What About Her Children?
It was inevitable that Nadya would eventually have to admit that allowing the “Octomom” persona and the media circus that surrounded it were doing neither her nor her children any favors. She felt as though she had become a caricature of herself, and that she was living a life that was so far removed from who she truly wanted to be, that she had to make a change – for the sake of her children, as well as for her own.
She felt as though she owed it to both her children and herself to make the change. It was at this time that she decided to go by the name Nadya instead of her previous name, Natalie Suleman. She also continued her education and earned a master’s degree, which enabled her to find employment as a family therapist. But how did their children fare in school?