REMEMBER The Woman Who Gave Birth To 8 BABIES, Where are They NOW!

REMEMBER The Woman Who Gave Birth To 8 BABIES, Where are They NOW!

A woman who was called the most hated mother in America received death threats, had baby seats thrown through her car windows, and was told her children should be taken away from her.

“You had these eight kids when you could not afford the six kids to begin with.”

“So, the doctor knows that the mother is unemployed, doesn’t have her own home, has six kids cuz they’re in the waiting room.”

But, 16 years later, those same children would stand in front of cameras and say something that would leave the entire world speechless. This is a story about a lonely girl who wanted nothing more than a big family, and the impossible price she paid to get one. Hello, wonderful people, and welcome back.

Before we begin, make sure you smash the like button, subscribe to our channel, and click the notification bell for more amazing videos. Nadya Suleman was born on July 11th, 1975, in Fullerton, California, and she was an only child. Her mother, Angela, was a school teacher of Lithuanian descent, and her father, Edward, was a Palestinian restaurant owner who later became a realtor.

Growing up, Nadya had a roof over her head and food on the table, but there was something missing. She had no brothers, no sisters, no one to share her childhood with. She later described her upbringing as pretty dysfunctional, and told interviewers that she always felt a deep emptiness inside. She longed for connection, for attachment, for the feeling of belonging to something bigger than herself.

And that longing would follow her for the rest of her life. As a teenager, Nadya was actually an above-average student. She was a cheerleader, she had friends, and she stayed out of trouble. But, behind the smile, there was a girl who had already made a promise to herself. One day, she would have the big, loud, loving family she never had.

She attended Mount San Antonio College, earned a psychiatric technician license, and later got a bachelor’s degree in child development from California State University Fullerton. She even worked at a state mental hospital for 3 years. She was building a life, but the dream of becoming a mother never left her mind.

In 1996, Nadia married a man named Marco Gutierrez, and the couple tried to start a family, but it wasn’t working. Marco didn’t like the idea of in vitro fertilization. He didn’t want what he called test tube babies, but Nadia was desperate. She wanted children more than anything, and that disagreement would eventually tear their marriage apart.

They separated in 2000, and the divorce was finalized in January 2008. Marco later confirmed that he is not the father of any of her children. He remarried and moved on with his life. But Nadia didn’t wait for the marriage to end before chasing her dream. In 1997, at just 21 years old, she began IVF treatments under the care of a Beverly Hills fertility specialist named Dr. Michael Kamrava.

And in 2001, after seven long years of trying and three heartbreaking miscarriages, Nadia finally gave birth to her first child, a son named Elijah. She described that moment as “the most wonderful, best thing that has ever happened in my life.” And from that point on, she kept going. In 2002, came her daughter Amira, then Joshua, then Aiden, and then fraternal twins Calista and Caleb.

By 2007, Nadia was a single mother of six children, all conceived through IVF, all fathered by the same sperm donor. But then something happened in 1999 that would change everything. While working the night shift at Metropolitan State Hospital, a riot broke out involving nearly two dozen patients. As Nadia was helping restrain one patient, another patient threw a heavy desk that struck her directly in the back.

The injury damaged her spine and left her with headaches and intense pain that traveled down her legs. She tried to go back to work, but within 2 months she was back on disability. She would go on to collect more than $168,000 in disability payments between 2002 and 2008. And as the pain got worse, so did her mental health.

She fell into depression, and it was during those dark years that she leaned even harder into the one thing that gave her purpose: Her children. Now, here’s where the story takes a turn that no one expected. Nadia told Dr. Kamrava that she had six frozen embryos left over from her previous IVF treatments. She said she didn’t want them destroyed and she asked for all six to be transferred at once.

The recommended limit for a woman under 35 was two, maybe three at most.

“Implanted seven embryos at one time in a 48-year-old woman. The recommendation for a patient over 35 is just two embryos.”

But what the public didn’t know at the time, and what an investigation would later reveal, was that Dr. Kamrava didn’t transfer six embryos. He transferred 12. That’s six times the recommended amount for a woman her age. And on top of that, Nadia was already a single mother of six, living with her own mother in a small three-bedroom house in Whittier, California that was already in foreclosure. Nobody knew what was coming.

Doctors expected seven babies during the pregnancy. But on January 26th, 2009 at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in California, Nadya was wheeled into an operating room surrounded by 46 medical personnel. The delivery had been practiced twice beforehand because nothing about this was normal. The babies were 9 weeks premature and they were delivered by cesarean section.

All eight of them born within just 5 minutes of each other. You heard that right. Eight, not seven. The eighth baby, Jeremiah, had never even shown up on the ultrasound. He was the surprise that shocked everyone. There were six boys and two girls and their names were Noah, Maliah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Jonah, McCai, Josiah, and Jeremiah.

All given the middle name Angel. Birth weights ranged from just 1 lb 8 oz for the smallest baby, Jonah, to 3 lb 4 oz for the largest, Isaiah. And just like that, Nadya Suleman, a single unemployed mother, went from having six children to having 14. And she had just given birth to the first set of octuplets to ever survive in recorded history.

She set a Guinness World Record that day, but the world was not kind about it.

“Well, I just think that, you know, giving her all these children is pretty much setting, you know, they’re like setting her up to fail.”

“It’s sad that eventually we’re all paying for this as taxpayers. And she’s nuts. She shouldn’t have these kids in her house. She’s a freeloader.”

Within the first week, the media gave her a name she never asked for, Octomom. And the backlash was unlike anything anyone had seen.

“I was hated more than O.J. Simpson.”

“You received death threats?”

“Right, thousands of death threats, yeah.”

Public response was overwhelmingly negative, and it included death threats. People protested outside her home. Hundreds of strangers called Child Protective Services on her every single day trying to get her children taken away. Television hosts called her a nut, and irresponsible, and crazy.

“I was actually very, um, upset that my daughter had gone and done this in vitro.”

Her own mother, Angela, went on record calling her daughter’s decision unconscionable, and said Nadya didn’t even contribute toward housing or food costs. Meanwhile, Nadya’s father, Edward, said he would go back to Iraq to work as a translator just to financially support his daughter and her 14 children. Can you imagine bringing your newborn babies home to that? When Nadya brought the first two babies, Noah and Isaiah, home from the hospital, scores of photographers and gawkers swarmed her vehicle.

People grabbed onto the SUV and rode it all the way into the garage. The media mob was so aggressive that the garage door was nearly ripped off its tracks. And on the morning she was supposed to bring home the seventh baby, vandals threw a baby seat through the back window of her Toyota minivan. A baby seat through the window of a mother bringing her baby home.

The days that followed were nothing short of survival. Nadya told People magazine that some nights she didn’t sleep at all, or got as little as half an hour. On good nights, she might get two hours. And the longest she ever went without sleeping was 72 hours straight, because once one baby woke up, they all woke up.

And remember she was doing this essentially alone. No husband, no partner, no team of 70 volunteers like some other famous multiple birth families received. She was a single mother of 14 with a bad back, chronic pain, and the whole world rooting against her. And then came the financial nightmare. Her expenses for 14 children hit around $9,000 a month.

She was receiving about $2,000 in food stamps and had roughly $50,000 in assets. She eventually filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy owing nearly $1 million in debt. And here’s the part that’s hardest to talk about. Nadya was so desperate to feed her children that she made choices she never thought she would make.

She took work in adult entertainment. She did nude photo shoots. She appeared in low-budget films and did anything she could to bring in money. She later said in an emotionally charged interview, “I was violating repeatedly my own core values and my own boundaries.” But what was she supposed to do? Let her children go hungry? In 2014, things got even worse.

She was accused of welfare fraud for failing to disclose nearly $30,000 in earnings. She pleaded no contest to a single misdemeanor count, was sentenced to 200 hours of community service, and 2 years of probation, and was ordered to repay the county welfare system. For years, the public saw exactly what the tabloids wanted them to see.

A reckless, irresponsible woman who had too many children she couldn’t afford. But what they didn’t see was what was happening inside that house. Because inside that house, something remarkable was taking shape. By the time the octuplets were 9 years old, the New York Times visited the family and reported that the children were small for their age, but polite.

They cooked. They were vegan. They read two books a month and did their homework without being prompted. The article called them model students. By 2019, an Australian news program visited and described the Suleman household as being run with military precision and the children as happy, healthy, and well-mannered.

In 2013, Nadya made a decision that would change everything. She stepped completely out of the spotlight. She pulled her children away from the media and she focused entirely on raising them. She adopted a strict vegan lifestyle for the whole family. She began working out 4 to 5 days a week with weight training.

She started holding weekly family meetings covering everything from values to emotions to life lessons. She got a job as a counselor. She even changed her name from Nadya to Natalie because she wanted a fresh start. Not for herself, but for them. Now, let’s talk about those eight babies because they’re not babies anymore.

Noah is an animal lover who is often seen on his mother’s Instagram cuddling the family cat Penelope and he plays the violin. Isaiah is the quiet private one who stays out of the spotlight. Maliah has a kind heart and a passion for cooking that her mother says could lead to a future as a chef. Nariyah is a natural-born songwriter who has written nearly 20 songs on her own.

Jonah is the family game night champion who beat his own mother at checkers when he was just 7 years old. McCai has a bond with his big brother Aiden that their mother says fills her heart like nothing else. Everywhere Aiden goes, Makai follows. Josiah is the athletic one who stands out in fitness events, but prefers his privacy.

And Jeremiah, the surprise baby who never showed up on the ultrasound, is a lover of raw vegetables who helps cook the family’s holiday meals. And what about the six older children? Elijah, the eldest, is now 24 and his mother calls him dad because he’s been such a guiding force in the family. Amerah is 23, Joshua is 21 and has made Nadya a grandmother for the first time.

Aiden is 20 and is severely autistic, requiring total care from his mother every single day, feeding, bathing, changing, and constant supervision because he has no safety awareness and would walk into traffic. And twins Caleb and Collison now 18 with Caleb playing soccer and staying active. The older six prefer to live outside the spotlight and their mother respects that completely.

But here’s what might be the biggest regret of Nadya’s entire life. She never sued Dr. Kamrava, the fertility doctor who implanted 12 embryos into her and put her life and her babies’ lives at risk. His medical license was revoked in 2011 after the Medical Board of California found his actions to be an extreme departure from the standard of care.

He was also found negligent in the care of two other patients, including one whose cancer diagnosis was delayed because he was too distracted by the publicity from the octuplets. Nadya told People magazine, “I do regret not suing him. His insurance would have been the one paying and it would have been millions and it would have been helpful for my family.”

But she added, “I threw myself under the bus to cover for him because I was grateful. I wouldn’t have had any of my kids without him. So, I didn’t have it in my heart to sue him.” And then in 2025, something happened that no one saw coming. Nadya didn’t decide to step back into the spotlight. Her children did.

The octuplets, now 16 years old, told their mother they were ready to tell their story. And for the first time ever, the world would hear from them. Not through tabloid headlines, not through paparazzi photos, but in their own words. In the Lifetime docuseries, Confessions of Octomom, the kids stood together and said, “It wasn’t how everyone thinks it was. My mom did everything in her power to protect her kids. The main reason we’re doing all this is to get the truth out there.”

Nariyah told People magazine, “I feel like it was very unfair how she was terrorized and hated for just being a mother. She had to sacrifice so much just for her children.” And when asked about growing up without a father, Maliyah said something that stopped everyone in their tracks.

She said, “I believe I’ve never needed another parent figure in my life because mom is more than enough for that.” Today, Natalie Suleman lives in a three-bedroom townhouse in Orange County, California with her children and their two cats. A couple offered the family the place at half rent just because, as she puts it, they’re good Christian people.

She has 261,000 followers on Instagram. She celebrated her 50th birthday in July 2025 surrounded by her eight youngest children, and she is now a grandmother. The world once called her Octomom, but her children call her something else. They call her mom and dad because she was both. Nadya Suleman can teach us something very powerful about life.

The world can call you every name in the book. They can throw baby seats through your windows. They can send you death threats and call social services on you every single day. But if you wake up every morning and choose your children above everything else, 16 years later, those same children will stand in front of the world and tell everyone the truth.