A subsequent family inheritance of $60,000 helped fund her IVF.ĭr. in child development and worked for a state mental hospital for three years before suffering an injury that resulted in over $80,000 in disability payments. Suleman, who grew up in nearby Fullerton, Calif. “He told me we lost six embryos, he said they were expelled out of me, and that’s why he wanted to implant another six,” said Ms. Kamrava, a graduate of Case Western Reserve University with 30 years of experience, pushed her to consent to implanting additional embryos while she was strapped to a gurney and under the influence of heavy narcotics. Suleman said she only wanted twins, but that Dr. Most of all, she said, “I was misled by my doctor.” A victim of fate since she couldn’t conceive naturally. A victim of having an alcoholic father, she said, a victim of having been an only child, hungry to fill that void. Suleman said at her home in November, a day before the worst wildfire in California history turned the skies red. I’ve been writing this manuscript since graduate school.”
She hopes it will set the record straight. “I’m at work on a book,” she said, one 13 years in the making. “I’ve been hiding from the real world all my life.” “I was pretending to be a fake, a caricature, which is something I’m not, and I was doing it out of desperation and scarcity so I could provide for my family,” she said on the phone in October. During this time, friends and family helped take care of the children. Suleman said, she turned to booze and Xanax from 2011 to 2013, before briefly checking into rehab. Public interest eventually waned, and tasked with caring for so many, Ms. A suit by Gloria Allred followed accusations of child endangerment and exploitation, and Ms. But when the money ran out, she turned desperate: a short-lived pornographic film career, stripping, boxing. In other words, a character perfect for our so-called reality era, when circus sideshows become the main act. She spent hundreds of thousands on plastic surgery to resemble her idol Angelina Jolie, the magazines accused: a single mom on food stamps, a crazy who’d do anything to build a family. Suleman played the callous brood mare, a cartoon character called the Octomom.
Never before had so many been born at once and survived, a medical marvel overshadowed by its treatment in the supermarket glossies. The babies weighed between 1 pound 8 ounces and 3 pounds 4 ounces. It took 46 scrambling doctors and nurses to perform the C-section when Ms. Suleman didn’t know she was having so many babies at once. It was hard to believe the octuplets all came from the same father - an unidentified sperm donor - and even harder to process that Ms.
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