KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (13 page)

Kate Gosselin had her father’s church mobilize and had Jon alert their own church to make sure that an army of volunteers turned out in full force to help.

The McCaughey’s spoke at pro-life events and continue to oppose selective reduction.

Kate Gosselin spoke at pro-life events and continues to oppose selective reduction. Kate sent out solicitations to huge numbers of church groups in the United States to hire her to come and speak.

As written in the
Time
magazine article in 1997, Bobbi McCaughey, upon seeing the ultrasound with seven babies said, “The words shock and disbelief come to mind. For a good length of time, I couldn’t wrap my mind around this.”

In
Multiple Blessings
in 2008, Kate Gosselin, upon seeing the ultrasound with seven babies said, “I was in a state of denial. I simply could not allow my brain to process what my eyes were telling it.”

Kenny McCaughey said at the first news conference when his septuplets were born, “It just strikes me as a
miracle.
”

In a
Newsday
article in 1997, Bobbi McCaughey said, “The whole notion of the miracle, after all, hinges upon the acknowledgement that
the odds were extraordinarily slim for the infants’ survival
in the first place.”

Nobody mentioned a miracle regarding Kate Gosselin’s story, so she mentioned the word “miracle” herself, over and over again in her books and in her church speaking engagements.

From
Time
magazine: All the McCaughey girls wear identical outfits, as do the boys.

All the Gosselin girls wear identical outfits, as do the boys.

Bobbi McCaughey said, “They’re my children, and I
wanted
them.”

Kate Gosselin said
she needed them to know how much that they were
wanted
, loved and know it wasn’t the plan they had (to have them). It was the plan God had for their family.

Bobbi McCaughey said, “
God gave us these kids
. He wants us to raise them.”

Kate Gosselin said, “
God gave us these
exact
kids
.”

Bobbi McCaughey said, “Just to have the daily assurance that nothing’s going to happen today that God hasn’t already planned for me.”

Kate Gosselin said that as
a Christian she believed Psalm 139:16 which says that all of our days are fashioned for us before we’ve even lived one of them. God had already ordained exactly if, when, where and how Kate’s baby would eventually come to be… The doctor Kate believed was simply put in her path to carry out what was already her God-given destiny.

Bobbi Mc
Caughey’s perinatologist said, “I attribute the success of the pregnancy to God
blessing
Bobbi McCaughey.”

Kate Gosselin said she
feels too that God brought this our way as part of His continual
blessing
of  and whatever God chose to give us, we would accept as a
blessing.

In fact, nearly every tenth word in
Multiple Blessings
is
blessing
.

Bobbi McCaughey said, “We can’t do anything but
trust God
. So far, He has come through.”

Regarding trusting God, Kate said that a lack of trust in God would always prevent
them from receiving His best; She would continue to wait and trust God to send them the right house in His right timing; Kate, the complete planner and obsessive controller, finally absorbed the fact that she could trust God to see to all the details; Kate realized that God did not make a mistake when He gave her six instead of just one. This was the beginning of learning to trust God completely.

In 1997, the media dubbed the McCaughey septuplets, “The Magnificent seven.”

The media didn’t make up any cool names for Kate Gosselin’s children, so she did it herself.
Kate dubbed her own children and family:

The six

The Gosselin six

Sixgosselins.com (Original website)

Ten Gosselins (Mailing labels)

Kate Plus Nine (June 2008, when she and Jon were supposedly happily married)

KatePlusMy8 (Email address and later her website)

[email protected] (Kate’s early email address)

[email protected] (Another of Kate’s early email addresses)

[email protected] (Yet another of Kate’s email addresses)

Kateplusmy8.com (Post-divorce and current as of December 2012 website)

When discussing the naming of her sextuplets in her book, Kate Gosselin says that they just picked first names
randomly
. Bobbi McCaughey’s first-born septuplet daughter was named Alexis, and her last-born septuplet son was named Joel.

Kate Gosselin “randomly” named her first-born sextuplet daughter Alexis and her last-born sextuplet son Joel.

Read that part again.

IN HER OWN WORDS

These
paraphrased excerpts from Kate’s journal are examples of how Kate expresses herself when the cameras aren’t rolling and Discovery isn’t there to tell her what to say. The exclamation points are Kate’s.

July 2006

Kate wrote that Betty Hayes from New Jersey called her to probe her about their specials with Discovery Health, asking for details about if and how much they were getting paid. Kate was like shocked and instantly irritated!
Apparently Billy Hayes of Adv Med Prod called them again and asked them to do a special AGAIN!!! Kate said she is so mad! She then said the Betty asked her if anyone sent them gifts? Kate told her about the stroller and her surgery because she didn’t want to lie. (What????) Kate didn’t tell her about the twenty episodes or the amount they are getting because they were sworn to secrecy on that! Kate wrote that she is just so appalled at the competition that higher order multiples creates! Kate says that she’s merely trying to provide for her family and rely on the Lord to do so! Kate HATES this competition pressure that she is forced to deal with! She called her producer as soon as she hung up with Betty to let her know that she is not going to compete with the Hayes family or anyone else!

August 2006

Kate wrote about kindergarten testing for the twins. She quickly got to how unimpressed with the teacher she was after her first conversation with one of the twins. She said that the teacher somewhat blandly tolerated her daughter’s infamous blithering on and on and Kate didn’t like that. She accused the teacher of not being interested in what the child was saying and only being interested in what she had to say next!!!! She made fun of the teacher’s name writing, Mrs Shufflebottom (how’s that for a name?) She also said she wasn’t really reassured with a Mrs. Dolan either.

August 2006

Kate was very upset that they missed their connecting flight out of Detroit saying that it was the dumbest thing ever! Because nobody ever paged us!!!! Kate apparently wanted star treatment even back then. Kate was bothered because it made a longer day for her. The only saving grace was that there were  shops in the airport and food, neither of which she had to pay for because it was a trip for filming!!!!

It was a trip to film for Sam’s Club and Kate was promised an exciting gift card. Kate was angry when she found out that the card was only for $750 even though the trip was a paid filming trip which included meals and shopping.

September 2006

The crew came to the house for filming and Kate was very annoyed with a really annoying sound guy. He was new and she didn’t like him already. Kate called her kids boring because they didn’t do anything interesting like the trained monkeys they usually behave like apparently. Jen the producer was bummed too.

Local people are now starting to drive Kate crazy because Kate feels that they are trying to be included in her limelight while filming. Someone came up to the girls when they got off the bus and offered to have the girls wait with her. Kate wrote Oh brother! And
how annoying!

Kate ended by writing that the babies took their nap while she hung out with Jen and Scott while the annoying sound man went to the garage and did who know what!

September 2006

Kate and Beth and Bob Carson and all of their kids were having trouble being served at restaurants on a busy Saturday night and it was making Kate very angry. She said the people at her favorite restaurant Austins were not nice to them even though Kate begged and begged. According to Kate they threw them the Wyomissing attitude so they left. Then they went to another restaurant and had to wait a long time…like an hour! Kate and Bob and the rest of the adults were on their last nerve when they were finally seated. The kids were surprisingly good she said, despite the 7 pm dinner!!!!!!

Apparently even back then, Kate felt that her party of about twenty people deserved to move past all of the other customers who were waiting patiently in line to eat.

January 2007

Kate was upset about getting another Discovery Health check in the mail today because it was left on the porch with another package flapping in the breeze! Lovely! No mention of how happy she was with the money she was being paid. Only the negative as usual.

January 2007

Kate says how happy she is for Jon because he’s going to spend the weekend with her brother and five other guys in a cabin. She says he didn’t ask. She gave him permission to go! She goes on to say that she hopes she and the kids are all alive and well when he gets back!

February 2007

Kate and Jon took the kids to the King of Prussia mall to a casting agent. Kate was instantly horrified because the office smelled of smoke and nobody acknowledged them and the woman snapped at Kate when Kate tried to talk to her daughter
. Kate said they should have walked out of there and that it was a complete waste of time!

Next they moved on to a photographer who was a pompous jerk himself. He was extremely annoying but took good pictures according to Kate.

March 2007

Kate talks about her visit with Doctor Phil. The first guest was shockingly an exorcist or however you spell it…Kate said he was awful and she prayed that Satan would get out. He was sitting in the exact chair that Kate would have to sit in.

Next came a jealous girlfriend! Ugh she was so immature!, Kate wrote. It was actually pathetic!

Kate said that the Gosselins were the breath of fresh air to the show. Everyone was clapping!

Bla, bla, bla Doctor Phil gave them a bunch of free stuff, there were more nuts on after us Kate wrote and Kate badgered everyone who worked there and told them that Doctor Phil said she could meet Robin so they got paraded around with all the nuts who were on with them.

April 2007

Kate writes about Poor little Joel and how he is so in love with his daddy and wants to be loved by her. She says she does love him but hates to say that his father like cluelessness makes her crazy!

June 2007

According to Kate, Jon had the nerve to lie to her about buying lunch in Philadelphia that day. Kate said she knew he was lying because his eyes were as big as saucers!!! He made the mistake of putting his lunch on the credit card!!!! That was apparently the absolute
end to the most horrible day in history!!!! Kate wonders why she is so unloved that Jon has to continually lie to her. She wonders if she is that stupid? Is Jon that characterless? She decides that Jon must care more about his OWN fear or whatever that lying is okay! She asks if Jon really thought that she would never EVER find out, then says just be honest weak boy!!!!! Jon is not teaching his children any life lessons this day my friends. Now because of Jon buying himself lunch (while he’s working to earn the family money while Kate stays home) they’re going to have a house full of lying kids. This makes Kate completely sick!!!!!!!