She does not HAVE to do this to support her family, she does it to support an extravagant lifestyle she refuses to give up, even if it costs her children their self esteem. She can buy a smaller home, cut out the frequent tanning and hair extension maintenance, live off royalties and, like other single moms, work a regular job. She isn’t the first person to have to raise 8 children…how did everyone else do it without reality television? I would ditch the cameras too if one of my children was even remotely self conscious, but this woman will never put her kids first in that way. Money cannot buy happiness and self esteem, and these kids are paying the price for her self indulgence.

Kate > enough is enough !! Stop the “Queen” life style and be a PROPER mother to those children. You are a spoiled leach of the American public television system and an abusive control freak. Jon deserves to have his manhood back after you so blatently took it away from him in front of thousands. You DO NOT DESERVE those children. Some very loving couples would feel blessed, but not you and your phoney religion for the cameras. You are a pariah and alot of people would be happy to never hear your name again !!! Shame on you.

First of all, that looks more like Joel than Collin. And it looks like a grin on his face in the top picture. Did it ever occur to you that he’s playing with the cameraman? Those kids loved the crew that worked on “J&K+8.” Personally, I think he’s just clowning around with the cameraman. Oh, and by the way, Kate’s new show with the kids is NOT “Twist of Kate,” it’s “Kate Plus 8.”

I never saw so many jealous people in my life. If the majority of you had this opportunity, all would accept. Get real!

If they are not working, then why did the state require “work permits”?

That state did not require work permits. TLC was found to be in total compliance. They filed permits anyway, just to clear up any confusion or conflict.

Patricia, if you don’t call what the kids are doing work, do you call what Kate is doing work? She is the one who is always saying these reality shows are her job, her career, whatever. How can it be that being followed around by cameras for a reality tv show is work for Kate, but being followed around by cameras for a reality tv show is not work for the kids? Try to make some sense of that. And, yes, TLC was required to get “work” permits for the kids, so even if Kate doesn’t believe those kids are working, someone does.

I feel bad for the children. And I feel a queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach at all of the people who WANT to watch the children. It makes me wonder about their motives. It’s just sick. It’s obvious in a lot of the pictures, not just these, that Collin is uncomfortable with the cameras. If Kate wants to be on TV to make a living, fine, let her. She also has her own show and book, so does she really need to film the children? I don’t think so. And how about the dad, Jon? How about he gets his ass out there and gets a job so that his kids don’t have to work. At this point, it looks like the kids are supporting both Jon and Kate.

Patricia, there are 12 episodes of Kate plus 8 scheduled for the summer. That’s more than a documentary. Also, just so you don’t forget, there are a lot of people making money off the backs of these kids besides their parents. i.e., TLC, the Papparrazzi, etc. So, no, this isn’t, as you put it, the average “family business.”

And Patricia, even ONE pervert is enough for me.

M – there are no more royalties for the previous two books. They are selling: Multiple Blessings at Amazon (#34,441)& Barnes & Noble – (#9781); Eight Little Faces – Amazon -(#111,305) and Barnes and Noble – (#12,428). Kate’s new book tanked from the beginning it is selling at Amazon at #1688 and Barnes and Noble at #3269. She won’t get any royalties from the new book until it sells the first printing of 400,000. So far the book sold less than 11,000 copies out of the 400,000. She only has to sell another 379,000 for Zondervan to break even. It isn’t going to happen. New books usually do their best in the first two to three week after publishing and it’s been a month already.

I do not watch reality TV shows. I think they are STUPID, including the Gosselins’ shows. I do not, however, begrudge anyone making a viable living starring in them. And neither should you.

I don’t begrudge Kate or Jon making a living, I begrudge the children having to work. They shouldn’t be supporting their parents, the parents should be supporting the kids.

I have to say I think this whole thread is a little creepy. Not as creepy as the Duggars, but almost.

WE LOVE KATE. WE LOVE THE KIDS. THEY ARE THE ONLY REASON WE EXIST. WE HATE THE HATERS. HOW DARE THEY TRY TO TAKE AWAY OUR ENTERTAINMENT. I WISH JON WAS DEAD.

Patricia, are you a child predator?

Patricia, Kids did not sign a contract. Do your kids have jobs?

The Gosselin kids are not working. The kids on the “Brady Bunch” were: they had lines to learn, directors to follow and obey, hours of filming daily, hair and makeup… and who knows what all. Also, I doubt they had a following of perverts and neither do the Gosselins, for heaven’s sake. That is so SICK to even suggest! TLC said there will 8 or fewer of these specials. There will be 12 episodes of Twist of Kate. If you don’t like her, don’t watch them. In the meantime, kindly stop suggesting that her kids’ fans are child molestors. Sheesh!

Quite frankly I’m sick of her constantly saying that she HAS to do this kind of job in order to provide for her children. She doesn’t HAVE to put her children on TV for money, she doesn’t HAVE to go on Dancing with the Stars and appear on countless entertainment shows. She’s making a choice. She got a taste of fame when her divorce with Jon got major public media coverage, and she doesn’t want to lose that taste. She can do so many things differently in her life in order to ensure that she can raise her children. She doesn’t have to put them on TV but doing that not only supports the extravagant lifestyle she wants to live, but it supports her need to be in the spotlight. I think she’s a very greedy, narcissistic woman. How many large families are doing what Kate is doing? Virtually none or we’d see them all over TLC. I’m very annoyed by Kate’s constant plea that she must go on and film with her kids. No, she doesn’t have to. She’s raised her star to the point where she can get away with being in the media, so if she wants the extravagant lifestyle she should just stick to doing her own show and at least leave the children out of the limelight for goodness sake. I’m also annoyed by the rabid Kate fans who assume that Kate ‘haters’ are jealous. Jealous of what, exactly? Being famous for absolutely no reason? Being considered as a bad mother? Bringing her children back into the public eye? I’m not steaming with jealousy here, I’m bringing up argumentative points and critiquing. That’s what the public do. We can sit behind computer screens and critique. It might not be ‘fair’ for the person we’re critiquing, but we give our two cents. I’m offering my opinion which is that Kate Gosselin is a very selfish woman, it’s all about her which is quite an unbearable quality to say the least.

that’s collin joel is in white in front of kate

May – It says in the story above they were being filmed for a show; i.e., not being photographed by paparazzi.

momsby, how creepy can you get? Now I know why Kate and the kids need a bodyguard/purse hanger. I wouldn’t let you near my kids.

Tupelo, I saw that listed in the article. Babble isn’t known for it’s accuracy. No one other tabloids w/this picture stated TLC was filming, only that that they were eating out.

Tupelo – Interesting you would criticize the writing of Tracey, whose spelling is just fine, and ignore the third grade writing of Kate’s fan-girl Shelly:

canmeras?
quiter?
to when she means “too”?
“Don’t act like he done nothing wrong.” How hillbilly can one get with that one?
“He is more to blame then her.” She meant “than,” right?
“No finding some one else was so much easier.” She means: “No, finding someone else…”
“Them kids are all going to be fine.” It’s like Clampbett central.

Shelly

Drive-by Internet hatred is fascinating, isn’t it? Amazing how many people seem to be gratified by it.

I would like to raise one more point: those of you who disapprove of the Gosselin kids’ shows should be blaming TLC/Discovery, not the Gosselin parents. This network has discovered the profitability of reality TV. They are not interested in “normal” families: to be good reality TV fodder, the families chosen need to be somewhat bizarre: the Gosselins used fertility drugs to conceive; the Duggars are bizarre religious fanatics; another family is comprised entirely of dwarves? You get the picture. Until this kind of programming becomes “unfascinating” to viewing audiences, it will be the staple of networks like TLC. Don’t watch them, and they will, indeed, “go away.”

I’m not saying that at all, M. I’m saying that there will ALWAYS be bizarre people willing to get paid for being bizarre! That how “reality” stars are made. If you want to put an end to it – STOP WATCHING.

To the poster who is coming to PA. Welcome! But like AZ, make sure your papers are intact before you come pouncing over our state border. We have enough nut cases already.
(—> K+8)

Liza it was COLLIN not Aaden! Aaden is next to him in the picture. There are many photos of Collin doing this when there are cameras around. Let’s not forget his fifth birthday party. Where he sat on the table rocked back and forth and back and forth obviously stressed out.

Not Kidding – There is no way to know that Collin was rocking at his birthday because he was stressed. All of the feelings assigned to the pictures of these children are only conjecture. Probably to serve the purpose of hating on their mom.

@TUPELO, did you even read the last part of my paragraph? Christ, it’s not that hard. I don’t know anything about the Gosselins, obviously. I’m not claiming that I know Kate Gosselin’s behaviour and needs. I’m offering my opinion (stress the word ‘opinion’ and look it up). It’s only my opinion which clearly doesn’t equal a worldly fact. As I’ve said, I’m critiquing how Kate Gosselin comes across through the media because that’s what people do. We all critique a celebrity in some way, either thinking that they are lovely people or monsters. But what I’m doing is not trying to pass of my opinions as facts, I’m simply offering my two cents and I THINK that Kate Gosselin is narcissistic and selfish based on how I see her through the media. I’m only judging which I admit. I’m not giving people a run through of how she is in real life, as I wouldn’t know.

I think Kate is doing fine. These kids don’t really know anything but the canmeras. Jon on the other hand is a quiter. He started this to. Don’t act like he done nothing wrong. He is more to blame then her. He should have stayed and made it work. No finding some one else was so much easier. Them kids are all going to be fine. Their story is out there now we want to know what is going on.

Shelly,
Maybe you should consider taking an English class.

Why not just tell Donald Trump to stop living like a king and stay home and spend time with his kids. He has little ones and the D isnt getting any younger. To you people its ok for everyone but Kate. If I had the opportunity to have a job and make that kind of money, you better believe I would do it. Look at people that win the lotto and 1 year later they are broke. It can happen to anyone, so if she feels she needs that security who are we to say different. And as for Colin, he is trying to keep rain from his face, but I know how much you all love to make something out of nothing!!! Get your own lives.

Sally, your points are well taken. In the Kate Plus Eight specials, though, the kids are not being filmed on a daily basis. TLC states that they will film “specials” related to events in the kids’ lives, like birthdays. I don’t know if that’s much of a comfort to anyone who strongly opposes their being filmed at all, but it’s an improvement over the John and Kate Plus Eight format, in my opinion.