Octomom Nadya Suleman Becomes Grandmother After Her Son Welcomes First Child

Nadya Suleman didn't mean to person eight more children, bringing her expansive full to 14.

But aft different circular of successful vitro fertilization resulted successful the azygous parent having the world's archetypal acceptable of surviving octuplets connected Jan. 26, 2009—birthing the nickname "Octomom" successful the process—the mentality successful her household had to beryllium the much the merrier.

In summation to present 15-year-old octuplets Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Makai, Josiah, Jeremiah and Jonah, she's the parent of Elijah, 23, Amerah, 22, Joshua, 21, Aidan, 18, and 17-year-old twins Caleb and Calyssa. All of her children were conceived done IVF.

And not lone are the occurrence 8 successful precocious school, but her household histrion has besides sprouted a caller branch: Joshua became a dada connected Aug. 30.

"Thank you my lad and my beauteous girl successful instrumentality for giving america this beauteous gift!" the 49-year-old grandma (who started going by Natalie Suleman years ago) posted Sept. 22, captioning a photograph of an infant's ft nether a pinkish blanket. "We are truthful blessed that she is simply a caller summation to our family! Baby miss you are truthful precise loved and we can’t hold to ticker you grow!!"

"I'm not a celebrity," she told Oprah Winfrey successful 2010 aft penning to the speech amusement big to petition an quality to stock her broadside of the story. "I'm a pseudo-celebrity catapulted into this large media mess. Did I privation it? No. Was I successful denial reasoning that it wouldn't happen? Yes."

Oprah noted being skeptical earlier agreeing to interrogation the seemingly attention-hungry mom.

Rather, Nadya insisted that "14 bare mouths" were the information down her assorted endeavors, specified arsenic posing successful a bikini to amusement disconnected her postpartum value loss.

She said determination were "so galore reasons" wherefore she didn't halt astatine having six kids, noting that "perhaps selfishness" and "trying to compensate for being an lone child" factored into her determination to support going.

Her doctor—the aforesaid 1 who did each of her erstwhile IVF treatments—implanted her with six embryos that had been near implicit from the batch that produced her twins, past implanted different six when, according to Nadya, helium told her the archetypal six didn't take.

"I possibly wrongfully looked extracurricular of myself," she told Oprah, "when I should person been filling that successful from within." She coveted connection, she continued, and that "felt safer with children than with a important other, much predictable." (She joined Marcos Gutierrez successful 1996 and they separated successful 2000. "They are not my kids," Marcos, who filed for divorcement successful 2006, told Inside Edition after the octuplets were born, "but I privation her the best." He said his ex was "a large idiosyncratic with a large heart.")

"Everyone thinks I had each these donations and assistance but I didn't," she told DailyMail.com. "I did everything connected my ain and paid everything retired of my ain pouch truthful I was Octomom for 4 years. The past 2 years of it were truthful dark. I descended down a precise acheronian and destructive path."

She'd admittedly had immoderate cosmetic procedures, "but not fractional of what the media person said I had," she explained. "I had a bosom augmentation aft breastfeeding 3 kids, which I paid for myself arsenic I was working. I had a tummy tuck aft the octuplets aft a media outlet promised maine $100,000 to airs nude."

She maintained that, different than articulator injections successful 2008 that "looked horrible," but which she had done again successful 2009 due to the fact that a media outlet paid her to bash it, she had not had enactment done connected her face.

She subsequently claimed she ne'er got sick, crediting cleanable eating and exercise. She whitethorn person had a raspy voice, but, arsenic she told the New York Times in 2018, "I deliberation it's from being large and yelling for what feels similar the past 18 years. I person 14 children!”

Nadya had shared erstwhile she was archetypal successful the nationalist oculus that Aidan was autistic, but successful August 2019 she divulged that he required full-time care.

He is "non-verbal, requires feeding, changing...bathing, and one-to-one supervision, arsenic helium has nary information consciousness and would locomotion aimlessly into traffic," she wrote connected Instagram. "I, his mother, am, and ever person been, his ONLY attraction provider. This 'job' is my beingness (other than caring for 13 different children singlehandedly). My children are my LIFE."

Meanwhile, she respects her older kids' wishes erstwhile they inquire her to not station their pics, noting erstwhile she shared a changeable of the octuplets headed disconnected to their archetypal time of eighth people that the others had requested she keep their respective archetypal days wrong the family.

But conscionable similar immoderate mom—of one, two, 3 oregon 14—she loves to people milestones with saccharine photos, adjacent if conscionable throwbacks from erstwhile the kids were little.

For Elijah's 21st day successful May 2022, she called her eldest child "one of the astir humble, genuine, kind, and loving quality beings" she knew.

Marking Amerah's 20th successful July 2022, she wrote, "It feels similar yesterday you would play formal up arsenic a princess, and present you person grown up to beryllium a queen. I emotion you much than words tin explicit and enactment you successful everything you do. You are smart, strong, genuine, loving, compassionate, and not lone my daughter, but my closest friend."