Nadya has been on several shows as a guest, including, Oprah, Jimmy Kimmel, Dr. Phil, and an interview with Ann Curry from the Today Show, among others. She has a deal with Radar Online, which also publishes National Enquirer and Star Magazine. Suleman claims she hates the cameras, and all the attention and fame. She explains, however, "It's a catch-22," "I'm damned if I do what I need to do with the media to support my kids, and I'm damned if I don't. If I don't, I can't take care of them."
Nadya is currently living in a two-story, tan and white tract home with Spanish tiles, in a nice Southern California neighborhood. The main difference distinguishing her home from the others in the neighborhood, is the dead grass, and the inside, which is set up more like a daycare instead of a home. She has four nannies on the weekends and three nannies through the week. There is a film crew of four during filming, with a children's representative mandated by the State of California to ensure compliance with its labor laws.
Suleman was offered a quarter-million dollars by Eyeworks for the exclusive rights to film her family for 11 days, and for the option to do so again. If this goes over well, the United States has a deal pending, to follow suit with the rest of the popular reality shows; Jon and Kate plus 8, The Duggars, etc.
Obviously there is a lot of controversy over all this, mostly because Nadya is a single parent. She has chosen this path by in-vitro fertilization and a sperm donor, not to mention the fact that between 2000 and 2008, more than $169,000 in disability payments have been given to her. Suleman is now 34 years old, and has spent most of her life with her parents, and on welfare.
It is very disheartening to know that people can do such outrageous things and be paid so excessively for it. These reality shows tend to send the message of how "easy" it is to make millions....... have lots of babies.
It just seems that there could be a surge of women living hard-luck lives that will attempt to pull something like this off, and what will result is millions more on welfare. Our country has a hard enough time paying for welfare and even social security for our citizens.
Granted, with the money Suleman is getting paid, she will not need public assistance. However, if other young women follow suit in order to receive the same fame, not everyone will succeed. I think it is a fluke that Nadya Suleman has gotten this far. And personally, I don't think people realize how hard this is on the children. We probably won't see the real effects of that until years down the road.
She should really have to pay back that welfare money, since she is going to make millions off the whole reason she was on public assistance in the first place.
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