KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (106 page)

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3.25.12

The next tweet was Kate’s response to her “number one fan” who asked Kate a personal question about who was at Kate’s house for her big Christmas party. Of course, Kate gave her the information she wanted. Sorry “number one fan.” You won’t see your name in print here. This was Kate’s response:

kids friends and their parents
(my friends)

Kate and her manager/PR people have gone to great lengths to try to convince everybody what almost nobody believes…that Kate Gosselin really, really does have friends. Kate just can’t stop telling us that she has friends. Here is how she described a visit from two of her “friends” that came to town for a “girl’s weekend.”

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Happy Saturday!! Whatcha doing this weekend?

my marathon girls are coming to visit!!!! :) yay!

Gotta go get rdy 4my wkend w/ my marathon friends!We ran the Las Vegas marathon together in Dec&are spending some girl X tog this wkend!YAY!

Just finished a fun run/major gab session w my marathon girls! Was so wonderful to run between them again! Off 2 enjoy dinner/drinks later!

Aww the girls and I ready for dinner
.... 
http://t.co/Z2vR6Sbx

So,I'm home&ready4 bed..latest night out in a LONG time!We had a great dinner at Green Hills Inn&nonstop girl talk!Up2run again in am! GN!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 So another "fun run" this mornin I see! U must really be in good shape 2do that back2back runs! How far have U been going?

only 6 each day yesterday and today. We talk the whole time. So fun and great to be able to talk while running a good pace!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 are you & ladies planning pool side relaxation today? On my list after late lunch with my dad.

why yes, we are... While we wait for my kids to get home! :) can't wait to meet each other!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 hey kate, just droppin in to say hi! any special plans for today!

marathon girls for relax then dinner when my kids get
home! Ran this am with them so a good weekend overall

xxxxx @kateplusmy8 Did you have a fun day as I relaxed like it was going out of fashion!

well, here relaxing IS long out of fashion lol. Yes we had a great day visiting with wonderful friends!

We had such a wonderful visit w gracious friends!My kids loved meeting &playing w my marathon girls! :) It was a 'must do again weekend'!

Wow. All of that tweeting just because her two “marathon girls” came to visit and stay for the weekend. As it turns out, the two “friends” in question were the same two ladies who just happened to show up at one of Kate’s speaking engagements, and then just happened to convince Kate that she could run a 26.2-mile full marathon just one month prior to the marathon in Las Vegas.

It has been suggested on the blogs that this “friendship” is nothing more than a business relationship set up by Kate’s manager, who just so happens to specialize in fitness and nutrition.

According to her tweets, Kate was without her kids that weekend in June 2012, left alone in a very, very large home that is equipped with guest rooms and an apartment above the garage. I witnessed Gina Neild’s parents staying there when they visited Kate for the holidays.

The point is, the house is large enough and comfortable enough to have accommodated Kate, her eight children, Steve and Gina Neild and their two teenage sons, plus Gina’s parents in the apartment above the garage.

So here is the question: If these two ladies who visited Kate are really and truly Kate’s “wonderful friends,” like the above Twitter love-fest would suggest, and not simply business associates, and Kate had the house all to herself because her children were away for the weekend as she tweeted, why then would Kate have them stay 7.26 miles away at the Homewood Suites in Wyomissing, PA?

As soon as I saw the photo that Kate posted, I knew they were at the Homewood Suites, which has been Kate’s favorite local hotel for years. The TLC crew sometimes stayed there on overnights, and Tony Dovolani stayed there during the
Dancing With The Stars
days.

Just out of curiosity, I drove there because I thought I recognized the hotel, having been there many times over the past several years. Sure enough, Kate’s photo was taken right outside the lobby to the right of the front doors.

The restaurant they went to was another 15 minutes away from the Homewood Suites, so it would appear that Kate stopped by the hotel to pick up her “friends” and then continued on down the highway for dinner. I wonder if the “friends” even got to visit the Gosselin homestead because Kate posted the following tweet, which included a link to a photo on Kate’s website:

New picture is up! Oh so cute! We had a great picnic/swim with friends on Sunday! Check out
http://t.co/J4PZZkWF
to see the gr8 shot!

It’s curious that the “friends” weren’t even in Kate’s photo.

So Kate spent the weekend alone in her giant, empty house while her “friends” stayed miles away at a hotel.

POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL?

On February 8, 2012, with millions of dollars in the bank, a million-dollar home, $200,000 worth of cars sitting in her garage, nannies, a cook, gardeners, a pool service, an $800- to $1,000-a-day bodyguard/road manager on call, etc., believe it or not, Kate tweeted that she was sewing a sock for one of her girls. It sounded like a scene right out of
Les Miserables
. Woe is you, Katie Irene. Woe is you.

How can u tell I'm tired
?

I'm sewing cara's sock that has a hole in it.She is 1 sock on&1sock off&I asked her if her foot is still 'bald'?

And alas, the sock sewing momma is done and she's going to sleep.. Lots of variables here so haven't been getting sleep....& I am going now!

Now listen to this “super” mother first complaining about how much money caring for her children’s eyesight is costing her, and then making a joke about their “blurry eyes” to strangers on Twitter:

…6 eye dr )ophthalmologist) appointments & $650 later,it’s dinnertime w 6 sets of blurry eyes!;) I could feed them ANYTHING tonight lol!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Ha…imagine all the kids in glasses…cute? 2 know whose is whose….designer frames? $$$$ LOL!

no!!!! I hold my breath each year… Too expensive and constant repairs! 1 in glasses is PLENTY!

This next tweet sums up the maddening contradiction that is Kate Gosselin. She moaned about how eye doctor visits for her kids are so expensive, but she thinks $130 earbuds for herself are “Expensive but totally worth it!”

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 I need new earbuds the standard issue just aren’t cutting it on the treadmill. What do you use?

I use bose earbuds! Expensive but totally worth it! Stereo right into your ears! :)

Kate, the multi-millionaire, is forever complaining about how expensive it is to raise her eight children, while at the same time bragging about her lavish lifestyle. I’d love to get a line-item breakdown of how much her hair appointments in New York City, her weekly manicures/pedicures, her three-times-a-week tanning sessions, her luxurious trips around the globe (without her kids), etc., etc., etc., actually cost her.

As if the horrible tragedy of the expensive eye care was not enough, there was an even greater tragedy Kate had to endure and cry about on Twitter. These tweets document her months of sadness because she can’t afford to take her kids on vacation:

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 My friend at work just made reserv. This summer @ outerbanks. Made me think of your trips. :)

oh I so so wish we could go this summer… Kids need sand&sun!

Aww Cara&Mady&I are reminiscing abt r trip 2 Aus and NZ..the flight there etc..Great memories!Kids say a lot ‘When are we traveling again?’

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 If they want to go back & r asking why not take them all back?

flight costs!!!!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 memorizing the fast fleeting sound of the waves crashing and the sound of the ocean-my peace and serenity

hey lady, I saw your tweet yesterday. Did you have to rub it in? :) my kids are BEGGING for a beach get away :)

It sure sounds like Kate is, as well. Begging that is. But be warned. This is what happens if you question Kate, even if you’re a fan of hers:

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 I don’t get how she says the kids miss traveling.well then use YOUR money n takethe kids on vaca likethe rest ofus do

I’m sorry but I detect much bitterness in you. I gotta keep my life positive so I need to block you. Sorry
you’re so negative :(

Here’s Kate the millionaire responding to a tweetie who asked Kate if she had any plans to take the kids to the beach this year:

lol…I’d give anything to go to the beach with my tribe…but no, don’t have any sorry!

Kate would “give anything to go to the beach” with her “tribe”? So why doesn’t she? I’m broke and I live ten minutes from Kate and I take my kids to the beach all the time. It doesn’t cost a lot. Simply pack a cooler with sandwiches and other snacks and drinks, or take a Coleman grill and cook hamburgers and hot dogs under a pavilion by the playground while the kids play. We go to Stone Harbor and Cape May, which are both less than three hours from Kate’s driveway. Both have quiet beaches where nobody would bother her, or even notice her if she didn’t stand around waving her arms and screaming for attention. She would have to pay for her own gas though.

Everyone will be relieved to know that in August of 2012, Kate got her grifting wish! A company named @RelaxOnTheBeach stepped up to the plate to save Kate and the Gosselin eight from a dreary summer by giving her the use of a beautiful beach house…for free.

Leading up to that point, Kate had proudly tweeted to the world in June of 2012 about her monthly luxurious trip to New York City to be styled by celebrity stylist Ted Gibson, then wined and dined at one of the city’s finest restaurants, Fig & Olive:

Thank you @
JasonHueman
and @
tedgibson
for making me beautiful and for sharing an amazing dinner @
fig
&olive with me! Fun day w friends! XO

Kate was still talking about her financial struggles in July of 2012:

Awww yeah. I thought same thing. It IS tough to cover costs of large Fam-I’m struggling- but hoping my decisions are rewarded!:)

She is struggling to cover the costs of having a large family, but she is clearly not struggling so much that she has to forego her trips to NYC so Ted Gibson can make her beautiful.