Ach, I've never been one for big declarations or releasing statements.

My older sister has four kids and I honestly don't know how she does it.

I have nieces and nephews who I've nurtured, but when it's your own it's hard to put into words how difficult it is.

I have insecurities, but they don't consume me. It doesn't bother me if my hair's a mess or if I have a bad skin day. I just don't look in the mirror!

Everybody laughs at me because I don't really wear much make-up. I have to be forced and usually people buy make-up for me because they're like, this is ridiculous.

I like to swim. Love a swim, any time I can do that is a good thing.

I'm generally quite active and try to squeeze in a workout when I'm waiting for stuff. Like if you're cooking dinner, try to squeeze in a few squats or a few yoga moves. Or if you're brushing your teeth. You know, just trying to do more than one thing at once.

I'm not a single mum, I am just a mum.

I do like to do mad stuff on occasions.

I can't decide which way I talk. I really, honestly can't.

Some rules are stupid.

Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.

I've been sued, harassed, abused, but I've held my own.

Four out of the five discs in my lumbar spine are ruptured, herniated fully. Think of a jelly doughnut being squashed, and it hits nerves, causing bilateral sciatica. And I have irreparable sacral damage. And I have peripheral neuropathy.

I am doing everything I can to be a great parent.

I've been hiding from the real world all my life.

I love kids, but I also recognize that things could be better for mine.

I couldn't even imagine kissing something.

With children, I feel so safe in my predictable world. They will never leave me.

I devote my whole life to my family, and that's the least I could do, because there's only one me and 14 of them. I have to give all my energy and all of me to my kids.

My kids are little athletes.

I'm disgusted by babies, and I'm so sorry, I'm just being honest. They make me sick.

I've got good genes, and my body just always seems to bounce back after my pregnancies.

The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet.

I was pretending to be a fake, a caricature, which is something I'm not, and I was doing it out of desperation and scarcity so I could provide for my family.

My form of therapy and survival has been exercise.

Some of the things I have done... of course I'm ashamed of in the past... was just to put food on the table and just take care of my family.

I've always engaged in open, honest communication. There's no topic that can't be discussed.

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.