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Cut a single, working mom some slack, wouldja?
I know it’s all the rage to hate Kate Gosselin. I’m not a huge fan but I dig that she tells it like it is, for the most part, albeit in a somewhat abrasive way.
I watched the show in the early days but once the divorce was front page on all the tabloids I tuned out.
I will say this, though. Eight kids is more than a handful. I have two and most days I’m counting the seconds until bedtime and cocktail hour. So I get it. I get that Kate Gosselin probably spent every waking moment before TLC stepped into her life freaking out. How am I going to pay for everything? How am I going to make ends meet? Will my the lives of my children be sub par because there are just so damn many of them? How can I provide my children with the same experiences as other children who aren’t multiples?
I get it.
So when someone offered her a ton of money to allow her family’s life to be made into a reality show she probably felt as if she won the jackpot. Quite honestly, who wouldn’t feel that way. The family earned more money than they knew what to do with and mom and dad didn’t have to worry about getting jobs outside the home and try to afford childcare for eight children, not to mention the horror of one parent trying to take care of eight children while the other one worked.
So yes, thank goodness for TLC. But it all went to Kate’s head. Or did it? Continue reading »
TLC has announced that Kate Plus 8 is in its final season.
People revealed Monday that Kate Gosselin‘s reality show Kate Plus 8, formerly Jon and Kate Plus 8, is currently in its final season. At the end of this season, Kate Plus 8 will have filmed 150 episodes, what TLC calls “an exceptional milestone.” TV’s original reality mom has lost a job, and so have her children.
According to Kate’s twitter feed, the Gosselin children spent Monday morning crying about the show’s cancellation. Kate has long maintained that her children love being filmed, but mental health experts and child advocates have expressed concern for the Gosselin children in the past. Continue reading »
Kate Gosselin expresses herself.
According to reports, two of Jon and Kate Gosselin’s kids have been expelled from school.
If you ever watched even one episode of the the now-defunct “Jon and Kate Plus 8″ reality series on TLC, then you probably already know that Kate Gosselin is one tightly wound woman.
Controlling and angry, Kate regularly lashed out at her husband and belittled him in front of the children and millions of television viewers.
In fact, I quit watching the show because, while I could certainly sympathize with difficulty of being Kate Gosselin, I just couldn’t stomach her nastiness.
But because kids learn what they live, I am not all that surprised to learn that at least two of the Gosselin kids have anger issues of their own. Continue reading »
Leave it to previous producers of “Cheaters” and the “Jerry Springer Show” to bring us what may be the ultimate trash reality grab for money: “Jon-Kate=Jon + Octomom” .
The drama being played out for the viewing public on Jon and Kate Plus 8 has just had a bizarre confluence with another oddity of the celebrity parenting sideshow. In speaking with Radar Online, the Octomom, Nadya Suleman, admitted that she thinks Jon Gosselin is hot and that she has a bit of a crush on him. Given his divorce from Kate, Jon is actually available, pending any break-ups with the bimbo of the week.
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A year ago, there was hearty helping of parents who wanted to BE Jon and Kate. Today – no one would touch them with a ten-foot pole.
So what about the kids? Not the Gosselin kids . . . YOUR kids. Continue reading »
The debate over who is a worse parent, Jon or Kate, is about to end. TLC is pulling the plug.
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