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In Touch reports that Octomom Nadya Suleman was working out a deal for a reality show that would focus on her life as a single mom and search for love. This goes completely against the fact that Suleman said she wouldn’t do a reality show and pledged to remain celibate until her kids grew up. Obviously we can not trust everything she says giving that  Suleman’s word is worth donkey doo as she’s also said that she’s never had plastic surgery and that she didn’t use welfare.

Another news outlet confirmed with In Touch’s editor that Suleman told them she had reality show in the works, and they called the concept “Jon and Kate Plus 8? meets “The Bachelor.” They also confirmed that Suleman insisted that the show not use the term “Octomom” to refer to her.

Aggressive lawyer Gloria Allred isn’t hesitating to condemn Suleman for the planned reality show. Allred worked with the Angels in Waiting agency to broker a failed deal to provide free nursing care for the octuplets. Suleman ultimately rejected their help and claimed that they were judging and monitoring her. It seems like Suleman was right as Allred then talked smack about Suleman to the media, claiming that she used her babies as props and was more concerned about fame than her children’s well being. The Angels in Waiting agency also filed three reports with Child Protective Services on Suleman that focused on things like lax home security and Sulemam supposedly letting a nanny with tuberculosis around the babies.

Allred is now saying that this reality show is of course more evidence of what a terrible mom Suleman is:

Speaking exclusively to OK!, Gloria said that, when Angels in Waiting USA – the nursing organization she’d worked with to help Suleman – had visited the Octomom’s house, “it appeared to the nurses and myself that Nadya treated her babies as props and as part of a television set for those who were filming her.”

According to Gloria, there are two very different Octomoms. “When the cameras were not rolling she was absent from the babies and the nurses for significant blocks of time and never volunteered to feed the babies herself,” recalls the outspoken lawyer.

“She also asked AIW many times if they would agree that she could have a reality show. AIW is on the record telling her that they would not allow it because of the risk of infection from the presence of dirty cameras, audio equipment and electrical cords – and the concern for the emotional well-being of all of her children.

“Nadya now appears to be putting her money-making scheme of a reality show before, in my opinion, the best interests of her children. If she goes ahead with it she needs to spend less time looking for a man and more time mothering her 14 children.”

Not surprisingly, Gloria believes that Nadya’s motives are off the mark. “If she is looking for men, she is looking for love in all the wrong places. Rather than doing a reality show, she needs to deal with the reality that she has 14 children (a number with special needs) who need her to be there with them to love them and be a real mother to them. That is the reality that she needs to face.

“Her children need a mother who will protect them and their privacy, not a mother who appears ready to auction off their privacy to the highest bidder.”

[From OK! Magazine]

I don’t think Suleman is even an adequate mom but when someone like Gloria Allred talks so much smack about her it just makes me want to defend her. Suleman is a narcissistic woman who believes that things should be handed to her in life, including children. She’s arranging for their care though. It’s not up to us to say that she should be with them constantly or be super concerned at every moment if she has the means to hire help and they are well looked after.

The issues with the security and health of the babies need to be resolved, but condemning Suleman for that isn’t going to help her. If Allred wasn’t so antagonistic, she may have been able to convince Suleman to hire security and be more careful about the babies’ health. Octomom was willing to work with Angels in Waiting but they didn’t seem willing to stop judging her.

If she goes through with this reality show you can bet there will be a lot more people passing judgment on her. It sounds like a bad idea, but it’s not like she’s made the best decisions in the past or she wouldn’t be a single unemployed mom with 14 kids all conceived by invitro. She wants cash and fame and she’ll get it. Maybe someone else can help her be a more present mom by working with her instead of against her. It’s not like she doesn’t love her kids, she just also loves fame and cash.

Story provided by Celebitchy.com and Photo provided by Mavrixonline.com