LA HABRA, Calif. — Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman’s new found celebrity reached a fever pitch as she brought home the first two of her eight babies.
Scores of photographers, reporters and gawkers who had staked out her new house for hours clung to her vehicle as she arrived home late Tuesday.
Suleman sat with her babies in the backseat of the SUV as it went straight into the garage of her new four-bedroom, three-bath home in La Habra, about 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles, where she will raise her 14 children.
The media mob shoved and pushed, with some grabbing and riding the vehicle until the garage door closed. The door was dented and nearly pulled off its tracks.
Video posted on , where Suleman has been publishing a video diary, showed the SUV pulling into the garage from inside it, and screams can be heard for the photographers to get out.
Suleman, 33, said on the video that she called police when she was driven into the garage.
“This was beyond anything I expected. They were completely swarming the car,” she said of the paparazzi. “I was really, really worried about the safety of everybody.”
Two caretakers in scrubs can be seen on the video helping Suleman take the babies into the house after she showed them off to the camera, and Suleman’s older children were shown kneeling and fawning over their baby brothers.
The unemployed, divorced mother gave birth to the octuplets on Jan. 26 in Bellflower. She already had six children, ages 2 to 7.
The octuplets — whose birth weights ranged from 1 pound, 8 ounces, to 3 pounds, 4 ounces — spent their first seven weeks in the neonatal intensive-care unit at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center.
The first two babies to be discharged — Noah and Isaiah — are each about 5 pounds and can be bottle feed, the hospital said. The others — two girls and four boys — continue gaining weight and will be released in the coming days, the hospital said.
Suleman said she is paying for the house — listed for $564,900 — with money from “opportunities” she has selected, but did not elaborate.
