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Politics | 02/13/2009 9:05 am

Octo-Mom Nadya Suleman Receives Death Threats; Her Octo-Doc Over-Impregnates Again!

More shocking details surrounding the octuplet mother Nadya Suleman and her fertilization specialist Dr. Michael Kamrava
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Octo-doc giving Suleman an ultrasound in 2006

© AP

C’mon, people, lay off Nadya Suleman’s innocent children! They never asked the fertility clinic to over-impregnate their single, unemployed mother.

According to reports, the Los Angeles police are currently investigating death threats aimed at Nadya Suleman — the octuplet-bearing mother who recently gave birth to eight babies to boost her brood to 14 children — because she enjoys the company. The police are also assisting Suleman’s publicist handle angry e-mails aimed not only at Suleman, but at her family. How are the children responsible for this? Why take aim at the young ones?

This week Suleman launched a website asking for donations, but also inviting visitors to send comments. A furor of controversy has erupted since Suleman’s pregnancy, from physicians questioning the regulations of fertility clinics to women questioning Suleman’s objectives.

The fertilization specialist responsible for over-impregnating Suleman is also under fire. Not only is the American Society of Reproductive Medicine investigating the octo-doc Michael Kamrava for implanting too many embryos in Suleman, the octo-doc is also reportedly under investigation for over-implanting another woman! Dr. Kamrava reportedly implanted a 49-year-old mother of three with seven embryos — when the woman already had three grown children from a previous marriage and just wanted one more child.

Yesterday, TMZ got their hands on a photograph of Suleman looking enormously swollen and ready to explode shortly before her miracle delivery on January 26. Meanwhile, Suleman is living in an undisclosed location and spends time with all her children. Her eight newborns are expected to remain in the hospital for several weeks.

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Andrea Brandon
Marina B: You’re right, she DID say that she paid $100K for the IVF. But she’s been caught in lies and manipulates words to her benefits. That causes me to really wonder if she did pay for it herself. I’ve also wondered if her father didn’t pay for it. [Somewhere I read that her father was $1M in debt - perhaps the bankruptcy.] Mary Jackson: Strange as it may sound, I feel much of the taxes I pay in CA and to the federal government are “donations” which benefit Suleman. You know, I never had children and worked all my life. I’ve never complained about the hefty taxes I pay that are used to educate kids in the US, or the child care deductions available to parents. But I draw the line at any form of subsidy paid to anyone who abuses the system, regardless of the economy being good or bad. That’s cheating all the people who REALLY need help and are in situations where they are the victims. Suleman is not a victim; she has willfully and intentionally played the system to the max. Has anyone calculated what all these benefits will amount to after all is said and done and over time? To add insult to injury, SHE DOESN’T EVEN APPRECIATE IT!
By Andrea Brandon on 02/14/2009 3:41 pm
Sandbee (FB) 54
I couldn’t believe when she said she didn’t get welfare but in the next breathe said she was getting food stamps, I don’t understand the difference. I think she is also going to be overworking the garbage department - isn’t she going to need her own dumpster for the diapers for all of those babies? Along with the garbage coming out about her.
By Sandbee (FB) 54 on 02/14/2009 6:03 pm
Lizzie R.
Here’s some new info on the “baby mother” as I call her. She’s lost her publicist,now has an agent, but onward and upward. “LOS ANGELES (AP) — The public relations group that has represented octuplets mother Nadya Suleman is stepping down because of death threats, its president said Saturday. Joann Killeen also said the mother now has an agent: Wes Yoder, the same man who arranged book and music deals for the McCaughey septuplets a decade ago and publicity for controversial pastor Rick Warren. The Killeen Furtney Group was ending its free representation after receiving at least 100 graphic e-mailed threats and swarms of nasty voicemails that went to the Los Angeles agency and even to some of its other clients, Killeen said. Some messages threatened Suleman but others were aimed at her spokespeople. “They’d put me in the wood chipper and throw me in the bottom of the ocean and hope I die,” Killeen said. “We’ve gotten her through the worst part of it and now they are putting their venom and anger toward us.” Word that the 33-year-old single unemployed mother is receiving public assistance to care for the 14 children she conceived through in vitro fertilization has stoked furor among many people. Police are investigating the threats. “We’ve never had a public reaction to us representing a client pro bono like this, ever,” Killeen said. But Michael Levine, a longtime Hollywood publicist who has represented pop star Michael Jackson, said he gets about one death threat a month. “Death threats have about as much impact on my life as me saying `Happy Valentine’s’ to you,” said Levine, adding that he received multiple threats when he represented Jackson. Suleman, who gave birth last month, is living at an undisclosed location. She has set up a Web page to accept donations to help the octuplets, who remained hospitalized. Meanwhile, Killeen said Suleman told her that she had reached an exclusive representation deal with Yoder. His Ambassador Agency Inc. bills itself as the oldest Christian-based talent agency in the United States. The agency, which has a Nashville mailing address and a street address in Franklin, Tenn., promotes speaking engagements, publicity and media deals for clients. Killeen said the agreement with Yoder and her agency’s decision to step down were unrelated. She had not yet contacted Yoder and was unclear on the specifics of Suleman’s deal with him, Killeen added. A call and e-mail left for Yoder on Saturday were not immediately returned. A decade ago, Yoder was the spokesman and agent for Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey, the Iowa couple who had the world’s first surviving septuplets on Nov. 19, 1997. They were later involved in book, music and TV commercial deals. He also has represented Rick Warren, pastor of the evangelical Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest and best-selling author of “The Purpose Driven Life.” Warren gave the invocation at President Barack Obama’s inauguration — a choice that drew criticism from gay activists because Warren supported last year’s successful California ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriages. “
By Lizzie R. on 02/14/2009 7:36 pm
C jay
HA! Love it, Lizzie - also get the conn… let Warren help her out. He has plenty of moolah, and it’s all in the family. Her purposed-driven life, and his. Does this never end? In truth, why would anyone watch those TV shows revealing families lives day to day. They are sick, voyeurism at best, and do nothing for the children involved, except use them as pawns. In one, when the parents fight, ridicule the other, and tell the kids they haven’t enough money for this or that - yet travel all over the country, and out, vacations, rebuild their homes, nothing an average family working at the same jobs could earn - it’s brining “scandal to children,” and should be stopped.
By C jay on 02/16/2009 1:39 am
C jay
ps - gotta ad such was merely my own experience watching 2 of those shows 2 times each - those times made me feel like I was window peeking. But, I was shocked at the actions of the parents in both of those shows - children always hear, and see.
By C jay on 02/16/2009 1:41 am
Lizzie R.
By Lizzie R. on 02/14/2009 7:37 pm
Andrea Brandon
And the best news of all: Psychiatrist Dr. Lieberman has filed complaint of abuse against Nadya Suleman, citing numerous charges. This means that Child Protective Services will have to investigate and report immediately. She has never treated Suleman. Good for her!!! http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Octo-Who-Church-Not-Helping-Sule…
By Andrea Brandon on 02/14/2009 8:25 pm
Marina B.
Unless she has some firsthand knowledge, her complaint carries no weight.
By Marina B. on 02/14/2009 10:26 pm
C jay
I was just wondering why someone didn’t file a “concern” at least. And that is just what needed to be done, in fact, her doctors should have done that, it’s federal law. Anyone who knowingly fails to report suspicions of even the potential for abuse may be equally prosecuted. I hope their butts burn, all of them.
By C jay on 02/16/2009 1:43 am
Andrea Brandon
In California any mandated reporter must notify legal authorities when there is any reasonable suspicion of abuse. Read Penal Code § 11165.2. .
By Andrea Brandon on 02/15/2009 12:46 am
Marina B.
I haven’t read the California code, but I am very aware of the simiar provisions in the laws of the state in which I live, as well as those of several surrounding states, all of which are very similar. The fact is that anyone who makes a report based only on what he/she has read in a newspaper is going to be treated as a grandstanding publicity hound and/or as a kook, and rightfully so.
By Marina B. on 02/15/2009 2:47 pm
Marina B.
I meant to add that the operative phrase here is “reasonable suspicion of abuse.” That means abuse that has happened, not speculations of abuse that may happen. Although my personal opinion is that these children will, at the least, suffer from emotional neglect, that hasn’t happened. It hasn’t even (based on the newspaper reports) happened with respect to the older children, since the grandparents at least have been there for them. Added to that, I don’t know of any case in which children have been removed from a home because of emotional neglect.
By Marina B. on 02/15/2009 2:53 pm
C jay
I do!!!!!!
By C jay on 02/16/2009 1:45 am
Marina B.
Out of curiosity, what were the circumstances?
By Marina B. on 02/16/2009 4:03 am
Andrea Brandon
I don’t know what her claims are in the report, but I do know that Dr. Lieberman is affiliated with UCLA NeuroPsych, which has considerable credibility. I tend to think she would not jeopardize her career if she didn’t have her ducks in order.
By Andrea Brandon on 02/15/2009 3:17 pm