KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (105 page)

Kate is oblivious to the needs of young children. Why on Earth would anyone who’s trying to convince the world that her kids have wonderful, happy, carefree lives, tweet about how structured and inflexible their lives are? She is so proud of her rigidity that she brags about it to the world:

My motto on way home EVERYDAY: 'routine, chickens, dinner, chores, homework, showers then bed. Time to play if you hurry!' :) play..repeat..

She sounds like a drill sergeant running a boot camp. Kids need some structure and routine in their lives, but they also need spontaneity and flexibility. Her tweet makes it sound like she is pounding that “motto” of routine into her kids’ heads every single day. Constantly hearing that and never straying from the daily script must be an absolute nightmare for her children.

MOVIE NIGHT

Kate promised her followers that she would be having a “movie night” at home with her kids. Family movie nights should be a special time where Kate can share a relaxing and pleasant experience with her kids. But she makes it sound anything but pleasant. The children must sit in a certain order on the floor a few feet in front of the television –on the stripe of the rug so they can’t spill popcorn on said precious rug – and Kate sits behind them on a comfy sofa throwing a “Tweet Party” for complete strangers. Kate tweeted photos of her DVD and popcorn and of the kids sitting all lined up on the floor:

http://t.co/Kde2b5RR
Our family night tonight…we can’t wait.

…moments til movie start..Sitting on ‘the stripe’(of the rug-2 avoid extra mess) w/buttery popcorn, munching&ready
!
http://t.co/4UcWMDwy

The Twitter “party” started out innocently enough, but as usual, things went sour pretty quickly:

xxxx
x @
Kateplusmy8
Great movie! Sounds like fun nght planned. But I don’t get why u don’t take kids to movie theatre? U have money.

…we all have money. It’s in our personal choices on how to spend it that counts… Have a good day!

x
xxxx
@
Kateplusmy8
Wow sorry that I hit a nerve by asking.But how much does it cost for a tanning session as compared to a movie?

comparing apples2oranges now? How I spend my per $ is also none of your business. Inspect your own finances,not mine!

x
xxxx
@
Kateplusmy8
Kate pls calm down.I didn’t mean to get you so upset.Just asking why deny kids movies at theatre.Still dn’t understand.

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takes more2make me ‘uncalm’;2
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: not deny I CHOOSE not 2go into public&cause panic&spend $ 4same movie we can watch @ home!

In that last tweet, Kate is saying she can’t go out in public with the kids because it causes a panic. Not true. I’ve been out with Jon and the kids in public many times and guess what? There has never been a panic. At best, some teenage girls would politely stare for a minute or so. We’ve been to movies, fast-food places, arcades, playgrounds. No panic. The panic only occurs when Kate is with the kids in public and someone looks at her because she is screaming and flailing her arms in the air shouting, “They’re taking unauthorized pictures of us!!! They’re taking our picture!!! THEY’RE LOOKING AT US!!!!!!!!”

People would stare at anyone carrying on with such histrionics.

And now, back to the movie.

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Don’t ur kids ask 2 C new movies tht their friends saw & R talking abt?Most kids don’t want 2 be left out.

seriously? Theres a lot more2life than seeing latest movie…Like getting good grades&playing outside!geesh!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Geesh like I don’t know that? There are some movies kids should see in the theatres like 3D etc.

no; still don’t agree.Movies r never ‘shoulds’ in life!Good experience? Sure. But no one would die w/o them!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 There R many movies that my kids would nvr wait to C months later on DVD. Harry PotterStar WarsTwilight…

that’s ur kids..Mine prefer 2 play tog,read&play outside! C how it’s dangerous2judge based on ur exp alone?

btw we have a 3D tv and glasses so all 3d movies can be viewed at home too;)

Could somebody PLEASE inform Kate that she doesn’t HAVE TO respond to everybody who tweets something she doesn’t want to hear? She always ends up making herself look bad. At the very least, she could try to be smart enough to think about what she’s tweeting. Minutes after tweeting that they have a 3D TV and glasses so they can view 3D movies at home, Kate felt compelled to tweet this:

except xtra glasses r $100 ea so we don’t actually have a pair 4 each person!Too many in Fam!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 By that logic than neither is owning 3 cars, tanning, nails, NYC, coloring hair, Iphone, Should I go on?

again.My choices,my $.Have I told u once how2spend Urs? 1 word: jealousy. Blocking u now.Sorry!

After blocking this tweeter, an uber-fan of Kate’s chimed in with the following:

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Well…U were patient w/that one 4quite a while! U tried ur best 2b reasonable. Was time 2move on! Next? LOL

yep! My kids have been clear across the world—I’ll never agree that movie in theatre is the ‘end all’ experience of life!

It looks like Kate missed the point once again. Her kids “have been clear across the world” while working on their reality show to make money for Kate. Now that the reality show has been canceled, Kate is not spending their hard-earned money on them – she is spending it on herself. She is maintaining her extravagant lifestyle by continuing to travel three hours each way to New York City to get her hair done every six weeks; tanning three times a week; manicures; pedicures; a two-seat, $50,000 sports car on top of two other over-$50,000 vehicles…and on and on.

KATE GOSSELIN’S TWITTER “FRIENDS”

Since anyone who has ever attempted to be Kate Gosselin’s friend in real life has been cast off because they didn’t know how to help her, Kate has taken to Twitter for friendship.

Woo hoo! I now have 79,000 wonderful supporting followers and friends! I’m a lucky girl to have each of you! :) xoxo

xxxxx @
Kateplusmy8
I am so glad that you take the time to talk with all your fans, and try to make them feel more like friends:) xox

you are friends! :) and you probably get more time than my non virtual friends … Sadly. Just not enough time in life!!!

Kate is very quick to call anyone and everyone on Twitter her friend. She says she loves all her Twitter friends and, as you can see by reading her tweets, Kate readily shares everything about her children’s private lives with them. She gives these people very personal information about her children, including intimate details of their whereabouts at any given time. Kate Gosselin just doesn’t think and doesn’t consider that, out in Twitter land, there are pedophiles and unbalanced people who could harm her and/or her family. Let’s take a quick look at just who Kate’s newest “friends” are.

Kate responded to a “close friend” named AdmiringDxxxxxx probably because he/she mentioned Lady Gaga’s Twitter account and Kate wanted to somehow be connected to a true celebrity. If she had bothered to look at what her “friend” AdmiringDxxxxxx was tweeting to others at the same time she was tweeting to him/her, she would have seen tweets where he/she wrote “I’m sending a bomb,” “I hate black people,” “you’re both fucking retards,” and “shut up fat bitch.”

Kate responding to this next tweet from SADIEMAEGLUTZZ is a disturbing example of her complete ignorance and disregard for her children’s safety.

SADIEMAEGLUTZZ @
Kateplusmy8
I’m so tempted to follow @Kateplusmy8.. they need their show back.

please do and I agree…

I had a special interest in Charles Manson at one time, so the name Sadie Mae Glutz hit me like a sledgehammer when I read that tweet.
Sadie Mae Glutz, whose real name was Susan Denise Atkins, was a member of the Charles Manson “Family” and was convicted of participating in eight murders, including those of five people at the Beverly Hills home of Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate, who was 8 months pregnant at the time. In her testimony, Atkins (Glutz) described how she held Sharon Tate down as she pleaded for her and her unborn baby’s life. To cause more suffering, they held off killing Tate until all the others were dead, then they stabbed her repeatedly while she called out for her mother.

I’m not implying that the person who chose this name for a Twitter handle is crazy or a murderer, but how can Kate possibly know? This Twitter “friend” showed a stunning lack of decency by choosing such a name. Kate is just exceedingly stupid to engage with anyone who would give themselves a name that is synonymous with brutality and murder. None of that seems to matter, however, as long as SADIEMAEGLUTZZ is feeding Kate’s enormous ego.

Whenever someone compliments or is supportive of Kate, she has a habit of never looking at them deeper. If she had, she would have seen that other tweets from @SADIEMAEGLUTZZ’s to his/her friends from the same day that Kate Gosselin befriended him/her were filled with profanity and sexually explicit images.

Instead of delivering information about her children to foul-mouthed tweeters just because they compliment her, Kate should be thinking about how she can best keep her children safe. I’ve been on Kate’s property many, many times with Jon, and I know the area around her property very well. It’s very dark at night and it’s secluded, and her house is a football field away from the road. Anyone could easily gain access to her property. It is very scary to think she has put out a welcome mat for possible danger.

Obviously Kate doesn’t care who or what tweets to her, and she certainly doesn’t care enough about anyone (other than celebrities) to know their names. She doesn’t even look at your name unless you tweet a message that Kate likes.

Does anybody remember Hailey Glassman, the daughter of Kate’s tummy-tuck doctor? When she was college age, Hailey ended up having a globe-trotting, very public affair with Kate’s husband, Jon. The tabloids called her “Hailey the Homewrecker.”

The next tweet is proof positive that Kate couldn’t care less who is tweeting her as long as they are stroking her ego. Someone calling herself “Hailey Glassman” tweeted Kate to ask if she would share her “Monkey Munch” recipe, and Kate was happy to jump right in with an answer:

hAiLeYgLaSsMaN1
Hey @
kateplusmy8
can u share the recipe for the "Monkey Munch". It's so yummy, my mom & I never seem to make it as tasty as you did.