They are already 13 years old. How fate turned out and what the world’s first octuplets and their mother look like today
On January 26, 2022, the first octuplets in history—eight children born at the same time to the same mother—turned 13 years old. To be more precise, the first octuplets, all of whom managed to survive after birth. Unfortunately, previous cases of giving birth to 8 children at once ended horribly for all or some of the newborns.
Six boys and two girls were born by Caesarean section on January 26, 2009 in the United States. Their mother, 34-year-old unemployed and divorced Nadya Suleman, was already raising four boys and two girls by that time. At one point she had 14 children at once. And none of them had a father.
All children, starting with the eldest son, born in 2001, were born after IVF – in vitro fertilization. Why 13 years ago Miss Suleman decided to give birth to so many children at once is not entirely clear. Nadya claims that she was misled by her attending physician, who transplanted 12 embryos at once. The doctor tried to prove that he acted at the request of the mother. As a result, the doctor was deprived of his license for life for violating medical ethics, control over IVF was tightened by law in the United States, and the most famous birth in history was attended by 46 doctors and nurses.
The press dubbed Nadya Suleman “Octomom” – “Octomom”. From the Latin word Octo – Eight, compare English. Octopus – Octopus.
Attitudes towards mothers with many children in America are ambiguous. Many are sure that Nadya deliberately risked the lives of her future children in order to become famous. They threatened her, broke her car windows, and picketed her house, demanding that she be deprived of her parental rights.
Octomom herself claims that she simply loves children. And she didn’t give birth to them for the sake of money and fame. That, however, did not stop her from signing a contract for a reality show about the lives of eight newborns. But soon the television company refused to cooperate with her for ethical reasons.
Nadya had to raise 14 children alone. She complained that due to lack of money, she starred in a film for adults. But before that, she found funds for a series of plastic surgeries and, as a result, after a difficult pregnancy and childbirth, she began to look like a fashion model.
She declared personal bankruptcy, and at the same time became the star of American talk shows, which she hardly attended for free. He actively develops his account on Instagram, and posts photos mainly of octuplets. Her other children are not so interesting to the public.
Who wants to see what Nadya Suleman and her children look like today, welcome to their social networks. Nadya Suleman and Family. Our article contains photographs from past years that have been widely circulated on the Internet.
Today the Suleman family does not live well, but they cannot be called making ends meet. Yes, their house has only three bedrooms, and the children take turns having lunch in the small kitchen. But everyone is well dressed and shod.
Last year, after schoolchildren switched to remote learning, a single mother with many children posted a photo on her Instagram of all nine of her younger children working on personal laptops. On 9 laptops!
Even if the octuplets were an “investment in the future,” the main thing today is that they are all growing up as healthy, socially active and generally prosperous children. Mom preaches to the children a real cult of a healthy lifestyle. Everyone, young and old, plays sports and is vegan. And it seems that true love reigns in the huge family.