Octomom Recollects Being Goal of Dying Threats and ‘World Scorn and Condemnation’

The 49-year-old single mom of 14 — who welcomed eight kids directly in 2009 — is prepping a brand new documentary about her sophisticated life.

“Immediately, my household and I are taking our life again,” she advised PEOPLE.

The Lifetime film and docuseries — titled I Was Octomom and Confessions of Octomom — will premiere March 8 and March 10, respectively.

The tasks come after years of retreating from the general public eye and can reportedly give these curious an in-depth take a look at Suleman’s life alongside along with her history-making octuplets and her resolution to have one other IVF process after having six kids.

“I have been saying, I need to hold them protected and shield my youngsters, and effectively, they’re older now,” she shared of why she waited to do the doc. “They’re turning 16 and making the choice to essentially do that.”

She famously made headlines in 2009 when she gave delivery to octuplets — six boys and two women — by way of in vitro fertilization, incomes the nickname “Octomom.” Suleman’s octuplets embody Noah, Josiah, Nariyah, Maliyah, Jonah, Jeremiah, Isaiah and Makai.

She was implanted with 12 embryos by Dr. Michael Kamrava, a Beverly Hills fertility specialist, who oversaw her earlier IVF remedies. Her six different kids — Elijah, 23, Amerah, 22, Joshua, 20, Aiden, 19, and twins Calyssa and Caleb, 147 — had been additionally conceived by IVF.

“To start with it was full pandemonium,” she mentioned of the notoriety and being condemned by the world.

“There was in fact the entire particulars of the dying threats and fearing for my household’s life. After which then again, I needed to proceed to sacrifice my integrity repeatedly to outlive and supply for my household.”

“It wasn’t till they had been perhaps about 4 years previous, I lastly was in a position to escape all of that, the assault it felt from the world … and all that international scorn and condemnation, being the goal of misplaced hate,” she added. “I might escape and eventually return to the life I had as soon as recognized earlier than.”

Suleman insists she raised all 14 youngsters alone and “paid for nannies” till they had been two, recalling “actually struggling financially.” She credited her “robust religion in God” for the whole lot lastly falling into place.

Within the doc, the kids may also have a possibility to talk for the primary time within the public eye.

“Our mother would lastly have the ability to say her aspect 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,” Suleman’s daughter Nariyah advised PEOPLE.

“I am not this compartmentalized caricature,” Suleman mentioned. “I’m not Octomom, I am a mother.”

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