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Octomom files for bankruptcy
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - "Octomom" Nadya Suleman filed for bankruptcy Monday, saying in a court filing that she has as much as $1 million in debt.
Suleman wants a fresh start and said in a statement that filing for bankruptcy is what's best for her children, according to the Orange County Register.
"I have had to make some very difficult decisions this year, and filing Chapter 7 was one of them," Suleman said.
The La Habra mother of 14 reports up to $50,000 in assets in federal court filings, which means she owes more than 20 times her net worth.
Suleman is filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which means a court-appointed trustee would liquidate her assets to pay off creditors before she is discharged from most of her debts.
Among others, Suleman owes money to her father, the city's water department, DirecTV and Whittier Christian School, where at least some of her children are students.
Suleman also owes more than $30,000 in rent payments on her four-bedroom house.
The home's owner, Amer Haddadin, says his own credit has suffered as he allowed the home to go into foreclosure proceedings by not making the mortgage payments.
A foreclosure auction that was scheduled for Monday has been postponed for a week.
Suleman was in financial dire straits before the January 2009 birth of her octuplets brought her notoriety.
She lived with her mother in a three-bedroom house in Whittier that was in foreclosure proceedings at the time of the octuplets' birth.
The unemployed single mother had been supporting her six other children with the aid of food stamps and Social Security disability payments - sources of income that she continues to rely on.
Since the birth, she has cut deals with media outlets and posed in tabloid photo spreads to get by, touting a book and exercise videos that never materialized.
She earned $5,000 for promoting spaying and neutering for an animal rights group and was paid to take a beating in celebrity boxing matches.
In 2009, Suleman declined a million-dollar offer to appear in pornography.
Last month, semi-nude photos of Suleman ran alongside a paid interview in a British publication - a photo spread she defended in the tabloids, saying she wasn't ashamed of it.
All Suleman's children were conceived through in vitro fertility treatments. Her octuplets are the world's longest-surviving set.
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And then from a separate source, a video. If you feel like seeing the inside of her house and what the kids look like now. Sorry I can't do clicky.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/showbiz/2012/04/30/sbt-inside-octomoms-house.cnn
Re: Octomom files for bankruptcy
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DFrom what I remember, she thought she was going to have time to go to nursing school after they were born so she could just get a high paying job as a nurse.
Either she is nervous on that video or she's had about 3 Red Bulls (or...?). Girlfriend talks fast. What a mess. Poor kids.
Zeus and Bubba
Also...wish they'd clarify if that's preschool she's paying for or if she's actually sending her K-12 kids to private vs. public. Maybe she needs to rent in a district that she'd actually send the kids to, because private school tuition times FOURTEEN? Dang.
Zeus and Bubba
Those poor kids.
I wonder if some of the debt was from people extending a helping hand and giving her breaks, and expecting her to pay for it later. Such as the school debt, and the rental house.
This whole story is so angering, and I'm SO pissed at the doctor who actually did the transfer. She was a single mom to 6 kids. She had gotten PG EVERY time she went in for a procedure. Where on EARTH did he think it was a good idea to transfer 6 embryo's?!?! (I think 2 split to twins)
That's the person who I really ultimately hold responsible. She can want to do it, but if no one does it- she's SOL.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
According to the investigation into her quack doctor... it was 12 embryos. TWELVE!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/01/us-octomom-idUSTRE7507TL20110601?feedType=RSS
This is what kills me:
Kamrava said at a hearing last year that he was complying with Suleman's wishes, and out of concern that her fertility could be impaired and that she needed a large number of embryos to increase the chances of having a baby.
She had SIX successful procedures (well, around that) in the past. There was no reason to be concerned about her fertility. This doctor was beyond incompetant in making this decision.
It still floors me.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
This. If you have 6 kids already, why on earth is a doctor worried about your fertility?
Maybe this is harsh, but even if she did have fertility problems by this point, with 6 kids, I think the doctor should have said no.
The local news aired another quote that floored me. Paraphrasing, "If I knew it was going to be like this I never would have had these kids. I'm not maternal at all."
Like those poor kids aren't going to be effed up anyways, someday they'll find out she wishes they didn't exist.