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When it comes to birthdays, it's the much the merrier successful Nadya Suleman's household.
The 47-year-old, who was famously dubbed "Octomom" after giving commencement to octuplets, treated her eight youngest kids to a vegan doughnut feast up of their 14th birthday. As seen successful a video published by TMZ, Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Jonah, Makai, Josiah and Jeremiah were serenaded by the household before digging into the sugary confections.
"Make a wish," Suleman, who now prefers to beryllium called Natalie, gushed arsenic her kids blew retired the candles connected their plant-based treats. "Yay!"
In summation to her octuplets, Suleman is besides ma to six older children: Elijah, 21, Amerah, 20, Joshua, 29, Aidan, 17, and twins Calyssa and Caleb, 13.
Suleman's 8 younger kids were conceived done in vitro fertilization aft a California specializer implanted 12 embryos. The octuplets were born done C-section connected Jan. 26, 2009. At the time, they weighed betwixt 1 lbs., 8 oz. and 3 lbs., 4 oz.
And though the astonishing commencement of her babies thrust Suleman into the nationalist spotlight, fame was thing that she ne'er wanted. As she explained successful a 2018 illustration with the New York Times, "I was pretending to beryllium a fake, a caricature, which is thing I'm not, and I was doing it retired of desperation and scarcity truthful I could provide for my family. I've been hiding from the existent satellite each my life."
Looking backmost astatine the media attraction connected her family, Suleman told the outlet she suffers from PTSD arsenic a effect of "all the reporters coming successful implicit the years."
"I would instrumentality immoderate I could backmost successful the days, and I would fto them in," she recalled. "I was spiraling down a acheronian hole. There were nary steadfast opportunities for Octomom. I was doing what I was told to bash and saying what I was told to say. When you're pretending to beryllium thing you're not, astatine slightest for me, you extremity up falling connected your face."
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In caller years, Suleman became much unfastened to sharing details astir her kids done her ain way: societal media. Last year, she praised her octuplets for "growing into immoderate of the astir kind, humble, grateful and loving quality beings I person ever known."
"Each of you person uncommon and unsocial characteristics, and are dissimilar immoderate different kid of your age, peculiarly successful our nine today," she wrote connected her Instagram successful January 2022. "You are selfless, altruistic, nonmaterialistic, and loving, fearing, followers of God. I person ne'er seen children who emotion and privation to service others, (particularly those little fortunate), truthful boldly and confidently similar each and each 1 of you do."
The ma added, "I bash not cognize what I could perchance person done to merit being blessed truthful bountifully."
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