Feb 25, 2009 9:11 pm US/Pacific
Octuplets Mother Offered $1M Porn Contract
LOS ANGELES (CBS 5 / AP) ―
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Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave birth to octuplets, is already the mother of six other children.
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The Southern California mother of octuplets has been offered $1 million to star in a hardcore pornography video.
Vivid Entertainment spokeswoman Jackie Martin said Wednesday the offer also promises a year of health insurance for Nadya Suleman and her 14 children.
Suleman gave birth to octuplets at a Bellflower hospital on Jan. 26, and already had six other children. She relies on food stamps and disability income to provide for them.
The three-bedroom home in Whittier that the unemployed single-mother lives in is also facing foreclosure and could be sold at auction beginning May 5 because Suleman's mother is $23,225 behind in her mortgage payments, property records show.
Vivid said their offer was sent Tuesday via overnight mail to Suleman's home address and there had been no immediate response.
The offer letter said Suleman's video would be distributed under the Vivid-Celeb imprint, which has released videos starring Pamela Anderson and Kim Kardashian.
Meantime, Suleman apparently has bigger worries than taking care of her 14 children. Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw said she may have to prove she can handle the load, or else hospital officials might withhold her newborn octuplets.
McGraw said the 33-year-old unemployed mother called him Tuesday, distraught that Kaiser Permanente officials told her they were concerned about the babies living at her home.
"What she is telling me is that unless and until she has a better living arrangement, that they are not likely to release the children to her," McGraw told the Los Angeles Times.
Suleman has taped two episodes of McGraw's "Dr. Phil" show. The first one aired on Wednesday.
Kaiser officials declined to comment on Suleman's case.
"Any conversations that the mother may or may not have had on this topic are private and we could not discuss them," said Kaiser spokesman Jim Anderson.
Social workers evaluate parents of very premature babies to determine what services the children and family may be entitled to, said Vicky Bermudez, a neonatal intensive care unit nurse for Kaiser.
The octuplets were born nine weeks premature.
"If they feel there's a risk to a baby, they contact Child Protective Services and Child Protective Services would make a determination as to whether or not there's a reason for concern," Bermudez said.
Suleman has not responded to repeated interview requests from The Associated Press and other media outlets recently. Her phone has been disconnected and she no longer has a publicist.
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