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

 

Media reports say Nadya Suleman was married in 1996 but ended her marriage to Marcos Gutierrez last year. The Associated Press has obtained a divorce review which shows the fact that Gutierrez is the father of a boy named Samuel, but the mother is... not Nadya, who 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, who was not her daughter’s ex-husband.

 

And as if that wasn’t strange enough, Nadya Suleman also has great financial difficulties.

At the moment she lives with her divorced parents and other six children in a three-bedroom house in Whittier, a suburb of Los Angeles.

 

On “Good Morning America” Joann Killeen, her spokeswoman, 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.

 

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