KATE GOSSELIN FULL
Right now it's taking a beating, because we have a house full of children." "Our marriage is going to go through many more years of fine-tuning.
KATE GOSSELIN TV
TV also highlighted the couple's divergent temperaments and parenting styles - Kate is Type A and bossy, Jon is laid back - and that often leads to arguments. Kate, who prided herself on neatness and organization at home, saw those give way to pandemonium and chaos as the cameras rolled. But having cameras in their home and following them around four days a week definitely took getting used to. Also, "we didn't have time to film and we like having pictures and video," adds Jon, who'd landed an IT sector job.
KATE GOSSELIN SERIES
Their popularity made a series a no-brainer for Discovery, and financially enticing for the family. A news report about the Gosselins had reached a Discovery Health channel producer, which led to the special "Surviving Sextuplets and Twins" in May 2006 and its sequel the following year. Rescue came from an unexpected source: reality TV. But I knew my babies were counting on me, and I had to keep it together," Kate remembers.
"There were days I just wanted to cover my head with a pillow. Both she and Jon had lost their jobs, compounding the financial strain, and they relied on an army of dozens of volunteers that helped with feedings and diaper changes.
KATE GOSSELIN SKIN
Kate weighed 205 pounds at the time, and later had a tummy-tuck to tighten the stretched skin and muscles in her midsection. The sextuplets were born just shy of 30 weeks on May 22, 2004, weighing around five pounds each (2.27 kilograms). Kate went on bed rest at seven weeks and was hospitalized at 20 weeks. "We were absolutely opposed to reduction." Eliminating any of the eggs was not an option. We were told that there was a possibility of four, but we were truly unaware that there were seven on the day that our procedure was done, or we would not have gone through with it," she emphasizes, noting that one of the embryos didn't develop. At five I started crying and at six, I was shaking, absolutely sobbing. "There were seven sacs with four yolk sacs, or babies, in four of them. "I will never forget this day as long as I live," Kate vividly recalls. As with the twins, the second fertility treatment worked, but this time the news was a shock. When the girls turned one, she started thinking about having another child. She compares the procedure with in vitro fertilization, stating "there are no eggs removed or put back, as with IVF." She became pregnant on the second attempt, and gave birth to Cara and Madelyn on October 8, 2000. Kate had intrauterine insemination, which involved implantation of Jon's sperm via a catheter. So we decided to check out a fertility doctor." "Basically, I didn't ovulate and would need help getting pregnant. However, she discovered she had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, which would make conception difficult, if not impossible. At the time, Jon was 22 and Kate was 24, and she wanted to have a child right away. The couple married June 12, 1999, in the garden of a friend's home and honeymooned at Disney World. The chemistry was instant between them when they were introduced, and Jon split with his then-girlfriend. Jon Gosselin was working at a hotel in October 1997 when Kate, a nurse, visited a friend who also worked there. So how did this Pennsylvania couple end up with two sets of multiples, and how do they manage eight rambunctious kids, now aged eight (twins Madelyn and Cara) and four (sextuplets Alexis, Aaden, Collin, Leah, Hannah and Joel, in order of their birth)? And how do they keep their marriage from collapsing under the strain? As you'd expect, it's not easy, but as the title of their family biography (written with Beth Carson) would suggest, the Gosselins view their lot as "Multiple Bles8ings."
KATE GOSSELIN PLUS
"Jon & Kate Plus 8," the docu-series that has followed the Gosselins for four seasons, is TLC's most popular program. But even if you don't envy Jon and Kate Gosselin, the often-overwhelmed parents of this young octet, their unusual circumstances are undeniably fascinating, and great fodder for TV. One new baby at a time is a handful for most parents, so the thought of bringing home six infants - when you already have twin toddlers - is downright terrifying, from the cost of formula and diapers to the logistics of multiple 2 a.m.
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