Through all of it, she “stayed strong” for the kids, she continued: “My kids know what I did as Octomom, I tell them the truth. I’ve told them I’ve done some very bad and shameful things and they say, ‘It’s okay, Mom, we love you anyway and we’ll always love you.”

She added, “They know I did it for them. We don’t have kid conversations, we have deep and intellectual conversations about all of this. They are so smart and so aware.”

The Fullerton, Calif., native had a bachelor’s diploma in little one improvement and he or she was working by then as a household counselor.

Her typical day began at 5 a.m. and there have been 4 stops on her morning faculty run. Then she labored, did afternoon pickup, made dinner, bathed the youthful children in pairs and was in mattress at round midnight. A two-hour nap as soon as a week was her massive indulgence.

She went vegan in 2016 and had her children undertake the approach to life as effectively, writing on Instagram that December that she selected to “raise them AWARE, and most of all compassionate toward all living, sentient beings.” (She now not acknowledges it as Thanksgiving, however a take a look at her Native American Heritage Day dinner in 2023, courtesy of “head chefs Jonah, Nariyah, Noah, and Jeremiah,” confirmed a meat-free desk.)