Regardless of being a really public determine that the media dubbed “Octomom” in 2009, Natalie (Nadya) Suleman would not really feel snug going out in public today.
Within the opening moments of Lifetime’s new revealing docuseries, Confessions of Octomom, Suleman seems coated head-to-toe in protecting clothes to protect herself from dangerous UV rays — and prying eyes.
“I used to be very constant for many years, since I used to be in my early 20s, sporting sunscreen, and I am actually into defending my pores and skin from the solar, and that is not the one purpose,” she explains whereas driving her automobile.
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Suleman wears a long-sleeve shirt, fingerless gloves, a neck guard, a solar hat that covers the whole lot however a slit for her eyes and sun shades. She even wears the outfit to work out within the gymnasium.
“It for positive that is helps with my social anxiousness,” she continues. “No one is aware of [who I am], they appear they usually look away. It would not like draw any consideration as a result of folks do not wish to look and stare.”
Suleman, now 49, first made headlines in 2009 after she was implanted with 12 embryos and gave delivery to the world’s first surviving octuplets.
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Quickly after, she confronted criticism for being a single mother who repeatedly sought out IVF therapies to develop her already massive household. She had six kids earlier than welcoming the octuplets.
To make ends meat, Suleman did paid interviews, picture opps and took part in a solo grownup movie.
“After I began taking place a darkish dismal rabbit gap, I felt like there was no means I used to be going to have the ability to extricate myself out of that quagmire that I positioned myself in,” Suleman informed PEOPLE in a revealing new interview.
After searching for out rehab for anxiousness and stress in late 2012, she moved her household again to her hometown and went to work as a counselor in 2013.
“The fact is I did not take time to sit down and really feel and course of emotion as a result of that is when therapeutic begins, after we sit within the ache and we sit in that uncomfortable emotions we do not wish to really feel, that is after we can begin therapeutic and rising and altering,” she shared.
Now, she’s taking again the narrative of her life with a brand new Lifetime biopic I Was Octomom and the docuseries Confessions of Octomom, each on Lifetime.
“My household and I are taking our life again,” she informed PEOPLE. “That was actually stolen from the tabloid media specifically… They tried to destroy me, however they did not know. Nobody actually knew something about who we have been as a household, who I’m as a mom.”
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She continued, “Within the film, I used to be Octomom and the six-part documentary sequence, I am not Octomom. It is actually sharing new experiences and new views, and it provides new insights into the historical past and our current day life.”
Confessions of Octomom airs on Mondays at 10 p.m. ET on Lifetime.
