But now, she and her kids—including almost-16-year-olds Noah, Josiah, Nariyah, Maliyah, Jonah, Jeremiah, Isaiah and Makai—are setting the record straight about what their lives are really like.
“My kids are going to share for the first time,” Nadya—who is also the mother of adult children Ameerah, Calyssa, Elijah, Caleb, Joshua and Aidan—told People. “Also, my older kids are speaking in the public eye and they did not want to. And actually, I didn’t even want [to speak out] to be honest.”