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’
As Natalie Suleman returns to the spotlight with the release of a new film and docuseries – and admits she is asexual – we take a look at her ex-husband, Marcos Gutierrez
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.
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.
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
In her interview with People, Suleman revealed that she’d only married Gutierrez to placate her “very, very old-fashioned Middle Eastern family”.