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Nadya Suleman has a $500 a week nanny? OK, how?

By Elizabeth Snead

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February 14, 2009 3:24 PM

Lifestyle21 Nadya Suleman tells The Sun, a British tabloid, that she hasn't had sex for eight years and can't remember her last date.

Thankfully, the article says she has no intention of dating again until her youngest are 18.

Good thing. She is so not gonna have time for love.

Many people have wondered about her other children: They are, according to the Sun, Elijah, 7, with attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity problems; daughter Amerah, 6; and son Joshua Jacob, 5. There's also Aidan, 3, who is autistic, and her 2-year-old twins, Caleb and Calyissa, who has speech difficulties.

Well, turns out Nadya has help.

Despite having no job, Nadya can afford to pay a nanny around $500 a week to look after the older kids Monday through Friday. "She works overtime and doesn't ask for more money. She does 12-hour days," she tells The Sun.

Click here to read the full article and to see Nadya posing with her babies in incubators.

Nadya insists to The Sun that she is not on welfare but receives around $500 of food stamps a month. "The only reason I applied for them is that I have put Elijah in a private school. He needs tutoring to stay focused.

"But I am not on welfare where you get cash aid for children. I have never got that."

But  she's open to financial help, telling the Sun: "If anyone wants to donate, it would be for resources for the kids. I can accept that.

"But I am not in it for the money. Any money is going into a trust for the kids."

Right. And some might go to more plastic surgery, perhaps a tummy tuck, keeping up her porcelain nails and maybe for new clothes for TV appearances.

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Photo: Used with permission of Life&Style magazine, whose latest issue is about Nadya Suleman's alleged obsession with Angelina Jolie.


75 Comments

autistic children do not need tutoring. And apply for to get a check each month does not assure that the child gets into a private school. Bottom line is she make a huge mistake having more kids. Like 6 was not enough. Did she forget that she had no job, student loans to pay back and 6 kids already. 3 of them have special needs. Raising a child with ADHD and also a child with autism take a lot of care and extra time. I know - I have both. I wish her well, but she is just not dealing with reality. And, if she wants people to stop judging her, then get stop giving interviews and do want a good mother should - be with all of your 14 kids! I don't believe her when she says she won't date till the last kid is 18 years of age. Another unrealistic remark of hers. I do hope she is telling the truth when she says she is done having kids.


I forgot to add a comment about her 500.00 a week nanny. How can she afford that! I work and so does my husband and we have good earning jobs. I think if I troed to hire a nanny wach week for that amount it would be straining. I really can't believe too much of what Ms Suleman says. Does she ever think about anyone but herself? Her parents must be so upset, as she does put a lot of them. This woman in unreal!


Shut up already with the Nadya Suleman bashing. Next some jerk'll peep in her medicine cabinet, and she'll be criticized for choosing "Lady's Choice" anti-perspirant instead of 'Secret" which is 9 cents less. People need to use this energy to get this mouth-foaming and indignant at the businessmen who tanked our economy. Instead this random lady who randomly and yes, no matter how pissed you are about it, quite *miraculously*, had 8 kids, gets all this venom? Please. Her 14 babies will grow up and contribute to social prgrms by the way via taxes on everything they buy, jobs they get and are taxed on, etc., and their dollars will then be supporting all the by-then aging Gen Xers. So whatever. People in Europe aren't procreating and much of Africa's in crisis, somebody's gotta make the babies. Chill the f*** out.


Her 14 children will become an additional 2.1 million people, on an already overcrowded planet, a thousand years from now, assuming normal fecundity.


Jenni is kind of an idiot, isn't she?

For the next sixteen years, those 14 "miracle" babies are a burden on taxpayers unless this psycho gets a job.


I have an autistic son... They do need extra care, but hers is three, you dont tutor a three year old! You mother a three year old, something this baby cannon cant seem to do! I don't get free private school for my son nor disability!!! I home schooled him because the public schools in California lack grealy in dealing with pervasive developmental disorders.

This sad woman is a leach who is

milking the system! She owes $50,000

for student loans and seems to have used that for IVF! She also got

$165,000 in disability for a back injury...

Come on any half wit knows that if you

have a bad back the last thing you want

is to stress it more... With a pregnacy

for instance! This woman is a naracistic

liar! Beyond selfish! Now she is a beggar... She just can't seem to get enough of anything! Not enough plastic surgery, attention, money, nor babies!

I do pray for those poor children... Mere pawns in her abusive game!


Jenni, no matter what her kids do they will never be able to pay the millions that they will ultimately cost the tax payers! Get a grip!

You a leach too?

By the way it was not business men

( you ignorant sexist) who got us into this mess.. It was democrat social programs as you like to call them!

If you really think we do not have enough people on this planet procreating I think up may want to get your head out from under and check out the online population clock!

8 babies implanted... Not a miracle!


Hey Jenni why don't you be quiet. Go to the news sites that post stories about how the businessmen tanked our economy and then post your complaints there.

The comments you made here are stupid and silly.

Do you really think a single woman with no job should have 14 kids?


Now Ms Suleman's publicists quit. I wonder why? Media reports say its Because of the death threats. I think it is more because Ms. Suleman can't be trusted to tell the truth and because the public is so upset by her.

While most people are outraged by Ms Suleman's decisions, death threats are NOT the way to go.

I thought the publicists would quit and I really believe Ms. Suleman's children will be taken away from her.


I think Jenni just wanted attention from other posters. Jenni, your comments are so stupid!

Deal with the reality of this story. What single person with no job thinks to bring 14 kids into this world!!! Did you read about Ms Suleman's story? She already had 6 kids (3 of whom have special needs).

Jenni - if you have any kids - you surely know what it takes to raise them. Time, care, money, patience, love, understanding, dedication.

One person can't possibly raise 14 kids. What did Ms Suleman think? Her parents can always be there to help! Ms. Suleman is not dealing with reality! Ms Suleman cares about no one but herself! There is something so wrong with her. I feel so bad for these kids...all 14 of them!


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