Their latest cover reads “Mom to Monster,” and then lists all the reasons why Kate is a horrible, evil person. Man, does anyone know where I can find Us Weekly‘s circulation numbers? I wonder if all this hateful coverage of Kate is boosting their sales, because they sure do seem set on milking it for all it’s worth.
Listen: I don’t like the way Kate Gosselin treats her husband any more than you do, Us Weekly. I don’t want to be her friend. I don’t think she’s a nice person. But I continue to believe that she loves her children and puts them first, and this headline crosses the line.
I agree, and maybe this doesn’t mirror the thoughts of most people buying those magazines… but when I see a headline so seemingly exaggerated like that one, it makes me not even want to look inside. It just sounds like everything in there will be like ‘she turns into an alien at night!’ *says a source super duper close to her, and ‘she murders children!’ *says a best friend to her mother, etc.
Personally, I’m more concerned with the ‘They’re Dating! CHRIS PINE & AUDRINA’ segment. This is seriously going to affect the way I watch Star Trek and will permanently colour my judgment of Chris Pine. Ugh. What.
My hope is that the children are nurtured and bringing in a camera crew to film their lifestyle certaintly disrupts the “normalcy” of their development.
OMG, she went from a chubby brunette to a skinny blonde! She must be evil!
Bah hahahaha. Thank you for being awesome.
Ugh. That hair cut!
Word, Beat. I continue thinking she’s a psychopath with outrageously bad hair, but the children always appear polite, well-mannered, sweet (uh, excluding Maddy), and, above all, very well loved. I think there’s probably something seriously fucked up in Kate Gosselin’s head, but she isn’t a bad mother at all.
nope I did see the episode recently where she picked out beds for the little ones and one of them was hurtiong and she barely blinked an eye …. Jon took care of his son in the parking lo. She was too worried about picking out the beds with the salesman (I am sure for free)
Last I heard was that Kate and Jon were in therapy together and they have agreed to air that as well as the rest of the show!!
I cannot wait to hear a therapist tell Kate to quit being such a bitch to her husband!
The only reason Kate would agree to therapy or make the public BELIEVE they are in therapy is to continue this farce of a show. Kate does what’s best for Kate.
I don’t disagree with that. I just really, really want to hear somebody tell her to give her husband his balls back.
I don’t think Kate is going anywhere near Jon’s balls these days. They have started to drop.
well i just happen to be flippin through the channels and they were showing jon and kate. well just when i stopped for like 10 seconds, what came out of jons mouth??! “i just do what my wife says”!?!?!
tha says it all..
Let me guess, he did what his wife said and it wasn’t good enough. She criticized it even though she wouldn’t do it herself.
i didnt stick around to find out, that show makes me cringe! he was at a buffet, so i assume she must have told him what to get to eat….
Doesn’t even look like the same person… only the nose and the eye colour is the same.
That’s because the first picture is from right after she had the sextuplets. If you look close she still has the IV’s in her arm. You aren’t supposed to die your hair when you are pregnant, hence her natural brunette color, and she obviously gained a lot of weight carrying so many babies at once.
Yes, this much is obvious. I’m just making an exclamation.
I really, really hope they can work things out. I agree that she seems like a great Mom and Jon also seems like a wonderful Dad. The children are beautiful, polite and so loving towards each other so they must be being raised with much love. Except Madie, who really is a brat!
I don’t think you are watching the same show I used to watch.
Mady is a child. Blame and criticize the parents but please leave innocent children alone. Someday she will google herself and see horrible things written about her. It is not her fault. She’s crying out for love, affection and attention but her mother calls her “mean and ugly.”
Please don’t call a child names. Thanks.
Um…you say ‘used to watch’ so I assume you haven’t seen very much of this show. You are wrong on both of your points.
1. Kate never has and never would call any of her kids mean and ugly.
2. Mady is REALLY mean to the other kids. She pushes them and kicks them and then says it was on accident. She even asked one time if she got a pencil out and poked them if it was an accident.
It’s true that she is calling out for attention. Jon and Kate have even admitted that but they are trying their best with eight kids. If you had eight kids I’m sure they wouldn’t be half as behaved. Please have all your facts straight and try to put yourself in the situation before commenting ridiculous things.
I have my facts straight and I heard her say it with my own ears — twice!
Go ahead and blame the child. Maybe she’s a “bad seed” and will never live up to your expectations.
Well get your ears checked because she’s never said it. She has said that she didn’t want her ‘ugliness’ to get on all the kids. She obviously didn’t mean physical ugliness since 1.that is impossible and 2. she was talking about discipline at the time. She meant she didn’t want Mady’s bad attitude to affect the other kids good times. That is completely understandable. I am not blaming Mady for anything she’s just a kid and wants to get attention but at the same time you can’t blame the parents. They have eight kids and if one is a little more grouchy and temperamental that is just their personality and the way they react to things. You can’t say oh the parents didn’t teach that one single child any better.
Who cares. I am still goin to read it.
Kate crossed the line years ago when she used her kids for money.
It’s already posted online to read.
yes, because only Kate did. She is clearly the only parent present.
You Kate haters are scary.
Scary? Why, because we want the children out of the limelight? We want the children to be children and not commodities.
ooooh, so scary, people with ethics. oooooh.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-the-gosselin-8
Thanks so much for addressing this and opening it to discussion.
My BFF and I walked by this cover at the grocery store, and I was just like, “I love how they’re using her awful hair as evidence that she is no longer a sane person.” My best friend blinked, and then said, totally serious, that she didn’t like the press’s treatment of Kate, and wasn’t she the one who was cheated on? And I nodded and said, well, we always vilify the harpy who makes her husband cheat.
I’m not sure if my friend caught my sarcasm, and I didn’t get to find out because that’s when we found the mini-quiches I’d been searching for, and we started squealing because my best friend’s wedding shower will have mini-quiches, yay!
I don’t think she was ever a mom. She’s always been a monster, just ask her sisters, brother and parents. People who have dealt with her say she was even a bitch before she met Jon.
You’re right that Kate has always been a ‘bitch’. She has always been like this. She didnt just overnight become OCD and extremely critical of Jon. Maybe before they had more affection between them because she emasculated him in private, but once they started to get famous and Jon started to get more attention he started to resent her more. I think the same thing happened with the film crew and producers. Kate has always been neurotic, but it just started getting to them more over time. She never got along with most of her family from before filming. I myself am OCD it is a sick compulsion that I do not care to change. Im very happy in my madness and frantic cleaning. It is very calming to clean, and when things arent im anxious and i tend to freak out on the people who make the mess. This is something which is impossible to conceal because it is a compulsion. I have never dated anyone who didnt experience the extent of my OCD. You cant step into my house before you experience it. You have to take off your shoes and immediately wash your hands. You can see by my fridge and cupboards where everything is lined up and has its place. You can even see it in the way I eat by careful dividing everything on my plate into a neat section and not liking the sections to touch each other. Clearly I am mad. If anyone marries me they will have known this especially if they survive me planning the wedding. I will not feel sorry for my husband if he suddenly decides he cant take it anymore. I was like this from the getgo pal!
hey, if you’re truly happy in your madness, that’s great. i just hope that before you consider having children, you’ll seek treatment so your OCD does not rule your children’s lives. personally, i think if kate had had any common sense, she would’ve realized a person with her personality and issues should not have more than a couple kids.
i wouldn’t have chosen the word “monster” but i AM scared of her. she’s scary when she loses her temper.
and i have a hard time thinking she puts her kids first when she seems more worried about their clothing staying clean than their feelings (she took away their ice cream at disneyworld because it was too messy). and how can you tell a little boy you’re throwing away his most special stuffed animal because he got gum on it? i wish she’d get help for her OCD because that’s just cruel.
I think my kids will be extremely happy that their mother makes them dinner from scratch and that their home is clean. That they have schedules and order in their lives. That is exactly how my mom was. She made everything, breakfast, lunch, snacks she would leave in the fridge for my friends and I after school, dinner. I had skating and dance lessons. She checked all my homework. She always knew where I was. I could easily criticize the more “relaxed” parents with messy houses, chubby children parked in front of the tv, playing video games, having frozen dinners and take-out for dinner most of the time. Frantic parents who are stressed because they are disorganized, they have no schedule, they cant find anything in their house. However, kids adapt to their parents. they tend to be comfortable with what they grow up with and they tend to turn into their parents. My grandmother’s house is immaculate and she cooks everything from scratch. My sister even makes all her baby food from scratch. I also think that it is our culture, we are Jamaican and ‘cleanliness is next to godliness’. As long as their parents show them love kids are happy.
Thanks so much for writing this article! The media, who seems to be getting most of their info from the hate blogs whose main intent is to ruin Kate Gosselin, has really gone too far on this one! While Kate certainly has her problems, I think she really loves her kids and is doing what she thinks is best for them. There are a couple of blogs devoted solely to destroying Kate Gosselin and much of what has been published in US magazine seems to come directly from one of those blogs, as do the incredibly hate-filled sour grapes interviews from Kevin and Jodi Kreider, Kate’s brother and sister-in-law. Gosselins Without Pity, is a hate blog whose happy dance can be heard around the world as they continue their MISSION of bringing down Kate Gosselin. No one deserves this treatment…..
what? I never heard about one of the kids going to the emergency room! what happend?
as a man it’s every man’s nightmare to have all these kids and have your wife try and emasculate you in public. but a- man she’s hot after all that work she had done (even with the reverse mullet), and b- i read that cover while standing in line at the store and i thought the same thing; it’s clearly a hateful, mean-spirited attempt to sell magazines. i see this backfiring on them
Am I the only one who thinks we are being set up to get curious about how the show is going to evolve with their “separation”, and turn on or TV sets on TLC to watch the new season of Jon and Kate + 8? It’s a little suspicious for me. How did they mysteriously manage to have all the gossip buzzing around just in time for the new season’s premiere? Some people said bad publicity at the end its just publicity, right? We are being set up people! That’s my theory. :)
I think so too.
I think Kate is a very demanding and controlling woman, but then again, most of them are (YES you are) to a certain degree. Some more than others, and I guess we can notice it more on her, because she’s in front of a camera most of the time. Anyway, I think that she is very pretty, sexy and would look great if she started working out with weights in order to get a lean and toned body.
Has anyone watched this show??? I never paid attention to this show until this uproar. I watched the marathon on TLC, and lo and behold I do believe Kate has been the one that has been having the most problems in this relationship. I just saw an episode where Kate was waiting for John to take her shopping for her winter clothes. She has no clue about fashion and he is the one who takes the reigns. When I saw that, I totally saw how their relationship worked. I do believe that Kate finally figured out how to better herself. Does that make her a bad person? I say—NO.
yea, but that is just one episode. One of the rare ones where they actually get along. You know she is a bad person when she barks at him for entertaining the children, talking to other adults instead of her, and for BREATHING!! That is not a good person, in my opinion, but everyone is entitled to their own, i guess.
if she put her children first, they would not be on TV, period.
If they BOTH didn’t put their families story out there how would they pay for 8 children to go to university? They are doing this for their family, do those kids seem bothered to you?
oh, yes, it is both of them, not just her, i should have clarified. they may not seem bothered in the cheery-picked clips they air on tv. maybe they aren’t bothered now, but i can’t believe having their childhood on tv (and people online calling mady a brat) isn’t going to affect them down the line. if jon and kate couldn’t support eight kids to their liking, maybe they shouldn’t have misused medical technology to have 6 more at once when they already had two.
haha I like the title, they should have just gone with MOMSTER. Actually thats what I call my mom but its more of an affectionate nickname then to be mean
I don’t think that they are being too harsh. If she doesn’t care about her kids, she shouldn’t be getting good publicity. If she did love her kids, she would’ve gone to the emergency room with _______(i havent heard which kid it was) instean of eating dinner. I think US weekly SHOULD he harsh because (since she is completely obsessed with the material items she recieves from the show) she is harsh on her children. They are all soooo sweet and deserve the best, which is NOT what she is giving them!!
She does NOT seem like a good Mom! What are y’all talking about?? She’s admitted in her new episode that she has been away alot (20 out of 30 days is ALOT!) and when she is there – she orders her children around and labels them terribly. You want to know why Maddy is so “bad”? Because her Mom tells her – and the whole world – that she is. Poor girl – what chance does she have? And don’t even get me started on the way she abuses her husband – who seems like a normal, really decent guy. I can’t stand Kate. The more I see her, the more I hate her. And the clearer it becomes that all she cares about is making money at the expense of her children and her marriage.