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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Controversial fertility doctor Michael Kamrava, best known as the doctor who helped “Octomom” Nadia Suleman get pregnant with eight babies as well as her previous six, has been accused of “repeated gross neglience” by the California Medical Board.

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Because you knew it had to happen.

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Jon and Kate aren’t the only ones accused by ‘the man’ of exploiting their offspring. Nadya Suleman aka Octomom and the production team from RadarOnline.com are under investigation for breaking child-labor laws.

This week California state regulators have charged that “two of the newborns were endangered by long hours and inadequate supervision while under the relentless eye of a video camera.” Radaronline has been documenting the life and times of Octomom shortly after the eight baby’s were born and these claims primarly are in regards to the first two octuplets who came home first.  

 Four citations were issued against RadarOnline for not getting permits, not having a monitor present, taping the newborns for hours and during times that were banned by regulations. The Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet said, “These babies were put at risk and exposed to conditions that violated California labor laws. In this case, we are dealing with premature babies.” RadarOnline states that they’re a news organization and don’t need to adhere to those stipulations.

This is a totally separate challenge than the lawsuit filed by Gloria Allred in regards to the babies well being. Allred said that she “welcomed the state labor action.”

 There is no mention of how much Suleman is being paid for the exclusive video footage shot by Radaronline. But it must be a pretty sweet sum since she signed a confidential contract that “bars her from providing interviews with other information outlets,” she is also “not allowed to say anything disparaging about RadarOnline for two years.”

If you had twelve mouths to feed, would you do a deal like this, and perhaps stretch the regulations, to ensure that you could financially care for your family? 

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In a series of candid interviews with Radar online, Nadya Suleman let’s it all out, answering questions that those who have followed her story have asked themselves more than once.

For example, the sperm donor. What’s the deal with him?

Eight more babies after already having six? What the hell was she thinking?

Survival? What’s the plan?

Any regrets? Turns out, plenty! Continue reading »

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It’s a battle of the super-breeders! The LA Times is reporting that Nadya Suleman (aka: Octomom) wants Kate Gosselin, star of TLC’s “Jon & Kate + 8,” to stop judging her.

Suleman’s comments come after a recent episode of “Dr. Phil.” Gosselin, the mother of five-year-old sextuplets and two older children, said that Suleman would have a difficult time raising her 14 children without a husband or money. She was responding to a question about Suleman’s situation.

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