The View welcomed a blast from headlines past this morning when they sat down at the Hot Topics table with Natalie Suleman, a.k.a Octomom. The mother of 14, who became a tabloid fixture after giving birth to octuplets when she already had six children back in 2009, is looking back at her time in the spotlight ahead of Lifetime’s Confessions of Octomom documentary.

On this morning’s episode of The View, Suleman got candid about her pregnancy and the struggles she faced after giving birth to her octuplets, even admitting that she knows it was “selfish” to try for one more child when she had six from previous IVF treatments and was in graduate school as a single mother.

When asked by Joy Behar on today’s show, “Some people turned on you because they thought it was irresponsible to have more children when you didn’t have a job and you had to rely on public assistance — do you think that was a fair point, and what did people get wrong about your motives?” Suleman replied, “Wow. I’m going to try to address this as fast as I can.”

She then confidently said, “Absolutely, I believe it was. What you said, irresponsible, that’s a euphemism. It was beyond irresponsible. It was irresponsible, immature, selfish for me to try to have one more.”

Behar seemed a bit surprised by her response as she asked her guest, “You do acknowledge that?” but Suleman only doubled down.

“Of course, of course I do,”she told Behar. “In my mind I was always rationalizing, well, I’m in my third year of graduate school. So I was actually on disability and I was in the metal health field. I was a psychiatric technician. … I’m third year in and I’m thinking, I want one more. I know that sounds irrational, but I went for it anyway.”

Suleman’s octuplets are now 16 years old. She had multiple embryos transferred during an IVF procedure to conceive her octuplets; her fertility doctor Dr. Michael Kamrava later had his medical license revoked in 2011, although he claimed that Suleman asked him to transfer more embryos than he had wanted to during the procedure, per ABC News.

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.