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It seriously looks like those kids are living in squalor. I feel so bad for them.
That’s squalor? Oh, boy, I’ve seen so much worse and kids were not removed from those homes.
Yeah, Diva, I was thinking the same thing. They’re obviously packed fairly tight in there, but the disorder is pretty common in any home with multiple children — especially six! Shit, my house always looks like a tornado just went through and I only have two kids.
Oh, and also Diva: I love your Gravatar. Adorable.
It would seem to me Ann Curry needs to work on investigative reporting, more than on the, “big get.”
More to come on this story.
it looks poor and disorganized but I would not say that it is bad. i hope she gets a huge house just like kate gosslin
well shoot if that’s all it takes to get a huge house i might pop out a litter myself.
as long as they are loved. How can someone give all their attention to so many children in one day. I hope Child Protective Services is keeping a close watch on this case.
I don’t think I’d consider 3 bedroom house huge.
But I mean, it’s pretty chaotic, which is standard for a house with many kids, but still….now we’re throwing 8 more into the mix….god this woman….
They’ve got 9 people (2 grandparents, octuplet mama, and 6 kids, including an autistic child) in two bedrooms. The house was described as “filthy.” Apparently the grandma bought the cribs, which means all the kids were sleeping on the floor for years. Grandma says she pays ALL the bills. Why is Angelina Wannabe paying for plastic surgery instead of cribs?? And where is she, anyway? How soon is this all going to fall apart?
@ Horrified… I honestly hope it falls apart sooner rather than later. I’m trying very, very hard to think of the KIDS in this and not waste my time judging the mother, but it’s hard. If she had more resources, I wouldn’t be saying that I hope it all comes to a head, soon, but she doesn’t, and I just hate the thought of all those kids suffering even more for any longer.
I have fertility issues, too, and while I resent the comment that people who have to resport to IVF or other fertility treatments maybe aren’t meant to have biological children, I think this woman has made the stigma of infertility and what were acceptable risks before even more maligned.
*resort, not resport….
Oh, and ty Codzilla! One of Suri’s grown-up-in-a-little-person’s-body faces!
So, lets add 8 more to that mix. Seriously, is this the environment that you attempt to care for preemies in? This chick is obviously one slice short of a full loaf. I feel for her mom and dad. This lunacy affects them as much as it affects her and her 1st set of kids.
“one slice short of a full loaf”
Ana I am so using that today.
If this person is so disabled, she sure will have a lot of work to do now. Maybe she can cut her arm off and get extra payments from disability. Keep those food stamps coming girl! Good decision doc!
Three of this woman’s childen are on state funded disability. Nadya is receiving food stamps, $495.00 per month. The eight babies may well qualify for disability payments.
This woman wants to love and support her children while California pays.
Ana said: “one slice short of a full loaf”
I’ll be using it too, NotBlonde!
Even if this house were immaculate and well-appointed (which it definitely isn’t), allowing 14 children (most of them infants) to share a 12′ x 12′ room is inhumane. Period.
If she were keeping 14 dogs together in a single room she’d be arrested for animal cruelty.
Excellent point, Whitey!
heheh That sounds so antagonistic. I shall call you Honky instead.
I’m sorry to disagree, but putting 14 kids down to sleep in a 12′ x 12′ room is hardly “inhumane”. Daycares do it all the time. They’re not locked in that room and forced to live in just that space.
I don’t support the situation, but exaggerating the conditions is a bit over the top.
I think everyone’s glossing over the fact that you really *couldn’t* physically have the eight newborns, who were preemies, btw, in the same room with SIX other kids ranging from toddlers to preschoolers. You’ve got some safety issues there, people.
Plus think about it: just the space alone. I know the babies are little, but there are EIGHT of them. Even if you laid them in the crib the most space efficient way, you’d be able to put what, four or five in one crib? Then you’d need another. As it is, they only have the beds for the kids she’s already got. Where are these two other cribs going to come from and where are they going to go?
So it would be wall to wall to wall to wall cribs and beds? Now imagine the logistics of this with eight newborns, a handful of toddlers and a handful of preschoolers.
Yeah.
Ms. Beaverhausen, I agree, the logistics of it are outrageous.
Diva, daycare centers have paid employees and a maximum child-to-caregiver ratio, as well as a maximum occupancy level. Moreover, children are not housed in daycare 24 hours per day, seven days per week. While I’m not familiar with California state law specifically, running a center with the ratio she’s providing in my state would be outrageously, utterly, laughably illegal.
Second, her children are not forced to live in “just that space”? Are you joking? Infants and toddlers can’t just head out and grab a beer when they feel trapped. They actually ARE trapped. Literally. Maybe you mean they’re free to roam the other 800 sprawling square feet? What condition do you suppose those other areas will be in? Exactly when is the mother going to find time between preparing and feeding 500 BOTTLES AND 150 MEALS PER WEEK to show the children the world outside of that room? It’s physically impossible for her – even with the help of the grandmother – to expose each child to any environment other than that room regularly. “Hey, Mom, I’ve got the six kids loaded in their car seats. Now if you’ll just grab those eight baby carriers, 24 bottles, and jumbo pack of diapers, we’re on our way to the park for an hour!” It seems you are not grasping the difficulty of providing one child with healthy food and enriching experiences, much less fourteen of them. Simultaneously.
P.S. Consider the amount of poop this household will generate. Then consider the proximity of said poop to the 64 BOTTLES PER DAY (minimum) being prepared for infants in fragile health, and the 18 MEALS PER DAY (minimum) being cooked for their siblings. It’s physically impossible for that mother to wash her hands that many times per day. Speaking of poop, consider the volume of waste this woman will contribute to our landfills.
CB Rawks, I’ll take “Honky”! I’ve been called much worse…
a lot of people are on disability and welfare and state support… etc… i feel like everyone is taking their frustrations with all freeloaders on this particular woman… i’m not defending her or anything, but, punishing this woman would be equivalent to punishing the children… she may have had really horrible reasons for having all these babies… but now they are here and the fact should be dealt with… if that means offering the woman free services and free baby items, then so be it… this is not exactly the time to teach her a lesson since it will directly effect all the children…
Ok, ok, ok… I guess they will be locked in that one little room their entire childhood. How silly of me to think that there won’t be SOME people out there in the world who will put their feelings about the mother and what she’s done aside to assist and make sure the children aren’t left to sit in filth in that one, small little room. How ridiculous of me to think the little ones would be allowed to play in the living room, the back yard at some point during the day. By the way, since those kids are clearly not going to be out of that one room in the house, can you tell me where the other four at home are in the pic? Are they hiding, or could they be, oh, I don’t know, outside the one little room?
Come on… the situation is absurd and irresponsible, but let it be absurd and irresponsible on it’s actual merits.
Ah, but Diva – Ms. Suleman seems to believe that she’s going to be able to do it all by herself and they’ll survive on “love” alone. The trouble is, if the neighbourhood helps out – which, for the babies sake, I hope they do – she’ll get it into her brainless skull that she’s a great mum and probably implant another 6 embryos, because her obvious mental illness ain’t just going to go away. Funny, though, how she thinks denying a child a sibling is tantamount to abuse, yet seems strangely unconcerned that her poor offspring don’t have a father….
I hear what you’re saying, cedar falls, but she’s said she’s relying on the help of her parents (who probably WILL give in and stick around and do most of the work, they’ve been doing it her whole life and she’s 33, chances are that won’t change), her friends, and her church. Nadya Suleman won’t be left alone in a house watching 14 children alone. And you’re right, it’s why she thought she could easily have “just one more” and isn’t realistically worried about these 8 new ones being just as easy.
The thing is, it’s a catch 22, you give the mother the treatment she deserves, the kids suffer, you give the kids the treatment they deserve, the mother thinks she’s a-ok…. personally, I think the well-being of the children is more important than the punishment of the mother.
hi hold on this is a house full of kids it is going to be a mess i have 3 kids and they mess up that is what kids do and sometimes you cant get on top of it but how cares as long as the kids are healthy and clean and feed and waterd so i say give the girl a brake and give her a big big house and it is nothing to do with you lot 🙂
I agree, if she gets the help and feels she is a great supermom, she will do it again and implant more. If no one helps, and she ends up being a fried mess, she will sue the doctors for implanting so many. Money, money, money!! If all else fails she can write a book, which hollywood will turn into a flop of a movie.
There have got to be 8 families out there emotionally and economically ready and willing to adopt an infant each. The kids could all meet on Sundays. It would be better for all involved, not least the 6 she already has.
I didn’t know one of her current children was autistic. I had the impression that properly caring for and stimulating an autistic child is nearly a full-time job in itself.
BTW, I’m a single mom who had fertility treatment…but before I did it I calculated all the costs, financial and emotional, and put together a care arrangement in advance. My lovely daughter is a wonderful blessing – and she also requires an enormous amount of time and effort, and she’s just one healthy child.
“I’m sorry to disagree, but putting 14 kids down to sleep in a 12′ x 12′ room is hardly “inhumane”. Daycares do it all the time.”
Which is just further proof that daycare centers should not be the standard we aspire to when raising our children.
I agree with the other poster who noted that keeping that many dogs in the same room would be considered a crime.
Everyone, please, all this arguing over square footage and cribs is redundant. She will have donations for everything she needs and will probably get a house too.
Oh and her spokesperson confirmed that she gets federal public assistance for 3 of her first six kids who are disabled. This woman is A MESS!!
“give the girl a brake and give her a big big house and it is nothing to do with you lot”
But who is going to pay for the “big big house” Amanda? Taxpayers. Which would be “[everything] to do with [us] lot”. I don’t want to have to go to work everyday so my paycheck can be raided to support Nadya Suleman’s irresponsibility.
@Whitey, I wouldnt compare children to animals and I’m not going to be judgemental about the mother either. My focus is on the children and their well being. I really sincerely hope that he children will be unscathed by all of this.
This woman has NO intention of caring for these children. None. I believe that the mother herself has been made quite obvious. The posts here have also revealed that not only is it inhumane, but actually impossible, in a very real and practical way, for this nutjob to care for all these kids. Bad things to come for sure.
I get the feeling some people on this thread have never seen a well-run house with just SIX kids in it, let alone 14. I have a friend who has six kids (born separately, no medical intervention). She’s married and they have enough to support the six kids.
She’s organized and a full-time mom. The oldest is SIX, she had one a year for six years. She has a dozen babysitters she can call on if needed and has one full-time mother’s helper and it’s STILL chaos and mess everywhere most of the time. You simply cannot stay ahead of six kids. She’d need two more adults with her full-time just to do that.
So now imagine throwing eight newborns into that mix. We were talking about this very thing yesterday and I said that and she just shuddered and covered her eyes. Shook her head. Couldn’t even say anything. It was unthinkable. Finally she said “I’d be afraid one or two of the quieter babies would get lost in the chaos and die of dehydration.” That’s coming from a mother who lives with six under six every day 24/7. That’s reality. You’d simply have to have a better ratio of adults to kids and that would have to be in place FULL-TIME, not with drop in volunteers.
I can’t attest to how THAT household is run and how clean it should be. That doesn’t much matter now.
However, I do know that it’s possible to keep a clean house with multiple chilren. I have 3, my sister in law has 7. Both our houses are clean, or at least tidy. And my husband and I both work full time. It’s called teaching your children to pick up behind themselves so that everything doesn’t get away from you. “Are you finished with that toy, Dear? Great. Please go put it back.” “Are you done eating, Dear? Great! Good job! Please put your plate in the sink.” That’s how I was raised and that’s how I raise my children. Again, I have 3 not 14. But, children can grasp the concept of putting things back during their toddler stages and it will follow them. However, if you constantly run behind them picking things up and doing things for them they’re not taught any real responsiblity. That’s just my opinion.
**That doesn’t matter much now…because she’ll probably get a brand new house built from the ground up to her specifications.
Please tell me how they could drive all of these children anywhere without a bus. Then, you have to consider the money for the gas to fill the bus. What kind of logistics are they up against just getting kids in and out of the bus? If someone gets sick, they are living too closely to avoid others getting sick. Also, how do you do laundry for all of these people? I don’t see any adult in that household getting any sleep for awhile.
Crazy baby Lady is obviously living in a world of her own; a world where “welfare” does not include food stamps and other assistance, and where her Mom supports her, when said Mom says she does not. I think the IVF Dr. who performed this procedure was completely unethical and should be held responsible.
Octo-Mom is delusional.
What bothers me is that these children are living in the same household that caused the mother’s problems in the first place. If her delusions are from mental illness that wasn’t influenced by her parents (the grandparents), then okay, but my guess is that the crazy mother was born of a crazy mother, too. And now 14 children will be subjected to them daily.
Please, please give your children up for adoption, Octo-Mom. You could even work out a way to be paid for it, since that’s apparently what you want so much.
Oh, it wouldn’t bother me a bit if the next doctor who has to work on her netherparts accidentally slips and removes her ovaries…oops…