Octomom: I Didn't Want To Destroy My Frozen Embryos

Nadya Suleman is the subject of a New York Times Magazine piece pegged to the filming of a documentary called 'OctoMom: Me & My Fourteen Kids' by a British film crew.

Suleman will receive a quarter of a million dollars for allowing her family to be filmed for 11 days. Like the depressing fiasco that was her two-hour Fox special, which aired in August, Suleman's latest media appearance, she maintains, is the only way she can support her 14 kids.

"I made these choices out of the midst of being in survivor mode," she explained. "I think 99 percent of people would have made the same decision."

Suleman also refutes longstanding rumors that she has had plastic surgery in order to resemble Angelina Jolie (she blames pregnancy weight gain for her peculiar facial changes) and defends her decision to transfer every last embryo she had frozen for IVF, after she already had six children.

"You don't understand," she said. "If you have these frozen embryos that are there, and they were writing you letters saying, We are charging you this much, and it's going up and up and up every month that they are stored -- you can either use them or destroy them. You're like, O.K., I have six already. What's another? And maybe it won't even work. So, I just decided to take the chance because I didn't want to destroy the embryos. That was the main focus -- not like: 'Oh, gosh! I really want eight!' People were thinking, 'Oh, she wanted so, so many.' No!"

You can read the entire NYT Magazine piece here.

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[ukulelebailey]

She dreams of topping her personal best. She's got her eyes set on nonuplets, a boob job, and a 3-hour special on Lifetime.

[gnomic]

save the mind, let the embreos go.

never mind. too late.

[Gasparilla]

And multiple births are bad for the children, because they cannot develop normally. Many have disabilities their entire lives.

[Deanna Jones]

Hello?!!! A couple of hundred per year to keep embryos frozen vs. the millions she has cost everyone else so she could be selfish...

And if she didn't want to destroy embryos, why create so many excess to begin with?

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

She could have given them up for adoption for crying out loud.

[Mulvaney]

She should have thought about what her embryos were doing to the gene pool of the planet. There are some times when global responsibility has to take priority.

[APassagetoBankok]

Octofail strikes again!

[bazokbros]

Now that her money making opportunities are drying up, she's recycling what she said before. Really at this point, who cares?

[professoramy]

Notice that this story is in the Entertainment section. How unutterably sad for all those children.

[MakeAWish]

If your ova had been left in your body they would have died through the natural process. Children already born should be valued over a chosen procedure that artificially implants frozen embryos, especially when you already have 4 children?

[Theda]

She already had SIX children, not four

[mainemomma]

SHe should be the darling of the right wing... and is the true test of their platform..
Save the embryos.... but who will pay for the babies once born? THey just want bootstraps and taxcuts to raise these kids... but will they step up?

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

She won't be the darling of the right wing since she isn't white.

[Marie62866]

No really 99% of people would not make the same decision!

[RobinsonRoad]

WHY are we still subject to her banalities. Please slither back under the rock from whence you emerged.

[me again]

Any network who exploits this troubled woman should be fined by the FCC.....

[ConcernedAboutRFuture]

The FCC is USELESS. They allow FAUX News to lie..... why would they care about this?

[earthbelowus]

And those "embryos" now children aren't being destroyed?

[FHTB]

Octofreak:

Take yourself, Sarah, Kate, John, and every other flash in the pan media hype/reality loser and disappear...for good...forever...