“I put myself on a reality show, but I did not do anything that would put me in the tabloids.” Thus spake Kate Gosselin on Monday night’s TLC special Kate: Her Story.
At this point, if you transcribed all of Kate Gosselin’s TV interviews, their total length would probably exceed that of David Copperfield and Bleak House combined, with descriptions of teary pluck and children under duress that might well have made Charles Dickens sob in envy of so much drama parceled out in serialized form for profit.
Certainly, TLC can never complain that Kate has not fulfilled her contract. (“I’m a rule-follower,” she said of her TV commitment this night.) Left with a few weeks to fill the 9 p.m.-Monday void of no new Jon & Kate Plus Eight episodes, she and the cable network enlisted Natalie Morales to be a soothing enabler (“Would you like to set the record straight?”) and prodding inquisitor (“Many think you’re selfish”) for a few hours.
Meanwhile, backstage, Kate was busy trying out some new gray eye-liner that made her look as though she’d rubbed the ashes of her burned-out soul onto her eyelids.
Kate: Her Story — TLC apparently didn’t have the nerve to go with its first choice, Kate Gosselin and the Chamber of Secrets — was a story of isolation in the midst of so many little vital lives. Kate’s contact with her own parents is limited to, “Well, we e-mail.” She communicates with husband Jon via “texting… notes… phone calls, only where it relates to the kids.” She feels lonely: “When you look around and very close, trusted people you’d swear on your life would never ‘cash you in,’ for lack of better words, when people leave your house and tell completely different stories, you tend not to trust people.”
Welling up with tears regularly, she said, “I still think the phone will ring and it’ll be” — pause; tears — “the old Jon.”
Beneath the heavy make-up, formal dress, and an especially elaborate version of the Kate Seagull ‘do, there were glimpses of the good old funny Kate, as when she was asked what she sees when she looks at her children: “I see little balls of promise.”
To those who say the TV show killed her marriage, she argued, “Had we never done the show, it would have been me a nurse, him in I.T., and that would have gotten the better of us even sooner.”
“We did four seasons without paparazzi,” she noted correctly, and certainly those were the seasons that built the fan-base that has alternately embraced and scorned her since the marriage disintegrated. To the charge of being selfish about media attention, she noted that that’s how she supports her “one-parent” family (huh? Jon does still see the kids) and that, “It doesn’t feel selfish. It feels self-less.”
She flashed real anger only once, when the subject of possible infidelity with her bodyguard was raised. “To have Jon fan that into this huge tabloid nightmare, it’s disgusting,” she hissed.
Going existential, Kate said, “Fans [used to] annoy me. Now I see we are because of them.” Of the possibility of doing a Kate-plus-kids show, she said, “I hope to continue with TLC… I would love to do it.”
“The kids miss the crew. The kids miss the filming.”
“I would go back and do it again.”
Is that hard to believe, or is that all too easy to believe?
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Just wondering why other EW recappers (Annie, Michael)can’t be as speedy as you are in posting your recaps? Kate has been off the air 37 minutes and here is your recap already!!!!! Good job!
M~
Wow, you’re awfully demanding. This is a much shorter recap than what Annie, Michael, and the others do. Those are multiple pages that they seem to spend hours organizing for clarity and working into humorous analyses. Plus they often find youtube clips to link to, or upload photos, or otherwise include little extras. Don’t get me wrong, I’m in no way dissing Ken Tucker’s instant mini-recaps, but it’s not fair to compare his speed in publishing his brief “Ken Tucker’s Watching TV” entries with the multi-page/sometimes multi-media/more complex TV Watch recaps that some of the other writers do. Those are worth the wait to me!
the others had to finish barfing first – then they could write their review
I love Kate and think she is a great Mother! Jon has turned out to be a real tool! With out kate Jon is nothing.
The show should be taken off the air! I have many friends who will not watch the show now and that does include me. I understand divorce and it happens. I feel bad it happened to them. But now there time is over remove the show
Newsflash Tom: Jon’s order to TLC prevents them from filming the kids, so the show is de facto off the air. Unless they play re-runs. Just no new footage.
Go, Ken!
Both Jon and Kate have become so predictable in their interviews now that Ken probably wrote this recap before the show even started.
or he’s all barfed out for covering this family for so long….
SORRY KATE, ITS NOT JON CALLING, ITS AMERICA, AND WE’RE ALL BEGGING YOU, PLEASE….SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jon is not going to call you. Don’t you remember – you treated him like a dog and the dog ran away. Now it’s your turn to run – you won’t be missed. God bless your children.
nay just haters need to shut up until they grow up and feel compassion and empathy for others
Amy read on, there are enormous amounts of compassion and empathy for the children. Most people seem to want Kate and Jon to handle this privately. The children have been exposed enough and deserve a chance to experience and flourish in a more normal childhood.
People would stop the tabloid junk if these two idiots would quit throwing themselves in front of cameras all the time. BTW Kate, nice “glass half empty” view of your marriage when you state that you two would have broken up even if you weren’t on a reality show.
Both of these morons are going to wonder why their children want nothing to do with them in another 15 years’ time.
I actually agree with her about this. There have been other families on reality shows (Roloff’s, Duggar’s, Table for Eight, etc.) who seem to have made the experience a means to tighten family bonds where Jon and Kate seemed to have been operating on two different planes of existence and it likely would have caught up to them. Parents of multiples have a higher than average divorce rate so I don’t think she’s being anything but honest by pointing out that financial strain + the stress of multiples would have illuminated the differences between them sooner rather than later.
not so fast there, a.e.- The Roloffs have seemed to be one step from falling apart for a while now and the show hasn’t helped, maybe made it worse. They are not in the tabloids, but that may be because they are so normal it’s mind numbing to watch the show.
Have you seen the Roloff’s lately? They are starting to act like Jon an Kate towards the end. Yesterday’s episode was clear.
I completely agree… all the naysayers are killing me right now. The fact of the matter is this show was a popular sweet family show until the media and teh tabliods got a hold of it… in the season before it all went to hell i did see her yelling and snapping at Jon but i also saw her keeping this family of 8 children running seamlessly. It amazes me how we all can live in gladd houses… I love my husband to death but there are parts of our life that if put in front of a camera and left up to the world to judge would look disfunctional… most families have those moments, but we have the pleasure of dealing with them in privacy. Even if there marraige was gonan fall apart I feel like the down fall of the show is how Jon handled everything afterwards… if nothing else he should have respected her as the woman that gave him 8 children and for better or worse he should have kept as much of there divorce private…
Any time you see a marriage without respect, you see a marriage headed to an end. Marriages can seem to live without love, but unless there is mutual respect, the marriage will die. Sometimes the respect is only for how well the other person does their ‘job’ in the marriage. From the first year, I knew these two were headed to divorce court unless they started to respect one another. Kate was obvious about it, but Jon had his issues with her, too. The cameras and Jon’s passive-aggressiveness only pushed it along. But the problems were there from the start and they never did anything to fix them.
Kate, you did this to yourself. And you still haven’t learned that your egomaniacal obsession with the media is the path of pain. You’re addicted to media coverage, and it has ruined your life. The first step is admiting you have a problem.
YES! It is sad for the family but Kate is so far from reality when it comes to her own hand in all of this mess! I can’t believe someone could be so blind! If you are friend-less, if you have no real family around, you’ve got to ask yourself, why? It just might be YOU!
Says the person who has to broadcast their thoughts on a public discussion board. Aren’t all of us Americans a little media addicted?
Kate Gosselin and the Chamber of Secrets– hahaha! I liked that.
Kate was believable. Good job.
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Hailey was not believable. She needed a shovel for all the BS.
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Hailey: “It’s hard. It’s really, really hard.” I mean, like, it’s hard.” —- Brilliant!
Wicked hard
LOL…you can tell that she’s a kid.
These two are unbelievable…playing their roles very well. Kate is the devoted, suffering, dutiful mother who only does the show to “support” her poor family. Jon, who went crazy after escaping from a loveless marriage, is now attempting to clean up his careless messes by playing the role of the repentant playboy. When will people wake up and realize that this is not “reality”. These two are courting the spotlight and paparazzi while claiming to hate it, while their children watch as their parents’ bitter divorce is played out on camera for posterity. Get the kids into counseling, the parents into mediation and let them all slip into obscurity! Please!!!
Natalie,
Thank you, thank you! Well said!
ditto,ditto,ditto!!!
Amen sister! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Ditto ditto
Amen!
I’m sorry but a lot of pending divorces go like this, just not in People magazine. The man decides he can’t take being an adult and he finds someone to stroke his ego and has an affair. The woman is only focused on the children and the illusional of being perfect and loses her husband. Happens all the time. The show gave them the opportunity to show the children things they couldn’t afford in the first place. My problem with Jon&Kate is why didn’t they go to counseling before it got to this?
Then Natalie you would have nothing to comment about. All of you here moan and groan about Kate and/or Jon but YOU are the ones here commenting about them. Why?
Because we like to. Why do you comment, Karen?
I believed Kate, I did not believe Hailey and I watched these two for the first time. Poor kids…I felt so sorry that they could not work things out for them.
And your opinion on who is trueful means what? Wake up and realize they are all mediahounds!! Remember all the “stars” of hit sitcoms, once they are off air they just fade away. TaTa Kate & Jon
Idiot! If you care about FAKE KATE’s kids, adopt them. I, for one, will enjoy reading the books by them, MY MOMMY MOSTER!!
I know. Those books will be scary. I bet Cara or Mady’s will be especially bitter. But Alexis’ will be spirited, unless they wear her down.
A “programmed” Kate. Crocodile tears again … pity party again. She doesn’t impress me … she is out for publicity for herself. She flies around town shopping all day and then takes her wrath out on the kids the minute they get off the bus. Good mommy?
I totally agree with how you see it. And I am surprised that TLC never made them do counseling from the beginning.
Little balls of promise? How about little bags of cash?
THANK GOODNESS Jon stopped this travesty, for whatever reason.
I really feel sorry for Kate. She does not deserve such treatment. She did nothing wrong.
Nice to see someone not trashing her. For whatever reason they went on TV, for whatever reason their marriage ended the bottom line is a marriage is over, children are split between visiting their parents and that is the sad part of this. Did I feel sorry for Kate? Yes, I did; so they put their kids on TV; other people do it and don’t get trashed the way she did. She certainly has handled this better than Jon; she doesn’t trash him the way she could and the way he has done to her. I thought it was an interesting and enlightening look into the aftermath of a marriage break up and you can say what you want about her; she started a marriage loving someone, they had children, the marriage failed and she is alone. Why can’t people in some way understand how she must feel? We have become such a cynical society and so ready to trash this women; 9 out of 10 families; given the chance to do a show like they did would grab it in a second so stop being so judgemental. I believe her tears were real, I believe she is hurting, I believe she is lonely and has very few people she can trust.
I agree completely…I think that Kate has handled herself with class and with grace in the midst of a really horrible situation. I hope that things work out for her and especially for the children. There is no question that she is completely devoted to her children. There are a lot of nasty people on here who are intent on insulting a woman who they do not know personally, have never met, and cannot even begin to understand having never been in her shoes. It’s really sickening! I just don’t understand how anyone can judge someone so harshly and so unfairly-it’s wrong!
Her tears are tears of regret. I believe in reality, she is crying while playing over and over in her mind that if only she had done things differently, they would still be on TV. If only she were nice to Jon. If only she complimented him more, made him feel loved and spent some alone time with him that they would never have been in a loveless marriage. And he should have also made her feel loved and beautiful. Instead he got tired of the way she spoke to him and he needed someone to tell them in any words he was still hot. There is no time machine though.
they hadnt planned to have 8 kids they were struggling. Then the got the show and jon quit his job… OK.. there marriage was on the rocks, typical of a multiples family house hold and they had a pair of twins and sextuplets. Alrite where am i going with this? Their marriage was doomed from the time they had the kids, but it wasnt their fault. yea anyone would lash out when youre dealing with that many kids. but its an equal job. He leaves Kate because thats the easiest way, get s a new girlfriend(they arent even divorced yet) talks so much smack about how hes the victim. when his kids really are, and shes stuck taking care of all those kids with the little help she gets now. Its just sad sad sad, and i love how Jon was with that rabbi saying he apologized(not to her face) but continues to talk bad about her. they both have problems they need to fix so why should one be the bad guy when they are both doing the same things. But i do see how when a divorce happens its usually the guy that skips out and starts over while the mother is left with the kids.
The part I had the hardest time with during the interview was when Ms. Morales kept trying to place all blame for the tabloid covers on Kate. I was raised to believe tabloids are trash and anyone who gives them any credence whatsoever is a fool. Kate should ignore the tabloids. The reporter was making it sound like what tabloids print is all on Kate, when we all know the reality is, if a tabloid wants to print something about you, they will.
It’s a ridiculous premise at this point to think Kate has the power to turn this crazy ride off at this point. Furthermore, she plain and simple CAN”T go back to a “Normal” job because it is financially unrealistic. She’s doing what she has to for her kids, which is to continue to try to find some way to earn enough money to support them. Her public persona is the only real capital she has at this point.
It may not be pretty, or ideal, but it’s practical.
Kate did nothing wrong? Perhaps you missed all those episodes when she was verbally obusive to her husband in front of the children. (in front of TV cameras) Jon was so beaten down – and you say she did nothing wrong? Kate started all of this with her behaviour and it is awful how she tries to get sympathy. We should feel sorry for Jon – he was the one verbally abused.
Oh my goodness, Really people?
They were in a marriage at any time he could have told her I am unhappy and we need to work on our marriage.. Isnt that what we teach our kids “use your words” “work it out”
Pain is the touchstone of growth. Look at what we have done to past tabloid kings and queens give it ten years and we will love them again. We will do it again with these guys. I will admit why do I even care cause I am home lonely and bored advoiding doing things that need to be done and I am sure that is all anyone else on here is doing… So, if your going to be distracted by things as unimportant to your life as tabloid drama,practice your being nice rules here and then you can take them out into your real life and you never know it might help make you have things to do in your own life and not care what is happening in tabloid land..
ARE YOU KIDDING ME, HAVE YOU NEVER WATCHED THE SHOW!!!
I agree, it doesn’t sound like someone who has watched the show.
Someone’s been taking…(dramatic pause)ACTING LESSONS. sob whimper tears.
LMAO!!! Yes, she does want to be “in movies”.
Man, Ken, she hit several of your key points you posted earlier. Did you take a shot for every one?
OH SHUT UP amy AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT US WORRYING ABOUT THE TABLOIDS!!!!!!!!!!!
Team kids here…anyone joining me!
nope
I think most of the posts are for “Team kids”. If you read further most of the posts are saying what about the children.
Huh??????
Gosh, I hate the things that people will say because they feel anonymous on the internet. I read this recap, and I think what she says seems pretty sensible. At least she’s being honest with herself. Her career IS being in the media, and she knows that. At least she isn’t trying to legitimize herself with a fashion line. She knows her place.
And there you’d be wrong. There was a line of clothing, but the $*** hit the fan right about their release time.
I have to admit I was so against giving any kind of ratings to “mommy of the year” but I couldn’t help myself as once again if ever I felt I was being too hard on her…I was redeemed yet again!!! Who in the world is this tiny tiny little circle of only 6 “friends” (one of whome we know is paid to be her “friend”-the hunky bodyguard) who most likely are building her up to again make a mokery of herself and what she claims to stand for. Nice friends, they are. All of the 6 friends are most likely laughing behind her back because she must have belittled them at some point as she feels she is so much more important in the world, her kids as well!!! NEWS FLASH KATE- you nor your kids(cute as they may be) are entitled to anyhting… You choose to have and provide for a family of this size, so go on and do so!!! Be grateful for what you have received and be the example. Work for what you want and nobody can ever take that away. Show them they can NOT depend on “cuteness” but rather believe in themselves to make things happen on their own accord and work for it in life rather than being props with crew members as stand in family. Kate, get real now as you claim they are the reason for everything-nice excuse, but remember you have put their business out to the world and they will see and pay for it one day because of your greed and oblivion. They are much too important to be your “props” forever, come on now. You have benefitted very well thus far so move on and focus on the kids now, its their turn to be the star and you the fan. Good luck kids!!!!
Wow. This is a big ole’ pile of crazy. Hope it made you feel better, though.
Whether you realize it or not, most of your friends aren’t really your friends. They flat out won’t stick by you when the “sh!t hits the fan” in your own life. Kate’s someone who’s gone through a life crisis that has clearly shown her who her real friends are. Any of us would be lucky to have 6 real friends.
I have 4… including my husband… 6 if I count a couple of co-workers!
“The kids miss the crew. The kids miss the filming.”
Anybody else find this quote, well, just weird?
Not really. To the kids, these were just men and women who came into their house and hung around with them. Just more adults to interact with. Of course they developed relationships with these people and miss seeing them. As for the filming, well, it certainly opened up a lot of doors to experiences they wouldn’t have had otherwise. Can you blame them for missing it?
Certainly an example of why this was anything but “reality.”
I wonder if they miss Aunt Jody and Uncle Kevin as much as the “film” crew. What about all those sister’s of Kate? Are they part of the chosen 6? or do they just “email” them too.
I found it weird. When people hangout at your house, the usually sit down, have a cup of coffee and you chit chat. People who hang out at your house don’t usually hold cameras and mics. But hey, thats just me..
I did.
If TLC wants a reality show, I’d like to hear from the crew what really went on behind the scenes for the past 4 years. Where is Jen Stocks?
Wow, to all those who cast the first stone. Sure over the years we seen Kate be the ‘over-bearing’ wife, but seriously, she had to be, Jon has never had a backbone so she needed to be the strong one. People should put themselves in her shoes for one day and imagine what it would be like to have to be the only responsible parent to raise 8 children while the father is out partying. Not that there isn’t two sides to their story, but cut the woman some slack, she’s doing what she believes she must do for her children. Keep your chin up Kate, focus on the positive and let go of the anger. Life is really too short to harbor such negativity.
She is exploiting her innocent children for fame.
So was John until he couldn’t get anything out of it. And then he behaved in an abysmal way that will damage his kids far more than anything Kate’s done when they’re old enough to surf the web. If you could get millions of dollars to ensure your children’s future (college etc. which is EXPENSIVE) don’t be so sure you’d be too big of a person to turn down the opportunity.
Exactly. Frankly, the only thing that keeps me from saying that she she be charged with child abuse is that the kids would wind up in CPS, which is even more vile than what she’s doing to them. But let’s stop with the “cast the first stone” crap, and how hard done by she is. This woman is abusing her children for fame and fortune, and I’m not sure which is more sickening… that she does it, or that you all watch it.
I think it is really sad what is happening to this family. It is even worse that people are so judgemental about their choice to be on tv. people act like if they were given an opportunity to make that kind of money they wouldnt take get real people!! you would. most of the negative comments come from people who are critical negative harsh people whos lives probably arent that great. divorce is awful and it has to be 10 times worse in the lime light my heart goes out to kate and her children they need lots of prayer!!! jon needs more prayer than they do he is lost and needs jesus!!!
Exploiting them more than say? Miley Cyrus’s parents? Or any other of the many young people we see on tv these days? Do I think it’s time to stop the cameras from rolling? Absolutely! But I guess they wouldn’t be rolling in the first place or continue to do so if we didn’t give them an audience for it. I personally can count on one hand the amount of Jon and Kate plus 8 episodes I have watched, but I feel for this family….divorce is never easy, and if you had to do it in the spotlight I wonder how well you would handle it. I just hope that one day they can all find some kind of happiness and peace.
BS
Based on that interview, she has built up a wall so high and thick that she won’t let anyone in. Not even her parents. Also, I don’t care how ‘bad’ your spouse acts, there is no excuse for degrading the father of your children in front of national TV. First, because it doesn’t say much about her, because she picked him and decided to have children with him. Doesn’t make her seem smart. Second, you don’t degrade the father of your children because children will begin to perceive themselves as worthless. Children build their identity from both their father and mother. When you put the father, that child perceives that you are putting them down because they are part of their father. If he was irresponsible and needed to be ‘corrected’ then that should have been done behind closed doors.
I think, considering his actions lately, she didn’t degrade him and she could have destroyed him on television. He has been much more vocal on how much he “despises” her and has disrepected her with a different woman each week. I think she handled he questions about him a lot nicer than I would have if my husband had openly cheated on me.
jon didnt have a backbone because she ripped that out of him on day one and put his balls in her purse. its so sad that for years we watch her emasculate him over and over and that was just for the few minutes they were on tv each week just imagine all the other times we didnt see it. she should be lucky that her “over-bearingness” didnt make him go nuts to the point that he physically hurt her. yea he has a lot of anger after taking her crap and being yelled at like I’m a child I would hate to hell out of her.
with all that being said I think its all a scam to get more ratings and publicity for the show and the new show she will be doing for TLC. her and Jon are laughing all the way to the bank.
Wow, one of the things that amazes me about J&K is that comments about them reveal so much about the commenter.
I’m sorry… did you just say she should be happy her husband didn’t beat her??? I don’t care if she’s the biggest pain in the butt who ever lived… A real man doesn’t leave his wife with 8 kids to parade around with whatever hot young thing does it for him at the moment!
Kate slapped Jon on a regular basis and called it “play” – if he had done that to her, he would have been arrested.
It’s nice Jon didn’t give her any “love taps” like she did to him–all the time. It got to the point where I had to tell my boys that Kate’s hitting her husband was not okay and not a “love tap”. That boys shouldn’t hit and shouldn’t allow anyone to hit them. Those love taps always disturbed me.
I thought that of Jon as well when watching the other shows and his passive/agressive behaviour I could so understand Kate. I was shocked however to read (before the divorce circus started) in her book Mixed Blessing how Jon was so supportive, he was her “rock” and it was almost as if she leaned on him. She gave him ALOT of credit in that book. Wonder if she was writing fiction? fantasy? or was that the reality BEFORE the reality show.
What a waste of time watching this show would be. People must truly be emotionaly dead in the Reality of there own lives to Waste anytime watching this pathetic program
No, it’s really people who comment on the emotionally dead on entertainment blogs who are truly wasting their time. The rest of us are fine.
Bravo!! LOL isn’t the hypocracy just hilarious???
The only Kate who has EARNED the right to be one-named is Hepburn…
Dear (Jon)/Kate Plus Eight,
I tried to nice the first time around, but the string of exclusive tell-all interviews really left me no choice. It’s time that you permanently leave my TV screen. I asked for space, but was smoothered even more by exclusive exposes, mudslinging via interviews, and reports of financial desputes. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Remove yourself from the glare of the limelight and go back to what you two were both fairly good at before fame tarnished your lives and marriage: raising your kids. Please don’t make me have to address this issue again. It’s for the best.
Sincerest regards to the kids,
Ugly Jenny
Do I think Kate is perfect NO!! I am not perfect, you are not perfect and how can people sit here and criticize so visciously someone they have only seen on TV. If all of these things were being said about me I would want to defend myself as well. Yes they did put themselves on a reality show but hindsight is always better. Everyone is talking about the Gosselins and what they are doing to their children, what about the Duggars? There is another show where they have 12 children. Why is no one up in arms about them? I myself believe that Kate is sad and hurt. I can only imagine how I would react if I very publicly have people call me a monster, see pictures of my husband hanging out on the lawn of our home with another women. Jon’s infedelity has been proven, he put it out there for all the world to see including Kate. No matter what that can not be easy for anyone to see. Is she perfect, no! Is Jon perfect no! Have they made the best decisions, no! Have you or I been perfect our entire lives, no! Don’t throw stones in glass houses.
Julezfl, I’ll give you a reason no one is up in arms about the Duggars. I don’t see Michelle Duggar parading around town in hooker high heels, low-cut shirts showing half her stuff, and being tailed by a bodyguard. Nor do I see the Duggars on every tabloid cover between here and there. I don’t see Michelle Duggar on the cover of People magazine every other week crying about how she is being treated. THAT’S why there is a difference! The Duggars have managed to stay grounded; Kate – not so much.
Apparently you SRO are missing the point as well, I didn’t say Michelle Duggar is on people and blah blah blah, what I am saying is: People are saying the single act of allowing camera’s in the home to film their children is child abuse and wrong and an explotation of the children. The Duggars, the Roloffs so on and so forth are ALL allowing camera’s, receiving free trips, free clothing, free gifts etc from TLC and sponsors. What is the difference? I did not say Jon and Kate are saints, they have both become very disillusioned as to what actual reality is like and I think they have very much lost their way but again I do not think any family or persons start doing a reality show thinking these horrible things are going to happen.
Michelle Duggar is like a stepford wife………creepy very creepy.
FAKE KATE is afraid her maids, mcmansion and her spa days are over!! that is the reason for the tears!! what a loser!!
The kids designer clothes and all the TLC paid vacations are also done..thats what she’s going to miss most. In the real world these things cost money!
Her complete lack of self-awareness is amazing.
The thing I really find annoying…is the asking herself and answering herself the question. For the love of pete, let NATALIE ask the questions. She is the one who went to school for journalism. Let her do her JOB!
Julez – you cannot criticize the Duggars. The fact that you did tells me you do NOT watch their show. There will NOT be a divorce in that family. And, they don’t do the show for the money. They have money already. I honestly believe, in their heart, they do the show because they want to share their belief in God and to share their family values with us.
You’re nuts. The Duggars get paid and they get paid handsomely – just like the Gosselin’s. Similar to the arc of Jon & Kate, the Duggars went from a clearly more modest existence to lavish adventures and “experiences” furnished by production, and they are most certainly collecting an appearance fee per episode, similar to all reality shows. Similarly, the Roloff’s had some means before the show, but when Matt lost his job and they were somehow able to continue to build onto the farm and finally triple the size of their home – how do you think they afforded were able to afford that?
Also, funny enough, all these shows are produced by the same production company that targets Christian families. The Gosselins have been a fixture in Christian ministry tours, as are the Roloff’s and Duggar’s. Essentially they are all the same with varying shticks to pay the bills.
Michelle H, from the responses seems like many people may have forgotten the Duggars we not in debt, in fact, they didn’t have any bills! Everything was paid for or the didn’t buy it.
The Duggars did not wonder how they were/are going to put food on the table and have a much larger family.
You don’t see the Duggars having “meltdowns” or the children continually bickering with one another. I was proud I was able to raise children who respected God, family and Country yet on a much smaller scale than the Duggars. We also decided to go the debt free route and had to set priorities.
One BIG difference is what the Duggars allow to be filmed. You don’t see the poop on the floor or see/hear the poop in the potty is worth photographing. And probably the best difference for the children later on, when a child needs a nap you don’t have to watch the temper tantrum because of a filming schedule. Michele addresses the importance of restraint in a VERY loving and supportive fashion.
michelle, people who watch shows are allowed to criticize them. that’s what everyone on here is doing, and most of us probably have seen jon and kate plus 8. who knows what will happen to the duggars. you certainly don’t.
The Duggars won’t divorce because they are Quiverfulls who believe that women are baby-making slaves to their Godly Husbands. I’d rather watch strong, forceful Kate than subservient obedient Ma Dugger.
So, do you hate all Christians, or just those with large famalies. Do you hate Catholics as well?
Let’s think about your statement, IF the Duggars are Quiverfulls do they depending on society to pay for their children? No
Are the Duggars neglecting their children? Again no.
Have the Duggars ever used birth control. Yes, this in its self precludes them from being Quiverfulls in the hateful way you describe. Michele felt the loss of the second pregnancy/child may have been connected to birth control and made the decision not to have to worry about a repeat senerio.
Have the Duggars ever needed help with fertilazation? Once again, no.
Do you see a pattern here?
The Duggars seem to honestly love each other, maybe you could clue us in on how Jim Bob sees or treats his wife Michele as subservient.
Don’t confuse mutual respect with “subservient obedient”.
oh sunrise. Do you really think it’s healthy for a woman to have 20 children? Ask any medical professional. They will tell you NO, it is not healthy. It is EXTREMELY detrimental to have so many children. The Duggars don’t belong on national TV, they belong on a Christian network. The women are clearly subservient, with their long skirts, young marriages, many children, etc. Women are NOT rabbits. 20 children is not normal. Women are not baby making machines.
Alan I would start by asking my Great-Grandmother, a mid-wife (not granny mid-wife) if she hadn’t died some years back. She was 90+ years old and had 15 children of her own. My 4 grandparents when combined with their siblings totaled 42. This did not include the spouses. I did not hear where this affected the health of these women or the daughters who had large families. Most of my family members live until their 80’s and 90’s a few until 100 years old. My own mother died at age 54 from multiple myleomia. This was not associated with bearing children.
When the Duggar girls are old enough they will be able to make decisions regarding a different way to dress. To say they belong on a Christian network makes me wonder, do you have a problem watching a tv show where the underware is showing and not enought cleavage. Maybe you need to tune into a different channel.
Michelle H- so are you saying the Duggars do not get paid for doing their show? I do not think Jon and Kate began the show thinking we are going to make money, get a very nasty and public divorce!! Everyone starts out with the best intentions, whether or not they end that way is another story. Another point you obviously missed Michelle was, everyone is saying that having the children on TV and filming a reality show is child abouse. The Duggars, the show about the 10 children and their parents on TLC, so on and so forth all have their children(some very young) on a reality show and filming. They are ALL making money off of the shows and off of there family. Is it not hypocrisy to say it about one but not the other?
It would be great if Kate would just tell the truth: “I have made a deal with the devil. I have become accustomed to a certain lifestyle and believe that having money is most important for me and my children to thrive. As such, I will have to deal with being in the spotlight and all the negativity that currently entails.”
If she just was honest about this, it would make it so much easier to like her and/or not hate her so much. But she seems to think that if she doesn’t directly confront that she is dictating her actions by greed, that others won’t see it. What makes her unlikable – and I do think she can be likable and can have a credible future as an entertainer – is that she refuses to get real with the public, and maybe even possibly, herself.
PLEEEZE KATE, it is time to “wake up every day” and work on bringing back the old Kate with improvement.
To say you haven’t changed is laughable, where is your families support? It appears because they may offer opinions in how things could proceed differently you totally discount everyones opinion except your own and the bean counters. How could you possible keep those children from family. Because there are differing opinions IS NOT a reason to keep the children from grandparents. I have seen this in my own and other families and can almost assure you as the children grow up they will figure this out on their own and at best just resent you for the decision and very possible hate you for the decision. I have seen where children refuse to speak to the parent for the time lost with loving family. Unless you are concerned for the direct health and welfare of your children, you might want to rethink this move.
To expect people to believe you honestly did not expect to end-up in the tabloids reminds one of the saying “you can fool some of the people some of the time, but, not all of the people all of the time”.
Have you been totally immune to the tv, magazine and other forms of media covering other reality show characters?
To try and restrict the audience to what you personally want aired and not accept the fact the airwaves are for everyone to view is not realistic. How in the world do you expect to accomplish this goal as a cartoon character voice or on a movie or more tv. You said it just seems like the natural thing to do at this point.
You state your children shouldn’t know about the word paparazzi because it isn’t normal at their age. Is it “normal” for children to grow up with film crews around and the crew sounding much like a babysitting service. Is it normal for adults to keep keaving their young lives because of the choice you have made in how to earn money.
Do you think it is “normal” for the children to have a mother who travels to the extent you have. Your time away from the children is for much more than food on the table. The trips, freebies, the fashion statement you seem to want to make go so far above and as you called it a “transition”. I am all for people striving for goals and feel goals are a healthy part of life. What are the priorities, a body makeover, never being photographed in the same outfit twice, to choose a meeting over your childrens birthday? Nice try on trying to remake yourself, however, you are not there and most peoples memories are not that short.
To say you don’t want to say “disparaging” things about Jon at this point is wonderful. Where was that attitude for your seasons of Jon & Kate plus 8? Your tone of voice isn’t even close to what is had been in the past. Are you taking acting lessons or lesson from the road of hard knocks.
Kate can step out of the spotlight. The trips, experiences, freebies and the salary per episode can all go away and this family can go back to a simplier yet happier life. Living in a million dollar plus house surely can not bring happiness with the amount it cost to run the house every month. Then add the expense of feeding and clothing 8 children.
To hear you repeat many times your children miss the show, miss the crew, miss the experiences and everything else the show offers is very indicative of what many people have repeatly stated, the show means more than your marriage did. Keep the show dump the husband is what earned the bad press.
For the Gosselin children not to be going to church because it was something they did together makes as much sense as saying the children can’t be fed because it was something that was done together, and for those who say it is different did you see the vacations and adventures ending because they used to do them together?
Well said sunrise. I only flipped back and forth during the baseball commercials but certainly saw enough. This woman is pure drama. I too found it quite amusing the comment about church. Give me a break. While you do not need to attend weekly services to live a Christian life, this woman is so far removed from that.
It is about the money and fame. There are families who make it with a larger than average number of children. As she says, it is too late to go back. What she really means is she is not willing to give up the things that SHE has become accustomed to. The extravagant lifestyle, million dollar+ home, travel, wardrobe and constant pampering. Where is the old Kate? She says Jon has changed, look back at previous episodes and you can clearly see who has changed. It appears that she was astranged most of her family long before the fame and fortune and that greed has just fueled the fire now. Was it worth it? Unfortunately those children have suffered without family in their lives…Kate will survive. Pathetic…do without the luxuries that have been thrown at you and “do what it takes” to provide for your family and maybe all of the crap will go away.
You nailed it!
While this poster is trying to sound intelligent, he or she needs some grammar and spelling lessons. Besides that, this whole post sounds like sour grapes. Give the woman a break.
Wanna compare GPA’s or IQ test scores? I’ll gladly put my Ethics Thesis on-line. How about you?
The statement above is neither modest or something I have ever mentioned on a post before and do not plan on ever mentioning again.
Was your statement of “grammar and spelling lessons” a struggle to find just the proper words to articulate your displeasure with my post?
I make no excuses for the spelling and grammer. Let me know when the red pen will be used and I will a greater effort to the areas you find deficient.
As for “sour grapes”, there isn’t one thing in my life I would want to trade. The good or the bad. Kate has the responsibility of 8 young children and has made, it seems, a point of making an effort to appear on talk shows and express how difficult her life is. When Kate stops complaining how difficult life is for the children and herself because they miss all of the goodies, I will stop what you perceive as sour grapes.
My heart goes out to the children. The family is included in my prayers that they may find peace within there hearts and for the children to have, and realize they have, 2 parents who love them regardless of material things.
In MY opinion, Kate deserves a break after she realizes the children missing the trips and film crew isn;t what is important. If or when I hear Kate even begin to realize what the children need the most, a stable family life, and the children are missing out on that is when I will have more compassion for Kate.
no need to mention the errors, I am aware of them
Jon and Kate???Who are these people? Weve seen them on the tabloids for months…I still have no idea who these appalling people are…are they celebrities, famous for being well known or well known for being “celebrities”…I guess you don’t have to have any talent or anything these days to be newsworthy…but I still have no idea who these people are…DO you?
They are famous for their personal lives rather than their talents.
love the fake tears… no sympathy for this fame-whoring phony
someone gave this psycho an hour special?? In the words of Mika, I just have to ask… “Why??? Why???”