Nadya Suleman, the mother of octuplets and six other children, said she spent at least $24,000 on the in vitro fertilization procedures that led to her first four babies.
Suleman told celebrity magazine Life & Style Weekly that she saved money for the procedures that cost about $6,000 each by working 16-hour days as a psychiatric technician.
When her aunt died, Suleman said she used an undisclosed portion of her $30,000 inheritance to conceive twins. Leftover eggs from that in vitro pregnancy were frozen until she used them to give birth to the octuplets.
Suleman did not give financial details about the octuplets, though in vitro fertilization using frozen eggs is generally cheaper.
Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen and wife Brooke Mueller Sheen welcomed twin boys Saturday night. The children, named Max and Bob, are the first for the couple, who married in May 2008.
“They’re doing great,” Sheen’s publicist Stan Rosenfield tells PEOPLE of the babies, who weren’t due for another few weeks. “And Brooke’s doing great.”
The family is “very happy,” Rosenfield says, adding that Charlies is “ecstatic. He’s a family man – now he has three daughters and two sons. He’s a wonderful father.”
