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I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.
I've always engaged in open, honest communication. There's no topic that can't be discussed.
I couldn't even fathom the idea of having my own children out in the world and not know them.
I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.
When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.
I'm providing myself to my children. I'm loving them unconditionally, accepting them unconditionally.
Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.
I look back in retrospect, and I would never say I regret not one of my children. They are why I live.
I'm the kind of person who can be with a man for years and never touch him. My mind is not wired that way.
I would die for my kids. I love my kids - they're my life - and I love them more than anything I've ever known.
I need the help of my nannies, but I don't want my children being raised in something that resembles a group home.
Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?
I haven't felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day.
I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.
I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.
I have been compelled to dig deep inside and pull out strengths I never knew I possessed in order to protect my family.
I've chosen never to go on welfare. I feel as though it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my children.
I worked with sociopaths and psychopaths in a mental hospital, and in my opinion, Casey Anthony is not emotionally stable.
I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.
It's a very different bond, siblings and friends. And I just - I wanted that huge family, just to surround me, be surrounded by.
Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.
I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.
I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.
Some of the things I have done... of course I'm ashamed of in the past... was just to put food on the table and just take care of my family.
I didn't feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment. I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability.
I believe all children are - are blessings from God. And to allocate that rule to a doctor - to - to dispose of a life is uncomprehensible to me.
What it gives any human being a right to - to pick and choose which embryo - which fetus is more valuable than another. That's is not up to human beings.
My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love.
I was pretending to be a fake, a caricature, which is something I'm not, and I was doing it out of desperation and scarcity so I could provide for my family.
I devote my whole life to my family, and that's the least I could do, because there's only one me and 14 of them. I have to give all my energy and all of me to my kids.
What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.
Had I not gone through the struggles and the obstacles I had, I would not be as strong as I am today. I believe those impediments have forged, shaped, and strengthened my character.
The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet.
My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.
I do believe that children are all blessings from god. And I feel it's all positive, it's positive experience. You know, I don't like to dwell on any of the negative. And - a lot of people do.
I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.
As 'Octomom,' I was the walking dead. When I woke up and I went back to my roots, my helping profession, and my kids, we were struggling financially, but it didn't matter. I never felt so free and so happy in my life.
Four out of the five discs in my lumbar spine are ruptured, herniated fully. Think of a jelly doughnut being squashed, and it hits nerves, causing bilateral sciatica. And I have irreparable sacral damage. And I have peripheral neuropathy.
The ultimate lesson from my entire experience is you cannot prejudge human beings. You just can't. I don't care who they are, what their behavior, or what you've heard about. You have to be able to meet the person and talk with them, and even then, that's not even enough to prejudge them.