I devote my whole life to my family, and that's the least I could do, because there's only one me and 14 of them. I have to give all my energy and all of me to my kids.
— Nadya Suleman
I believe most media is filtered and fake.
Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.
I'm the kind of person who can be with a man for years and never touch him. My mind is not wired that way.
I've always wanted a big family - not this big!
I'm a raw vegan, and I perceive pharmaceuticals to be poison.
I'm damned if I do what I need to do with the media to support my kids, and I'm damned if I don't. If I don't, I can't take care of them.
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.
Had I not gone through the struggles and the obstacles I had, I would not be as strong as I am today. I believe those impediments have forged, shaped, and strengthened my character.
Octomom was media-created.
There's nobody, possibly, who could have hated 'Octomom' more than I.
I believe that God will provide in his own way.
I left 'Octomom.' I went back to my life as a counselor.
As 'Octomom,' I was the walking dead. When I woke up and I went back to my roots, my helping profession, and my kids, we were struggling financially, but it didn't matter. I never felt so free and so happy in my life.
I'm disgusted by babies, and I'm so sorry, I'm just being honest. They make me sick.
I hate babies.
The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet.
I haven't felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day.
I have PTSD from all the reporters coming in over the years.
I've been hiding from the real world all my life.
When I ran away from the 'Octomom' persona, I went right back into my healthy lifestyle.
There were no healthy opportunities for Octomom. I was doing what I was told to do and saying what I was told to say.
When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.
I never set out to become an 'octomom.'
I couldn't even fathom the idea of having my own children out in the world and not know them.
The ultimate lesson from my entire experience is you cannot prejudge human beings. You just can't. I don't care who they are, what their behavior, or what you've heard about. You have to be able to meet the person and talk with them, and even then, that's not even enough to prejudge them.
My biggest challenge is my severely autistic son.
I do not like babies who cry.
I only had one boyfriend my whole life, and I never loved him.
My older six are animals.
My back is broken because of the last pregnancy.
Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.
I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.
My kids are little athletes.
Four out of the five discs in my lumbar spine are ruptured, herniated fully. Think of a jelly doughnut being squashed, and it hits nerves, causing bilateral sciatica. And I have irreparable sacral damage. And I have peripheral neuropathy.
I have 14 children!
I am providing for my children. I am.
You can't go back and alter the past.
I take accountability for being dumb and irresponsible.
