<p>Oh, that’s too perfect. I wonder where they went to college, if there are legacy possibilities there …</p>
<p>I believe they met at college in PA. Would make sense the twins are about 6, they are 32, and the twins were in vitro which means a couple of yrs with infertility specialists.</p>
<p>MO of Kate, she will make sure that she can get more tv time, so each child will be sent to a different IVY. </p>
<p>Alexis -Harvard
Hannah- Yale
Aaden - UPenn
Joel- Princeton
Collin- Berkeley
Leah - Stanford</p>
<p>If she wants to keep them close/east coast because of her neurosies, Columbia, Radford, Tufts or Bucknell can be replaced for Berkeley and Stanford</p>
<p>But which of those have all organic food service and lots of germ control?</p>
<p>Kate did not get pregnant via IVF. She used ovarian stimulation drugs to generate multiple eggs, but conception was not test-tube, and there was no embryo transfer. The use of pergonal/HMG drugs is harder to control when not combining it with IVF. You cannot control the number of eggs released. She has gone on record that she used fertility drugs, not IVF.</p>
<p>MY BAD, for saying IVFand not fertility treatment</p>
<p>I think Maddy will be happiest far away in California.</p>
<p>Oh yeah Maddy will fly the coop, my guess is she will got to Hawaii, since Jon is from there, and CA is still close for comfort re her mom!</p>
<p>bandp, please don’t wish this circus on DS’s alma mater!</p>
<p>I don’t think they met in college, although, if I remember correctly, Jon was only 20 when they met. Kate is 2-3 years older. When they got married, they started the process/treatment to get Kate pregnant almost immediately, and I think she said in one show that she was pregnant within three months of their wedding. Jon was 23 when the twins were born and by the time he was 27, he had eight kids. I wonder if he at times didn’t ask himself what the heck he had gotten into. Despite my dislike of Kate, I feel very badly for all of them. I don’t think it’s ever looked like what I consider to be a happy household.</p>
<p>I just watched the video of Meredith Veira’s interview with Kate Gosselin on the Today Show. Initially the entire family was going to appear on the Today show, but only Kate was there. Veira read a statement from Jon that he has to be more careful who he associated with and being in the public eye, etc., etc. This was virtually the same statement he released when photographs of college coeds and himself surfaced. When the show started, I was a big fan of J&K+8. Now, I’m sick of all the freebies - between the tummy tuck, hair transplant, wedding in hawaii, ski trips, vacation in the outerbanks, etc. It should be retitled “Lets see how many things Kate can get for free.”</p>
<p>She did need the tummy tuck. Have you *seen *the first special where she showed her tummy (which prompted a plastic surgeon’s wife into talking her husband into doing it for free)?</p>
<p>Yes, she did need the tummy tuck. However, how many other parents of 4+ multiples were offered the same free service? I’m just very turned off to all the handouts they’re receiving. There is also a problem when no one in your family speaks to you and you isolate your children - remember how Kate freaked out when one of the twins received a phone call at home from a school friend?!!! Kate is not a normal person and I think Jon was way too young to have so many children.</p>
<p>You’re right. I always thought that after having an 11 lb baby, I could use a tummy tuck. But besides the cost, I can’t miss work for long enough to recover. I think Kate was still working as a nurse at the time.</p>
<p>I agree she is not normal, but I think the very worse thing she has ever done was reject the hand me down cribs from her father’s church, b/c they didnt match. He is the pastor!</p>
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<p>Yeah, what a sticky situation. I am compulsive enough to want everything to match, but it’s really insulting to turn down well meaning (valuable) donations. One time a missionary family was furloughed at our church and we became friendly with them. They had a toddler boy and I bundled up some of Son’s barely worn stuff from Baby Gap and offered the clothes to the wife and she declined. It was really awkward. I guess I shouldn’t have been offering things that were not requested, but heck, I would have loved to have been offered a bunch of almost new things from Baby Gap. Donations are tough situations!</p>
<p>Kate also turned down lots of BRAND NEW NEWBORN/BABY clothes because they did not match. They were “new with tags” outfits purchased and domated by church members. Now who is able to go out and purchase 6 matching outfits??? She was talking love offerings from the beginning because she wanted the cash to buy what she wanted, and was not accepting brand new clothes items.</p>
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<p>How terribly awkward for her dad, the pastor!</p>
<p>That’s why she and her dad no longer have a significant relationship. You disagree with Kate and you are cut off.(see aunt Jodi) She’s a freak.</p>
<p>I will watch the show occasionally until it’s off the air…the show is such a cautionary tale for me. Kate is like me on steroids. I like things to match. I like to be neat. I’ve been known to want Husband to do things my way. I hear how terrible she sounds and it makes me shut up and behave differently. So thanks, Kate … because you come off as such a witch, I don’t!</p>
<p>I waltch this when I can’t sleep or am not feeling well. (I used to want twins as a child and young woman until I had ONE baby to care for!) I think Kate has several screws loose, and Jon too for that matter. Having your marriage and kids on display is not really normal. She is a mean-spirited person, I think.</p>
<p>The focus on cleanliness and how the kids are dressed is bizarre. Little kids don’t need to be so focused on staying clean. Some of them are likely to have issues over this when they are grown up.</p>
<p>The matching clothes issue isn’t really the best for multiples anyway. They should be able to look different at least some of the time. </p>
<p>I think Jon and Kate will separate, she will continue with the show with the kids, and it will be called Just Kate Plus Eight. That family structure they have now is not a sustainable model. Jon’s personality seems to fade away when Kate is talking, and her constant orders, criticsm, and disrespectful attitude toward him will eventually cause a break.</p>