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By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal popular culture writer
Published on Saturday, Feb 07, 2009
Why Not One Child? Two? Two and a Puppy? Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman's campaign to use 14 children as a rocket to stardom now includes an interview with NBC that it ''was always a dream of mine to have a large family, a huge family, and I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.''
Part of the interview aired Friday on Today. More will air Monday on Today and Tuesday on Dateline. NBC says it did not pay for the interview, aside of course from giving Suleman still more free publicity and declaring on its Web site that she was ''calm, poised and articulate in the glare of the media spotlight.'' Because that sounds so much nicer than ''delusional.''
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More Octu-Mom. But, on the network's site, NBC chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman hardly gave Suleman her blessing.
''They're going to watch these kids very carefully for eating problems, growing [problems], and then seizures, jaundice, heart problems, lung problems, blindness, developmental delays — there's a laundry list of things,'' Snyderman said. ''Long term, because some of these children will be physically or mentally challenged, there's a looming price tag out here. The hospital bill alone will run $1.5 to $3 million. Forget about getting to college; just to get through special-needs stuff — it's going to have to come from somewhere, either the taxpayers of California or her family or her church or the hospital. But she can't do it alone.''
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And A Little More Octu-Mom. According to NBC, Suleman said she was hoping for one more child after having six. So she had six embryos implanted, two of which yielded twins.
With all those children and bills to pay, Suleman probably has one course: reality show. Heck, Akron's Angie Everhart is reportedly pregnant with one child, and she's shopping a TV project around that.
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Wait a Minute! What Was That Angie Item? The actress, 39, told E!'s Marc Malkin recently that she is 14 weeks' pregnant with her first child.
The dad is not Joe Pesci, to whom Everhart was engaged last year, but she's not saying who it is. ''The dad is very nice and he's very excited about it, but we are not a couple,'' Everhart said. ''It's nobody you know.''
And she is trying to make a TV show about her pregnancy. ''I decided to do a show about me being a single, strong, healthy and good-spirited woman who is having a baby on her own,'' she told Malkin. ''I want to show the positive aspects of women who do it on their own.''
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Telling All. Kristin Davis — the madam, not the actress — is peddling a book about her work, including her dealings with disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
You can find out more about the book at http://www.manhattanmadam.com, buy it in print or electronic form, or satisfy your urge for gossip with these highlights from the New York Daily News:
''The busty, bottle-blond bombshell,'' as the Daily News alliteratively described her, says Spitzer was a weekly client from 2004 to 2006, ''when she cut him off because he liked it too rough.''
He also didn't want to use a condom and got ''pushy and whiny'' when he became obsessed with one woman.
The book talks about some other clients but, says the News, ''aside from Spitzer, the book is short on names and reads like one long blind item from the gossip pages.''
And now you've saved 15 bucks.
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal and in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com. Part of this column appeared in the blog. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
Why Not One Child? Two? Two and a Puppy? Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman's campaign to use 14 children as a rocket to stardom now includes an interview with NBC that it ''was always a dream of mine to have a large family, a huge family, and I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.''
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