Kate Gosselin says she's hit the breaking point with all the tabloid coverage of her and her husband, Jon's, lives. Living under the microscope is finally taking its toll.
"Before this, I'd never stood on line at the grocery store, looked at the people on the cover of magazines, and thought about what they're going through," Kate told People magazine. "I'd never thought, 'Oh my god, this is totally doing them in.' But now, I understand what they live with: Everywhere you go you're being stalked, you're being followed - it's hell, on the cover of a magazine."
While she says that she's an easy target for gobs of people dressing her up as a monster, she finally came to grips with the attention. "In the first two and a half years that we were doing Jon & Kate Plus Eight, I felt very ugly towards fans. The gawking, that sort of response creeped me out. I was not willing or ready to accept what you get back when you put your life out there," Kate says. "At some point, I turned around and I realized, 'Okay, people are pulling for us, the feel inspired by us, they love us. It clicked: without the fans there is no show, without the show, there is no job."
But nowadays? The tabloids are covering the not-so-niceties in Jon and Kate's lives: rumors of infidelity (on both sides), rumors of their marriage being a sham, even Kate's hideous hair makes headines. God knows why women are emulating THAT.
"It's so scary," Kate says. "It's like one of those movies where you have to change your identity and go underground. I've been saying, 'Let's find a country where our show doesn't air, and let's just go there until this all dies.' I have to laugh about this, or else I'll cry. It's a matter of, when will they stop?"
Kate is doing her best to grin and deal with the maelstrom surrounding her and Jon, but if you want to tick her off, all you have to do is attack the kids. "I don't want them dragged into this. It kills me. I'm far from perfect, but I've started to prioritize what is important. My children are important. My attitude is important. My marriage is important, and though I don't know where that's going right now, I know I can definitely choose my attitude. And I know that I will never give up, I will not stop, I will not fail my kids. Everything else I can't control, I'm just going to have to learn to live with it."
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