Octuplet mom confident she can raise kids

The California mother of newborn octuplets says she's confident she'll be able to provide for all 14 of her children as an unemployed single mother.

I'm not receiving help from the government, Nadya Suleman, 33, of Whittier, Calif., told NBC's The Today Show.I'm not trying to expect anything from anybody. (I) just wanted to do it on my own. Any resources that someone would really, really want to help us, I will accept, I would embrace.

Suleman, giving her first interview since their Jan. 26 birth at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, Calif., told Today that she is single by choice and that donated sperm from the same man produced all 14 of her children.

I will feed them. I will do the best I possibly can, she told NBC's Ann Curry. And in my own way, in my own faith, I do believe wholeheartedly that God will provide in his own way.

Suleman denied allegations that she had the octuplets in order to make money from her story and stated her overwhelming desire to have a big family came from loneliness she felt growing up as an only child.

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