Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman, more famous as Octomom in the media, is an American celebrity who drew international attention after giving birth to octuplets in January 2009. The octuplets of Nadya were only the second full set of octuplets who were born alive in the US and surpassed the earlier worldwide survival rate that was set by the 1998 Chukwu octuplets. The controversial circumstances associated with high order multiple births of the octuplets of Nadya resulted in a debate in the field of assisted reproductive technology and led the Medical Board of California to conduct an investigation on the fertility specialist associated with the case. Nadya has six older children apart from the octuplets and all her children were conceived through In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Although Nadya denied earlier that she used public assistance, she  later confirmed on the NBC-aired American news and talk morning television show Today, in April 2012, that she was on public assistance.