Boycott Anyone Involved In Octuplet Mom Scheme

I encourage everyone to boycott anyone that becomes involved in this scheme. This woman doesn't deserve a dime!!

Octuplets' Mom Wants $2 Million From Oprah, Media Deals

The mother of octuplets born in California last week is seeking $2 million from media interviews and commercial endorsements to help pay the costs of raising the children, the Times of London reported.

Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television childcare expert. It was learned last week that she already had six children before giving birth to eight more. She now has 14 children younger than 8 years old.

Although still confined to a Los Angeles hospital bed, Suleman reportedly intends to talk to two influential television hosts this week — media mogul Oprah Winfrey and Diane Sawyer.

Her family has told agents she needs cash from media deals.

Suleman is being deluged with offers for book deals, TV shows and other business proposals, but according to her publicist she hasn't decided what she might do once she leaves the hospital.

On Friday she retained the Killeen Furtney Group public relations firm to handle what company President Joann Killeen says are hundreds of offers arriving daily. They include requests for paid interviews, TV show appearances, book deals and other opportunities.

Killeen says Suleman is "the most sought after mom in the world right now," but she hasn't decided what she'll do next, other than care for her children.

But Suleman's earning power could be diminished by the growing ethical and medical controversies surrounding her octuplets' birth. Experts believe that the unnamed fertility specialists who gave her in vitro fertilization (IVF) should not have implanted so many embryos, and in choosing to carry all eight to term, Suleman ignored guidelines, risking both the babies' health and her own.

Public reaction has been mixed: Many have asked how an unemployed single mother can raise 14 children, as her first six have already strained the family budget. Angela and Ed Suleman, Nadya’s parents, bought her a two-bedroom bungalow in the Los Angeles suburb of Whittier in March 2007, but soon fell on hard times and had to leave their own home.

I call this a scheme because that is exactly what it is!! This is an attempt to be famous, and to use her children to make money. She should have thought about that before she decided to have 14 children without any means to support them. I, for one, refuse to contribute even a penny to her or her family.

Whoever performed the in vitro procedure should have his or her license revoked, and should be barred from practicing medicine for life. It doesn't matter that we don't know the whole story. The point is, it's a really fucked up story.

According to some accounts, this woman was perfectly capable of getting pregnant without any medical intervention. According to her mother, she conceived all of her children via in vitro. Now I'm not a doctor but even I know this is fucked up.

Here are the questions I have. She had six other children ranging in age from 2 to 7, and two of those children are reportedly twins. That means that she got pregnant almost every year. What doctor would give a patient in vitro every year, especially when it's recommended that you space out pregnancies? What doctor would give a patient in vitro if they don't have a history of fertility problems? What doctor would knowingly treat a woman who is "obsessed with having children" and may have "mental health issues" according to her mother? Finally, who in the hell would implant that many embryos in a patient, knowing that they would be risking their license if they did not to mention the lives of their patients? The answer? Nobody!!

So, that leaves me with more questions. Who did she con into doing this? If she's capable of getting pregnant without medical intervention, she's not a viable candidate for in vitro. Did she lie on the medical forms? If she did, that's fraud!!

When the woman who cares for her 3 year old autistic child asked her how she can afford the in vitro treatment costs, she told her "I get paid for it". The last time I looked, they don't pay you for undergoing in vitro. Not to mention, it is against the law to pay someone for a pregnancy. I would take a guess that it's also against the law to accept payment for a pregnancy.

This woman is not only looking for her 15 minutes of fame, but she's also delusional. She acts as though we (be it the media or society) owe her for having these children. She acts as though she's entitled to compensation for being pregnant and sharing her story. And to top it off, she actually believes that she's going to be a TV PARENTING GURU. Anyone who would take advice from her needs a mental health evaluation of their own. What advice is she going to give people? How to have a billion children, and expect society to pay for them?

I'm boycotting anyone and any company that gets involved here. She deserves NOTHING!!