Get Off The Hate Kate (Gosselin) Bandwagon!

An awful lot of hate has been dumped on mom of eight Kate Gosselin in the past year-- but she's really no diva!

Kate is a hardworking mother who now has to support eight kids by dancing! Would you really want to be in Kate's high heels right now? I can guarantee you that Kate Gosselin wakes up exhausted and in a cold sweat every day. If you had eight young children under the age of nine -- six of them sextuplets! -- no husband, an expensive lifestyle and bodyguard to support (and you were dependent for your income on the ephemeral world of TV) you'd be having anxiety attacks, too!

Sure, Kate seemingly had it made back when she had a steady and healthy income from her TLC series Jon & Kate Plus 8. But that was before her now ex-husband Jon Gosselin blew up that dependable arrangement by refusing to allow their children on TV anymore. Their divorce left Kate with a big house, divorce lawyers' fees, no child support from Jon and no more weekly TV paychecks. Just what exactly was she supposed to do? Go back to her original career, nursing? The median income for nurses in 2009 was $64, 000. Any single mom would have a hard time getting by on that with two kids! Plus, as Kate has pointed out, she'd be dealing with 12-hour shifts.

Kate herself told People magazine: "I can not rely on the fact that Jon will be there to support the kids, so I approach it as if I'm the sole provider."

That is not an easy place to be in life! Especially now in this recessionary world.

And listen Kate haters -- I can assure you that she's not BS-ing about Jon's utter irresponsibility. As someone who follows the goings-on of the Gosselin household, I can tell you Jon hasn't been photographed with his kids at all since Feb. 28. He's MIA. Meanwhile, Kate's taken on the assignment of Dancing With The Stars, reportedly for a minimum of $125,000 -- which is not a TON of money for someone who CAN'T downsize her lifestyle, at this point. She has to have a nanny (two in fact, because of her DWTS travel) and she HAS to keep up appearances or she'll never get her next gig. She can't look desperate!

To read why Kate doesn't deserve the diva personal attacks, read more at HollywoodLife.com.

 

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Comments

[Mister Biggles]

06:04 AM on 04/02/2010

"I can assure you that she's not BS-ing about Jon's utter irresponsibility.As someone who follows the goings-on of the Gosselin household, I can tell you Jon hasn't been photographed with his kids at all since Feb. 28. He's MIA."

People who are not star(lovers) understand that being "photographed" with the kids is a not a parental priority. To say that he is not being "responsible" for not using his kids as props to get famous is an odd sentiment indeed.

Normally, I would not defend a man like Jon Gosselin, but...it's very clear he has actual PTSD from living with her. She broke him.

[Lou1]

04:10 PM on 03/31/2010

HUN? We are suppose to feel sorry for Kate because Kate happens to be getting what she thought she wanted but it's not quite turning out the way she planned? (emphasis on she planned!). Go back and watch the shows from the first season.... she's in this position because she put herself there.

[ilikekate]

01:11 PM on 03/26/2010

I can't imagine why any normal human being wants to attack Kate Gosselin ,all she is trying to do is give her kids the best possible life she can provide.When she was pregnant with her six babies, she had to go on bed rest for qiute a length of time, which she did in order to protect the babies health. That had to be hard for Kate to do, because she is a go getter girl. I thought giving your kids, the best you can, was normal. If you people really need to vent on someone,get on a casey anthony site.Might help change your minds about Kate.

[msoverall]

11:16 AM on 03/17/2010

Ok Bonnie, I get what you're saying but let me say this: I for one, am sick and tired of women behaving in an obnoxious, overbearing, b***hy manner and then claiming that this is the behavior of a strong woman. This is not strong behavior, but the behavior of a deluded person who thinks that they're entitled to things because somehow, they are better than the rest of us. Seriously, she HAS to dance to make a living? She is a trained nurse, is she not? Is she really thinking about the feelings of her children when she takes public swipes at their Father ( such as he is) in public? Is it necessary for her to be as arrogant, high-handed and mean as she is? Please let's stop excusing her behavior and call this spade a spade.

[catcancook]

09:44 AM on 03/17/2010

I've never seen her show or would watch that kind of thing.But I have seen her in an interview and I have to say, she isn't the kind of person I would like as a friend actually. How did she come to have so many children? No doubt it wasn't natural so, why would anyone do that knowing that they'd have to financially support so many lives? Unfortunately, these poor kids have to pay a price for these adults who were so irresponsible in bringing more children into the world than they could afford.

She is a terrible role model. These women who purposely have this many children while they are not able to support them financially go searching for fame for a paycheck, has to make you wonder how stable they are mentally.

[ralle]

09:41 AM on 03/17/2010

As long as she's not in the taxpayer's pockets, why does it matter to people how she provides for her kids. If being a diva disqualified a person from working in show business, hollywood would be a lonely place. A minimum of $125,000 guaranteed, no matter how long she's on the show. very few people, let alone one with 8 kids, would have turned that down.

[66rock]

06:52 AM on 03/17/2010

The post was so poorly written that I still don't know if it was suppose to be
sarcasm or not.

First of no one Hates Kate, just the way she acts. She is not important enough to hate.

She does act like a diva when she goes to the DWTS pre-party and is the only "celebrity"
who rushes pass the media like she's the Queen of England with a no comment. No, that's wrong,
the Queen would at least smiled at the commoners.

[OrderlyL]

08:14 PM on 03/18/2010

Kate is a narcissist. She projects to others a False Self to get attention she could not otherwise get. The False Self is designed to compensate for her inadequacies and to impress others, and it fails her in the presence of legitimate celebrities. They all have everything Kate's False Self has, and more. They have talent, have paid their dues, etc. Narcissists project a False Self in order to inflate and regulate their self-esteem and self-worth. Since they're dumb saps in love with themselves, they don't know what to THINK about themselves. From others' reactions to the false self, they cherry-pick pleasurable tidbits of attention and embed this false-positive data into a totally biased mental picture of themselves or self-image. It is her inflated self-image to which Kate refers when she says she is "destroyed" by criticism. When her sympathizers complain about "hate", they are confirming Kate's love affair with herself.

[DeloresT]

12:12 AM on 03/17/2010

Sorry...this woman needs to go home!!! Having 8 kids doesn't entitle you to stardom. Plus, she is NOT a likable person. Yikes. The Octomom is more likable and she's at home with her kids.

[Rowdy99]

06:39 PM on 03/16/2010

Kate is a vile disgusting person.

[Mister Biggles]

05:27 PM on 03/16/2010

Why would my comment about never agreeing with Bonnie Fuller and thinking that Kate Gosselin is a shrew not get posted?

I'm not allowed to express those opinions?

[nemain]

04:36 PM on 03/16/2010

I guess Bonnie might want to hang up her journalism coat or at least find a worthy cause to write about. Seems you are not gaining fans nor notoriety with this piece.

[singlewhite]

04:18 PM on 03/16/2010

oh and PS 9 months ago you wrote a column posing the question if jon and kate were the worst kind of celebrity child abusers, and now you are defending her right to dance for money?! your previous stance seems a lot more noble and "reality" grounded than this latest one...well done

[nemain]

04:17 PM on 03/16/2010

envitro + huge carbon footprint x nasty diva attitude = no love here for a woman who has selfishly polluted the earth with too many of her spawn.

[ralle]

09:45 AM on 03/17/2010

give me a break!

[nemain]

04:06 PM on 03/17/2010

here is your break..

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/overpopulation/index

http://www.livescience.com/environment/090803-children-carbon-footprint.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/science/10fish.html?_r=2&no_interstitial

now go learn something

[singlewhite]

04:10 PM on 03/16/2010

i agree with EVERY SINGLE POSTER that you compassion and forum are grossly misplaced...and i'm assuming that you've never met this woman, otherwise you'd be finding better things to write about, because everyone that meets her can't stand her. i don't have a problem with her making a living off of reality tv, i have a problem with her being a diva bitch, so can't wait til she is voted off first and maybe she'll learn a lesson that will really help her kids

[Burnsey]

04:05 PM on 03/16/2010

What happened to all that money they made during the entire series? I DO NOT feel sorry for anyone who makes that much money and can not seem to put any away. She created her mess, along with John, and now they deserve to live what they created.