The Octomom, Kate Gosselin and the need for love

I haven’t written anything about either Nadya Suleman or Kate Gosselin in my blog, because I really don’t know that much about either of them. However, recently I have been watching each of them a bit and trying to figure out what the heck is up with them. Each has a multitude of children, conceived by in-vitro. Each seems to desire public approval/affection. I am not suggesting either of them has Borderline personality Disorder (BPD), because I don’t know enough about either to suggest that that condition (of which I write about in this blog) is even suspected in either. I have seen others suggest a variety of conditions for each of them including BPD (and NPD), but I just don’t know.

The reason I am posting this message though is because both of them seem to have a craving for affection, attachment and love. It appears to me that each had all these children such that they could be unconditionally loved by as many people as possible. I wonder what happened in their childhood (or if anything happened) that would drive this strong desire to have as many children as they have had.