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Octuplets on TV, Octomom's Mom Calls Her "Unconscionable"
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 9, 2009
Modified Feb 9, 2009
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The Today show didn't have Sully and the Flight 1549 crew but it did feature mother of octuplets Nadya Suleman and video footage of the eight tiny tots. Suleman, a 33-year-old mother of 14 kids now, and her fertility doctor have come under fire for irresponsible actions; Suleman says her doctor, Michael M. Kamrava, did nothing wrong and implied that he implanted this many embryos on her five previous visits. Suleman is a single mother who lives with her parents; Radar spoke to her mother Angela, who seems pretty irritated by her daughter's whims, "To have them all is unconscionable to me. She really really has no idea what she's doing to her children and to me. I'm really tired of taking care of the six children and need her to think about how she'll provide for all these children." Angela Suleman, who showed Radar the cramped quarters for so many kids, added, "The truth is that Nadya hasn't worked since she started having her children while [her father] and I battled to pay her bills.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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