Shithead Roundup #2: Nadya Suleman
Posted by drocolate on November 19th, 2009In the past nine months I’ve written 12 Shithead Trading Cards. And while they have ranged in shitheadishness from people who stole thousands to people who stole billions, they have all been vile.
It’s been fun. And cathartic.
So now, over the course of the next few weeks, I’d like to rehash some of that vileness and catch up with each of them.
LET’S DO THIS! ROUNDUP TIME!
Shithead #2: Nadya Suleman AKA Octo-Disaster
-Originally published on 2/23/09-
Before I started to write this post I looked back at some of the old posts I have written about Octo-mom (HERE, HERE and HERE) and I felt like maybe I had been a bit harsh.
But then I saw this quote she gave to the New York Times Magazine last week in regards to why she had the now-infamous six pack of embryos implanted all at once:
“You don’t understand, if you have these frozen embryos that are there, and they were writing you letters saying, We are charging you this much, and it’s going up and up and up every month that they are stored — you can either use them or destroy them. You’re like, O.K., I have six already. What’s another? And maybe it won’t even work. So, I just decided to take the chance because I didn’t want to destroy the embryos. That was the main focus — not like: ‘Oh, gosh! I really want eight!’ People were thinking, ‘Oh, she wanted so, so many.’ No!”
I think my harshness was justified.
So let me get this straight. She had them all implanted because 1.) she didn’t want to see the embryos get destroyed (admirable… I guess) and 2.) the cryogenic facility where she had them stored was raising their rates?
Wow.
Yeah, that second thing is completely insane. The price of storing your frozen pre-baby is DEFINITELY going to be less than the price of having an actual kid. Oh, and she had eight so I guess that threw off her whole economic theory.
The point is that this woman hasn’t changed at all in the 8ish months since I last wrote about her. She’s still a reality TV hound who can’t seem to deliver an intelligent soundbite to save her life.
Oh, and speaking of reality TV, that’s where Ms. Suleman has been the busiest.
Back in August, Fox (who else?) aired a two-hour Octo-mom-athon called Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage. It was highlighted by more awesome soundbites from Suleman (my favorite being when she said this about fellow octo-matriarch Kate Gosselin: “Honestly, I’m not as attention seeking, probably never, it’s just my opinion, but some people are desperate for attention.”), her two-year old calling her a bitch and none of her fourteen kids wanting to wish her a happy Mother’s Day.
So basically it was totally and completely miserable. A train wreck.
But she wasn’t done yet.
In late October a story broke about a new reality show being shopped around where Octo-disaster dates the newly single Jon Gosselin. I’m not sure if anything ever came of this (hopefully it was total bullshit) but the idea that Ms. Suleman would date the ex-husband of the woman that is, according to her, some kind of attention-seeking media whore, on a reality TV show is amazing. The hypocrisy is staggering and completely predictable at the same time.
And this brings us back to the present day and that excellent little soundbite above.
That quote comes from a new documentary film being made by a British crew called OctoMom: Me & My Fourteen Kids. It actually premiered in the UK last week and will thankfully be hitting our shores sometime in the near future. YAY!
So, unlike R. Allen Stanford, who has changed considerably in the time since he was Shitheadified, Ms. Suleman hasn’t changed a wink. She’s still a vacuous, attention-seeking media whore. Oh wait, did I just describe Kate Gosselin? I’m confused.
Whatever. I’m done.
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Next time on Shithead Roundup: John Thain!!!
STAY TUNED!!
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She’s on Matt Lauer’s Thanksgiving special, “NBC’s People of the Year.” Because Matt Lauer is a good journalist.