A biography for Nadya Sulemanhasn’t been written yet.
“My kids are little athletes.”
“I personally do not believe I'm irresponsible.”
“I'm the kind of person who can be with a man for years and never touch him. My mind is not wired that way.”
“I've got good genes, and my body just always seems to bounce back after my pregnancies.”
“Struggle is the best teacher.”
“I am happiest at home with the kids.”
“I never wanted this... to be in the public eye.”
“I devote my whole life to my family, and that's the least I could do, because there's only one me and 14 of them. I have to give all my energy and all of me to my kids.”
“Four out of the five discs in my lumbar spine are ruptured, herniated fully. Think of a jelly doughnut being squashed, and it hits nerves, causing bilateral sciatica. And I have irreparable sacral damage. And I have peripheral neuropathy.”
“I look back in retrospect, and I would never say I regret not one of my children. They are why I live.”
“I have been compelled to dig deep inside and pull out strengths I never knew I possessed in order to protect my family.”
“Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?”
“The kids say, 'Oh are we weird somehow?' and I say, 'It's OK to be different.'”
“I never coined the term 'Octomom.'”
“I screwed up my life. I screwed up my kids' lives.”
“Kids love you unconditionally.”
“My form of therapy and survival has been exercise.”
“I hate babies.”
“I have embraced every day with gratitude.”
“I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.”