NATALIE Suleman made headlines in 2009 after she gave start to octuplets, incomes her the nickname “Octomom.”

Now, over a decade later Suleman is talking out as soon as extra, this time for a brand new six-part docuseries titled Confessions of Octomom.

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What’s Natalie Suleman doing now?

Suleman is named a mom of 14 kids, all of whom she welcomed through in-vitro fertilization (IVF).

She was thrust into the highlight for making historical past as the one individual to provide start to the world’s first surviving octuplets: Noah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, Josiah, Makai, Maliyah, and Nariyah.

Initially, individuals have been left outraged and questioning how she would supply for her kids, and the backlash solely grew when she turned to stripping to help her household – a job she left the next 12 months.

Whereas she tends to remain out of the highlight as a lot as doable, she is now talking out once more.

Outdoors of elevating her busy household, Suleman has since modified her title from Nadya to Natalie and sometimes shares a uncommon glimpse of her life with followers.

In 2018, she informed the New York Occasions: “I used to be pretending to be a faux, a caricature, which is one thing I am not, and I used to be doing it out of desperation and shortage so I might present for my household.

”I have been hiding from the true world all my life.”

Household life

Suleman has 14 kids – her first six kids have been conceived through a “platonic good friend donor”, whereas she used a “frozen nameless donor” for the octuplets.

Suleman’s kids embrace Elijah, Amerah, Joshua, Aiden, Calyssa, Caleb, Nariyah, Isaiah, Maliyah, Jeremiah, Noah, Josiah, Jonah, and Makai.

On January 27, 2025, she was seen posting about her eight youngest on their candy sixteenth.

A put up shared to Instagram learn: ”Completely satisfied Candy sixteenth birthday to Noah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Maliyah, Jeremiah, Josiah, Jonah, and Makai!

”You might be beloved, valued, and appreciated greater than phrases can categorical!

The put up continued: ”I’m so blessed to have you ever all in my life, and excited and grateful for the journey we’re about to embark. 

”God has beloved and guarded you all for the previous 16 years, and has nice plans for each one in every of you!

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”I’ll love you eternally, I’ll such as you for all the time, so long as I’m dwelling, my infants you’ll be.”

IVF physician

Dr. Michael Kamrava supervised all of Suleman’s IVF therapies however following the start of her octuplets, his profession took a flip for the more severe.

Regardless of telling Suleman he had implanted solely six embryos, the now-disgraced specialist truly implanted 12 nicely above the usual apply of two.

On the time of the therapy, Suleman was already a mom of six and hoped for only one extra child.

Recalling that point in her life, she stated: ”I do remorse not suing the infertility physician.”

She continued: ”I positively remorse that as a result of his insurance coverage would’ve been the one paying, and it could’ve been some thousands and thousands, and it could’ve been useful for my household.

”I remorse that I sort of threw myself underneath the bus to cowl for him, and I shouldn’t have, however I used to be grateful.

”I wouldn’t have had any of my youngsters if it weren’t for his progressive approach. Nobody else on this planet did the sort of process, so I didn’t have it in my coronary heart to sue him.”

Though Kamrava didn’t need to pay for his negligence, he did have his medical license revoked.

On the time, the Medical Board of California dominated that it was obligatory to remove his license to guard the general public.

“Whereas the proof didn’t set up (Kamrava) as a maverick or deviant doctor, oblivious to requirements of care in IVF apply, it actually demonstrated that he didn’t train sound judgment within the switch of twelve embryos to (Suleman),” the board stated in its resolution, through to CBS Information.

Throughout Kamrava’s listening to, he claimed that Suleman insisted on the process and had consented to bear fetal discount if too most of the infants grew to become viable.

The board in the end responded by saying: “A fetal discount process has dangers, together with the lack of all being pregnant, and to assign even a scintilla of accountability to a affected person who turns into pregnant after which elects to not comply with via with a process which will jeopardize her (and probably her household’s) prized goal is troubling and telling.”

Suleman did nonetheless take authorized motion towards the hospital the place she gave start ”as a result of they breached HIPAA” by sharing her title and medical data with the media.

Tips on how to watch Confessions of Octomom

Confessions of Octomom is a six-part collection that lands on Lifetime on Monday, March 10 at 10pm.

In a trailer shared forward of the present, Suleman may be heard saying: ”I have been ready a really very long time to inform my story, and I imagine the world is able to hear it.”

Viewers can even watch the docuseries on streaming companies that embrace Lifetime, similar to Fubo, Philo, DirecTV Stream, or Sling.

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