Did anyone watch the OCTOMOM footage last night???? OMG!!!!

[Anonymous]

"Not the PP, but no, I really don't see the entertainment value in this. It's heartbreaking. I derive joy - a lot of joy - from chocolate cake, fat and calories be damned. I don't derive any joy from this situation. "

No Octomom for you! Next!

[Anonymous]

I don't derive joy from a car crash either. Doesn't mean I can keep from looking as I drive by.

[Anonymous]

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/20/octomom_fox_special/

But while the reality special didn't do much to dispel any suspicion that Nadya might be crazy in the coconut, it did present a woman who genuinely appears to love her children. Not once in the two-hour special is she shown losing her patience with her children, yelling at them, or being anything but loving and affectionate. She gamely tries to keep them out of the junk food, to snuggle with them, to diffuse their tantrums. She charges through her home picking up toys and dispensing hugs, and she strikes a big blow for attachment parenting when she shuts up her mother about letting the toddler sleep in her bed instead of his crib. If we can rush to judge her ability as a parent and her value as a human, I wonder why so few of the show's critics picked up on her less sensational attributes. Sure, her kids cry and run around and bang into stuff -- would anyone really expect 14 kids, eight of whom are infants, not to? They also look pretty healthy, well-fed, and often cheerful. While not taking from Suleman an iota of her wackadoo cred, I also can't for the life of me imagine how I'd fare with a houseful of young children, a fleet of paparazzi on my lawn and a deluge of death threats coming in every day. I sincerely doubt I'd be as optimistic as she so often appears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't derive joy from a car crash either. Doesn't mean I can keep from looking as I drive by.

Shock value is one thing. Or morbid curiosity. I get that. Do you find it entertaining, though? That was the PP's question.

[Anonymous]

Sad but I think her emptiness would be expressed in attempts to summit Everest if she were a man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My favorite highlights (or lowlights):

-Octomom's toddler slapping her (among others) in the face and pointing and shouting "BITCH!" at her, after trying to kick one of the octuplets.

-The older children crying and hiding from the cameras and trying to shove them away. (so sad)

This is disgusting. People find watching something like this entertaining?

Of course! What? You don't turn your head when you see an accident?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't derive joy from a car crash either. Doesn't mean I can keep from looking as I drive by.

Shock value is one thing. Or morbid curiosity. I get that. Do you find it entertaining, though? That was the PP's question.

Morbid curiosity. No, of course not entertaining in a positive sense of the word. I could not take my eyes off of it because I needed to know what she was going to do or say next. Like watching that documentry of Michael Jackson talk about why it was ok for him to have young boys in his bed. You watch with your jaw dropped and eyes wide open and you just. cant. look. away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/20/octomom_fox_special/

But while the reality special didn't do much to dispel any suspicion that Nadya might be crazy in the coconut, it did present a woman who genuinely appears to love her children. Not once in the two-hour special is she shown losing her patience with her children, yelling at them, or being anything but loving and affectionate. She gamely tries to keep them out of the junk food, to snuggle with them, to diffuse their tantrums. She charges through her home picking up toys and dispensing hugs, and she strikes a big blow for attachment parenting when she shuts up her mother about letting the toddler sleep in her bed instead of his crib. If we can rush to judge her ability as a parent and her value as a human, I wonder why so few of the show's critics picked up on her less sensational attributes. Sure, her kids cry and run around and bang into stuff -- would anyone really expect 14 kids, eight of whom are infants, not to? They also look pretty healthy, well-fed, and often cheerful. While not taking from Suleman an iota of her wackadoo cred, I also can't for the life of me imagine how I'd fare with a houseful of young children, a fleet of paparazzi on my lawn and a deluge of death threats coming in every day. I sincerely doubt I'd be as optimistic as she so often appears.

I totally agree with this poster.
The entire time I watched the show last night - I kept thinking to myself: WOW - she has not lost her cool once - I only have 2 kids and have felt on the verge of losing it.
Also - I did notice that she is very sweet to her kids. As far as the kids acting up - I felt it was bc they were being violated by the cameramen and also attention deprived.
My son is the happiest go lucky kid but once you get a camera in front of him or someone pressuring him to act a certain way or say something, he acts up just like these kids did. I still think she is wacked for continuing to have more kids when her plate was already more than full - but I do think she has seen that she has made a mistake but is doing what she can to make it work.

[Anonymous]

^^Which is exactly why she is horrible for allowing her children to be exploited and used like that for her own vain gratificaton and greed.

[Anonymous]

And that post was not original, it was pasted from the link above and it is only part of the piece.

[Anonymous]

What about when she started applying makeup and lip gloss before she brought the first two twins home because the paps were following her. She's gross.

[Anonymous]

I heard she has an obsession with Angela Jolie and tries to look like her. But I think she kind of looks more like Janeane Garofalo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard she has an obsession with Angela Jolie and tries to look like her. But I think she kind of looks more like Janeane Garofalo.

LOL!!!!!

[Anonymous]

feels good to not have cable anymore!

[Anonymous]

It was on Fox. But I hear ya. I'm addicted to junk tv.