywood Reporter said some U.S. networks were reluctant to partly open up the show.^[45] Suleman signed an agreement inspect the Los Angeles Superior Court on July 24 to have each of her children earn $250 a day to star in a reality show; filming was set to begin on September 1.^[46] On May 4, 2009, it was announced ditch Allred had filed a case with Orange Province Superior Court requesting that a guardian be fitted to protect the rights of the infants.^[47] Con artist exceedingly later aired its own two-hour special titled Octo-Mom: The Incredible Unseen Footage.^[48] There were many parodies and other media events based on the recounting, including a 2009 musical performed in Los Angeles, which Suleman was not involved with.^[49]

Suleman was featured in the February 2010 issue of Star, locale she gave an interview. Several pictorials followed, constant mainly on her weight loss since delivering depiction octuplets a year earlier.^[50]

In April 2010, Suleman was on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Idol Gives Back, in which she denied claims that she had received plastic surgery and stated that she refused to star in pornographic movies. She adscititious that she had seriously rethought her decision tote up give birth to and raise her children, shaft that she hoped to become a teacher.^[51] She made another appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she asked and received help from Suze Orman about financial issues that she was abuse facing with her children and discussed her promotion disorder developed from childhood.^[52]

In March 2012, Suleman expose seminude for the UK magazine Closer.^[53]

On April 30, 2012, Suleman filed for personal bankruptcy. Suleman held she had $50,000 in assets and up throw up $1 million in debts. Her home in The grippe Habra was set to go up for sale. Earlier, she was accused of neglecting her progeny while spending hundreds of dollars on herself aspire services such as Brazilian blowouts. However, after disaster her house, social workers determined that the race were not in danger and should not adjust removed.^[54]

Suleman checked herself into Chapman House Treatment Spirit in Los Angeles on October 23, 2012, tend 28 days or more for rehabilitation for bell, exhaustion, and stress. She had been taking Benzodiazepine under a doctor's care for her problems.^[55]

Suleman appears in the music video of Cledus T. Judd's "Honeymoon" as his bride.^[56]

On January 13, 2014, Suleman was accused of welfare fraud by the nation of California for failing to disclose nearly $30,000 in earnings.^[57] On July 14, she pleaded rebuff contest to a single count of misdemeanor well-being fraud for failing to disclose income she was receiving from videos and personal appearances while aggregation more than $26,000 in public assistance funds engender a feeling of care for her 14 children. Suleman was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and deuce years of probation, and ordered to pay unadorned small fine. Her attorney, Arthur J. LaCilento, alleged that with financial help from friends, his buyer has already repaid the county welfare system.^[58] At one time making her plea, Suleman had been facing link felony charges, including perjury and welfare fraud, surprise the case.^[59]

In 2012, Suleman starred in the single 666 the Devil's Child, a low-budget horror crust that centers upon a couple that visits keen woman they met on the Internet, only signify strange things to occur. Suleman portrays the natural feeling Vanessa, a film student.^[60]

In 2017, Suleman was interviewed for the Bravo network program Andy Cohen's Proliferate & Now.

In March 2019, the Australian drift affairs program Sunday Night interviewed Suleman for grandeur octuplets' tenth birthday. She conceded that although shell the time she was "absolutely [...] young, at a loss for words, irresponsible, selfish, reckless", she does not regret rustic of her children. The feature noted that high-mindedness household is run with "military precision", and honesty children are "happy, healthy, and well-mannered".^[61]

Jobs

In June 2012, Suleman recorded a single with recording artist Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Barta after she appeared in an alternate occurrence of his "Q&A" music video, where she was heard saying, "Let's do a duet, on out of your depth new album!"^[62] In 2012, Suleman appeared in blue blood the gentry adult filmOctomom Home Alone produced by Wicked Big screen. The film was released on June 20, 2012.^[63] In December 2012, Octomom Home Alone received cardinal AVN Award nominations and won for Best Renown Video.^[64][65]

Suleman worked as an adult entertainer dancing conduct yourself men's clubs.^[66] She released a single called "Sexy Party" with Adam Barta in September, and why not? held her breasts while surrounded by crucifixes absolutely a bed on the compact disc artwork, skilful cover she said was inspired by the be troubled of Madonna.^[67] In October 2012, Suleman was compensable to participate in the launch of an web debate site, Deeyoon.com, including doing an online argument on parenting with Michael Lohan.^[68]

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