“Octomom” Nadya Suleman shocked many when she released a photograph of herself 30 weeks pregnant with octuplets. But just three years later, Suleman has stripped down and posed almost nude to show that she is back to the trim figure she had before opting for IVF.
Suleman posed in just a pair of flesh-toned underwear for Closer magazine, on sale this week in the UK, to show off her size eight figure. Suleman says that while pregnant, she reached 266 pounds. Now she is back to 140.
“I just pinged back into shape like a rubber band after the kids – I don’t know how I did it,” Suleman tells the magazine. “I eat like a horse, don’t count calories and have never owned a set of scales. I gained an entire human when I was pregnant with the octuplets.”
Although Suleman had a cesarean section, after which new moms are told not to exercise for two to six weeks, Suleman started hitting the gym while a friend watched her 14 children. Suleman had six children prior to the octuplets.
“I’d sneak off at 11 p.m., but it wasn’t to get skinny, just to get stronger,” she says. “Now, I run 40 miles a week, whenever my mom or a friend will babysit, but it’s still just for stress relief.”
While others recoiled at the image of her pregnant stomach, Suleman says that she found the image beautiful.
“I didn’t really mind how I looked when I was pregnant. It happened gradually, so I got used to it. It’s all part of being a mom, it’s natural,” she said. “I got stretch marks on my stomach and a lot of veins came out. But it didn’t matter to me. Even now, I’m proud of my stretch marks.”
Suleman says that she likes being a single mom and isn’t at all looking to date.
“I get way too much male attention, but I won’t date until the octuplets are 18 – I live for them now,” she swears. “I know a lot of women like male attention, but I’ll go out with no make-up on and wear tracksuits, a wig and even a fake pregnancy stomach to put them off.”