CHICAGO (AP) – Nadya Suleman, the California woman who became known as 'Octomom' after giving birth to octuplets last year, said the moniker makes her feel like a "carnival attraction" and that she'd never allow her family to be the subject of a reality television show. In an interview broadcast on Tuesday on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show', Suleman told Winfrey she never wanted more than six or seven children, "not double that". Suleman already had six children when she gave birth to the octuplets – six boys and two girls – in January 2009. Suleman, speaking to Winfrey via satellite from California, said she takes full responsibility for providing for her children, the oldest of which is eight. She called 'Octomom' a fictional character that "completely is the antithesis of who I am as a person."

"That's exactly what Octomom is, a carnival attraction," Suleman said. Camera crews from the show followed Suleman and her children as paparazzi photographers snapped their pictures on a trip to the park. Suleman was shown giving her babies baths, reading to them and feeding them. All eight babies sat at a special table together as they ate. Suleman was shown running down the stairs with a bottle in hand. Suleman told Winfrey she would never participate in a reality show.