Nadya Suleman unintentionally became a public figure after she welcomed her octuplets in 2009 and was given the nickname “Octomom.” Giving birth to eight healthy babies wasn’t the only shock value, as she was already a mother to her eldest children.

"Nobody knows [who I am], they look and they look away," she says in the premiere episode of her new Lifetime docuseries

Nadya Suleman is ready to share her parenting journey on her own terms. Sixteen years after welcoming eight babies in a Los Angeles area hospital, earning her the name "Octomom," Suleman, 49, is returning to the spotlight and showcasing what life is really like raising the longest surviving group of octuplets - along with six