18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is ‘Octomom' Natalie Suleman's ex-husband Marcos Gutierrez? He's not the biological father to any of her 14 children, and their marriage was apparently ‘loveless', but he ‘wants her to be happy'
In 2009, Natalie 'Nadya' Suleman garnered major media attention when she gave birth to the world's first surviving octuplets. Dubbed 'Octomom', Suleman became a tabloid sensation and the subject of several documentaries.
Natalie Suleman identifies as asexual. Photo: @nataliesuleman/Instagram
Suleman, who's now 49 years old, was already a mum of six through IVF when she underwent another IVF procedure for her seventh and final child – she ended up giving birth to octuplets prematurely when her fertility doctor, Michael Kamrava implanted 12 embryos in her instead of six like he told her.
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The mum of 14 went into hiding in 2012 after receiving an onslaught of criticism for turning to nude modelling and
working as a stripper to provide for her family. At one point she was cruelly dubbed the 'most hated mum in America'.
Marcos Gutierrez and Natalie Suleman married to appease her tradition family. Photo: People/CBS
Thirteen years later, Suleman, who is now a grandmother of one, is back on our screens with a new Lifetime film, I Was Octomom, and six-part docuseries, Confessions of Octomom, that provide insight into her struggles and her children.
In a March 6 interview with People, the single mum disclosed that she identifies as romantically asexual and has abstained from sex for the past 25 years. She was married once before to Marcos Gutierrez but they divorced after four years of marriage. Suleman claimed their relationship was 'loveless', per the Daily Mail.
Here's everything to know about her ex-husband, Marcos Gutierrez.
Suleman and Marcos Gutierrez didn't marry for love
Natalie Suleman got married to placate her traditional Middle Eastern family. Photo: @nataliesuleman/Instagram
In her interview with People, Suleman revealed that she'd only married Gutierrez to placate her 'very, very old-fashioned Middle Eastern family'.
