TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 reality star Kate Gosselin is mom to 8 kids – 7 1/2 year old twins, and 4 year old sextuplets – and the 33 year old mom sat down with Cookie magazine and dished on marriage, how she copes with so many kids and some of her favorite things.
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I can’t even imagine having eight children. I need a nap now. Here’s the interview:
On what her children do to make her laugh:
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I don’t have any jealousy issues with the Gosselins but I find it puzzling that these guys have made enough money to buy a 1.3 million dollar home at a time when others cannot afford to keep their homes. I don’t mind them being famous or celebrities, but enough already ! Let’s move on to other needy families. No one can say with any certainty that the children will not have any problems in the coming years regarding their early celebrity and having moments filmed that IMO should have been kept private for dignity’s sake. Why not err on the side of caution and stop filming the children ?
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I like the show because the kids are so cute, though one of the twins is way to whine at times. I think Kate is just too stressed for being a stay-at-home mother. I am a stay at home mom with 3 kids, plus one more on the way. I can see the fact why Kate is losing her mind constantly. I don’t know if she has a maid. But cleaning, raising kids, cookings, running errands, and the so-on lists are on my & her shoulder daily so we deserves to loss our mind at times.
They are so poor.
They just purchased a house for one million, three hundred fifty thousand dollars in Wernersville, PA.
I in deed think that people arerealy uneducated and very arragont. People are always going to want what they dont have and what YOU (Jon and KAte) do. Thats LOVE, a FAMILY, a routine and free stuff! WHO CARES what they get for FREE! Why cant anyone just be happy for another family? Is that REALLY how selfish we have become? And i am sure the ids have doctors and if the doctors SENSED anything wrong with the children being on t.v. and in the public eye, something would be done about it. Kate wouldnt put her children in harms way. Kate is a RN so she could return to work and make money but she has her prioritys straight. FAMILY FIRST! maybe all of you people who are so angry at the fact of this show should try spending more time with your family. Family is EVERYTHING. Think about back in the 1800s or even just a few decades ago 1960s, family was family no mater how poor you were and kate has found an enjoyable way to spend time with her family and it jus so happens to be on t.v. I have personally learned a lot from watching this show. routines can be done. Religion CAN be done. LEARN something people. Nobody is concerned with how you see another person. learn that… you have to love yourself before you can love someone else. I think a lot of people need to learn to love themselve and not be so selfish.
Jenine, yes, Kate does think about her kids all the time and that was not cheesy….just real Kate!
MamaT and all the others who are so critical-
Please, take your hate elsewhere. Kate is a genuine and kind person. I know her and she only thinks about those kids 24/7, 7 days a week.
She and Jon have followed God’s path for them and their children. Nannies? No. But, there are people who they trust to WATCH their children when they are at a speaking engagement, etc. Like you people don’t have babysitters??
Johann–you’re just uneducated. Wow, trying to decipher your rambling post…are you saying that J&K chose to have all these kids? Where have you been? Fertility treatments are a chance. There was a one in 3 million chance for sextuplets. Educate yourself before you assume what people’s private lives are like.
The show is the way God has provided for the Gosselins. The freebies and all that you people bitch about, that’s all a part of the package. If you have a beef about that…take it to TLC, that’s their sponsors. And, beleive me, Kate and Jon are both appreciative of everything everyday. What you have not seen on the show is just how much they’ve given back. They are supporters of St. Jude Hospital and other children’s pediatric hospitals. They are teaching the kids on empathy, sympathy, and kindness.
Come to think of it, there are a lot of things you don’t see on tv. Remember that, and remember that the Gosselins are at the mercy of the editors of TLC.
Sorry, I didn’t mean Jenine, I meant Johann.
Sounds like Jenine has some personal issues she needs to address before being allowed to post anything. What an angry woman!!
I am concerned for the well being of the children. Celebrity and lack of privacy are two issues these children are being forced to deal with beginning at a very young age. They will have to deal with it the rest of their lives. Neither Jon or Kate know what it is like to be a child celebrity and to live with the constant “where are they now” type pressure. I believe if they had, they would not choose this media centered life style for their children. I wish them the best, but fear in the long run the long term consequences of the decisions they are making today for their family may not be all positive. Time will ultimatly tell us if they have made the right decision. At one point I enjoyed the show. I no longer do as I feel the children are being exploited..intentional or not, by their parents, the production company, and ultimalty the viewers.
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This was a good interview and believe me i always liked kate she”s a great mom and all but the one question that they asked her when she wakes up in the middle of the night what does she think about? and she answered that she missed her kids or something like that I mean come on thats alittle cheesy if you ask me!!!!
Listen this has been my favorite show ever since it first started and now i still tape it and watch re-runs all day long! its funny how big the kids are getting my husband jokes and says he feels like he raises those kids lol thats how much its on and Kate I look up to her she is a great mom and a great organizer I wish I could be that way!
I was hoping that people would understand there is a bigger issue here then just the personal”choice”that Karma is saying,we(everyone)has to live on this planet,we as humans try to curb our primal urges for the good of the whole, having as many children as you can(that they can not afford) is not something to be proud off this type of thinking(I’am giving them the credit that they did think) it is this this type of thinking (or lack off)that causes us in U.S. to be paying the bills for so many children in so many ways,from school to Doctor to a roof over thier head I feel if you can pay for it and if you don,t care about the impact you @ your’s have on the rest of the world or the type of world your children and grandchildren will have so be it, but don’t ask the rest of us to pay for your poor judgement,its bad enough we have to pay with the problems over population causes,there should be a test to have kids your IQ should be larger then your shoe size.
I love watching the show. So what if they get help what is wrong with that. If you were in their shoes wouldnt you need help. They do not have to justify their money or their friends. Its better to not get close to people as u can see people are evil, noisy,stupid, and talk behind your back. Dont like it dont watch it. HATERS dont be hating because you have to wake up every morning and go to work and they dont. HAHA
Poor Johann! I feel for you! In those short few phrases, it is obvious that you did not have a loving family to support and nourish you.
Luckily, in the 21st centry we do have Choice. You can choose to be a parent (like J&K) or not (like you). Either choice is okay.
With choice, there is responsibility. If you choose to be a parent, you should do everything in your power to support your kids (financially, spiritually, educationally, etc). I suspect that the reason why the show is so popular is because it is a model of what a family could aspire to be. For example, have fun outings, play together, laugh together, fight together, learn together, have faith together etc, etc.
Its not perfect. We are not in heaven and anyone who touts themselves as perfect is a fraud.
With all the problems of over crowding in this world you people should have your brains checked I think you are greedy you are not the only people in the world even the chinese people got a handle on their births.When I see your ad for your show all I can see in my head is Kate laying on a blanket on a cement floor while a litter of kids with thier eyes closed are all over you looking for a teat to suck on. you people are poster people for birth control!
i love your show i have that many in my family two and it is ok you guys need to make more shows on them are you over going to make more and keep going
jon and kate is the best show ever. i am a teen and i watch the show when ever it is on. all the kids are SOOOOOOO CUTE!!!
I absolutely love this family and their show. I have written to Kate several times in the past and she has always found time to email me back. I have also seen them at one of their speaking engagments. They are a wonderful couple and family and I love that they are Christians and display this in their everyday life. We need more families like this in America.
Seriously if you have issues with the show then DON’T WATCH it!!! Turn off your flipping tv or change the channel! Hopefully with this show they can provide things for their kids that they couldn’t before. I would LOVE to be able to stay home with my kids! If this is they way they can do this than more power to them! And who cares about their personal relationships, if they choose not to talk to family back off! I have an aunt I have never spoken too and I turned out just fine!
The picture of the family on the steps makes me wonder if that was taken in their new home? Kate is barefoot which we know she hates to do in other places besides home.
This show totally rocks. I hope it continues for along time!!!
Hey MamaT, your comments are ridiculous! With 8 kids so close in age, how else can they give their kids a good life. If it weren’t for the show, they would both have to work fulltime+ just to get by. How is that better for the kids? They get to spend so much more time with them this way. I have 4 kids from 17yrs down to 14 months, and believe me, their kids are completely normal! They don’t seem stressed to me. They are going to have opportunities they wouldn’t have otherwise. Walk a mile in Kates’ shoes and see see about your aspirations!
The enitre family is amazing.Kate so sane for the amount of kids she has(offcourse motherly love has lots to do that ).Jon for being such a great dad and husband.The kids are beautiful god given gifts to both of them and each other for so many reasons now and so many in the future.They are a blessed couple and family unit in so many ways ,may god always watch over each of them.
I love the show and my kids and I watch it all the time. I think that the children are very well behaved and John and Kate do the best that they can do with 8 children. Who care if you let people film your children and make money. And this is for mommaT what would you do with 8 kids? Don’t you think that you would pray for someone to come and film your family for extra money? Oh yeah you would!!! So shut up and tend to your own, and if you don’t like the show DON’T WATCH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For the record, one supposed “insider” that started a lot of these rumors about jon and kate on the infamous hateblog has recently been exposed as a fraud who doesn’t even know Jon and Kate. This person has also been linked to several other naysaying “insiders” on the same blog. Most of the hate being spewed forth by the people who hate kate are based on these “insider” stories of volunteers been mistreated by Kate. Someone made these stories up! Yeah, maybe jodi and kate aren’t friends anymore but that happens. Some of you are making a federal case against Kate because she chooses not to be involved with Jodi, when really her personal relationships are none of your business. You accuse kate of all of these “untruths” while in the same breath spreading rumors that you have absolutely no facts to back up. You are taking the word of strangers on the internet and spreading them as fact just because the things they say make Kate look like and monster and thats what you want. Truth and fact have nothing to do with it.
I love this family and the children are adorable. They are doing a wonderful job.
Celebrity? So any crackpot that gets some reality (not!) tv gig is now a celeb. I’d rather see more episodes with the conjoined twins or the steroid abuser with the exploding arms then this dysfunctional disaster of a family.
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Love them. and i hope there shows stay 4 ever. cause it is just about the only show i warch
I think there’s some fairly legitimate criticism about the G’s. I don’t think they are anywhere near as cash strapped as they make out (in fact, they do very well b/c of the show) and they probably have way more help these days than they did in the early days of the show, but I imagine it’s pretty hard to look a gift horse in the mouth when you’ve got 8 kids to feed.
I don’t blame them, but I’d respect them more if they were honest about how much help they get and how they are doing okay financially. Don’t need the financial details, but they always skirt around the issue and say they only do the show to record family memories which is a bit of stretch.
What a complete and total crock!! Kate and Jon don’t even have jobs anymore. Instead their income comes from allowing strangers to film their children on the potty and airing it on national tv for pedophiles and peers to see.
Kate and Jon have been caught in several lies, and have pushed away all close friends and family members. The children are showing signs of stress from the “family job” but that doesn’t matter, because Kate needs her spa days and designer hand bags.
They have nannies, housekeepers, a chef, and people to run their errands. So what do they do then? Oh, they go on speaking engagements 3 days out of every week and tell normal everyday people that they’re financially strapped.
What a total scam.
Yeah, that’s a mom I aspire to be like.
I LOVE this show! Makes me feel bad for stopping after having twins – ok, not really:)
Shes definately a busy women.
LOVE THEM
Hope there shows stays on forever.