Nadya Suleman

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

I left 'Octomom.' I went back to my life as a counselor.

Four out of the five discs in my lumbar spine are ruptured, herniated fully. Think of a jelly doughnut being squashed, and it hits nerves, causing bilateral sciatica. And I have irreparable sacral damage. And I have peripheral neuropathy.

I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.

I wanted to be a mom. That's all I ever wanted in my life.

I only had one boyfriend my whole life, and I never loved him.

Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.

I've been hiding from the real world all my life.

I screwed up my life. I screwed up my kids' lives.

Everything a parent chooses to do in their life will forever haunt their kids.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

I devote my whole life to my family, and that's the least I could do, because there's only one me and 14 of them. I have to give all my energy and all of me to my kids.