“It’s kind of cool in that way, like I knew who she was, but I didn’t know all the details,” she explained. “I could look at it in almost a hindsight perspective from the point of view of today, without having all these preconceived ideas around her.”
And after stepping into Nadya’s shoes for the show, Kristen hopes to shut down any criticism of the now 49-year-old—who is mom to octuplets Noah, Josiah, Nariyah, Maliyah, Jonah, Jeremiah, Isaiah and Makai, as well as Ameerah, Calyssa, Elijah, Caleb, Joshua and Aidan. While Nadya agreed to help with the movie as well as six-part docuseries, Confessions of Octomom, that will debut on March 10, she tried to keep her kids out of the spotlight as much as possible, never agreeing to a reality series of her own.
“She’s a human being who is, at the end of the day, a mother, and seemingly a really good mother,” Kristen told E!. “She has amazing kids, 14 kids who are thriving and lovely and smart and beautiful.”