The first human I ever said 'I love you' to was my oldest son.

My back is broken because of the last pregnancy.

I have 14 children!

Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.

I believe most media is filtered and fake.

The whole family, we are all kind of different.

If you set a goal, you can achieve anything.

I would die for my kids. I love my kids - they're my life - and I love them more than anything I've ever known.

I worked with sociopaths and psychopaths in a mental hospital, and in my opinion, Casey Anthony is not emotionally stable.

I'm the kind of person who can be with a man for years and never touch him. My mind is not wired that way.

I take accountability for being dumb and irresponsible.

The ultimate lesson from my entire experience is you cannot prejudge human beings. You just can't. I don't care who they are, what their behavior, or what you've heard about. You have to be able to meet the person and talk with them, and even then, that's not even enough to prejudge them.

I left 'Octomom.' I went back to my life as a counselor.

You can't go back and alter the past.

I couldn't even fathom the idea of having my own children out in the world and not know them.

I believe that God will provide in his own way.

I am providing for my children. I am.

I never set out to become an 'octomom.'

There's nobody, possibly, who could have hated 'Octomom' more than I.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

Octomom was media-created.

There were no healthy opportunities for Octomom. I was doing what I was told to do and saying what I was told to say.

Had I not gone through the struggles and the obstacles I had, I would not be as strong as I am today. I believe those impediments have forged, shaped, and strengthened my character.

When I ran away from the 'Octomom' persona, I went right back into my healthy lifestyle.

I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.

I'm damned if I do what I need to do with the media to support my kids, and I'm damned if I don't. If I don't, I can't take care of them.

I have PTSD from all the reporters coming in over the years.

I'm a raw vegan, and I perceive pharmaceuticals to be poison.

I haven't felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day.

I've always wanted a big family - not this big!

My older six are animals.

I only had one boyfriend my whole life, and I never loved him.

I hate babies.

I do not like babies who cry.

My biggest challenge is my severely autistic son.

As 'Octomom,' I was the walking dead. When I woke up and I went back to my roots, my helping profession, and my kids, we were struggling financially, but it didn't matter. I never felt so free and so happy in my life.

What bothers me and hurts me is the fact that people assumed I was a bad mom.

That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.

I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.

I didn't feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment. I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?

I wanted to be a mom. That's all I ever wanted in my life.

I love my children.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

There's probably one man out of 6.6 million in the world for me.

I never wanted this... to be in the public eye.

Everything a parent chooses to do in their life will forever haunt their kids.

I screwed up my life. I screwed up my kids' lives.

I never coined the term 'Octomom.'

I have embraced every day with gratitude.