Nadya Suleman, 33, who after trying for years, finally conceived her first child through in vitro fertilization, made headlines last month after giving birth to octuplets.

In an NBC News television interview 10-days after the birth of the octuplets, she spoke of the loneliness of being an only child, her quest to achieve motherhood through medical intervention and how she had long craved a 'huge family'.

Suleman, an unmarried, single mother living with her mother in Los Angeles , gave birth to 6-boys and 2-girls, all products of a sperm donor. In addition, she has six other children, aged 2 to 7-years.

Talking to NBC, Suleman says she tried to get pregnant for seven years, before turning to IVF and after the first treatment was successful she 'just kept going on', resulting in her 14 children, all born via a sperm donor

Experts in reproductive medicine call her pregnancy an obvious example of a fertility assistance case gone awry, even as Suleman's mother, expresses frustration at her daughter's preoccupation with having children.