OCTOMUM FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY

OCTOMUM Nadya Suleman has filed for bankruptcy after racking up as much as £615,000 of debt. The 36-year-old, who already had six children when she gave birth to eight more in January 2009, owes money to gas, water and electricity suppliers.

She is also behind on cash owed to a mobile phone provider, the department of motor vehicles, a school, a pest control company and her mortgage lender, court papers show.

Her house in La Habra, California, was due to be auctioned off yesterday after she made no payments for a year. But the sale has been postponed for a week.

Suleman’s bankruptcy suit follows claims she was neglecting her brood. Photos of the home she shares with Noah, Jonah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Nariah, McCai, Maliyah and Josiah and her six other kids showed rooms in a mess, with graffiti on walls.

Other images showed the children using potties in the garden and clothes strewn everywhere.

A team from California social services inspected her home following claims there was just one working toilet.

La Habra Police's Sgt Daniel Barnes said officers did not find anything unusual. Officials then ruled the 14 children, aged three to nine, were not in danger. But they will be monitored.

Suleman, who has admitted being broke and struggling to cope since her multiple birth, recently signed on for £1,500 a month in food stamps.

Now she told a US news site: “I have had to make some very difficult decisions this year and filing Chapter 7 (bankruptcy) was one of them.

“But I have to do what is best for my children and I need a fresh start.”

Reports suggest Suleman is considering making a porn movie to settle her debts.

She posed topless for a magazine earlier this year, netting her nearly £4,000. At the time she said she would never do blue movies.

But now she has told a television channel: “If the opportunity comes up I’ll be the first to admit: I’m going to eat my words.

“All that matters is that I can take care of my family. If it’s a job, and it’s a well-paying job, and it’s going to allow me to get out of here and move into a very safe, huge home that they deserve, I’m going to do it.” (thesun.co.uk)