Is Octuplet Mom's Reality Show Deal a New Low in Celebrity Obsession?

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In summary: That's appalling. It seems she may have bought the fertiltiy drugs illegally. No accredited clinic would do such a thing, supposedly. Perhaps she's mentally ill a la Angelina Jolie with her insane desire to keep popping out kids?The report does not say she took fertility drugs.In summary, according to reports, a woman in California has given birth to eight octuplets, six of which she says she conceived naturally. The woman's mother told the Los Angeles Times that her daughter had indeed undergone fertility treatments and that the embryos were implanted last year. When the woman learned that she was carrying multiple babies, she opted not to reduce the number of embryos. Neighbors told ABC News that the woman is
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Has anyone in this thread mentioned how many impoverished children in this world could be brought up by the expenses (prenatal, birth, follow-up, child welfare, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare...) this greedy woman has saddled the U.S. government with? I find it hard to forgive a "child abuser."
 
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Loren Booda said:
Has anyone in this thread mentioned how many impoverished children in this world could be brought up by the expenses (prenatal, birth, follow-up, child welfare, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare...) this greedy woman has saddled the U.S. government with? I find it hard to forgive a "child abuser."

How many of these impoverished children have you brought up with your own funds?
 
  • #73
LowlyPion said:
No apparently she cleaned out the fridge of all those fertilized eggs she had laying around.

No problem. I bet she has thousands of eggs just ready to pop. I think you can get as many as 32 per egg by division.
 
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I'm sorry, but just looking and hearing about this craziness...all I can say is, "Hello welfare, here I come. Thanks all you American's!"

Ok, so working in the medical field, I have seen some things similar, but where on Earth did she get the money for the fertility drug, or is that a new welfare treatment? I have never seen anything to such the extreme. Why on Earth does she want anymore kids? I think 6 was plenty, if not more than good, lol.
 
  • #75
How many of these impoverished children have you brought up with your own funds?
None. My chief concern is that several million dollars could have been saved for supporting a hundredfold other children throughout their own childhood (the octuplets and their siblings, unlike their mother, are not at fault to me). I pay taxes, have taught children from birth to adulthood, have avoided passing on genetic disorders, and support charities for children - more than most.
 
  • #76
Phrak said:
How many of these impoverished children have you brought up with your own funds?
That makes no sense. Are you asking how many children he's fathered that are sucking up public money?

I blame tv shows like the Discovery Health channel that glamorizes irresponsible people like the Duggar's that rake in money by having too many children. Also, the money, media exposure and advertising thrown at women that have had multiple births as a result of fertilization treatments. The world is horribly over populated and population control is so important. I can't believe that baby factories like the Duggars have a tv show. What is wrong with this country that such blatant disregard for over population gets a tv show?
 
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well, look on the bright side. at least social security will still be there when you retire.
 
  • #78
Evo said:
That makes no sense. Are you asking how many children he's fathered that are sucking up public money?

No...
 
  • #79
Yikes.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2009/02/0212_octomom_pregnant_pictures_ex5.jpg
 
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LowlyPion said:
Yikes.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2009/02/0212_octomom_pregnant_pictures_ex5.jpg

I saw that yesterday and gagged. People just weren't designed to carry litters.
 
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Math Is Hard said:
I saw that yesterday and gagged. People just weren't designed to carry litters.

Exactly...we have two breasts. Two! Not eight :eek: !
 
  • #82
someone should suit up and lance that thing
 
  • #83
lisab said:
Exactly...we have two breasts. Two! Not eight :eek: !

Those kids over at halfbakery.com
If you can imagine it, they've talked about it.

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Polymastia_20Pornography"
tit for tit for tit for tat

A new genre of adult film/plastic surgery wherein starlets flaunt numerous pairs of bosoms, for novelty and notoriety.

If four is better than two, then eight is great! But is eight enough?
— nihilo, Jul 12 2006

There's the solution. Plastic surgery. Just add 6 more boobs.

What a lovely photo that would make. :!)

275200442_0fd71ec3c3.jpg
 
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  • #84
OmCheeto said:
There's the solution. Plastic surgery. Just add 6 more boobs.

Supernumerary nipples are apparently already programmed into the genome.

Just a little fiddling with some genes ... and no plastic surgeons required.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernumerary_nipples
 
  • #85
That could give new meaning to

"Hey that's quite a six pack you have there."
 
  • #86
you guys know about Rule 34, right?

LowlyPion said:
Supernumerary nipples are apparently already programmed into the genome.

Just a little fiddling with some genes ... and no plastic surgeons required.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernumerary_nipples

i remember, back around jr high, seeing a pic of a woman in a magazine with 3 breasts. this was way before schwartzeneggar's movie. i don't know if it was real, i was still naive to prosthetics and airbrushing.
 
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Man Gave Sperm 3 Times, Believes He May Be Octuplets' Dad
'GMA' to Reveal Identity of Man Who Could Be Octuplets' Father
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/WomensHealth/Story?id=6928821&page=1

So they must be his? OK. Get out the checkbook bub.

(The story relates other titillating facts.)
 
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Have you noticed she's never photographed taking care of the original 6 children...not even the disabled or autistic one.
 
  • #90
WhoWee said:
Have you noticed she's never photographed taking care of the original 6 children...not even the disabled or autistic one.

Apparently that's what the grandparents are for?

Her parents and food stamps and public charity of course.
 
  • #92
Here's another twist...Octo-Porn?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500688,00.html
 
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  • #93
Math Is Hard said:
First it made me laugh.

http://www.alternapop.com/images/wordpress_post/2009/octo_mom.jpg

...then it made me cry, when I picked up on the state (as in my tax dollars) replacing the Daddy.

I'll send you $10 if you can get me one of those window stickers.

I'll add northern state commentary and snicker snicker finger pointing graffiti myself.

Actually. My niece could probably come up with something much funnier than I.

She's studying graphic arts down at UCSF right now.
 
  • #94
WhoWee said:
Here's another twist...Octo-Porn?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500688,00.html
on the way to work tonight I heard an interview with a woman from a competing company who says they are offering her one year of free clothe diapers if she agrees not to do porn. lol
apparently they haven't heard back from her but then they didn't say when they mailed her their offer either.
 
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Octo Mom's New Publicist Quits: "This Woman Is Nuts"
Saturday March 7, 2009
Octo Mom Nadya Suleman is without a publicist -- again.

Victor Munoz tells Usmagazine.com that he quit as Suleman's rep Friday night.

"It just got to be too much," he says. "It's pretty much a free for all over there right now. They are freaking out right now.

"Not to sound arrogant, but those people depended on me for everything," he continues. "You have no idea what I’ve had to do for these people.

"Nadya got real greedy. This woman is nuts," he adds. "This I can say: what ultimately destroyed the business arrangement was personal reasons."
http://www.usmagazine.com/news/octo-mom-second-publicist-quits-200973
 
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  • #96
If any of these babies die, OctoMom and her doctor should be charged...they conspired to create a situation placing young lives at risk for financial gain. The doctor earned ($165,000 in fees?) and her motive is clearly financial.
 
  • #97
WhoWee said:
If any of these babies die, OctoMom and her doctor should be charged...they conspired to create a situation placing young lives at risk for financial gain. The doctor earned ($165,000 in fees?) and her motive is clearly financial.

That's a little extreme.

Certainly there are medical ethics issues involved, but criminalizing stupidity could mean maybe arresting a good part (actually the not so good part) of Congress and certainly a large percentage of the CPAC attendees.
 
  • #98
Let's see...putting human life at risk to make a buck vs clapping for Rush?

I don't see the equality.
 
  • #99
LowlyPion said:
http://www.usmagazine.com/news/octo-mom-second-publicist-quits-200973
"This woman is nuts"

This is just the law of averages at work. There are a lot of people in the world, and a number of them are bound to lack common sense or good judgement. That's why I blame the fertility clinic staff for this whole mess. They are supposed to use their knowledge and expertise to advise people like this woman, and if warranted refuse to give fertility treatments.

Same goes for banks that lend money to people who can't afford a mortgage, and Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon as well.
 
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A new house for the Suleman Swarm
Dad's buying.
http://www.tmz.com/2009/03/09/octomom-new-house/

4 bedrooms 3 baths 14 kids.

The neighbors must be thrilled that at least some real estate is moving in CA.

EDIT: Apparently Dad isn't buying:
Octuplets mom says she's paying for new house

4 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Southern California mother of octuplets said in a video posted online Wednesday that she — not her parents — is paying for the four-bedroom, three-bath home where she plans to raise her brood.

In the video posted on RadarOnline.com, Nadya Suleman disputed earlier remarks by the house's listing agent, who said her father was buying the home.

Suleman said she made the initial payment on the house, which she was leasing with an option to buy. Her parents, she said, "had nothing to do with it."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilIx-PXnXPpwF1a_nlRYF00fzBIQD96RRS300
 
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TheStatutoryApe said:
when I heard this I wondered if maybe it was a snarky response to the porn offers.

As a point of curiosity I have wondered if anyone ever watches again the birth of any of their children, if their birth was indeed ever recorded in the first place, by an overzealous husband with too much anxiety to deal with in the moment and hiding behind a camera?

I can't imagine the relevance of ever seeing it again, for the husband or the wife or even the child involved.

Now this nut job thinks that people would pay to see her open her bomb-bay doors and carpet bomb Southern California with her brood? Just saying ... I think there's some real narcissism at work there.
 
  • #104
LowlyPion said:
As a point of curiosity I have wondered if anyone ever watches again the birth of any of their children, if their birth was indeed ever recorded in the first place, by an overzealous husband with too much anxiety to deal with in the moment and hiding behind a camera?

I can't imagine the relevance of ever seeing it again, for the husband or the wife or even the child involved.

Now this nut job thinks that people would pay to see her open her bomb-bay doors and carpet bomb Southern California with her brood? Just saying ... I think there's some real narcissism at work there.
several of my female online friends have been having children lately and its virtually the only thing they discuss in their blogs. so much so that I stopped reading them because I was so sick of hearing about pregnancy. in real life my friends who get pregnant don't come out as much of course but even the little that I saw them was much the same as those blogs. I think its just common for couples to become obsessed with their pregnancies to the point of even wanting it video taped.
trying to sell those tapes though is definitely pretty rediculous.
 
  • #105
TheStatutoryApe said:
several of my female online friends have been having children lately and its virtually the only thing they discuss in their blogs. so much so that I stopped reading them because I was so sick of hearing about pregnancy. in real life my friends who get pregnant don't come out as much of course but even the little that I saw them was much the same as those blogs. I think its just common for couples to become obsessed with their pregnancies to the point of even wanting it video taped.
trying to sell those tapes though is definitely pretty rediculous.

Eeww. For the record, I am NOT going to have my baby's birth taped. First, who ever watches their wedding videos again? (BTW, we didn't have one done... we did a nice old fashioned elope-at-the-courthouse wedding.) Second, I just can't picture my husband being able to do that. He'd be a stand-at-the-head-of-the-bed guy, holding my hand IF I'm lucky. BUT third... he's going to be lucky if I allow him in the room in the first place. If anything looks a bit off (even me being in a bit of pain), he's prone to going ballistic at the doctors and getting himself hauled out and threatened with jail-time.
 

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