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.
Nadya Suleman
My form of therapy and survival has been exercise.
Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.
I've been sued, harassed, abused, but I've held my own.
Some of the things I have done... of course I'm ashamed of in the past... was just to put food on the table and just take care of my family.
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 am doing everything I can to be a great parent.
I've been hiding from the real world all my life.
I love kids, but I also recognize that things could be better for mine.
I couldn't even imagine kissing something.
I've always engaged in open, honest communication. There's no topic that can't be discussed.
With children, I feel so safe in my predictable world. They will never leave me.
My kids are little athletes.
I'm disgusted by babies, and I'm so sorry, I'm just being honest. They make me sick.
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.
The first human I ever said 'I love you' to was my oldest son.
My back is broken because of the last pregnancy.
I have 14 children!
Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.
I believe most media is filtered and fake.
The whole family, we are all kind of different.
If you set a goal, you can achieve anything.
I would die for my kids. I love my kids - they're my life - and I love them more than anything I've ever known.
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.
I worked with sociopaths and psychopaths in a mental hospital, and in my opinion, Casey Anthony is not emotionally stable.
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 take accountability for being dumb and irresponsible.
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.
I left 'Octomom.' I went back to my life as a counselor.
You can't go back and alter the past.
I couldn't even fathom the idea of having my own children out in the world and not know them.
I believe that God will provide in his own way.
I am providing for my children. I am.
I never set out to become an 'octomom.'
There's nobody, possibly, who could have hated 'Octomom' more than I.
When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.
Octomom was media-created.
There were no healthy opportunities for Octomom. I was doing what I was told to do and saying what I was told to say.
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.
When I ran away from the 'Octomom' persona, I went right back into my healthy lifestyle.
I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.
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 have PTSD from all the reporters coming in over the years.
I'm a raw vegan, and I perceive pharmaceuticals to be poison.
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've always wanted a big family - not this big!
My older six are animals.
I only had one boyfriend my whole life, and I never loved him.
I hate babies.
I do not like babies who cry.
