Octuplet Mom Nadya Suleman has been dropped by the PR firm that was representing her pro bono. The company received death threats against their employees and clients, which led them to figure out that Suleman was more trouble than she was worth. I would bet that she wasn’t an easy person to death with, either, considering how self righteous and duplicitous she is. Suleman now has an agent, who has also worked with controversial pastor Rick Warren and the parents of the now 11 year-old McCaughey septuplets.

The public relations group that has represented octuplets mother Nadya Suleman is stepping down because of death threats, its president said Saturday.

Joann Killeen also said the mother now has an agent: Wes Yoder, the same man who arranged book and music deals for the McCaughey septuplets a decade ago and publicity for controversial pastor Rick Warren.
The Killeen Furtney Group was ending its free representation after receiving at least 100 graphic e-mailed threats and swarms of nasty voicemails that went to the Los Angeles agency and even to some of its other clients, Killeen said.

Some messages threatened Suleman but others were aimed at her spokespeople.

“They’d put me in the wood chipper and throw me in the bottom of the ocean and hope I die,” Killeen said.
“We’ve gotten her through the worst part of it and now they are putting their venom and anger toward us,” Killeen said.

Word that the 33-year-old single unemployed mother is receiving public assistance to care for the 14 children she conceived through in vitro fertilization has stoked furor among many people.

West Los Angeles police are investigating the threats.

“We’ve never had a public reaction to us representing a client pro bono like this, ever,” Killeen said.
Suleman, who gave birth last month, is living at an undisclosed location. She has set up a Web page to accept donations to help the octuplets, who remained hospitalized.

Meanwhile, Killeen said Suleman told her that she had reached an exclusive representation deal with Yoder.
His Ambassador Agency, Inc., bills itself as the oldest Christian-based talent agency in the United States.
The agency, which has a Nashville mailing address and a street address in Franklin, Tenn., promotes speaking engagements, publicity and media deals for clients.

Killeen said the agreement with Yoder and her agency’s decision to step down were unrelated. She had not yet contacted Yoder and was unclear on the specifics of Suleman’s deal with him, Killeen added.
A call and e-mail left for Yoder before dawn on Saturday were not immediately returned.

A decade ago, Yoder was the spokesman and agent for Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey, the Iowa couple who had the world’s first surviving septuplets on Nov. 19, 1997. They were later involved in book, music and TV commercial deals.

[From News.AOL.Com thanks to Carboangel for the tip]

Some of you expressed doubts that Suleman had actually received death threats and thought it might be a ploy for sympathy. Given the very strong reactions people are having to the story of a single mother on public assistance having 14 children through IVF I wouldn’t doubt that there are people making (hopefully idle) threats.

Meanwhile Suleman has given an interview to The Daily Mail. They kind of blur the line between a legitimate interview and a fabricated one by translating some of what she supposedly said into Brit-speak. They claim she spoke to them though. Suleman spouted some of the same sanctimonious crap she was telling Ann Curry about how she’s such a great mom because she’s present for all of her kids and is trained in dealing with children. Of course her own mother, the primary caregiver for her older children, has given public statements to the contrary and claims that her daughter cannot care for the six kids she had at home before her record-setting birth of eight. Other details in this interview include the fact that one of her children is heard begging for a DVD and that she now has a nanny.

‘There’s no such thing as a supermum – but I’m trying!’ this one-woman baby machine trills, as she attempts to justify her decision to undergo the fertility treatment which produced the world’s first all-surviving octuplets, even though she already has six young children – but no husband, job or money.

‘I’ve had to retrain myself with counselling programmes. You learn about children and what they really need, and how to do play therapy, and I really am able to apply that to my own children. A lot of parents don’t have the advantage of that.

‘People ask me how I will be able to afford to take them all on holiday. But children don’t actually need holidays. They’re just an adult creation. Children just need you to sit and talk to them in the beauty of nature. When it comes down to it, all they really need is grass and worms.’

You suspect that Suleman, 33 – who appears to have conveniently forgotten the material price of her self-confessed obsession with procreation (it will cost the Californian taxpayers up to £2.1million in medical fees and welfare handouts) – would blithely gabble on in this vein for ever if no one interrupted her.

With a child’s exquisite timing, her oldest son, Elijah, does just that. ‘Mom, mom, take me to the DVD store!’ he demands.

Listening to Suleman as she defends her decision to raise 14 test-tube children without what she calls quaintly ‘a significant other’, what strikes you most is her unswerving self-belief.

She is utterly convinced that no one is better suited to the gargantuan task that will confront her next month when the eight newborns are expected to come home.

All around her, however, the evidence suggests otherwise. She may see herself as an enlightened Earth Mother, but her chaotic world is like that of the nursery rhyme about the old woman who lived in a shoe and has so many children she doesn’t know what to do.

Take the house where the octuplets will live. With jawdropping naivety, she describes the three-bedroom bungalow, which belongs to her mother Angela, as ‘one big play den’…

For reasons that will become clear, each of these six [older children] were conceived through IVF, just as the octuplets were. They were born between 2001 and 2007 – four single pregnancies and one set of twins – and, if Suleman is to be believed, all 14 of her offspring have the same father.

‘The twins are always fighting – they don’t look alike and they’re totally different from each other,’ she says, trying to calm squabbling two-year-olds Caleb and Calyssa, who are doing their best to sabotage her first newspaper interview.

Then there is seven-year-old Elijah, the oldest of the six. He suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. His condition is evidently so serious that his grandfather Edward Suleman, an Arabic interpreter who works in Iraq, generously pays £1,250 a month for him to attend a private school.

Amerah, at six, seems mercifully healthy and well-adjusted, as does five-year-old Jacob, but Aidan, aged three, is autistic – which makes him, in his mother’s eyes, ‘a special blessing’ – and Calyssa has speech problems.

In addition to her £340-a-month state-provided food stamps, Suleman receives about £550 in benefits for each of the three children diagnosed with disabilities, giving her handouts of almost £2,000 a month in total.

As the octuplets are not yet three weeks old, and still spend most of their time in a row of incubators, no one knows what kind of long-term support they might require.

But since Noah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Josiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, Maliyah and Makai (each of whom has the same middle name, Angel) weighed only between 1lb 8oz and 3lb 4oz, and they were born ten weeks prematurely, it seems likely that Suleman will soon be applying for a lot more state aid.

At a time when millions of U.S. citizens are struggling with terrible financial hardship, no wonder that one TV interviewer described her this week as ‘the most vilified mother in America’.

Nor that she has been the subject of so many death threats she was forced into hiding after the births.

‘That part has been a nightmare,’ she told me. ‘They had to sneak me out of hospital. I had to be away from the children for two days and I couldn’t stop crying. But I needed to get out and be secure.’

She spends most of her time at home, watched by a security firm and besieged by the world’s Press. When her babies leave hospital, the scrutiny will only intensify.

Even with the help of her nanny, plus the army of church volunteers who have promised to help, you wonder how she will cope when 14 children are billeted in three cramped bedrooms.

[From The Daily Mail]

How is this woman collecting food stamps and disability for her three children when she’s also sponging off her parents and having her father pay a whopping $1,800 a month, or $21,600 a year, for private school for just one of her children? Her father must make a good living as an interpreter in Iraq.

This is a woman who will stop at nothing to have as many children as she wants. She’s a sociopath on a mission. There’s also this gem deeper in the article: “She has, for example, changed her first and second names several times during her 33 years.” Now why would someone change their name multiple times unless they needed to escape their past? This story is far from over and someone is going to dig up even more dirt on this woman. I just hope that the media outlets steer clear of paying her despite the public’s interest. Her children deserve to have the necessities to live along with a loving household, but she shouldn’t be cashing in on her situation and the taxpayers should not be bankrolling this, it’s outrageous.