Well, you could have almost predicted this! Now there's a story out that says that the mother has contacted both Oprah and Diane Sawyer, willing to tell her story for cold hard cash!
(apparently from a British publication)
From The Sunday Times
February 1, 2009
Octuplets mother wants Oprah to turn her into a $2m TV star
THE single mother of octuplets born in California last week is seeking $2m (£1.37m) from media interviews and commercial sponsorship to help pay the cost of raising the children.
Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television childcare expert, since it emerged last week that she already had six children before giving birth on Monday. She now has 14 below the age of eight.
Although still confined to an LA hospital bed, she intends to talk to two influential television hosts this week - media mogul Oprah Winfrey, and Diane Sawyer, who presents Good Morning America.
Her family has told agents she needs cash from deals such as nappy sponsorship - she will get through 250 nappies a week over the next few months - and the agents will gauge public reaction to her story. A veteran from the ICM agency said: If she wins over Oprah or Diane Sawyer, she will have the world at her feet.
Her earning power, though, could be diminished by a growing ethical and medical controversy. Experts believe that the unnamed fertility specialists who gave her in vitro fertilisation (IVF), should not have implanted so many embryos, and in choosing to carry all eight to term, Suleman ignored guidelines, risking both their health and her own.
US public reaction has been mixed: many have asked how an unemployed single mother can raise 14 children, as her first six have already strained the family budget. Angela and Ed Suleman, Nadyas parents, bought her a two-bedroom bungalow in the suburb of Whittier in March 2007, but soon after got into debt and had to leave their own home.
They filed for bankruptcy and moved in with their daughter and grandchildren. Last week her father said he will return to his native Iraq to work as a translator and driver.
Nadya Suleman, who describes herself as a professional student who lives off education grants and parental money, broke up with her boyfriend before the birth of her first child seven years ago.
The identity of the octup l e t s f a t h e r r e m a i n s unknown, but local reports suggest they were conceived with frozen sperm donated by a friend she met while working at a fertility clinic. He is the father of her twins, born two years ago.
Michael Tucker of the Georgia Reproductive Clinic, Atlanta, said Sulemans story stunned him. We are policed by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, which frowns upon implanting more than two or three embryos at a time. It is remarkable that any practitioner would undertake such a practice.
The babies, born nine weeks prematurely by C-section, were attended to by 46 medical staff, who expected seven babies. When the eighth - a boy - appeared, doctors were confounded.
Angela Suleman said her daughter was advised to terminate some of the embryos in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy for the sake of her health, but she refused because she did not know how to make sucha life-or-death decision.
She did not expect all eight to be born, but now she is so happy she did not choose. She wants to breast-feed all of them, said the grandmother. We are all excited about the busy times to come.