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Octomom Opens Up About Starring in Adult Film to ‘Survive’

“My family and I are taking our life back,” said Natalie ‘Nadya’ Suleman in a rare interview as her octuplets turn 16.

Tabloid sensation Natalie “Nadya” Suleman, known as “Octomom,” said she is ready to tell her story now that her eight youngest children are growing up. “Today, my family and I are taking our life back,” said Suleman, 49, in an interview with People magazine. “I’ve been saying, ‘I want to keep them safe and protect my kids,’ and well, they’re older now,” she said, adding, “They’re turning 16 and making the decision to really do this.” Suleman will be the center of a Lifetime movie and docuseries titled, I Was Octomom and Confessions of Octomom, which will delve into her time as a tabloid fixture after she gave birth to the first-ever surviving octuplets via in vitro fertilization (IVF). Suleman has six older kids also born via IVF. The docuseries will explore “all the trials and tribulations, the challenges and struggles, what I had to do to continue to fight for my family,” said Suleman, including starring in an adult film “to survive.” On sharing her story now, Suleman said she wants to help women “who are struggling with one child or none, to maybe inspire them to pull out the strengths inside that they didn’t know they had.”