‘Octomom’ Natalie Suleman is now a grandmother too.
The 49-year-old mother of 14 thanked one of her sons for expanding the family Sunday by posting a photo of a baby’s foot online.
“Thank you my son and my lovely daughter in law for giving us this beautiful gift! ” she wrote on Instagram. “We are so blessed that she is a new addition to our family! Baby girl you are so very loved and we can’t wait to watch you grow!!”
Suleman earlier congratulated her son Joshua — one of her 10 boys — on his impending fatherhood.
“I am so proud of the man you are becoming,” she wrote to him last month on Instagram. “You are smart, funny, hard working, loyal, humble, and now a devoted husband and soon to be father.”
That note was addressed to “my third born ‘baby‘” on his 21st birthday. Suleman’s Instagram post announcing her granddaughter’s birth indicated the baby was born Aug. 30.
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‘Octomom’ Nadya Suleman leaves Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2014. (AP)
Suleman stepped away from the public eye in 2014 after pleading no content for welfare fraud. She also struggled with a Xanax addiction she blamed on “anxiety, exhaustion, and stress,” according to ABC News.
Suleman told People in 2016 she didn’t really want to be famous for her large family, but was in “survival mode” and had a lot of mouths to feed.
She was already a mother of six when she gave birth to eight more babies in January 2009. Suleman believed to be the first woman to successfully birth octuplets. In vitro fertilization contributed to the expansion of her family.
The newly minted grandma told In Touch Weekly in 2019 that parenthood isn’t without its challenges.
“The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry,” she confessed. “Obviously I love them — but I absolutely wish I had not had them.”
