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Octomom: Octuplets Look Like Now

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Octomom: Consider the past. It’s 2009, and the United States is still reeling from the global financial crisis.

Barack Obama has been inaugurated, and people are frightened of swine flu, but you’re focused on something else entirely.

That’s because Natalie “Nadya” Suleman, or “Octomom,” just gave birth to a set of highly anticipated octuplets, increasing her total number of offspring to an inconceivable 14. The country couldn’t seem to take its eyes off it.

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Natalie, who now goes by her birth name, was treated as both a medical marvel and a tabloid sideshow if you followed the story back then.

She now lives in California with her children, and it appears that, after years of struggle, she has finally found her stride. Noah, Jonah, Jeremiah, Josiah, Isaiah, Makai, Nariyah, and Maliyah Suleman, the octuplets, are now 11 years old, and Natalie says that the family is doing well. Continue reading to see how the octuplets are now.

Natalie posted a photo of the octuplets and one of her elder daughters on Mother’s Day.

Natalie frequently posts photos of her “eight,” as they’re known—six boys and two girls—on Instagram, lamenting the fact that her older children aren’t particularly fond of being photographed. Natalie shared a wonderful photo of the octuplets holding homemade gifts for her on Mother’s Day last year, which she described as “priceless.”

And, based on her Mother’s Day 2021 post, it’s evident they’re growing up quickly. She showed off her many cards, flowers, and teddy bears from her kids, as well as an appreciation post to parents everywhere, in a new photo of the octuplets and one of her elder children.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the world’s dedicated, diligent, and loving mums!” she wrote. “You are respected and valued! #HappyMothersDay

She posts adorable photos of the octuplets at various milestones on a regular basis.

Natalie appears to have pulled it off based on her Instagram account: Apart from the family’s size, 14 children live under one roof, and their upbringing appears to be blissfully conventional.

The children prepare vegan meals, participate in races, celebrate birthdays, do crafts, and are transported to school and sporting events in the same manner as their peers. After visiting them in 2018, the New York Times described them as a “happy household.”

Natalie notably expressed sorrow over the number of her brood during a video interview with Radar Online when the kids were little (via ABC). “How am I going to get out of this?” “I have to put on this tough front and act as though I don’t regret it,” she explained.

The single mother’s early years of raising the octuplets—plus six elder children, one of whom has nonverbal autism—were obviously difficult.

(This short documentary on the family illustrates how difficult it would be to raise 14 children at the same time.) Natalie’s family was “on the verge of homelessness” because they couldn’t make ends meet, so she turned to drugs and started working in the adult entertainment industry.

She subsequently explained that this was her lowest point and that she decided to go to treatment and “kill” the “Octomom character” not long after. “The media built the character, and I shamefully adopted it in 2009 out of shortage and desire to survive,” she remarked in retrospect.

Her triumph is all the sweeter because of her terrible history.

Whatever your feelings about Natalie’s previous “Octomom” character, there’s no disputing that the family is doing much better than the naysayers predicted. She’s managed to calm the chaos of a household with more than a dozen children and views her life as “fortunate.”

So, how does she pull it off? Natalie attributes her ability to raise well-adjusted children to “constant structure and discipline blended with unconditional love and acceptance.” In one Instagram post, she said, “This combination of love and discipline has sculpted children into the most thankful human beings I’ve ever encountered.”

Away from the spotlight, the family is living a happier existence.

Natalie is no longer bound by the “Octomom” moniker, and she is free to raise her family on her own terms, which means focusing on her children’s physical and mental wellbeing.

Her Instagram is littered with messages to her kids about prioritizing self-compassion and spreading that kindness to others. She speaks from personal experience, having had to come to terms with her own past and current life issues.

One of the essential lessons I strive to instill in all of you is that everyone who crosses your path is fighting a struggle you have no idea about,” she wrote in a message to her children.

“Always be nice, sympathetic, and patient with others, and keep in mind that the brighter the smile, the deeper the sorrow… No one could ever comprehend the daily hardship you, and we all, go through. For reasons only God knows, we are facing hardships, but those struggles are supposed to forge, shape, and enhance our character.”

So, happy Mother’s Day to Natalie Suleman and all the other mothers out there who have persevered through their own adversity as parents. It can only get better from here.

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