Mother of octuplets, Nadya Suleman, was interviewed by Ann Curry on Tuesday's Dateline on NBC.

Watching last night’s Dateline was so irritating; I don’t even know where to start. With that said, I will just put it out there: Nadya Suleman has a serious problem telling the truth. Her story makes no sense. It doesn’t add up. She hides behind deception and controversy.

She is self-indulgent and selfish, and I feel that those children are in a heap of trouble if this is their caretaker. I also blame Suleman’s parents for being enablers and allowing it to get this far. The ones who will pay dearly are those children.

Oh, and for all the supporters of “right to life,” don’t let her con you. Early on in the interview, Ann Curry asks her why she had six embryos implanted. Quickly she uses the word “controversy” and goes on to explain that those embryos were her children and that destroying them is not an option so she asked that they all be implanted.

Good move Suleman. It was a nice attempt to garner sympathy but a bit transparent. However, if you follow her story about the other pregnancies and the IVF treatments, the numbers don’t add up. Based on her interview, she had to go back to the sperm donor after each pregnancy and the IVF treatments were successful after each attempt. This implies that after each IVF treatment there were no leftover embryos. However, for this last pregnancy she went back to the donor and then had two failed IVF attempts until the third worked. So miraculously, this third IVF treatment was the only one to yield enough embryos for three IVF attempts? It just doesn’t add up. This was not about right to life. Her story and logic are immensely flawed.

Suleman is clearly delusional. She even claims she has not had her lips done though pictures clearly show her lips have grown at least four times their original size. Somehow, she paid for the plastic surgery.

NBC even had to re-interview her to clear up some of the things she said, Such as that she doesn’t receive any welfare or taxpayer money. She later said she has been receiving $490 in food stamps for the last 18 months but that it is only temporary. Really? Temporary? She needed the money when she only had six kids but now with 14 she says it is temporary? So she was on food stamps before she spent money on another IVF attempt. So she has $10,000 to spend on IVF but can’t buy her kids food?

Maybe plastic surgeons are now accepting food stamps as payment.

Of Suleman’s six older children, she accepts disability payments for three. She claims that payments for two of the three are also “temporary.” If this woman has learned anything in grad school, it is how to work the system. Something tells me she is counting on donations and payments for her story or that those checks will become permanent.

But Suleman hasn’t only milked the government; she also took advantage of our legal system. The disability checks she had been receiving prior to the octuplet pregnancy were a result of a workplace injury. Suleman states that while working at a psychiatric facility, a riot broke out and a piece of furniture fell on her. Nothing was broken but she said she had to deal with lower back pain. She began accepting disability checks.

The funny thing is, her back pain was so bad she needed disability checks but it didn’t prevent her from having six kids in five years or continuing to go to school during pregnancies. Now, I have always been healthy and I like to exercise, but in my experience, when you are pregnant, there are parts of your body that hurt that you hadn’t even considered. Even people who have good pregnancies can’t deny being uncomfortable. Yet, Suleman had a preexisting condition and kept popping out babies. She accepted disability payments because, presumably, her injury made it impossible to work.

I should also mention that NBC didn’t pay Suleman or make any deals with her, but I wish they had. I don’t believe she should receive donations or taxpayer money. If she wants to sell her story, it is hers to sell, and she has to deal with the consequences, but don’t come to me with your hand out. If she has to deal with probing questions, judgment and lack of privacy, then that should be the price.

She is also deluded into thinking that once she gets her graduate degree as a counselor that the heavens will part and money will rain down like manna. How much money does she plan to make as a counselor? Will it be enough to pay back her growing debt that now stands at $50,000 and to sustain 14 children?

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Throughout different parts of this interview it is clear that Suleman wanted children the way my daughters want Pet Shop toys. She really didn’t care who or what she had to use to get there. Throughout the interview it also seems clear that Curry thinks she is a bit “off.” Some of Curry’s looks are so telling I almost burst out laughing. She tries to remain objective but every now and then she allows the tiniest break in her façade.

Suleman goes on to explain during the interview why she wanted so many children. She says she was an only child who grew up in a dysfunctional home and she missed that bond with a sibling. Okay, I can see that. I can see the need to have your children have siblings but here is the thing: None of this is about the kids. It is about her. Her kids already had siblings.

As a mother, one of your greatest fears becomes leaving your children. I worried with all of my pregnancies about the health of the baby. But with the third, I also worried about my health. I started fearing blood clots, hemorrhaging, infection, etc. Any pregnancy can be risky. I was scared that if something happen to me I would leave my children without a mother.

It seems that Suleman never had such a thought. This pregnancy was also dangerous for her and that if anything had happened, she would have taken away the only mother those kids have ever known.

During the interview, Suleman says, “I am providing for my children. Everything I do is for them. I’ll stop my life for them and be present with them. And hold them. And be with them.”

But she hasn’t stopped her life to be with them. She has continued to go to school and continued to have babies. That is her life. I would ask her, who is bringing home money, bathing them, feeding them, helping them with homework, combing their hair, washing their clothes while you are “holding” them. They aren’t dolls. They need affection but there are also many practical things to attend to that can be time consuming with so many children.

I should mention that as I type this, my year-old daughter is bringing me a doll and my five and three-year olds were just dropped off at school. It, too, was a miracle I had kids. I had to have surgery to conceive and began the IVF protocol when I got pregnant the good old fashion way. With three small children of my own, each born two years apart, I can tell you that there is no more strenuous and exhausting work than running after your kids.

Perhaps I should hurl myself down the aisle at Wal-mart so I can afford my dream of going to culinary school. Nadya Suleman makes it look so easy.

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