‘Natalie’ Nadya Suleman was already a mother-of-six via IVF treatment when she decided to have one more child, but Beverly Hills fertility doctor Dr. Michael Kamrava controversially implanted 12 embryos instead of the recommended two.
Dr. Kamrava – who was later expelled from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine – informed the 49-year-old ‘Octomom’ she was pregnant with seven, but her ‘mother’s intuition’ said she had eight inside.
‘I kept asking. I keep reiterating over and over, “Are you certain there’s not an eighth?” and [the ultrasound technician] said, “Absolutely not. I’m a very skilled ultrasound technician. If there were eight, I’d see them,”‘ Nadya recalled in Lifetime’s Confessions of Octomom.
‘Not that he wasn’t a skilled technician, but the more [children] there are — all the doctors were confirming — the less likely you are able to discern exactly how many there are.’
After Suleman delivered seven babies in January 2009, doctors examined her uterus and ‘felt a hand.’
‘So, there was a hidden baby!’ the divorced mother-of-14 – who identifies as asexual – marveled.
‘Natalie’ Nadya Suleman was already a mother-of-six via IVF treatment when she decided to have one more child, but Beverly Hills fertility doctor Dr. Michael Kamrava controversially implanted 12 embryos instead of the recommended two (pictured in 2009)
Dr. Kamrava – who was later expelled from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine – informed the 49-year-old ‘Octomom’ she was pregnant with seven, but her ‘mother’s intuition’ said she had eight inside (pictured in 2009)
‘He was one of the biggest. How did they miss a 3 1/2 pound baby? He was pretty big, so that was shocking.’
Nadya later sued the hospital she gave birth in for exposing her to the media: ‘They breached HIPAA. I never wanted fame.’
Suleman was unemployed and on government aid at the time and received massive backlash, which eventually led to a suicide attempt after working as a stripper, adult film actress, and boxer to make ends meet.
The therapist went into hiding for the last 13 years, but she’s now sharing her story in the six-episode docuseries Confessions of Octomom, which premiered Monday on Lifetime.
‘My family and I are taking our life back,’ Nadya noted.
The docuseries promises to finally unveil the identity of the sperm donor for all 14 of Suleman’s children, who’s rumored to be David Solomon.
The Orange County native also scored her very own biopic I Was Octomom starring Kristen Lee Gutoskie and directed by Brianne Nord-Stewart, which premiered last Saturday on Lifetime.
Nadya has raised the world’s first surviving octuplets – Noah, Josiah, Nariyah, Maliyah, Jonah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Makai – very strictly by not allowing them to date or have social media until they’re 18.
On August 30, Suleman became a grandmother when her 21-year-old son Joshua and her ‘lovely daughter in law’ welcomed their ‘beautiful’ daughter.
After Nadya delivered seven babies in January 2009, doctors examined her uterus and ‘felt a hand’ so ‘there was a hidden baby!’
Suleman later sued the hospital she gave birth in for exposing her to the media: ‘They breached HIPAA. I never wanted fame’
The therapist went into hiding for the last 13 years, but she’s now sharing her story in the six-episode docuseries Confessions of Octomom, which premiered Monday on Lifetime
The docuseries promises to finally unveil the identity of the sperm donor for all 14 of Nadya’s children, who’s rumored to be David Solomon
On August 30, Suleman became a grandmother when her 21-year-old son Joshua and her ‘lovely daughter in law’ welcomed their ‘beautiful’ daughter (L, pictured March 2)