KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (19 page)

KATE AND THE FLOTUS

This will give you a bit of insight into just how delusional Kate Gosselin really is. Carrie Ann Inaba, one of the judges from
Dancing With The Stars
, nailed it perfectly when she commented that Kate has no self-awareness. It is hard to imagine anyone having less self-awareness than Kate Gosselin does.

On June 8, 2012, someone tweeted Kate the ridiculous idea that she should team up with First Lady Michelle Obama. Kate took it a step further
, of course, and implied that the idea had already been put out there and was “circulating around.”

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 I wish there was a way you could team up with Michelle Obama with the exercize for kids and healthy eating viewpoints

it's circulating around... I'd love to help M Obama in her quest... It's SO my passion :) for kids, moms& families as a whole!

Michelle Obama is a hard-working, uber-educated, classy woman who, by the way, also happens to be the First Lady of the United States of America (FLOTUS). She graduated from arguably two of the most prestigious educational institutions in the country in Princeton University and Harvard Law School. Above all else, she is an involved mother who fiercely protects her daughters’ privacy and puts their needs first.

Kate Gosselin is a scheming narcissist who exploits her children for wealth and fame; takes advantage of kind, unsuspecting people; flits from one project to the next trying to get on TV; shows no appreciation for anything
or anyone; is intolerant of those she deems unworthy; has shown herself to be ignorant of anything regarding health and nutrition; and who tells mostly lies and says “um” a lot.

Yeah, it makes perfect sense that the idea of Kate Gosselin teaming up with Michelle Obama was being kicked around the White House. It sounds like a match made in Heaven.

THE HOUSE SALE

Kate sent an email to her attorney, Cheryl Young; Jon; and Jon’s attorney, Charlie Meyer, to follow up on some information about the sale of Jon and Kate’s old house that “we all received falsely from Charlie this morning.” (I’m guessing what Kate meant to say was that it was false information.) Charlie must have written something about the deal on the house falling through, so Kate wanted to set the record straight.

Kate
explained that the deal on their old house had “NOT” fallen through, and that the “perspective” buyers were still very interested, but had placed a contingency on the contract because they had to sell their house. Kate stated that after having conversations with Jon and their realtor, it was decided that they would not share any more information with their divorce attorneys about the sale or sales price of their property. In a rare instance of unity, Kate said that she and Jon were handling it together, and they both agreed that it needed to stay that way.

Kate
also said that their goal was to move forward and “solve each issue peacefully” as it came up, and that they were both confident they could do this for their kids. She wrote that this was one situation where they both agreed (sale price and current sale agreement), and they didn’t need any intervention.

RANDOM
SITUATIONS

These are just a few extra, random examples of how Kate’s mind works.

In the “Potty Training the Boys” episode of Season 3 of
Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht
, Kate takes two of the little kids to an eye doctor she had never met before, and says to him, “I’m always in a hurry, didn’t you learn that?” The man is a doctor, but somehow, Kate thought she was so famous he should have known everything about her and her petty issues.

During the “Dutch Wonderland” episode, after taking all of the kids to the bathroom at the park, Jon also needed to use the facilities. Instead of just waiting patiently for Jon for a few minutes, Kate disrespected him by saying, “Do you really have to go!? I just want to get going!”

Kate Gosselin was so passionate about filming her children, and she would have done ANYTHING to keep it going, that she was prepared to pack up her family and leave her home in Pennsylvania, her friends, her extended family and everything else behind, to move to North Carolina to be closer to Figure 8 Films, the production company that did the filming of
Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht.

Kate and Discovery put a refundable deposit of $10,000 on a nine and one-quarter acre property – through Standout Properties in Raleigh, NC – in a development oddly enough called “Windfall” Phase VI, in Chatham County, North Carolina, which was a mere 30-minute drive from Figure 8 headquarters.

U
S
Weekly
Reporting

The following excerpts from my reporting for
U
S
Weekly
are examples of Kate’s interactions with helpers, neighbors, and others whose duty it was to make her life easier.

Jon and Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

November 2009

(Source – Robert/former helper)

I spoke to a woman who helped Kate with the kids when the sextuplets were first born. She told me Kate was a horrible person to be around. She thought she was a celebrity even back then. She was always demanding things get done fast and would fire people for nothing – people that worked for free because they wanted to help. This woman was from the church where Kate used to go. She told me that Kate was fanatical about helpers not using the family refrigerator. One time this woman put a yogurt in there to keep it cold for her lunch and Kate found it and started screaming at her. She yelled “how dare you put your food in our refrigerator!” and she took out the yogurt and threw it in the trash in front of her. She threatened to fire her if she ever did anything like that again. The woman quit after about a month. She couldn’t take it anymore. She couldn’t understand how a person getting everything for free, including help with her kids, could be so mean-spirited.

Jon and Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

September 2009

I spoke to a nearby neighbor today and asked if she had any contact with Kate or Jon and she told me “They always say they live in Wernersville but they never even drive through town. Kate never comes near us. She always goes the other way down State Hill Road. That’s more high society I guess. She calls Wernersville ‘Ghettoville.’ She thinks she’s better than the rest of us.”

Jon and Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

November 2009

Next we headed toward the house but got on the highway heading in an entirely new direction. Nobody had a guess as to where we were going. It was exciting. We went 75 mph in a 55 zone in the rain, in and out of traffic and ended up at St. Joseph’s Hospital on Rt. 183. She pulled up to the front door and an employee came running out and handed her some files through the passenger window. I’m sure we could all get that same service at the hospital if we asked.

“We’re not scripted. You heard me. We are not scripted. We’re living.
The kids run in and out of the frame and they just live.”

– Kate Gosselin

It should be no secret to anyone that “reality” television isn’t anywhere near as real as networks would like us to believe. There does, however, seem to be a large contingent of people who believe that camera crews really do remain silent and in the background, just following the “reality stars” around and documenting them going about their normal, everyday lives while, oh by the way, filming them for a television show. I keep flashing back to the haunting words from the paragraph in the Gosselin’s contract with Discovery Communications that stated “…Company and/or Company’s designee shall have all creative control with respect to the Program including, but not limited to, approval over Family’s make-up, hairstyle and wardrobe.”

There is nothing about a company having “creative control” over the “Program” of a family’s life
, or dictating such things as “make-up, hairstyle and wardrobe” that is true to how a family really lives.

Kate Gosselin has been quoted many, many times proudly declaring that, “Our show is the most real reality show you’ll ever see.” If you are a person who believes her statement, and
who wants to continue to believe her statement, stop reading now.

The true “reality” is that the Gosselin kids were told where to go, how to act, what to say, and what to do to fit each episode’s pre-planned and “scripted” storyline. They were threatened and/or bribed before filming began to smile and look happy, and they lived in constant fear of being punished or hit by Kate for not performing up to her standards during filming. They were tricked, lied to and/or deprived of food and drink if they didn’t perform to Kate’s satisfaction.

The camera crew bribed the kids with candy and presents to get them to be happy during their couch interviews. Lollipops, jelly beans and M&Ms were the candies of choice. The kids’ interviews were shot, and re-shot, over and over, until they got things right. A film crew member told me “It all depends on which kids act the happiest as to who you see on the interview couch during an episode.”