Kate of Jon and Kate Plus Eight Wears Wedding Ring in Divorce Talk
67Jon and Kate Divorces
Jon Must be Bolting Kate Still Wears Wedding Ring
Jon and Kate Plus Eight is a reality show of two people who procreated eight kids. The couple's popularity soared and then soured when Jon wanted just to be Jon Gosselin instead of Jon and Kate Plus Eight. Jon took action on his wish and the two couple couch to discuss their family became a couch for one at a time. Jon was caught with a younger woman and took her skiing in Utah. The young woman's picture was spewed over the front pages of most tabloids.
The separation and now talk of divorce must has initiated from Jon as Kate still wears her wedding ring. If Kate had initiated the divorce talk, it would have been certain that she would have taken off her rings and the divorce may be final as she seems to have the dominant personality of the couple.
Though it is obvious that Jon cheated in the marriage, the divorceos based on irreconciliable differences. Kate was reportedly seen with her handwome body guard but that is doubtful as she is the martriarch and manager of her famous kids. Kate said on the Jon and Kate Plus Eight reality show that the marriage had not been going very well for several months.
Kate said that a separation was agreed upon and then to the legal divorce. It is still unsure if the show will continue after the divorce with the producers treating the show las if Kate went on a book signing tour while Jon watches the kids. The producers may continue the show when Jon makes his court custody visits.
Jon and Kate joined another slew of celebrity parents showing how they manage families of multiple births. The celebrity couple of Jon and Kate Plus Eight has twins and a set of sextuplets. TV viewer have seen the Gosselins move from house to house to accommodate for their large family. Their church was kind to build them their first home. Now the family lives in a 14 bedroom house and Kate does not plan to move after the divorce.
Jon and Kate troubled marriage has been shown on the cover of major magazines and published as human interest in newspapers across the country. Kate is a former nurse who seem to have more of a goal in life than her Hawaiian husband Jon. Jon in most of the episodes seemed to be there for the ride. Kate ordered Jon around most of the show and even told him not to interrupt her during one of the realty TV shows interviews. A television viewer would think that Jon was one of the kids the way Kate talked to him. Jon was very industrial around the house and was skilled enough to move a portable playground for the children each time the family moved.
Jon was attached to the portable playground because his father had given it to the family. During the interviews, Jon talked as though everything he did was for the "kids." Somehow he could not stay married to Kate for the "kids." Jon said that lately "It's been a hard seven or eight months." He said that the divorce announcement was the "hardest epidsode ever."
The children recently received playhouses and the kids do not seem to know what is going on with their parents. The episode was filmed months ago and the TV audience could see that Jon and Kate was having problems in their marriage by the way they were interacting. Jon and Kate argued about where to place the playhouses. Jon wanted to build the children playhouses in the woods and Kate wanted the playhouses closer to the home as she was concerned with the kids safety. The major friction that did the marriage in was that Jon had enough of the spotlight and wanted to just be Jon Gooselin.
Kate said at the end of the TV announcement on the Jon and Kate Plus Eight Show of the pending divorce: "I just need relief now. I need to turn the page."
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Mighty Mom, thank you for your comment. I agree with everything that you have said here. However, I think the show is going to go on but now it will be how a single mom raises eight children? We'll have to wait and see.
it is so sad. Here in the UK we have only had a couple of series. The family are still in their second house and have just had individual day trips with the kids. It is a sad but inevitable conclusion to a TV show. Real life can not live up to so much public scrutiny. Hope the parents will be grown up enough to put their children first, whatever happens between them.
I guess that's always the possibility when you are talking about real people vs. fictional TV characters. I'm sure if Kate has a loyal following people will continue to tune in and watch the show as "Kate Plus 8." Not me, tho.
I honestly don't get the appeal of such shows. 18 and counting? And they're proud of that? I think it's insane. Although my husband really likes Little People Big World because he sees it as an example of good parenting -- and they live on a pumpkin farm in Oregon and he would just love to live that life.
There is obviously a demand for such shows, tho. Go figure!
National television, in my opinion, is not the place to deal with problems in your marriage.
I've only seen a couple of complete episodes of the show, and bits and pieces of others. My girls like to watch it, and I'll hear it from the kitchen or the laundry room. But from what I've seen, I think Kate has serious issues with OCD and has no idea how to give up an ounce of control to anyone. It had to be tough on that poor guy to bow to her every command, because that's all I ever heard her do to him. I haven't seen much of it, but the little that I HAVE seen, I never saw him stand his ground with her, only mumble when she was out of earshot.
Again, my opinion only, but when they realized they were having problems, they should have put the show on hold and worked on them. But the money and the freebies seem to be at the top of the priority list and the marriage has just become another casualty.
The kids are the ones who lose here. And that's very sad.
LM, amazing how us "Moms" think alike on it, hunh?
TipTopShape, thank you for you sincere and heartfelt comment.
MightyMom, thank you for your comment. Reality shows have become very popular. I think that the kid shows were started out of curiousity and the parents may have saw the shows as a meal ticket. I have never watched the show with 18 kids and was more interested in Jon and Kate because of Kate's take charge personality. You wondered at times was she running a home or a day care, she was so great at it. Jon had enough of the media blitz.
I admit, the big "announcement" is the only episode I've ever watched of the show. I realize their commentary was pretty much "for" the show, but I was encouraged that they both focused on putting the kids first, on finding "peace", and not on bad-mouthing each other. And it sounded to me like they were going to continue to share the house, with the parents doing the coming and going instead of the kids - a fairly new and rare co-parenting arrangement, but I think a postive one.
My marriage dissolved after one kid. I'm not passing judgement on a couple with 8 - the odds were against them in many ways. While I could not live my life on reality television, maybe Jon & Kate will set a good co-parenting example and help their audience realize that divorce is not the end of the world.
Maybe she can get some advice from Octomom.
Laughing Mom, thank you for your comment. You did a great job of wrapping up what the show was all about. Jon was the passive one in the relationship.
On the show where the divorce was announced, he admitted that one of the few times that he stood up for what he wanted was that particular show.
Earlier videos of Jon and Kate shows that they were happy. Maybe the way the family grew had a lot to do with Kate realizing with Jon's personality that she would have to be the one to take charge.
Jon is just a laid back guy and is the nicer of the two. I rarely saw Kate hug her kids but they were napping at the same time everyday and ate their meals at the same time.
Kate ran her family like a day care and even in that manner, much less personal. I can see the first set of twins now following in Kate's footsteps as take charge people. I wouldn't feel too sad about the children, they seem to be happy just being kids.
Thank you Mighty Mom for your comment. Moms do think alike.
Dineane, thank you for you comment. I am sorry that your marriage did not work out and I hope that your child is well. I agree that Jon and Kate were dealing with the media and eight children that could have made their marriage a rocky place to be.
Jon and Kate did not bad mouth each other as you said, instead it was as if Jon was taking most of the blame and Kate was acting like the show must go on with or without him.
I heard a rumour that may not be true that Kate agreed to Jon seeing other women as long as he did not leave the show. That was hard to believe because she said on the show that the hurt she feels is hiden from the television cameras.
fortunerep, thank you for your comment. The OctoMom is a whole different ballgame. Granted, the media is not too happy with OctoMom or Kate Gosselin as mothers, but the OctoMom did not have Jon to boss around.
Linda, thanks, my daughter is great! And her father and I are very successfully coparenting more than 12 years after our divorce. There's always 2 sides to every divorce story. I found it refreshing that at least what they said on the show the other night was not full of finger-pointing. That's the only way to make this tough time easier on their kids. Even if they've been coached for the cameras, if they can pull it off amicably on t.v., their kids will likely be fine. Mine is, without the cameras of course, but more importantly without her parents blaming each other all her life.
Mighty Mom, if I'm thinking like you, then I must be having a 'genius' moment! :-)
dineane, wow you are a great Mom to have kept your daughter in touch with her father and for such a long time. Thank you for sharing.
Laughing Mom, thank you for your comment. I am a fan.
Laughing Mom, thank you for your comment. I am a fan.
Mighty Mom says:
5 months ago
Bigger question: Should anyone care?
John and Kate (mostly Kate, it appears) are the consummate opportunists. I don't know why anyone would open up their lives or their parenting to the TV viewing public except for one reason: MONEY.
The divorce is not a surprise. What would have been a surprise if if they announced they were going to work on the marriage. Adultery does not automatically mean the end of a marriage. It is a symptom of a problem, yes. But many couples do get past it.
My heart goes out to those children. They do not deserve divorce in their lives. Certainly having 8 kids is a challenge. Sharing custody of 8 kids is going to be a nightmare. But at least I hope it does end their time in the limelight. Let them live their next chapters in obscurity. That's what I say. MM