What Was She Thinking?

She's an unemployed single mother of six with an idea: To undergo risky fertility treatments in order to birth octuplets -- and does so, becoming only the second American on record to birth eight babies at the same time. Welcome to the oddball, kid-crazy, headline-grabbing, reality-show-creating, wellfare-frauding, "I can't afford to house and feed my gaggle of offspring so I guess I'll try porn" world of the Octomom. Meet her in this episode.

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