“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.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I believe most media is filtered and fake.”
― Nadya Suleman
“Every single thing I do… is just me surviving.”
― Nadya Suleman
“If you set a goal, you can achieve anything.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I’ve always wanted a big family – not this big!”
― Nadya Suleman
“That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.”
― Nadya Suleman
“You can’t go back and alter the past.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I believe that God will provide in his own way.”
― Nadya Suleman
“When I ran away from the ‘Octomom’ persona, I went right back into my healthy lifestyle.”
― Nadya Suleman
“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.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I love my children.”
― Nadya Suleman
“Kids love you unconditionally.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I am hated in my hometown.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I have been compelled to dig deep inside and pull out strengths I never knew I possessed in order to protect my family.”
― Nadya Suleman
“That’s exactly what Octomom is: a carnival attraction.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I take accountability for being dumb and irresponsible.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I left ‘Octomom.’ I went back to my life as a counselor.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I couldn’t even fathom the idea of having my own children out in the world and not know them.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I am providing for my children. I am.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I never set out to become an ‘octomom.’”
― Nadya Suleman
“There’s nobody, possibly, who could have hated ‘Octomom’ more than I.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I have 14 children!”
― Nadya Suleman
“When you’re pretending to be something you’re not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.”
― Nadya Suleman
“Octomom was media-created.”
― Nadya Suleman
“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.”
― Nadya Suleman
“There were no healthy opportunities for Octomom. I was doing what I was told to do and saying what I was told to say.”
― Nadya Suleman
“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.”
― Nadya Suleman
“My kids are little athletes.”
― Nadya Suleman
“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
“I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I’ve been hiding from the real world all my life.”
― Nadya Suleman
“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.”
― Nadya Suleman
“Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I have PTSD from all the reporters coming in over the years.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I’m a raw vegan, and I perceive pharmaceuticals to be poison.”
― Nadya Suleman
“My back is broken because of the last pregnancy.”
― Nadya Suleman
“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.”
― Nadya Suleman
“My older six are animals.”
― Nadya Suleman
“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.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I only had one boyfriend my whole life, and I never loved him.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I hate babies.”
― Nadya Suleman
“Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I do not like babies who cry.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I’m disgusted by babies, and I’m so sorry, I’m just being honest. They make me sick.”
― Nadya Suleman
“My biggest challenge is my severely autistic son.”
― Nadya Suleman
“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.”
― Nadya Suleman
“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’ve always engaged in open, honest communication. There’s no topic that can’t be discussed.”
― Nadya Suleman
“What bothers me and hurts me is the fact that people assumed I was a bad mom.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I didn’t feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment. I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability.”
― Nadya Suleman
“Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn’t functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn’t?”
― Nadya Suleman
“I wanted to be a mom. That’s all I ever wanted in my life.”
― Nadya Suleman
“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.”
― Nadya Suleman
“The first human I ever said ‘I love you’ to was my oldest son.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I couldn’t even imagine kissing something.”
― Nadya Suleman
“There’s probably one man out of 6.6 million in the world for me.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I worked with sociopaths and psychopaths in a mental hospital, and in my opinion, Casey Anthony is not emotionally stable.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I never wanted this… to be in the public eye.”
― Nadya Suleman
“Everything a parent chooses to do in their life will forever haunt their kids.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I screwed up my life. I screwed up my kids’ lives.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I never coined the term ‘Octomom.’”
― Nadya Suleman
“I have embraced every day with gratitude.”
― Nadya Suleman
“Struggle is the best teacher.”
― Nadya Suleman
“My calling was to be a mom.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I am happiest at home with the kids.”
― Nadya Suleman
“Is it fair to have a bunch of kids help solve your emotional issues? Of course not.”
― Nadya Suleman
“With children, I feel so safe in my predictable world. They will never leave me.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I look back in retrospect, and I would never say I regret not one of my children. They are why I live.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I personally do not believe I’m irresponsible.”
― Nadya Suleman
“Everything I do revolves around my children.”
― Nadya Suleman
“My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn’t, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I’ve done things in the media I was not only not proud of, I was ashamed of.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I journal at four or five in the morning.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I was more or less a carnival attraction. I was a freak show.”
― Nadya Suleman
“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.”
― Nadya Suleman
“The whole family, we are all kind of different.”
― Nadya Suleman
“The kids say, ‘Oh are we weird somehow?’ and I say, ‘It’s OK to be different.’”
― Nadya Suleman
“I’ve been sued, harassed, abused, but I’ve held my own.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I love kids, but I also recognize that things could be better for mine.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I’ve got good genes, and my body just always seems to bounce back after my pregnancies.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I need the help of my nannies, but I don’t want my children being raised in something that resembles a group home.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I am doing everything I can to be a great parent.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I own full responsibility for providing for my children.”
― Nadya Suleman
“I’m not a celebrity.”
― Nadya Suleman
“My form of therapy and survival has been exercise.”
― Nadya Suleman
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