is it just me or is that obtuplet lady is so dumb?

i agree with every word you said, that is horrible, my mother has six kids. she has 3 boys in their 20's and 2 girls and one boy in their teens, im one of the teens. well my mom pays so much attention to us, her siblings and nieces and nephews, which is kind of weird, because in total my mother has 26 brothers and sister, lol their all half brothers and sisters, because my grandparents split up after my moter was born.

i do she's just down right stuipd. i've been watching her on tv and stuff and she's stuipd. it's not judging her for having kids, or anyone else. but when you got that many to begin with and can't take care of them and them go out and not just have one but that many is just stuipd she was thinking what is the best for her kids and babies at all. it was oh look at me i can push out more kids i can't feed or take care of but i can spend $10,000 on plastic surey

i saw a lot of discussion here at mylot regarding this issue.... saw her a lot on tv too. she became popular already too much. this is the first time i will respond on an issue regarding her. i am a single mom of four children. i left my husband and tagged my kids along.... i lived with my mom for a while then got a small place for me nad my children. i worked my as$ and butt out just to feed my children and for they can go to school. i always set my children first before anything. i alwasy forget what i need and buys what my children needs. thats how i love them i forget what i need. learning about this lady makes me really angry. how can a parent be like this. how can a mom be thinking of herself first before her kids. getting pregnant has a lot of responsibility.... she makes this pregnancy an issue so she can get more money from people who will help. if the goverment will get her kids i think that is better than to let the kids stay with her then she will be spending the money that is specially intended for her children.

I think it's despicable and the invitro fertilization doctor who helped her should have his medical license revoked! The mother of all these children needs mental help, badly! She doesn't want to be a "Mom", she wants to 'collect' babies at the expense of the taxpayers! I don't understand where she got the money to have these IVF procedures to begin with! I mean, I know she has a bachelor's degree and was working, but she wasn't earning enough to support herself and her six other children. Now, she's not working at all. I was happy to hear that her own mother has washed her hands of her daughter. I would refuse to help her. I feel so badly for those children... all 14 of them! They will never get what every child needs and deserves... personal time with 'Mommy'... there are simply too many children! I know it's horrible to think about but, since this woman created this problem, I'm hoping that these 8 babies of hers are removed from her custody and adopted by someone who is physically, mentally, emotionally AND financially able to care for them. I'd hate to see those 8 babies separated because they ARE siblings and share the same birthday, but I worry about their welfare being raised by an insane woman! Collecting dolls is one thing; collecting children the way this woman does should be a crime.

While I think that a single parent having that many kids is a challenge to say the least, I can't and won't judge her. There is a reason for everything. My hubby was just watching t.v., and told me that she has refused the help that was offerred to her by the government. I hope she has a plan, and I am sure that she does. I believe that if God felt that were to many kids for her to handle, He would not have let her have them. As I said, I think it would be too much for a single parnt, but I will not stand and judge her for her choices.

I agree with you, laurihomebusiness. That octoplet mom is dumb. I support families that want to have many children, but Nadia Zaleman has gone too far. She thinks about herself first before she thinks about her children. She wanted children, but she knew that she could not support them financially. If Nadia Zaleman really wanted to have children, she should have had one and stop until she knew she could financially support more than one child. Also, her invitro fertilization doctor is also dumb. He was supposed to have permission to implant more than two eggs from a group of people (forgot what they were called). The question that I really want to know is why would Nadia Zaleman start a website that cost money when she could have used that money to feed her children.

You can't believe everything you read in the supermarket tabloids. The octomum (octo is latin for eight) has been interviewed by many news agencies and Dr. Phil. There is general agreement that she is very smart not dumb, she has completed her BA and was very close to receiving her MA from university. Her goals is to complete that and start earning money aa a counsellor. In that resepect she is very naive. Who would hire a counsellor who obviously has psychological problems herself. It is not a normal person's idea to have 6 kids and no husband and then take the risk to have 6 more embryos implanted which turn into 8 kids. The fertility doctor who implanted those last 6 embryos should be investigated and have his license suspended. In my country this would not have happened because no one would implant 6 embryos. I also saw the interview with her mom and another one with her dad on Oprah. No one denied that she was a good mom to her existing 6 kids but every one agreed that it is impossible to do it alone and then add 8 more kids. She did deny having had plastic surgery but a plastic surgeon on Dr. Phil says he can tell she did have it. There was also an interview at her mom's house. It is a three bedroom house and between the two of them and 6 kids under 8 years old it looked to be a total disaster. She could not bring 8 more kids into this, besides it was confirmed that the mortgage has not been paid for many months and the mom is going to loose the house. So society, the state, charitable organizations have to step up to the plate to provide housing and staff for the 14 kids. The dad was interviewed on Oprah. He is 67 years old and divorced from the mom. He works overseas as a linguist and his biggest fear is that he will die or no longer be able to work to provide some money for his grand children. It appears that both the dad and the octomom are very religious and believe it was God's will that all these children lived. I don't know about that. I believe we have free will and no one forced this divorced woman to have all her 6 previous children by in vitro fertilization and then have another 6 implants done all at once. So she was not"dumb" to get pregnant. She did this deliberately. In any case the state of California should take over and provide for these children because they did not ask to be born.

I am all for large families and the families I know who had more then four children, there was a husband, the wife also worked doing babysitting for others, etc. The older children would help deliver fliers, and do odd chores such as shoveling snow, etc. But this obtuplet lady is just a welfare bumb. I heard that the father of the children offered to help her up and he really should marry her and give her a good talking to. When I think of the times that I was discouraged from getting more then my two, I get upset that this 'woman' decides to have just have babies without having a man around to support her or decides to live off her mother who by now is rather disappointed in the leach of her daughter who spends most of the money on herself then on her children. She should get out, rent a house and I am ashamed that the welfare is encouraging her to be a bu*m.

I saw a news story this morning about her rejecting some help from a place that would help her with her 14 kids I can't remember the name of it it had "wings" in the name but anyway they where offering her free help with babysitting and rides and stuff like that she turned them down saying No I want a reality show and the place said sorry but we don't do that. At first I was against the octomom then I got to thinking well maybe they are just picking on her because she is single so I was being supportive and then after hearing that she turned down free childcare I don't know what to think of her now I'm going to give up on what I think about her I will wish her the best and think about her babies I hope they turn out ok.

I can't figure out how she had any money in the first place to either get plastic surgery OR pay for fertility treatments. I think her parents should have kicked her out long before she was 25, did you realize that she is 33?? I know that you cannot qualify for food stamps or government aid if you have the kind of money to pay for plastic surgery OR fertility treatment, and if someone had enough to pay for either one not to mention BOTH, they wouldn't be living OFF their parents. I don't offer to help anybody who isn't doing everything they can all by themselves, and this woman likely never took care of herself. I don't know why she is so against having a relationship so she and her spouse or whatever could take care of THEIR family but that is odd too.

Well no disrespect to any moms out there, but I think that lady, has got enough on her hands already, and I just dont understand why she would intentionally want to have so many children, because she can barely seem to support the children she has I saw this television interview they had with her and they showed how she was living and the house seemed to be disorganized, and a little cluttered, and she has one autistic child, and other children that will need constant care, believe me I know how difficult it can be to care for someone with special needs I have a friend with special children and Iv seen her struggles, and to me why would you want to make your life and the life of the children, she already has, more difficult by having more, kids and on top of everything else shes already dealing with, her new baby's may also need additional care its just really mind boggling, and why would a doctor agree to helping an already struggling mother have more kids, I dont mean to judge, but its just a very odd. Well I wish the mother and most of all the children the best, because it looks like there going to need it.

I don't think that you are being mean, I see it as you are just voicing ur opinion and everybody is entitled to do that. The thing about the octuplet mom, her father brought out a very important point on the Oprah show and he said that his daughter was working and doing find and supporting her first four children at one time. Then somebody came up and hit her on the head with a chair, while she was working on her job. After that, she decided that she wanted to start having babies. So apparently something might have happened to her once she got hit on the head. Not to mention the fact that (hold up, I'm having a brain fart, it's when ur mind just goes blank all of a sudden) Okay I'm back now....... uhmmmm not to mention the fact that she was an only child. Let's face it, we all go through things in life, but it's a matter of how we choose to deal with our circumstances that determines our character and destiny.

lauriehomebusiness I havent been really following that story dont watch much television but that's crazy right..

I think she needs at least two years' worth of psychological therapy before she tries to take care of her kids. Well, it's not like she's the one who does. She says that she blames her parents for the choices she's made and now she goes to school and they take care of the kids for her. If she is not mentally stable to take care of herself, how can she take care of her kids? Maybe she's just dumb like you said lol

I've thought she was a fool since I heard that she was unmarried with six kids, three of which are special needs. Who in their right mind wants to be implanted with more embryos when they already have six kids they can't afford to take care of. I also think her mother is speaking out against her now for her time in the limelight. If all goes well Nadya will have quite a bit of income from books and interviews, who not create some controversy to add to the interest of the whole situations. Its all so sad, especially for all those kids.

You want to smack the crap out of her? ha ha ha hey watch out the crap may fall all over making the place stink. he he he. let her be on her own. She has created a record of sorts. Pregnant with 8 kids is no joke. Can anyone else repeat the feat? I doubt if anyone else can do it. She is a international celebrity. Relax. it is her life and let her deal with it.