Octuplet Mom: A Huge Family Was ‘Always a Dream’
“That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.”
Gosh, I have some dreams I’d like to have come true, also, but my sense of right and wrong keeps me from fleecing the government to make them come true.
“I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up,” she says.
Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn’t functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn’t?”
Right. Exactly. Whose isn’t? Fourteen children is not the cure for your childhood pain.
Suleman got the payments because of injuries she suffered during a 1999 riot at a California mental hospital where she worked, leaving her with chronic back pain.
She was still receiving disability payments at about the time she was inseminated with octuplets, and doctors had precluded her from taking any job that involved “prolonged sitting, standing and walking,” according to workers’ comp documents.
I smell fraud. Do you smell it? What kind of person has 14 children when she suffers from chronic back pain? The fleecing of America!