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Octomom Natalie 'Nadya' Suleman Says the World Had Her Family All Wrong: 'Success Despite All the Odds' (Exclusive)

Natalie 'Nadya' Suleman welcomed octuplets 16 years ago and became infamous as the Octomom. Now the mother of 14 children opens up about her family life today and how they made ends meet

Her 16-year-old octuplets — Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Jonah, Makai, Josiah and ­Jeremiah — quickly and quietly move around one another, tidying their Orange County, Calif., townhouse apartment in preparation for People ’s cameras for this week's cover story. But what began as a novel news moment devolved into chaos as word got out that the woman behind the maternal feat was single, unemployed, living with her parents and, most notably, already a mother of six children conceived via IVF. An only child herself, Suleman was close to her father, Edward, a chef and military translator from the Middle East, but struggled to connect with her mother, Angela, a teacher from Northern Europe.

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