Octuplets’ grandmother criticises daughter’s actions
Angela Suleman is caring for the six older children while her daughter is hospitalised after giving birth on January 26 to the octuplets.
“She already has six beautiful children, why would she do this?” Angela Suleman said in the videotaped interview with celebrity news website RadarOnline.com. “I’m struggling to look after her six. We had to put in bunk beds, feed them in shifts and
The web site posted photographs on Sunday from inside Angela Suleman’s dishevelled three-bedroom home, where Nadya and her brood also live. Heaps of clothing pour from an open closet and a bedroom is cluttered with cribs.
Nadya Suleman’s publicist Mike Furtney said his client planned to move into a larger home once the octuplets were healthy enough to leave doctors’ care. He declined to comment on any of the remarks Angela Suleman made about her daughter in the interview.
“Those are very personal issues between a mother and a daughter,” he said.
Angela Suleman said Nadya’s boyfriend was the biological father of all 14 children, but that she refused to marry him.
“He was in love with her and wanted to marry her,” she said. “But Nadya wanted to have children on her own.”
Nadya Suleman, a divorced single mother, told NBC’s Today programme that the same specialist provided in-vitro fertilisation for all 14 of her children.
Angela Suleman seemed to contradict that account, saying her husband pleaded with Nadya’s first fertility doctor not to treat their daughter again, so Nadya found another doctor.
“I’m really angry about that,” Angela Suleman said of the doctor’s decision to perform the procedure.
A medical board of California spokeswoman said it was investigating the doctor to see if there was a “violation of the standard of care”.
In an interview broadcast on US TV, Nadya defended her decision to have so many children.
She told NBC News: “I feel as though I’ve beenunder the microscope because I’ve chosen this unconventional kind of life.
“I didn’t intend on it being unconventional, it just turned out to be. All I wanted was children,” she said. “That’s all I ever wanted in my life.”
