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Octomom's Kids Run Wild On The Today Show (VIDEO)

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First Posted: 07/08/11 01:10 PM ET Updated: 09/07/11 06:12 AM ET

Octomom Nadya Suleman made her Today Show debut this morning with her eight babies and one of her older children in tow.

Ann Curry interviewed the California mother of 14 children, who sat cross-legged on the floor with her brood and answered questions about how she supports her massive family.

Suleman said that it costs about $15,000 a month to support her family. To do this she's recently hired a manager and started doing paid appearances, as well as becoming a fitness trainer, a job she says she's held since last summer.

"I'm in the process of earning my personal training license, but again thats peanuts compared to the total amount of dollars I will need to support all the kids every month," she said.

Suleman told Curry that she's never been on public assistance in her life and never will be. "I would feel like a failure not only as a mother, but as a human being," she said.

To which Curry astutely responded, "You may not always have enough money, but you do have a lot of children."

Proof of how exhausting it must be to care for 14 children happens at about 3 minutes and 26 seconds into the video when one of Suleman's kids takes a dive and Curry rushes to retrieve him.

Suleman also used the interview to dispel rumors that she recently told InTouch Magazine, "I hate the babies, they disgust me. My older six are animals, getting more and more out of control, because I have no time to properly discipline them."

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Octomom Nadya Suleman made her Today Show debut this morning with her eight babies and one of her older children in tow. Ann Curry interviewed the California mother of 14 children, who sat cross-l...
Octomom Nadya Suleman made her Today Show debut this morning with her eight babies and one of her older children in tow. Ann Curry interviewed the California mother of 14 children, who sat cross-l...
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Lindstr7
07:10 PM on 07/11/2011
I was critical of Suleman, mostly because NO ONE should have eight babies in the world today, especially at one time, but come on people, lay off, the kids are healthy and well behaved and seem fine.

Now the DUGGARS are another story, they INTENDED to have 19 babies or however many they had. If each of them have 19 babies, that makes 361, if they have 19 babies, that's 6,859 x 19 = 130,321 x 19 = 2,476,099 . Thats an entire COUNTRY in only four generations.
01:52 PM on 07/11/2011
Poster children for the movie Idiocracy.. No that's not a Baby Ruth in the gene pool...
12:59 PM on 07/11/2011
Why is anyone still giving this nut case airtime?
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don57
01:44 PM on 07/11/2011
Today Show thrives on this cr@p - it's a shame that they constantly waste a fairly good newsperson like Ann Curry on it
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datenutloaf
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12:43 PM on 07/11/2011
No, thanks......
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camelias and sweet tea
Small drinking village with a shrimping problem
11:55 AM on 07/11/2011
She asked for it...well, she got it.. 14 kids and bills up to the eyeballs. Should we feel sorry for her poor decisions????
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Fredday
Nyak Nyak Nyak
02:14 PM on 07/11/2011
Whether we "should" or not, I don't and wont. :P
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IfIonlyknew
Politics is Hollywood for ugly people.
11:53 AM on 07/11/2011
So according the the headline it would be good to get these kids on prozac.
It is a lamestreme media.
11:46 AM on 07/11/2011
I am so glad this Obama voter has produced yet 8 more Obama voters.
11:49 AM on 07/11/2011
Yes... Like the so-called Christian Conservative Duggar family has popped out "19--and counting."
01:32 PM on 07/11/2011
Conservative, or Liberal having a litter of children in this day and age is crazy.
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IfIonlyknew
Politics is Hollywood for ugly people.
11:54 AM on 07/11/2011
There is always a spot of sunshine when you look for it.
11:45 AM on 07/11/2011
Can we assume that this baby-breeding factory has had her 15 minutes of fame, and we can move on to more important things--like shows about how to sort the silverware drawer, and floss the cat?
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IfIonlyknew
Politics is Hollywood for ugly people.
12:04 PM on 07/11/2011
She's got 20 years of stuff to watch.
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11:20 AM on 07/11/2011
Why watch a freak show?
I'm talking about NBC's Today, of course.
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huffyISaHottie
Nothing about me is micro;).
09:51 AM on 07/11/2011
She's disgusting on so many levels.
09:09 AM on 07/11/2011
I am concerned about the child with the lip deformity. Why hasn’t it been repaired?
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from the Sosialistisk Venstreparti of Wisconsin
09:20 PM on 07/13/2011
In the interview she said it was going to be done that Saturday and it was a very minor surgery. Pretty remarkable that out of a litter of 8 children, that's the only health abnormality, and that's not even that bad.
09:39 AM on 07/14/2011
Thanks.
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nellpost
08:33 AM on 07/11/2011
You have to admit, those little kids ( are they all boys?) are really cute!
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afgail
Wise and strong.
12:43 AM on 07/11/2011
Section 8 housing subsidy goes up to households of 15. Suggest anything to you?Suleman is the number 1 welfare queen in the country.
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Muzzle Me
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12:26 AM on 07/11/2011
You know, regardless of whether one thinks she did the right thing or not having as many kids, but for Curry to try and compare or even infer what the Casey Anthony situation is and what Nada is dealing with, was beyond any journalistic integrity. Stop Curry! Always trying to get the scoop with her saccharin delivery.
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huffyISaHottie
Nothing about me is micro;).
09:48 AM on 07/11/2011
Curry is the lightest of the light weights.
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12:22 AM on 07/11/2011
Wow, it was pretty amazing to see how they have grown. Well, at least the children have gown. 0_0
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IfIonlyknew
Politics is Hollywood for ugly people.
12:06 PM on 07/11/2011
They are amazingly good kids.