‘Octomom’ Nadya Suleman reflects on being ‘interrogated’ by Ann Curry in post-birth interview

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“Octomom” after birthing the first surviving octuplets in 2009, reflected on an interview she did with Ann Curry, 68, shortly after the arrival of her eight babies.“[The hospital] let me pick what interviewer, so I opted [for] a news anchor and I didn’t know who she was.

I never watched anything she did,” Suleman said on Monday’s episode of Lifetime’s “Confessions of Octomom.” “So, I picked Ann Curry.

She was one of the only women. I thought I’d feel comfortable talking to a woman.”The NBC News journalist’s interview with Suleman aired on “Today” and “Dateline” in 2009.“I felt horrible about myself,” she recalled. “I gained 150 pounds during the whole pregnancy, so at that point, I was still about 100 pounds heavier than normal … I had no idea what she was going to ask me.

I had never done an interview before.”At the time, Curry asked Suleman, who was already a mom to six kids before welcoming her octuplets, to respond to the rhetoric from the public that she was “irresponsible and selfish” for having so many children.“I was foggy in my head.