Octomom Bondage Scandal Follows Admission of Baby Addiction, Fundraising with Controversial Sign

Nadya Suleman, aka Octomom, is in the news after TMZ published bondage photos and video allegedly taken in Octomom's house. The photos and video show the Octomom whipping a grown man dressed in a diaper and baby bonnet. In some of the photos, Suleman appears to be feeding the man, identified in a media report as a radio personality, from a baby bottle. Other photos depict him sucking a pacifier and holding up a rattle.

The man appears to be using the Suleman children's belongings as props in some of the bondage photos: He appears in one photo among the colorful balls of a ball pit and in another in a toy house. In one photo, he leans forward on a rocking horse while Suleman cracks the whip.

Octomom belatedly admitted a baby addiction on Oprah earlier this week, when Oprah pit the serial childbearer against financial adviser Suze Orman. The admission comes two years after Suleman, already the mother of six children under age 7, gave birth to octuplets she'd conceived through artificial insemination.

Orman not only teased out the admission of baby addiction from Suleman; she obtained a revelation that at one point last year the Octomom's funds dwindled down to $300. Suleman is reportedly in danger of eviction from the home where she lives with her 14 children- and where the porn photos and video were said to have been taken.

Octomom said having babies afforded her the attention she wanted but felt she didn't get from her mother. Is the new bondage scandal further evidence of Suleman's desperate need for attention? Or is it an attempt to dig herself out of a financial hole?

Strangely enough, while the Octomom and her co-star are said to be shopping the bondage video, she has turned away an offer from Vivid Entertainment co-founder Steven Hirsch to star in a porn flick for $1 million. Hirsch offered Suleman mortgage assistance, and she turned down that offer as well. Media reports say Hirsch is directly negotiating to buy Octomom's loan note, despite her refusal.

Suleman held a yard sale and posted paid advertising on her lawn recently in an effort to raise funds to forestall foreclosure. According to move.com, the sign posted on her lawn reads, "Don't Let Your Dog or Cat Become an Octomom. Always Spray or Neuter."

One media report claims she is also hawking a signed sonogram of the octupulets on ebay, though an ebay search did not turn up that item. (It did turn up a signed photo of actress Ellen Page's Juno sonogram scene.)

Does Suleman ever stop to think about the emotional consequences her actions may have for her children?

Imagine being one of those octupulets or their siblings and coming home to a house with a sign in the yard comparing your mother's birth of you or your siblings to uncontrolled reproduction of impulse-driven cats and dogs.

How will the children feel upon learning that their births were part of an addictive pattern of attention-seeking by their mother? The fact of being born a product of emotional addiction to feed another's extreme desire to be the center of attention is bad enough without its advertisement on Oprah.

And isn't it inevitable that at some point these children will view the bondage videos and photos of their mother whipping a grown man in a diaper and feeding him a bottle in their home, among their toys? What is the Octomom going to say to those children then?

Needing to pay the mortgage and desperately craving attention are poor excuses for the suffering the 14 Suleman children will likely endure as a result of their mother's indiscretions.