Evidently, all it takes for a person to feel more than seething resentment toward OctoMom Nadya Suleman is to hear Kate Gosselin revealing HER seething resentment toward OctoMom on the Dr. Phil Show. It seems that someone is, indeed, more irritating to the soul than an unemployed mother of six setting out to have more kids. And that person is Kate Gosselin.
It is this woman--and her inexplicable hair--that make OctoMom seem rational.
Kate has been all over the media lately because of her husband’s alleged affair, for child services looking into their family situation, for the pictures of her frolicking on the beach with her children, but not Jon. What she never says—but what we infer—is that the only reason she hasn’t thrown her wedding ring in her husband’s face is because without him, there is no television show. Kate tells Dr. Phil that, before she and soon-to-be-ex-husband Jon got their own reality show, they had over 50 people a week helping them and they could barely manage. At the time, they had two 3-year olds and came home with 6 more. She goes on to say that there’s no way that Nadya Suleman, without a supportive husband and people to help her, can possibly manage to raise happy, healthy children, considering that she had 6 to begin with and came home with 8 more. Kate is also careful to mention on national television that we are all welcome to read about her own trials and tribulations in motherhood in her new book, on sale now.
In the video posted on YouTube, Suleman is watching the broadcast of Gosselin on Dr. Phil. She says that Gosselin “sounds like her mother”, and that she is making far too big a deal of it. Suleman does a lot of eye-rolling and says that the only word that keeps coming into her head is “histrionic”. Perhaps Gosselin’s reaction is histrionic. What is most impressive is that the word “histrionic” even exists in Suleman’s head. Someone has been looking at her “Learn A New Word A Day” calendar!
If Suleman has been suffering under the pressure of having 14 children, she’s certainly not showing it. She’s been seen out shopping, buying a new house while her mother’s is in foreclosure, getting her lips done (just admit it already). She criticizes Gosselin for “cheating” by having a tummy tuck and breast implants when Suleman herself is, apparently, called ‘the rubber band’ by her friends because her body bounces right back into shape after giving birth. And she’s done a LOT of that. It is amazing, after how huge Suleman’s belly got with 8 babies in there, that she isn’t tucking her belly skin into her socks.
Job options for the OctoMom are limited, however. Working a minimum wage job wouldn’t support her 14 children, and buying a $300,000 house might make the State of California question your need for public assistance. Well, maybe. We’ll let the Governator answer questions about that. But the same good news that pulled Jon and Kate Gosselin out of their despair just came to the Suleman home: Octo’s got herself a reality show. For real. Suleman’s attorney Jeff Czech confirmed to Usmagazine.com that she signed a deal last Thursday to star in her very own series. And since she is unmarried, it is unlikely to cause the same family discord that caused Jon’s stepping out on Kate.
[As an aside, it should be noted that the media attention that the alleged affairs and marital woes drew was actually great for the Gosselin Clan. When their show began its new season, it had its highest ratings ever.]
Certainly, there WILL be a media firestorm. There already is. According to the deal, Suleman and the producers of the still-to-be-named show will film several landmark events in the children’s lives, documentary-style. They are calling it a “quasi-reality TV series”, which—let’s be honest—they all are. The production company, Eyeworks, is prepared to allow Suleman to use a camera and film some of the show herself. Czech was sure to say that, “Her television program will not be like the “Jon and Kate Plus 8” show. [Nadya] is looking forward to providing her side of the story.” While the show has no network takers yet, there is interest in it overseas. But honestly, if Jon and Kate make for interesting viewing to 10 million people, then OctoMom ought to draw an enormous viewership herself. I mean, she’s famous without a show. Jon and Kate were nobodies until someone put them on tv.
So now the Kate/Nadya smackdown can go national. Who will get higher ratings? Who will offer the most ‘honest’ look into the lives of people with WAY too many kids?
Let’s just all be grateful that Nadya took the “high road” (if you can call reality tv the ‘high road’) and chose not to take up Vivid Entertainment’s offer to have her star in her own porn video.