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10 Mar 2009 20:28

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Culture: Like watching child birth? How about eight at once, say, an octet?

  • There’s a video. TMZ was offered it for sale. The video, which shows the beauty of childbirth more times than you might want to see in one setting, was offered to numerous media outlets, but the agency brokering the deal put a temporary hold on the sale on Friday. Yo Nadya, please leave this treasured moment in the family video collection – we beg of you. source

09 Mar 2009 20:29

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Culture: Good God. Who gave octet mom Nadya Suleman nurses?

  • 14 nurses will be on call, 4-5 at a time, for Suleman’s massive family.
  • $135,000 per month, the normal cost of the nurses. A charity’s payin’ for ’em. source

25 Feb 2009 22:01

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U.S.: Octet mom Nadya Suleman may not get her kids

  • eight of her newborns are still in the hospital; she confided to Dr. Phil (yeah, that one) that she’s worried they may not let her have the kids
  • three of her six older children receive food stamps and one is autistic; Suleman doesn’t have a job, but she did have a publicist source

14 Feb 2009 18:46

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U.S.: Nadya Suleman’s publicist gets death threats, quits

  • They’d put me in the wood chipper and throw me in the bottom of the ocean and hope I die. We’ve gotten her through the worst part of it and now they are putting their venom and anger toward us.
  • Joann Killeen • Former publicist for Nadya Suleman, the much-discussed mother of the octuplets, on the e-mails she got from people angry that Suleman has a publicist. Well, she doesn’t have a publicist anymore. But now she has an agent instead, and that agent will probably score her a book deal. • source

13 Feb 2009 10:05

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Culture: Did octet mom Nadya Suleman rip off Angelina Jolie?

  • It’s one thing to clip out a celebrity’s photo from a magazine and ask your stylist to copy that cut. Who hasn’t done that? But to have a nose job, have collagen injections in your lips and start talking like Angelina – that’s over the top.
  • A friend of Angelina Jolie • who was quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times as saying that Jolie is “totally creeped out” by Suleman, who appears to have possibly gone to extreme lengths to copy Jolie’s look. Suleman also tried contacting Jolie, apparently. • source

13 Feb 2009 09:34

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U.S.: Wanna help the octet’s mom, Nadya Suleman? Donate!

Yeah, that’s right, she wants you to donate money to pay for her poor decision-making. source

09 Feb 2009 10:29

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U.S.: The grandmother of the octet is ticked at her daughter, a.k.a. mom

  • She already has six beautiful children, why would she do this? I’m struggling to look after her six. We had to put in bunk beds, feed them in shifts and there’s children’s clothing piled all over the house.
  • Angela Suleman • Mother of Nadya Suleman and grandmother of the octuplets born last month. Suleman was interviewed by celebrity news site RadarOnline.com, which also posted photos of their disheveled three-bedroom home. In other news, Nadya has a publicist *sigh*. • source
 

30 Jan 2009 08:08

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Offbeat, U.S.: The mom of the octuplets? She already has six. 6 + 8 = Whoa.

  • What do you suggest she should have done? She refused to have them killed. That is a very painful thing.
  • The new grandmother of the children • on the doctor-suggested possibility of the mother losing some of the embryos. The grandmother says that the octet’s older siblings are excited about their new family members. • source