Octomom Natalie ‘Nadya’ Suleman had ‘no idea’ that her daughter found her biological father on Facebook and contacted him.
The 49-year-old’s daughter Amerah, 22, made the revelation on the new episode of Confessions of Octomom, airing on Lifetime.
Suleman previously shared her lifelong plan to raise a large family solo, using two sperm donors — one that she knew and another anonymous one from a sperm bank — to conceive her 14 children.
Her octuplets are Noah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, Josiah, Makai, Maliyah and Nariyah are now all 16. Suleman’s older children are Amerah, Elijah, 23, Joshua, 21, Aidan, 19, and twins Caleb and Calyssa, 16.
In the latest episode, her kids weighed in on growing up with a single mother, and their desire to know who their father is.
‘I actually found him on Facebook when I was like 12,’ Amerah shared. ‘I did reach out to him. My mom had no idea that I did that. And then my biological father reached out to my mom’s best friend, which then reached out to my mom.’
Octomom Natalie ‘Nadya’ Suleman, 49, had ‘no idea’ that her daughter Amerah, 22, found her biological father on Facebook and contacted him
‘I actually found him on Facebook when I was like 12,’ Amerah shared on the new episode of Confessions of Octomom, airing on Lifetime. ‘I did reach out to him. My mom had no idea that I did that. And then my biological father reached out to my mom’s best friend, which then reached out to my mom’
‘And my mom spoke to me, and she was like, if you want to know him when you’re 18, go for it. Reach out. And she said, “He’s more than happy to get to know you, just whenever you’re ready.”‘
‘But after then, I never felt the need to,’ she added.
‘I don’t have the need to get to know him, not because — I just don’t know him. He’s a stranger. I understood why he didn’t want to be in our lives after the eight came and that’s it. But I know he was a good friend to my mom.’
The ‘eight’ Amerah referenced were the world’s first surviving octuplets, born to Suleman in 2009.
She had previously conceived six children, including two sets of twins, using a friend’s sperm.
While Amerah was curious about her father, not all her siblings felt the same.
‘I was personally never interested in who my biological father was,’ her brother Joshua shared.
‘She explained to me that it was, or he was, a friend of hers. A donor. That’s all I needed to know.’
She said Suleman told her: ‘If you want to know him when you’re 18, go for it. Reach out’ adding, ‘He’s more than happy to get to know you, just whenever you’re ready’
However, Amerah shared that after reaching out she ‘never felt the need to’ do it again. ‘I don’t have the need to get to know him, not because — I just don’t know him. He’s a stranger’
Suleman previously shared her lifelong plan to raise a large family solo, using two sperm donors — one that she knew and another anonymous one from a sperm bank — to conceive her 14 children
Her octuplets are Noah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, Josiah, Makai, Maliyah and Nariyah are now all 16. Suleman’s older children are Amerah, Elijah, 23, Joshua, 21, Aidan, 19, and twins Caleb and Calyssa, 16
Jonah shared: ‘When I was like six or seven, I would see people with dads and stuff, and I asked my mom if we have a dad, and then she said that we didn’t. She had a donor, and so she had it herself.’
Maliyah added, ‘He’s just a frozen donor that we don’t know at all.’
When questioned about the absence of a father figure, octuplet Nariyah shared: ‘We’ve never really needed like a father figure, because we have mom and we have God.’
‘So we’ve never really wanted that and I just believe I don’t really need any other parent figure in my life because mom is more than enough for that.’
Meanwhile Suleman’s oldest son Elijah declined to talk about the subject.
Already a mother of six via IVF treatment, Suleman made headlines when she gave birth to octuplets on January 26, 2009.
She became pregnant with the world’s first surviving octuplets when Beverly Hills fertility doctor Dr Michael Kamrava controversially implanted 12 embryos instead of the recommended two.
Nadya later sued the hospital she gave birth in for exposing her to the media: ‘They breached HIPAA. I never wanted fame.’
Suleman was already a mother-of-six via IVF treatment when she decided to have one more child, but Beverly Hills fertility doctor Dr. Michael Kamrava controversially implanted 12 embryos instead of the recommended two (pictured in 2009)
Suleman claimed she had several opportunities to have a reality TV show over the years, but profusely declined for her children’s sake, citing her college degree in child and adolescent development
The therapist went into hiding for the last 13 years, but she’s now sharing her story in the six-episode docuseries Confessions of Octomom
On August 30, Suleman became a grandmother when her son Joshua and her ‘lovely daughter in law’ welcomed their ‘beautiful’ daughter
Suleman was unemployed and on government aid at the time and received massive backlash, which eventually led to a suicide attempt after working as a stripper, adult film actress, and boxer to make ends meet.
The therapist went into hiding for the last 13 years, but she’s now sharing her story in the six-episode docuseries Confessions of Octomom.
‘My family and I are taking our life back,’ Nadya noted.
The docuseries promises to finally unveil the identity of the sperm donor for all 14 of Suleman’s children, who’s rumored to be David Solomon.
The Orange County native also scored her very own biopic I Was Octomom starring Kristen Lee Gutoskie and directed by Brianne Nord-Stewart, which premiered last Saturday on Lifetime.
On August 30, Suleman became a grandmother when her son Joshua and her ‘lovely daughter in law’ welcomed their ‘beautiful’ daughter.
