I was in an NYC taxi last week when I saw those unmistakeable lips on the screen in the seat, and the news ticker sliding along below them: OCTOMOM SAYS: I HATE MY KIDS.

I had just wrangled my own 1/4 size posse with enormous effort and a soundtrack of screaming, and what I felt most for Nadya Suleman at that moment was pity. With a little empathy. Though I can’t say I’m a big fan of Suleman or her childbearing choices, I do wonder how people’s reactions to her reflect on the way they react to moms in general. When mothers complain about their post-baby lives, the “you asked for it, you got it” mentality seems to be a common response. Is Octomom just experiencing that same attitude 8 times over?

Suleman brought her octuplets (plus one older kid to act as babysitter) onto the Today show on Friday. On the show, she vigorously denies having said anything about hating her kids, sitting on the floor with an armful of kid or three, swearing that she loves them, would die for them. She seems, to say the least, slightly off. But then, she always did.

But the weirdest thing about the clip is how the brood transforms the formal patter of the Today Show studio into the kind of unpredictable madness moms deal with every day. It’s painful to watch the two adults onscreen try to carry on a conversation, and not just because Suleman’s a nut job.

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Nadia Suleman and one of her 14 children.

It’s bizarre to hear the woman who became famous for adding octuplets to a brood of six children talk about how she hates babies.

Um?

But I’m tired of being outraged over anything Nadya Suleman does.  Even this.

Woman is straight up crazy.  She is cruh-zazy.

In an interview with In Touch magazine, Suleman apparently made some horrible remarks about children- including her own.

Suleman yammered on about how out of control her children are and how tired she is of parenting.  Well, DUH.  Why does she think the world was so shocked that she decided to implant eight more embryos when she couldn’t even take care of the six children she already had? Continue reading »

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After it was discovered that a Southern Californian woman was impregnated, carried and birthed eight babies, the poor judgment of Nadya Suleman wasn’t the only thing blamed for such a bold birthing move. Also taking the heat, and for good reason, was her fertility doctor –Dr. Michael Kamrava. On Wednesday, the Medical Board of California announced that his license would be revoked next month. And it wasn’t just because of Nadya Suleman. Continue reading »

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Octomom, get it together, girl!

Oy.  A thousand times over oy!  When will poor Octomom Nadya Suleman get it together for her kids?  In her latest attempt to make a buck, the mom of 14 dresses up in a black lace-up bustier and chases LA radio personality Tattoo – dressed as an adult baby – around her house, whipping him and then later holding him while he sucks on a baby bottle.  Tabloid website TMZ published the video yesterday.

CNN’s Showbiz Tonight interviewed Tattoo about the video, who said, “She had signed off on the video because it was something that we were gonna do together and try to make money off of.  I made no money off the video, and if there’s any money to be made later with something with the video, Nadya knows I’m gonna look out for her.  If she woulda did this on SNL, it’d be funny, right?  It’s the same thing.”  Um, not really, but okay.

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Octomom Nadya Suleman faces eviction.

Octomom Nadya Suleman owes $450,000 to Amer Haddadin, a man she took a home loan from in October 2009. He says she hasn’t paid him a dime since then, and while he’s threatened to evict her and her 14 children before, this time he has “finally put his foot down,” The Daily Mail reports.

Suleman has until December 31 to pay off the loan, “otherwise Haddadin will have his lawyer file a suit against her and begin eviction proceedings on January 3, 2011.”

I wonder if Octomom took her family’s recent Christmas photo to raise a little cash to save her home. More importantly, though, I wonder how it is that the matriarch of such a huge brood could still be unemployed.  If Suleman loses her home, she is largely to blame. Continue reading »

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The right number of embryos, times 6

Hearings are underway this week for Beverly Hills fertility doctor Michael Kamrava, who may have his medical license suspended or revoked after what the state’s medical board says was a gross departure from standard of care for in vitro fertilization.

Kamrava should have implanted no more than two embroyos when his patient, Nadya Suleman came to him for in vitro said Dr. Fujimoto, director of US San Fran’s In Vitro Fertilization program when he testified yesterday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

She already had six kids and was 33 years old. National standards indicated one or two embryos would have been appropriate. Kamrara had said he implanted six embryos and that two had divided to produce eight. Now it’s come out that he in fact implanted 12.

Let’s see, carry the one, divide by two…this was some seriously wacky egg math.

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It’s Monday and you’re due for your Daily Crazy. If fresh, hot nuts are what you desire, look no further that this profoundly uncomfortable interview with Nadya Suleman (the artist continually known as Octomom). Poor Suleman is all over the place and not a little bit unsettling, prompting Joy Behar to ask, “Are you on something?” Continue reading »

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