Nadya Suleman, the single mother of octuplets better known as "Octomom," said today she's struggling to take care of her 14 children and has had to rely on food stamps recently.
"I still am working as hard as I possibly can to support them,'' she said on NBC's Today show. "I made that call reluctantly. I feel ashamed, but who cares how I feel? It's 100 about my children."
Suleman, who already had six children when she gave birth to the in-vitro octuplets in January 2009, said she has received $ 2,000 in food stamps from California for the past two months. She had vowed to not accept public assistance.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it takes about $ 9,000 a month to support 14 children, NBC notes. The octuplets are 3, and their six siblings range in age from 5 to 10.
Suleman's financial troubles don't stop at the dinner table: she's also facing foreclosure on her home in La Habra, Orange County. The proceedings may be delayed until later this month, the Los Angeles Times says, citing comments her attorney made recently to City News Service.
Suleman told Today she is creating an advertising-based online venture called "Octomom TV'' and working for "Dial-A-Star,'' which purports to allow people to talk to a "real celebrity.'' She is also counting on income from the release of Millenium, a horror movie she appeared in. (Here's the trailer.)
Suleman recently earned $ 8,000 for posing topless for a British magazine. But she said she would never do pornography, even if the offer was "$ 100 million.''
"I won't touch other human flesh,'' she said. "The only flesh I'm touching is my own. I would never, never accept anything. I will not lose my grip of my deeply indoctrinated morals and values."
Is she worried California authorities will take her kids away? "That wil l never happen, and I can guarantee you on that,'' she said.
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