SakshiDesperate Times
Much to Nadya Suleman’s horror, there was no convincing her landlord: she and her kids had to get out. She had to find a place for her numerous children to live in! She may have been a caricature to the media, but in her private life, she was a loving mother. That, she has always maintained, was the real her. The issue was that Suleman simply didn’t have enough money – she had to get some, and fast. So she eventually tried her luck in the film world. She dove into a few other business ventures as well, including a short-lived music career. But did it help?
A New Beginning
The pressures of the spotlight certainly got to Nadya Suleman, and when she finally recognized that, she decided to depart from it. The caricature she became was so different from who she really was that she could no longer recognize herself. She needed to make some changes so she could be a better mother for her children and live a happier life. When she did, Nadya Suleman turned her life around rather impressively. She started by changing her first name to Natalie, just as a symbolic move. Then she finished her college degree. After that, she started to work part-time as a family therapist. But what about the kids?
The Kids Today
Nadya Suleman’s octuplets are now 9 years old and doing well – specifically in the food department. All of them are on strictly vegan diets and seem to be loving it. It’s not something that’s necessarily easy to do as a child who constantly dreams of chocolate milk and candy, though. The kids’ mother, now known as Natalie Suleman, has said she is open with her children about her journey throughout it all. She believes it’s healthy to be a straightforward parent. Everything she has done since entering quasi-celebrity status, no matter how bizarre some might consider it, she has said, was for the good of her children.
She believes this lifestyle is key to running a healthy household and shares that with her fans on the Instagram account she created called the Solomon Family. The page also shares what she’s been up to as an unemployed mother of 14.
A Guardian Angel
Now that Natalie Suleman is in her early 40s, her life is back on track and she’s ditched any questionable jobs. She has told several news outlets that it was a “guardian angel” who gave her the strength to move forward and put her “seedy” life behind her. According to Natalie, it was in February 2013 when she was still working in the film industry that she saw a very tall man walk into the club she was at in Florida. “He walked straight to me and looked straight into my eyes. He took my hand and grabbed my arm and said in a very gentle, but firm way: ‘You don’t have to do this.’ He repeated it gives times.” This was the watershed moment for Natalie Suleman. She couldn’t help but fight back the tears that were streaming down her face. It was at this moment that her life changed forever. “I knew I had ti be my healthy self again.”
Reflecting Back
Since Natalie Suleman’s major life overhaul in 2013, she has admitted that she was very “foolish, immature and selfish” to have brought so many children into the world without thinking it through carefully. She admits that she didn’t reflect on the possible consequences at the time. However, in saying that, she doesn’t regret one bit of it. With this honest confession, Natalie is focused on raising her kids. They are her number one priority, so much so that she isn’t interested in looking for love and is content with leading a celibate lifestyle for the time being. It is through her social media pages that she shows just how much she has changed and what her family is up to — including the incredible values she instills in all 14 of her kids.
A Modest Life
Raising 14 kids alone is no piece of cake, but Natalie Suleman is handling it all pretty well in her two-bedroom apartment and living from paycheck to paycheck and food stamps. She even converted her office into a bedroom to make it a three bedroom. Natalie has told Daily Mail that she now feels “at peace” after all the hardships she endured to raise so many kids alone. One way that she feels at peace is by sharing her controversial story with other women in the hopes of inspiring them to make the right decisions for themselves and their children. What’s more, Natalie doesn’t like to be referred to as “Octomom” any longer. She feels this persona almost destroyed her and her family life. “I didn’t want to live. I felt less than human as that character I was pretending to be, to survive and provide for my family.” But what does all this mean for the kids living with all this knowledge of the past?