Octomom Natalie Suleman Recalls Being Among the 'Most Hated People in America' in First Look at Lifetime Biopic

Octomom Natalie Suleman is ready to bring her story to the screen.

The 49-year-old single mom of 14 — who made history as the first person to give birth to surviving octuplets in 2009 — is the subject of a new Lifetime biopic, I Was Octomom: The Natalie Suleman Story, and fans just got their first look at the movie.

On Wednesday, Feb. 12, a sneak peek of the trailer for the biopic played on Good Morning America. The clip began with the real Suleman introducing herself. "Remember me? I'm Natalie Suleman. At one point, I was one of the most hated people in America. I was Octomom."

Intense clips showing real moments from Suleman's life that had been reenacted by Kristen Lee Gutoskie, who plays the mom in the biopic, then played, as she slammed the "lies" spread about her — namely that she was a "welfare mom" and that she had eight children "just to be famous."

In the trailer, Suleman told a reporter it was "always a dream of mine to have a large family" as she dealt with threats to her safety and her children's and navigated life in the spotlight.

Suleman and her octuplets' story will be explored in a docuseries, too, airing after the biopic. She told PEOPLE it's all in an effort for her family to take their lives "back" following years of scrutiny — and comes after the kids' 16th birthday on Jan. 26.

"I've been saying, I want to keep them safe and protect my kids, and well, they're older now. They're turning 16 and making the decision to really do this," she said.

Her older kids — she was already a mom of six when she welcomed the octuplets — will also be "speaking in the public eye" for the film.

"The movie follows my journey, starting with my decision to have one more IVF procedure to try to complete my family of six," Suleman said of I Was Octomom. She faced scrutiny during her pregnancy as people questioned her motives as a single mother with previous IVF treatments in her history who was already struggling to raise her six young children.

She said she "wanted only one more," but ended up "becoming a single mom of 14," and the film and docuseries will lift the curtain on "all the trials and tribulations, the challenges and struggles, what I had to do to continue to fight for my family."

"The main reasons for me in sharing my true story, my perspective is to help people, to help women in particular who are struggling with one child or none, to maybe inspire them to pull out the strengths inside that they didn't know they had to progress forward, to keep progressing in their life."

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I Was Octomom premieres March 8 and Confessions of Octomom premieres March 10, both on Lifetime.