Nadya Suleiman is the first woman in the world to give birth to 8 children at once. And she did it without a husband. How is she doing today?
Nadya Suleman holds her newborn children in her arms. In 2009, Nadya Suleman became the first woman in the world to carry and give birth to eight twins. All of America was shocked by her story at the time. Though it didn’t truly begin, of course, at the moment of delivery.
Nadia’s doctor implanted 12 embryos into her uterus, instead of the 2-3 embryos allowed in IVF. Of the twelve, eight survived. For such criminal recklessness, the doctor was permanently deprived of his professional licence. And what about Nadia?
By this time, the woman was already divorced and was raising… six more children! What prompted her to go for IVF remains unknown. It is unlikely that the question of ‘a glass of water in her old age’ was so acute for her.
Nadia with all her children – the older six and the younger eight. The newborn eights were named Noah, Mali, Isaiah, Nariah, John, Makai, Josiah and Jeremiah.
With 14 children on your hands, you can’t help but start spinning like a bee. Nadia finally decided to finish school to be financially independent.
‘I realise that everything depends only on me, so I don’t sit staring at the TV waiting for a miracle.’ On several occasions, she took part in talk shows, with the royalties from which she fed her children. She even signed a contract for her own reality show (and some suspected that the ‘unplanned’ children were part of her visionary plan to become a TV star), but it never aired.
People discussing this story often deny Nadia’s prudence and look for hidden reasons for her unusual motherhood. But we must admit that all her children look healthy and happy, despite the peculiarities of life in such a large and at the same time incomplete family.
They recently celebrated their eighth birthday and had a lot of fun!
Now Nadia and her fourteen children live in a small three-bedroom house near Los Angeles.
Raising so many children is a heavy burden (it looks impossible from the outside, to be honest). The good thing is that the younger kids are older and more independent now.
For example, imagine how time consuming just changing nappies was?
In general, if everything is really as good as it looks from the outside, we can only be happy for mum and children and wish them all the best.
