When Nadya Suleman successfully gave birth to octuplets a week ago, everybody considered the event a miracle, since it is only the second time in U.S. history that octuplets have survived. The 33-year-old California woman was praised by the doctors who attended the births for her strength and courage in the delivery room.

 

As the news spread rapidly all around the world, Suleman became the target of both fascination and criticism.

 

On “Good Morning America” Joann Killeen described her as a wonderful, smart, well-educated woman with a great sense of humor. Apparently, Nadya has a 2006 degree in child and adolescent development from California State University at Fullerton, and she is also studying for a master's degree in counseling, according to a college official who revealed this information for ABC News.

 

On the other hand, she is thought to be a woman with an irrational, seemingly pathological, need to conceive. Furthermore, she seems to have severe lapses of judgment in a branch of medicine that is growing more successful and more popular.

 

Nadya Suleman is not married and apparently she has great financial difficulties. At the moment she lives with her divorced parents in a three-bedroom house in Whittier, a suburb of Los Angeles. And as if things weren’t hard enough for her, she already has other six children, all under the age of 8, including 2-year-old twins. Angela Suleman, Nadya’s mother, said that all 14 children were conceived through in vitro fertilization with sperm from a single donor.

 

Despite the overwhelming number of children and her family's financial difficulties, Nadya is will "look at all the opportunities and choices she has to provide best financial future for her children."