Octomom Natalie ‘Nadya’ Suleman Reveals She’s Nonetheless Single (Unique)

Natalie “Nadya” Suleman isn’t prepared to leap again into the relationship world.

The 49-year-old single mom of 14 solely tells PEOPLE that she continues to be single, saying, “If I by no means dated earlier than I had any children, why would I begin now?”

Suleman reveals extra of her private life within the upcoming docuseries  Confessions of Octomom, through which she teases that she “shared [things] I’ve by no means shared earlier than about myself and about in all probability my motivations to be a single mother.”

Suleman first made headlines in 2009 after she was implanted with 12 embryos by Dr. Michael Kamrava, a Beverly Hills fertility specialist, which resulted within the first-ever profitable start of octuplets. Nonetheless, after the announcement, she confronted criticism for being a single mother who repeatedly sought out IVF remedies to develop her already giant and struggling household.

Suleman was as soon as married to Marcos Gutierrez, a person she separated from in 2000 and formally divorced in 2006. He has stated that he’s not the organic father of any of Suleman’s kids, and particulars surrounding her kids’s sperm donor stay a thriller.

With Confessions of Octomom and the Lifetime film I Was Octomom — which premiere March 8 and March 10 respectively, Suleman and her kids are prepared to inform their facet of the story.

“My household and I are taking our life again,” Suleman shares. “That was actually stolen from the tabloid media particularly…They tried to destroy me, however they did not know. Nobody actually knew something about who we had been as a household, who I’m as a mom.” 

“Within the film, I used to be Octomom and the six-part documentary sequence, I am not Octomom,” she provides. “It is actually sharing new experiences and new views, and it offers new insights into the historical past and our current day life.”

The docuseries is giving Suleman’s kids the chance to “share for the primary time,” she says.

“I am simply very excited,” Suleman’s daughter Nariyah, 15, admits to PEOPLE. “Our mother would lastly have the ability to say her facet of the story, as a result of I really feel prefer it was very unfair how she was terrorized and hated for simply being a mom. And he or she needed to sacrifice a lot only for her kids.”

As for Suleman, she is able to share her reality with viewers, saying, “I am not this compartmentalized caricature. I’m not Octomom, I am a mother.”

“The primary causes for me in sharing my true story, my perspective is to assist folks, to assist ladies particularly who’re combating one baby or none, to perhaps encourage them to tug out the strengths inside that they did not know they needed to progress ahead, to maintain progressing of their life,” she shared.

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I Was Octomom premieres March 8, whereas Confessions of Octomom premieres March 10, each on Lifetime.