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OctoMom on the Baby Daddy: 'I'll never disclose who he is.'
Nadya Suleman tries to block the media as she leaves her home earlier this month (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Nadya Suleman tries to block the media as she leaves her home earlier this month (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
On Tuesday, when OctoMom Nadya Suleman brought home two of her eight newborns to the family's new La Habra home, she was greeted by a mob scene comprised mostly of media and their furiously snapping cameras (and some locals celebrating St. Patty's day on her lawn, it would seem). So when two more babies came home yesterday, there was far less fanfare, because "the hospital apparently kept the release of the babies quiet at Suleman’s request," explains the OC Register.
Daughters Maliyah and Nariyah joined the brood at home late yesterday afternoon, but with ten of her 14 children now at home, Suleman still found time to meet with the media and "blog" for RadarOnline.com. The hot topic: Her sperm donor.
According to Suleman, the father of all 14 of her children is a friend in his 30s, "not American," "not of European descent," who "lives here in Southern California." Last month, Suleman's ex-boyfriend, Dennis Beaudoin, went on Good Morning America to confess he believed he was the father. Beaudoin revealed the pair had dated in the 1990s, but Suleman was married at the time. He also admitted he donated sperm at her request.
But Suleman isn't confirming anything more about who the sperm donor is. "As far as I'm concerned, I'll never disclose who he is," she says in her online video diary. "I'm sorry for all this mess, and I hope he isn't scared it'll come out because it won't," she assures him. Her reason for choosing him? Suleman says she thought he would "make a good father," although he is, apparently, not involved in their everyday life. She adds that he "was mad at the doctor who implanted all those embryos, “just like everyone else."
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