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How Octomom Nadya Suleman & Her 14 Kids Are Taking Their Lives Back
Kristen Lee Gutoskie is taking pop civilization fans backmost to 2009.
The Handmaid’s Tale actress, who portrays Natalie “Nadya” Suleman in I Was Octomom: The Natalie Suleman Story, which premiered March 8 connected Lifetime, got candid connected however she got into the mindset of the alleged “Octomom,” who made headlines for giving commencement to the first surviving acceptable of octuplets successful 2009
Kristen had to drawback up connected her cognition of the communicative earlier taking connected the role, exclusively telling E! News' Francesca Amiker, "I conscionable remembered, 'Oh yeah, that's the woman who had a clump of babies.'"
She added, "I conscionable remembered the photos I'd seen backmost then. When I started to probe her and dive into the role, I was like, 'Oh, determination was a batch going on, a batch of tabloids, a batch of batch of antithetic things,' truthful it was each quality to me."
However, the Chicago Fire actress decided that her deficiency of cognition helped her to spell into the relation with a caller perspective.
"It's benignant of chill successful that way, similar I knew who she was, but I didn't cognize each the details," she explained. "I could look astatine it successful astir a hindsight perspective from the constituent of presumption of today, without having each these preconceived ideas astir her."
And aft stepping into Nadya’s shoes for the show, Kristen hopes to unopen down immoderate disapproval of the present 49-year-old—who is ma to octuplets Noah, Josiah, Nariyah, Maliyah, Jonah, Jeremiah, Isaiah and Makai, arsenic good arsenic Ameerah, Calyssa, Elijah, Caleb, Joshua and Aidan. While Nadya agreed to assistance with the movie arsenic good arsenic six-part docuseries, Confessions of Octomom, that volition debut connected March 10, she tried to support her kids retired of the spotlight arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, ne'er agreeing to a world bid of her own.
"She's a quality being who is, astatine the extremity of the day, a mother, and seemingly a truly bully mother," Kristen told E!. "She has astonishing kids, 14 kids who are thriving and beauteous and astute and beautiful."
Kristen Lee Gutoski
Kristen—who precocious became a parent herself to son, Elijah, 22 months—feels that her ain motherhood travel allowed her to link with Nadya and her communicative connected a deeper level.
"We chatted astir a batch of stuff, particularly motherhood," she explained. "I consciousness similar I wouldn't person been capable to play this relation had I not go a parent recently."
Not lone did being a parent assistance her represent the character, but the movie helped her arsenic a parent, too, with the Narcos: Mexico prima noting, "It really helped maine find spot arsenic a parent myself."
"We chatted astir a batch of stuff, particularly motherhood," she explained. "I consciousness similar I wouldn't person been capable to play this relation had I not go a parent recently."
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In summation to her enactment connected I Was Octomom, her lad Elijah besides inspired different task for Kristen: her euphony career. The Toronto autochthonal precocious released her caller single, “Stardust,” connected Jan. 3 nether the sanction Lee Gutoski connected YouTube and volition soon merchandise her second azygous "Tunnel Vision" with the afloat EP to follow.
"I'm yet really releasing music," Kristen said. "It means a batch to yet bash it now, and it's taken maine a longer time, but to yet bash it aft having a kid means the astir to maine successful truthful galore ways, due to the fact that it's my words and my heart."
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