Octuplets Describe What It’s Been Like Rising Up With out a Father (Unique)

Within the new Lifetime docuseries Confessions of Octomom, the small print of the paternity of Natalie “Nadya” Suleman’s 14 children, together with her history-making octuplets, who have been conceived by way of IVF with the sperm of an nameless donor, are set to be revealed.

That stated, the now 16-year-old octuplets inform PEOPLE the subject of their father was by no means an important one of their family. “I do not assume we actually considered that,” says Maliyah. Provides her brother Jeremiah, “Mother crammed in as the daddy function, after which after that Elijah,” he says of his older brother. Maliyah agrees, “I believe Elijah crammed that function. As we grew up.”

In case you ask Nariyah, who her siblings name the chief of the pack, “I personally assume that our mother, she takes over the daddy function and the mom function and he or she is totally able to doing that,” she says. “She’s been an incredible mom and father determine for our entire lives.”

Nonetheless, Suleman’s youngest kids have had questions through the years. “I am sincere, I am very clear with everybody,” she says. “I advised them that they arrive from an nameless frozen donor and I purchased one, it was one dad. And I noticed them truly, I noticed the creation within the lab within the petri dish. After which they joke, “Oh, so we’re take a look at tube infants?” I am like, “Yeah, however you are greater than that.” However we joke about it.”

She provides, “We delve into plenty of the small print of the donors and the way they really feel and their experiences within the present.”

Relating to her older kids, additionally conceived by way of IVF utilizing the sperm of Suleman’s platonic pal, they’ve lengthy recognized who their donor is.

“I used to be by no means hiding that,” she says. “They will decide if they need sooner or later or now or every time they wish to to satisfy him. My oldest sons have completely no curiosity as a result of they are saying it might be like assembly a stranger. They might change their thoughts in 10 years.”

Even via media scrutiny, she’s at all times stored his id a secret from the world. “25 years in the past or extra, after I advised the donor that I’ll preserve him personal, I did not must say it twice. I stated it as soon as. I am loyal,” she says. “So there is not any approach I used to be going to reveal his identify and let him be dragged via the mud. His entire life destroyed only for cash? And I used to be provided cash, fairly a bit, to reveal his identify.”

However Suleman teases that within the new docuseries, “we delve into plenty of the small print of the donors and the way they really feel and their experiences.”

I Was Octomom premiered March 8, whereas Confessions of Octomom airs Mondays at 10 p.m. ET, each on Lifetime.