KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (32 page)

Kate stormed off telling them that she would never shop there again. This was a store that, years before donated thousands of dollars worth of clothing and furniture to Kate, when she may have actually needed it for her kids.

The remainder of this chapter
summarizes numerous emails to and from Kate, and occasionally Jon, about goods and services that were offered to, and almost always accepted by, the Gosselins. I have copies of every email I have summarized here, but due to legal concerns, I have not reprinted all of them in their entirety. I have included dates of the emails, the names of senders (in some cases, I have included only first names and a last initial), and pertinent text, along with responses from Kate. I have not included email addresses from private citizens not associated with a company.

Pay close attention to
the dates of the offers, then read “The Lies and Times of Kate Gosselin” to see how the dates coincide with the times she was crying poor during her church speaking engagements.

HAIR PLUGS

Kate received an email from Dr. Jae Pak of the New Hair Institute offering
to donate his services for free hair plugs for Jon. She sounded very excited when she forwarded the email to producer Jen Stocks. She said “YEAH!!!!!!! Ye-HAW!!!!!!!” and asked Jen when they could schedule it. She wanted to know if they were doing it on their own or filming it, but either way there were going to do it.

CONDOS

On June 24, 2008,
Jon forwarded an email to Kate from a fan who was offering Jon and Kate the use of two condos on the beach in the Caribbean. Jon asked Kate, “After Hawaii how about this place for a winter retreat.”

In her email,
“Lois F” explained that she and her husband loved
Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht
. She said they had recently purchased a condo in the Caribbean on an island called Isla Mujeres off the coast of Cancun. She described it as a three bedroom condo right on the beach with beautiful views from every room. Lois F said her sister had also purchased a condo on the same floor as hers, and Lois thought it would be a wonderful place to film a show of Jon and Kate and the children on vacation. She said that between the two condos there were six bedrooms and four bathrooms and that they were the only condos on the third floor so they would have the entire floor to themselves.

Lois then described some possible opportunities for filming the children, including a small turtle farm, a dolphin discovery program, and a small and very colorful town.
Sheesh. Even perfect strangers were coming up ideas for filming the crap out of the kids.

After learning of the offer, Kate
gave Jon her standard response to all things free: “Yes please!!!!!”

SAGGY BAGGIES

Kate was THIS close to ditching Dr. Glassman’s magic touch to get her “saggy baggies” done for an all-expense-paid trip to San Diego
to have the surgery. Could it be possible that she just didn’t want the procedure filmed?

On June 24, 2008,
Jon sent along an email to Kate from “Tricia,” patient care coordinator at Brucker Plastic Surgery in San Diego. The subject line in Tricia’s email was “Breast lift surgery”. Tricia explained that she was a fan of their show and their “beautiful children!” and she had seen the tummy tuck episode where the surgeon had dismissed Kate’s request for a mastopexy (breast lift). She said she had spoken to her employer, Dr. Michael Brucker, who was one of the “premier plastic surgeons in La Jolla”, about Kate’s situation. She wrote that if Kate was still considering a “mastopexy and/or augmentation procedure” and she wouldn’t mind a portion being filmed, Dr. Brucker would be more than happy to offer his services at no charge to complete her “mommy make-over.” Tricia also said that if Jon were considering any cosmetic procedure, it would be their pleasure to extend their services to him at no charge. She said they would also cover Kate’s (or Jon and Kate’s) stay at The Hideaway, which is a retreat for patients recovering from cosmetic surgery.

Kate responded
to Jon that she had just been obsessing about “my saggy baggies!!!!!” She said, “Wanna go..... Or stick to Dr Glassman and NOT film!????”

LANDSCAPING AND FENCING

This email exchange between Kate’s bodyguard, Steve Neild, and her manager, Julie May, is interesting because it shows that Steve was involved in getting landscaping and fencing estimates for Kate in October 2008. This was around the same time that Jon said that Kate told him their marriage was over. It also shows that Discovery was paying for everything, as usual.

On October 6, 2008, Steve sent Julie May a quote for fencing from Amity Fencing. He told her there was a choice of either three plank or four plank horse style fencing. He said he had also gotten a quote for “just the area across the front to the driveway entrance and then down the horse driveway to the barn” and additional fencing if they wanted to fence the rest of the road frontage. Steve said it was not necessary to do that if they could create the smaller secure area. He thought it might be a good concession to make to DCL, to show they were prepared to save them some money.

Steve told Julie that this
was their first quote so they might be able to go back to the fencing company and ask for a better price. He also explained to Julie that the price did not include the cost for Jon and Kate’s contractor to build stone pillars around the steel post gate supports, or additional wiring out to the gate if required.

Julie replied to Steve thanking him for the information. She told him she would get it to Discovery, but she would love to get them the quotes all at once, including the landscaping related to security.

MAKEUP OF THE RICH AND “GEORGOUS”

A series of emails between Kate and the president/creator of Mally Beauty sounded like an over-the-top meeting of a mutual admiration society. It was mutual as long as “Mally R” continued to shower Kate with free beauty products, that is.

On December 8, 2008, at
12:34 PM, Kate checked in with Mally to see if she had mailed Kate her latest shipment of beauty in a box. She said that she was “so so low on supply” and that it was scary because “I NEED to be beautiful, as you know!” Kate also said that if the shipment had not been sent yet, she could use some more of the light pink natural eye shadow called “natural2knockout”.

At 1:12 PM that same day, Mally R wrote to Kate that her shipment was on the way. She told Kate, “P.s. you are already beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Kate replied to Mally at 1:17 PM, telling her “You are marvelous.... And georgous indeed!”. She said she had run into some PR people who had met Mally, and “they all say you are SO georgous! :)”.

On Dec
ember 29, 2008, Mally sent Kate a note wishing her “Merry Christmas, Beautiful!” and asked if she had gotten her stuff. She told Kate she had some new things to send her as well.

Kate
thanked Mally and said she had received the shipment. She then asked if Mally could include lots of medium foundation/powder in the shipment of new stuff she was going to send. Kate told her that she loved the holiday colored lip gloss she had received. She signed off telling Mally, “you’re.... Georgous as usual! :)”.

(Note to Kate: It’s gorgeous; not georgous.
Don’t blame spell-check. You misspell it always and everywhere.)

ANN TAYLOR

The Devil wears Ann Taylor, but only if the clothing is free.
On Wednesday, December 17, 2008, Kate sent an email to Kate Foster, an Ann Taylor representative, to tell her how much she enjoyed her recent “shopping jaunt” to the Loft. Kate said that she had sadly spent the entire gift card quickly and had made appearances at Lofts in “Louisianna, New York City and Lansing, Michigan!!!!” Kate said that the store employees “are never shocked to see me seeing as they ALL know that all I wear is the Loft!!! :)”. She then wondered if there was “a card refill on the horizon?” and said that she loved wearing a new outfit for each book signing.