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This story is such a comedy of errors that it makes the sinking of the Titanic seem routine..
And on it goes:
- NBC's statement that they did not pay the mother for the Today/Dateline interview is legally correct. She was paid only for the "image rights", for footage of herself, the babies, the house, etc. The total amount the mother recieved from NBC is approximately $300,000.
- In blatant contradiction to the mother's statement in the NBC interview that she was/is not receiving government assistance of any kind, state records show that the family receives just under $500 a month in food stamps, and also receives disability payments for three of the original six children (which indicates that those three are disabled in some way).
- The doctor who performed the in vitro treatment, Michael Kamrava, was already under investigation prior to this story breaking; According to statistics collected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, his clinics performed 20 in vitro procedures in 2006 on women under 35. Of those 20 procedures, only two resulted in birth. This number is abnormally low, enough so that other practitioners have openly questioned his practice. (Strangely, the way the doctor was identified was by finding news stock footage of Nadya at his clinic in 2006, where both she and the doctor were praising how effective his new techniques were.) Aside from this, there is also an ongoing inquiry into his finances; apparently he had most or all of his patients pay in cash, which he then usually handed directly over to his wife, making a substantial part of his business "off the books".
- Celebrity plastic surgeon Tony Youn's study of various images/video of the mother: "Her lips are huge and may be the result of aggressive fat grafting. It's possible that people who have a large amount of fat grafted into their lips find their lips become excessively large when they become pregnant. Their tummy is not the only thing that grows! Her nose may also have had some work done, making it smaller and thinner than it was before." He also noted the possibility of Botox use in the forehead, which would be extremely dangerous to have done during pregnancy, as Botox can be passed along to the fetus. He estimates the total cost of the mother's "new" face at roughly $30,000 and also notes that there is no form of insurance of any kind that would cover this - any and all cosmetic work she has had done *must have been paid out of pocket*.
- The mother's publicist, Joann Killeen, president of public relations firm Killeen Furtney Group, states that she is being deluged with offers for book deals, TV/reality shows, and other business proposals, but adds that the mother "plans to carefully review her financial opportunities".
An in vitro sepcialist speaking to Anderson Cooper on CNN stated openly that he has no idea how the mother would be allowed to take the children home, implying plainly that the state will almost certainly intervene..
And on it goes:
- NBC's statement that they did not pay the mother for the Today/Dateline interview is legally correct. She was paid only for the "image rights", for footage of herself, the babies, the house, etc. The total amount the mother recieved from NBC is approximately $300,000.
- In blatant contradiction to the mother's statement in the NBC interview that she was/is not receiving government assistance of any kind, state records show that the family receives just under $500 a month in food stamps, and also receives disability payments for three of the original six children (which indicates that those three are disabled in some way).
- The doctor who performed the in vitro treatment, Michael Kamrava, was already under investigation prior to this story breaking; According to statistics collected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, his clinics performed 20 in vitro procedures in 2006 on women under 35. Of those 20 procedures, only two resulted in birth. This number is abnormally low, enough so that other practitioners have openly questioned his practice. (Strangely, the way the doctor was identified was by finding news stock footage of Nadya at his clinic in 2006, where both she and the doctor were praising how effective his new techniques were.) Aside from this, there is also an ongoing inquiry into his finances; apparently he had most or all of his patients pay in cash, which he then usually handed directly over to his wife, making a substantial part of his business "off the books".
- Celebrity plastic surgeon Tony Youn's study of various images/video of the mother: "Her lips are huge and may be the result of aggressive fat grafting. It's possible that people who have a large amount of fat grafted into their lips find their lips become excessively large when they become pregnant. Their tummy is not the only thing that grows! Her nose may also have had some work done, making it smaller and thinner than it was before." He also noted the possibility of Botox use in the forehead, which would be extremely dangerous to have done during pregnancy, as Botox can be passed along to the fetus. He estimates the total cost of the mother's "new" face at roughly $30,000 and also notes that there is no form of insurance of any kind that would cover this - any and all cosmetic work she has had done *must have been paid out of pocket*.
- The mother's publicist, Joann Killeen, president of public relations firm Killeen Furtney Group, states that she is being deluged with offers for book deals, TV/reality shows, and other business proposals, but adds that the mother "plans to carefully review her financial opportunities".
An in vitro sepcialist speaking to Anderson Cooper on CNN stated openly that he has no idea how the mother would be allowed to take the children home, implying plainly that the state will almost certainly intervene..
