25 Facts About Nadya Suleman

Nadya Suleman attended Nogales High School in La Puente, California, where she was known as Natalie Doud, and later Mt.

Nadya Suleman began IVF treatments at age 21 in 1997, under the supervision of Dr Michael Kamrava, who was later expelled from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

In 2001, Nadya Suleman gave birth to her first son, Elijah.

Nadya Suleman continued IVF treatments, which resulted in three further pregnancies, including two more sons, Joshua and Aidan, and one set of fraternal twins, Calyssa and Caleb, for a total of six children: four sons and two daughters.

In 2009, Nadya Suleman stated that she had six embryos left over from her previous IVF treatments.

Nadya Suleman explained that she requested all of the remaining embryos be transferred into her uterus at one time.

Nadya Suleman says that part of her reasoning for attempting a seventh pregnancy was so that the frozen embryos would not be destroyed.

Nadya Suleman claimed to be able to independently support her children, saying she was planning to return to school to complete a master's degree in counseling.

Records showed that Nadya Suleman was unemployed after having received disability benefits between 2002 and 2008, as compensation for a back injury sustained in September 1999 during an incident at a previous job.

In February 2009, television host Phil McGraw questioned whether the octuplets would be released from the hospital, while Nadya Suleman expressed concern about losing custody of them.

Nadya Suleman hired the Killeen Furtney Group as her initial public relations company, with Wes Yoder providing a small amount of pro bono advice.

Nadya Suleman has appeared on many television shows, starting with a February 2009 interview with Ann Curry.

Nadya Suleman was featured in the February 2010 issue of Star, where she gave an interview.

Nadya Suleman added that she had seriously rethought her decision to give birth to and raise her children, and that she hoped to become a teacher.

Nadya Suleman made another appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she asked and received help from Suze Orman about financial issues that she was then facing with her children and discussed her hoarding disorder developed from childhood.

In March 2012, Nadya Suleman posed seminude for the UK magazine Closer.

Nadya Suleman said she had $50,000 in assets and up to $1 million in debts.

Nadya Suleman checked herself into Chapman House Treatment Center in Los Angeles on October 23,2012, for 28 days or more for rehabilitation for anxiety, exhaustion, and stress.

Nadya Suleman had been taking Xanax under a doctor's care for her problems.

On January 13,2014, Nadya Suleman was accused of welfare fraud by the state of California for failing to disclose nearly $30,000 in earnings.

Nadya Suleman was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and two years of probation, and ordered to pay a small fine.

In 2012, Nadya Suleman starred in the film 666 the Devil's Child, a low-budget horror film that centers upon a couple that visits a woman they met on the Internet, only for strange things to occur.

Nadya Suleman worked as an adult entertainer dancing in men's clubs.

In October 2012, Nadya Suleman was paid to participate in the launch of an internet debate site, Deeyoon.

In 2025, Nadya Suleman's life was depicted in the Lifetime film I Was Octomom: The Natalie Suleman Story.