CNN is reporting that the house that the octuplets mom is living in is currently in default, and the mortgage owner, the grandmother of the octuplets, is $23,225 behind on her mortgage payments.
News of the foreclosure is the latest twist in the tale of Suleman and her children.
Suleman, 33, had the octuplets through fertility treatments, despite being single and already having six young children and no clear source of income.
CNN says that the Suleman family could not be reached for comment because their phone had been disconnected.
Their website, however, seems to be working and is accepting donations.
Octuplets’ family reportedly faces foreclosure [CNN]
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I don’t understand why this woman has not been locked up. While it’s awful to separate children, this woman clearly needs medication and to have her uterus restrained. I can’t imagine that she wouldn’t do this again.
However, with all of the media attention I can’t imagine that she’s not making some money. She should be able to get caught up on her mortgage. Who supports this woman? WHO?
Ug.
how can the woman be so reckless? several of her children already have developmental disabilities. so she decides to have more rather than focus on taking care of them?
I would like to know what Jim and Michelle Duggar think of all this.
Isn’t that the same amount she used on her nose job and lip work?
sterilization – she needed it years ago
can we make this post special and blame the “victim” without fear of reprimand?
@discounteggroll: The victims here are the kids and the taxpayers.
In addition, the hospital where she gave birth to the octuplets has contacted the state of Ca for financial assistance to cover the medical bills. California’s taxpayers will wind up footing the bill to raise these kids.
@waltcoleman: What they really ought to do is send that bill to the doctor who did the IVF in the first place. “You caused it, you pay for it.”
@narf: I think the Man Law quote applies here:
“You poke it, you own it.”
What, you mean default on your mortgage, then conceive 8 children, on top of your current 6 in a strike it rich plan in hopes of being like the Duggars and the Gosselins is a bad idea? You don’t say.
This neurotic woman needs a swift kick in the ass, not sperm + eggs shoved up her va-jay-jay.
Her story gets crazier every week!
She also thinks that she’s going to put 14 kids in the university’s daycare. Aside from the fact that uni daycares have waiting lists YEARS LONG, they aren’t free. They’re usually somewhere around $20-$40 a day. Per kid. Even at just 2 days a week of classes, that is still thousands of dollars a month in daycare alone. Then you have to get them to daycare. Have you tried to fit 12 carseats and 2 boosters into any sort of vehicle?
I mean, we all know she didn’t think this cunning plan through, but she’s still just running her flipping mouth and not thinking AT ALL.
I am furiously pissed at that woman. She puts me at a loss for words with her stupidity.
If you do donate folks be sure it goes to the kids. They are the innocents and did nothing wrong but be born. Keep that in mind.
Hopefully someday, someone will be kind and explain to these kids on what she did.
It’s just sad to see stuff like this happen.
Ok so we have vented and we all agree the woman is a whack job. Now lets turn our attention to the children, for they are the victims here. You dont get to choose your parents and these poor kids are in for a lifetime of “issues”. We at the consumerist have always be quick to jump in and help those wronged and i say drop the bitching about her and lets figure out a awy to help these kids that does not directly benefit the mother.
I am going to throw a couple ideas out there and hope they get expanded on rather then shot down because these kids are going to need our help, they didnt ask for it but they will certainly need it.
So how do we help them without getting mom rich off their exploitation?
1. A trust fund for the children? Donations go to the fund and the monies are handled by a third party ensureing that the children are fed, clothed and given an opportunity to persue a higher education when they are older?
2. Boycott any magazine or tv show that even mentions the idea that they will be interviewing the mother via a pay for appearance process unless the payment goes to the fund mentioned above?
Come on guys and girls there are some very smart people on this site, there has to be a way that we can care for these kids through the generosity in our hearts without putting the burden on the state and without directly benefiting the puppy mill that is their mother.
@KevinReyn: “we can care”" ??? are you a damn nutjob…why the hell shoudl WE care for her kids? This is HER problem let her deal with it, if the kids die from having no food how is that OUR problem…Most kids can’t afford college today but you want to give her kids a free ride? get cancer asshole.
@TopcatF14B: ‘We’ doesn’t have to include you. If people want to step in so the kids aren’t on welfare that’s their business.
@TopcatF14B: Some people have hearts and would like all people to have a fair chance at life. I’m sorry your life is so bad that you can’t understand the concept of caring about other people, especially children who had no choice in their situation. I’ve been through some incredibly rough times and I would like to help keep other people from suffering the same. You can continue to let children ‘die from having no food’ and I will continue to help out so that my children will understand compassion and will never turn out like you.
@TopcatF14B: Get cancer asshole?
Wow your a piece of work and are obviously no the kind of consumerist poster I was speaking to. But since you decided to share your two cents thank you, while I dont necessarily share your sentiment I do value the time you took to tell me how you feel about it.
However next time you decide to post you opinion, put down the crack pipe at least 45 seconds before you start typing. I would love to resort to flaming you as you chose to do to me unprovoked but alas I simply cannot find more articulate words then nutjob nor can I come up with a more fantastic wish for another human being then to wish that they get cancer. I feel such sorrow for you at the moment that you cannot find it in such a broken heart to care about the lives of children who were born into the life of of a woman so completely twisted mentally. Well I guess maybe when you look in the mirror you might find you have lot more in common with her then you would like to admit.
May you find peace in your heart before your time on this earth has past.
@KevinReyn: I think the best way to make sure donations help the kids would be to send it to the grandmother or have her be the third party handling the trust. Also, sending goods or gift cards instead of cash: diapers, clothing, etc. The gift cards should be store/use specific: grocery store cards, medical gift cards, etc.
I don’t know how anyone would convince her to do it but what would really help her kids is if she got some therapy. (That’s not bashing; if the state doesn’t step in then it’d be best for them if she worked on whatever problems prompted her to do this in the first place.)
@Rectilinear Propagation: I don’t think the grandmother is the answer. She talks a good game, but she’s done nothing to stop this, and I don’t really feel she has the spine to stand up to the mother. I think it needs to be a non-family member who does things like this for a living (lawyer,Guardian ad Litem, ect) someone who answers to the people donating, not the family.
@KevinReyn: my solution: take all the kids 3 and under away. they’re prime adoption candidates. everyone’s problems are solved.
@DaoKaioshin: I agree that ultimately that may be the end solution. Though the children will still require support either through state support in the foster system or hopefully through a family that chooses to adopt. Unfortunately I doubt many will want to adopt them for fear that when the mother is deemed fit (potentially) that she may come back after them regardless of the length of time they had been with the new parents. Not to mention that the child with autism will require a truly special family to take on that challenge. Either way I dont see an easy life for these poor kids and she will be the cause of most of their grief.
So does anyone know how an unemployed woman who lives at home can afford IVF when the cheapest possible price is $15000 and usually is $20K+?
maybe she needs to hit bottom first.
I heard but didn’t confirm the doctor did it for free as a publicity stunt. He had a low success rate. Although I don’t know if this lady even had a fertility problem.
The difference with the family with 18 kids is the older kids take care of the younger ones (not fair to the kids who are conscripted to raise children instead of having a childhood). And the kids aren’t f’ed up prematures with lifelong problems.
she needs to be thrown in jail
Since Obama doesn’t care about personal responsibility. Maybe Ms. 14 kids can ask him for a bailout.
@kwsventures: way to bring Obama into the mix on a completely unrelated topic.
Maybe it was Bush’s fault. Like the economy, the problems started during the Bush admin.
@ironchef: He should have known and done something to stop it! /sarcasm
I agree with ironchef that we should leave the politicians out of it.
I love how her other 6 kids aren’t even on the front page.
The wording on the site doesn’t even make sense – “Click here if you would like to make an online donation and thank you for your support.” Why would I want to thank me, aren’t you supposed to be thanking me?
Its being reported today that she has been seen shopping in Nordstroms lately!!!!!
sure…she can afford to take care of them….
If you go to adopt a cat from pretty much any respectable shelter or rescue group, you will generally have to fill out an application asking about past pet ownership, number of current pets, financial situation, living situation, and a number of other things to make sure you are fit to care for a cat. Some even require references and home visits.
If you want fertility treatments, not so much.
@madanthony: If you were paying 100k to the shelter they would shut up too.
Well if she enjoys being pregnant so much she should just become a professional surrogate mother and make money that way ::runs from the bricks being thrown at her:: i hope someone finds the sarcasm and humor and in my comment.
She’s like those 12-year-olds on Maury who want nothing more than to have a baby so someone, anyone will love them. She must have had some strange kind of childhood to turn out like this.
The leave a comment link doesn’t work, but the donation one does. Sic
Since the State is going to be paying for these kids they should come in and take them all and put them in foster homes.
How about the doctor that performed the IVF the second time? He should lose his license and be stoned in the center of town by all who want to cast stones
The comments section appears to work on that website.
Clown car uterus + state of California = the highest taxes in the nation! Congratulations!
As of July, the county of LA will pay 9.75% in sales tax plus a surcharge tax on the state tax already withheld due to the budget passed today. Promised to last two years many know it won’t go away, we are still paying a sales-tax increase due to the San Francisco earthquake so the city could rebuild…in 1989!
Is it surprising they all happened a week apart? See the possibilities for you in the Golden State!
As the Eagle’s sang in “The Last Resort”, “Once you call a place paradise, you can kiss it good-bye.” Sad buy true. How can anyone live with taxes, traffic, and the ever increasing border drug-wars intruding further into the state?
Key West, I’ll be seeing you before retirement. Maybe there a few 3rd graders who would like a teacher from one of California’s top school district. If not, I’ll sweep the floor of the bar. Anything is better than feeling like a prisoner in the state you never dreamed of leaving since birth. It’s no longer desireable.
Holy Cow!
anyone that supports that cow and her herd of idiots, needs to be removed from the gene pool immediately.
Last night they said Octo-mom is shopping around for a new house. She has an appointment to go see one house with a $1,250,000.00 list price. I guess she expects the tax payers to provide her with a million dollar house. Either that, or she’s raking in some serious bucks from that stupid website of hers.
The one thing I keep wondering . . . . where are all those people who march around with banners against abortion?
Shouldn’t they all be over at this nutty woman’s house helping out by buying food and paying her mortgage so all those kids that didn’t get aborted have a nice place to live and some nice healthy meals?
Oh well, maybe their too busy making banners.
For real! Isn’t that hilarious. Protect life, save the children!! Oh they weren’t aborted and made it into the world? Sorry thats not in our department.
@tworld: I’m too busy sending my money to help fight malaria in Africa.
I don’t make banners.
Is there no daddy for any of the children?
@Jordan Brill: Nope. No more embryos either. She’s done with the having kids.
can we PLEASE just start referring to her as CC, Clown Car? reading these through fark.com with her referenced as that makes it so much more entertaining.
1. Don’t pay for fertility drugs when your morgage is due…dummy.
2. Won’t they looks so cute in their 8 lil matching cardboard houses?!?! = )