They say money talks, but now Natalie 'Nadya' Suleman is ready to talk money. Sixteen years ago, the single mother of 14 was plastered across the media. What started as a frenzy over her history-making maternal feat — giving birth to the world's first surviving octuplets — turned into a nightmare for Suleman, who was maligned for being financially unstable and living with her parents while undergoing IVF treatments to grow her non-traditional family.
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00:00With Elijah, then Amira, and then Josh, and then Aiden, and then the twins, I kept going to school.
00:06So I was also raising them on campus with me, and I was earning my bachelor's degree while
00:10having taking 18 units in school and taking care of all my kids. I wasn't some like the media
00:17portrayed. There was this false narrative they spun and said I'm this, you know, unemployed
00:22welfare recipient. It was not the case at all. I was on disability, and the details I all address
00:29every single detail about my finances and about what I did to survive. Finally, 2013, I was able
00:37to just escape, you know, escape the false life and all of the toxic influences that enshrouded
00:43my family and I and take us back to my hometown, went back to my old profession. Yes, I went back
00:48to work, start working again as a counselor in 2013 until until 18. So I did work relentlessly.
00:54Yeah, it was non-stop machine. Yeah, I had to. I had no choice.