Welfare mother-of-14: Desperate Nadya Suleman turns to the government after posing topless

In 2010 Nadya 'Octomom' Suleman swore she would never go on welfare, but apparently providing for 14 children has turned out to be much harder than the reality star imagined.



The 36-year-old, who previously refused to become a 'self-fulfilling prophecy' by being on welfare, is now receiving $2,000 a month from it, according to TMZ.



The State gives financial support to large families who earn less than $119,000 a year.



Welfare mother-of-14: Nadya Suleman, who posed nude for Closer Magazine on February 25, is now receiving $2,000 a month in government assistance

The more children you have, the more government support. Needless to say Octomom, who cannot hold down a steady job because she has to care for her 14 children full-time, qualified.



However, Nadya's special debit card is closely monitored by the government to make sure she only uses the funds for food.



The desperate mother-of-14 had to pull all but one of her children out of the $4,000-a-month private school they were attending, TMZ also learned. Nadya is keeping her autistic son in the expensive school.



It's a sad twist for the single mother, who recently stripped down for a nude shoot with Closer Magazine in order to keep a roof over her children's heads.



'You wanna know how much I got? I got $8,000. I have to do what I have to do to take care of my family, and I'm not ashamed at all ... I've never sacrificed my morals and values,' she told Anderson Cooper on his talk show yesterday.



Scarred for life: Nadya recently showed off her toned but plastic-surgery-sculpted tummy

'I'll be honest, I did it for money. I reflected on that quite a bit before choosing to do it. I discussed it with my children openly,' Nadya told Anderson.



Nadya told Wendy Williams recently that the six-figure sum she was rumored to be receiving to star in OctoTV on Internet site Ustream was not true.



Octomom said she is currently taking classes to become qualified as a fitness trainer and plans to train people while her children sleep to keep her family going once she gets her license.



Even her attorney Jeff Czech recently admitted to the Associated Press that, 'She's not doing well. She's struggling financially and she does whatever she can.'

Let me train you: Octomom told talk show host Wendy Williams that she is currently taking classes to become qualified as a fitness trainer and plans to train people while her children sleep

Nadya gave birth to her brood in 2009, and after the six boys and two girls turned three in January, they became the longest-surviving set of octuplets in American history.



Since the birth, she has cut deals with media outlets and posed in tabloid photo spreads to earn a living. She has promoted spaying and neutering for an animal rights group and gotten beat up in a celebrity boxing match.



Last year, she told Oprah Winfrey she was addicted to having children and called herself stupid for her financial problems.



If the mother gets any more cash-strapped she may have to revisit the $1 million offer she refused in 2009 to work in adult films by Vivid Entertainment.

Overwhelmed: The single mom had to pull all but one of her 14 children out of the $4,000-a-month private school they were attending

Last October she said that her bank account was overdrawn by $300 and she had no money to pay for the children's school, food or the mortgage.



Nadya was also recently dropped by her management company, DD Entertainment, allegedly after a dispute concerning money.



'In the past four months, we had grown to become less tolerant of Nadya,' a DD insider alleged to the Huffington Post. 'We would contact Nadya on a daily basis for work and would never get a reply, especially if it was a charity. '



According to the insider, the final straw came when Suleman allegedly told her managers not to send Christmas gifts to her kids.

