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Octumom launches Web site asking for donations
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
February 16, 2009

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You gotta love that World Wide Web. According to the Huffington Post, octuplet mom Nadya Suleman, who now has 14 children all under the age of 8, has launched a Web site about her family. It also conveniently has two ways for you to donate money and supplies to...um...her cause?

Suleman has come under fire lately in the media after an interview with Ann Curry aired and for making contradicting statements such as she was receiving no government aid (she does receive food stamps and disability checks for three of her children). The latest rumblings about her are that she is obsessed with Angelina Jolie (writing her a constant stream of letters) and that she may have even possibly had plastic surgery (estimated at about $20,000) in order to look more like her.

In addition, Suleman currently has no source of income and is in debt for $50,000.

Suleman has now received numerous death threats and her Web site was reportedly hacked soon after the launch and defaced.

One would wonder if the media and public were overreacting to this situation...but then as it turns out, Suleman wanted $2 million and her own TV show in exchange for telling her story.

Sorry, Ms. Suleman. The American people can only take so much.

Cliche as it may sound, I can't help but feel it's the kids who are going to end up losing here. Maybe Brad and Angelina can take a couple in. They may have half a soccer team already but at least they have a steady source of income.