Octomom Natalie Suleman joins her eight kids in sports day

Octomom Natalie Suleman joins her eight kids in sports day



Octomom Natalie Suleman shared adorable snaps of her eight children taking part in a Thanksgiving sports day.



The 42-year-old mom-of-14 gathered her youngest for a group shot with her eight eight-year-olds.



'A new year, an old tradition...#TurkeyTrot5k #FitFamily #HappyThanksgiving,' she captioned it.



She also captured a video of the orange T-shirt clad youngsters competing in a sack race, filling almost the entire starting line.



'Sack Race...#WhenYourKidsTakeUpTheEntireSackRace #NeverGiveUp,' she joked in the caption.



All nine also competed in a five kilometer race, with one of the eight hitching a ride on his mom's back.



'And last but not least to finish the race...#LittleJonah #NeverGiveUp #IsJonahYourHouseAndYourTheSnail,' she wrote, with a cute video of her son clinging on.





Suleman has ten sons and four daughters in total, including octuplets Jonah, Nariyah, Josiah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Noah, Jeremiah and Makai.



She and her 14 children live in a three bedroom townhouse outside of Los Angeles.



She revealed last year she is trying to leave the 'octomom' persona behind and said she only clung to that identity for money.





She told DailyMail.com she is deeply ashamed of the 'dehumanizing and exploitative' work she did as a celebrity porn star and stripper to make ends meet.



'Everything I ever did was for money to put food on the table,' Suleman said.



'Everyone thinks I had all these donations and help but I didn't – I did everything on my own and paid everything out of my own pocket so I was Octomom for four years.



'The last two years of it were so dark. I descended down a very dark and destructive path.'



Suleman broke down in tears in an appearance on Good Morning America last November as she spoke about the moment she watched as her 10-year-old daughter put on her stripper shoes and began walking around, deciding then to never again work as a dancer or porn performer.



'I felt like throwing up,' she said.



'That was the moment when I said I would rather be homeless living in the van with all my kids, than allow any of my girls to feel that they are not worthy enough and that they have to go down that path.'



Natalie - born Nadya - initially received public backlash when she used a controversial IVF treatment to become pregnant again, despite being on welfare and already having six kids.





The doctor, Dr Michael Kamrav, who agreed to transfer 12 embryos instead of the usual standard two or three was later expelled from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.



A spokesperson said the doctor had repeatedly violated the organization's standards, though was not kicked out of the group for his work with any one patient, according to CBS News. 



Suleman now hopes that the public will change their opinion of her - and see that she is a hard-working mom committed to raising healthy and happy children.



'I want that horrible, despicable character Octomom to be an example of what not to be.



'No one hates Octomom as much as me.'