Nadya Suleman, the lady who created eight babies in her womb by way of IVF, decided to tell the world, on Oprah of course, that the reason she wanted to have so many babies was because she is selfish, or in her own words because she had her "own childish desires to compensate." There's a shock. Octomom said she was "trying to fill some missing piece inside (would a piece of chocolate not of sufficed?) The connection felt safer with children than with a significant other, more predictable. The security - I was hungering for the security."
Does she regret her decision to inflict her selfishness on so many babies? Well, in a way, yes. She said, "I own all of the responsibility for my poor choices in the past. Do I regret [it]? You can't regret children. But the choices were childish. They were immature. They were selfish. I feel as though I wasn't thinking at that time" So, as I said, that is basically a 'yes' to that question.
How will she move on from this? Try and teach her children that if they feel something is vacant within, then think long and hard before any rash decisions are made as you can only live with the consequences... "If I could go back, would I make different choices? Maybe. At this point, I know and I need to teach my children that we need to learn. And when we make poor choices, all you can do is really, really learn from that and grow from that. Try not to repeat it"
During the interview, a clip of Nadya's home life was shown whereby one of her older children stomped on one of the octuplets head. Maybe she should begin teaching her children right from wrong before anything else.
On the life that she leads now, she had the following verbal diarrhoeal; "We're surviving. We're so busy going, going, going, moving, moving, moving, trying to keep up that you don't have time to think, to reflect, to feel anything." But there's time to reflect on the decision you made to have eight children?
- Alicia Coyle
