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Since Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets on Jan. 26, the unemployed single mother of 14 has faced harsh attacks on her intelligence, parenting ability -- and sanity. So when her father, Ed Doud, went on the Oprah Winfrey Show recently, he finally had the chance to come to his daughter's defense. Instead, he added fuel to the fire. "Now I'm no psychiatrist," he told the talk-show host, "but I question her mental situation."

So do many of those who have watched her struggle to raise her first six children. "What she has done is just crazy," Barbara Hagely, who lives across the street from the house in Whittier, Calif., where Nadya lives with her parents, tells Life & Style. "She always looked frazzled before. I just cannot imagine how she's going to manage now."

For more on Octo-mom and the challenges she faces, pick up the latest issue of Life & Style, on newsstands now!