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It was bound to happen: Whittier's "Octo Mom" Nadya Suleman has her own website.

Nadya Suleman, better known these days as "Octo Mom" has $50k in student loan debt, is unemployed, and now has 14 kids under the age of 8. One question that keeps coming up in the public and the press is how this 33-year-old single mom from Whittier plans on paying for her newborn octuplets and their six older siblings when she's got no income of her own and has driven her own parents into bankruptcy.

During her Today Show interview aired this morning, Nadya Suleman revealed that she used Dr. Michael Kamrava's West Coast IVF Clinic for all of her pregnancies. The Beverly Hills clinic, whose website boasts they are "leading innovators" in "bringing together high technology, low cost, and effective treatment of infertility," offers multiple financing options for women seeking help in having babies. Kamrava's bio indicates he has been working in the field of infertility for over 25 years. Last week, the Medical Board of California said they were investigating the then-unnamed doctor who treated Suleman to see if the standard of care was violated; it is not common practice to implant 6 embryos in a woman as young as the 33-year-old Suleman.

Although Whittier's Nadya Suleman had her sights set on Oprah, the woman dubbed "Octo-Mom" by the media seems pretty content spilling her secrets to the Today Show. She gave her first interview to NBC's Anny Curry, which was broadcast today, and defended her choice to bear 14 children via in vitro fertilization, including the octuplets born in Bellflower two weeks ago.

Yesterday, 33-year-old unemployed graduate student Nadya Suleman broke her silence and sat down for an interview with the Today Show about her choice to have 14 children via in vitro fertilization, including the octuplets born to her on January 26th in Bellflower. While the interview raised the issue of her life-long desire to be a mother to many children, as well as her struggle with depression, it still could not address some of the very pressing issues of medical ethics raised in the aftermath of her octuplets' birth.

America is the land of opportunity, and here in Los Angeles County we have one woman who is ready to take any she can get. Nadya Suleman, the 33-year-old single mother of 14--including those headline-making octuplets born a week ago--has a proposition for the world: Make her a star...and pay for her children.

After giving birth to octuplets last week at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, Angelenos, and people all over the country, wanted to know more about the babies' parents. 33-year-old Nadya Suleman tried to keep her identity a secret, but when it was revealed that the woman had six other children already, controversy began to swirl around the remarkable event.