Octuplet Update 18 February

California's controversial octo-mom is taking some more knocks.

Another media rep is backing away from drama mama Nadya Suleman while the babies' "overwhelmed" grandmother says a law should prevent excessive in-vitro procedures in the future.

Agent Wes Yoder, who runs the Christian-based talent agency Ambassador Speakers in Tennessee, confirmed his company helped Suleman hammer out licensing agreements for family photographs and even explored the possibility of signing her as a client.

Ultimately, "Ambassador has not executed a representation agreement, nor do we intend to do so," he said in a statement. "We urge the local churches, people of compassion and the pro-life community to participate in a thoughtful plan to assist the Suleman children."

Suleman's original publicity firm Killeen Furtney Group stepped down Saturday after receiving highly detailed death threats.

The octuplets' grandmother, meanwhile, appeared again on CBS' "The Early Show" Tuesday and said lawmakers should reconsider their hands-off approach to the number of embryos fertility doctors can implant.

"Maybe there should be a law to forbid a doctor to do this," Angela Suleman, a retired school teacher, told CBS.

Angela Suleman called her 33-year-old daughter "obsessive compulsive" but not mentally ill.


"She didn't seem sick," the granny said. "She was brilliant in her studies, but as far as everyday life is concerned, she is just not really thinking things through sometimes."

She said Nadya's first six children - ages 2 to 7 - did not want the new babies.

"They're pretty smart and maybe they thought they would not get the attention that they really deserve," she said.

The grandmother filed for bankruptcy and lost a house last year, so the whole clan currently lives in her "crowded" three bedroom house on a cul-de-sac in Whittier, Calif. She said her entire retirement check goes to the family every month.

Nadya Suleman told paparazzi she has no plans to star in a reality show to raise money.

"I think that's exploitation of my kids," Suleman told a photographer for TMZ.com
She has refused to name the sperm donor she claims fathered all fourteen kids and vowed not to accept welfare.

The Los Angeles Times reported she accepts $490 a month in food stamps and some federal assistance for her 3-year-old autistic son, a 7-year-old son with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and a 2-year-old with speech difficulty.

She also denied any fascination with Angelina Jolie, batting aside rumors she's had plastic surgery to look more like the glamorous celebrity mom.

"I'm actually not a fan of anybody, drives me nuts," she told TMZ. "I don't put people on pedestals. I don't like celebrities," she told TMZ.

She said the octuplets are doing "shockingly well."

Did they really think that a lying, single, welfare mom would be a good sell to God-fearing Americans? She's not going to do a tv show. Translation nobody wants to touch that family with a ten foot poll. She isn't going to accept welfare. She doesn't even make enough to cover the cost of housing and feeding herself and 14 kids. She will be parading to the highest media bidder every chance she gets. They will be in the tabloids when they all get home, when they start walking, on birthdays, and on every other milestone. How else is she going to support all these kids.

Grandma Suleman needs to go to court and get custody of the six oldest. The people of California are going to end up supporting them anyway. So the welfare payments might as well go to Angela, instead of to Nadya . Nadya will just waste it on plastic surgery. We all know that no fertility doctor would have anything to do with her crazy butt now, even if she wanted more IVF.

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