<p>“rutro reorge”</p>
<p>Thanks, bandp, for the best laugh of my day!</p>
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<p>That’s Octo-mom in a nutshell.</p>
<p>^^^ Emphasis on NUT!</p>
<p>Things just got a ton more sinister. Aunt Jodi and her husband are now saying that Jon and Kate agreed to an open marriage contract as long as he agreed to keep filming the show. What that boils down to is them seeing other people while pretending to be married for the TV show. </p>
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During a recent interview, and then as reported by Perez Hilton, Kate’s brother Kevin and her sister in law Jodi Kreider may have a different story to present than the one being seen on television. The relatives are claiming that Kate Gosselin and Jon Gosselin entered into a contract that would permit Jon to openly date if he continued his work on Jon & Kate Plus 8. The revelation would make things boil down to basically a scripted television show, where the couple pretends that they are still married, all in an attempt to pull one over on viewers and make more money on the side. Could something like this really be taking place?"</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>“Kevin had stated that Jon was free to have girlfriends and do basically whatever he wants, just as long as he reports to the show and fulfills all of his professional obligations to the contract.”</p>
<p>I was sick yesterday and spent most of the day in bed. I watched numerous J and K plus 8 episodes as it’s marathon weekend. It was interesting to watch given the recent gossip. Aunt Jodi didn’t appear as sympathetic to me this time for some reason. The early seasons show a different relationship between Jon and Kate. They talk a lot about their bickering. Kate wasn’t quite as controlling. </p>
<p>The commercial for the new season played many times of course. The body language alone speaks volumes. Jon says he can’t be himself. Both are still wearing wedding rings. </p>
<p>Truly I don’t know how they could get away with a fake marriage for the show. Jon’s already been caught before the supposed marriage contract.</p>
<p>I was also home yesterday not feeling well. I googled “Jon & Kate in it for the money” and an article published this month in a Philadelphia newspaper or magazine appeared. It said that J&Kate are openly in it for the money and gives plenty of examples. I also watched some of the shows yesterday, trying to figure out at what point things started going downhill. The tragedy of all this is that there are eight innocent victims here. I hope all of this doesn’t do permanent harm to these beautiful children.</p>
<p>Jon got sucked up into this but it was Kate who is the major thorn in this situation. When the kids were born, her Dad’s congregation got together and donated a bunch of stuff (clothes, stuff for the house, etc.). Miss Snob Face didn’t like the stuff that was donated to her. Rather than accept the gifts and show some kind of gratitude, she openly and strongly expressed her dislike of the items. She actually had the nerve to bring the baby clothes to a consignment shop, sell them, and KEEP the money. Her reasoning for this is, “They would want us to have the money.” I think most of us would have given a big “Thank you” and accepted their generous offer of help. Not Kate! She wanted everything to match and being that they were donations from various members of the church, the items (clothes) did not all match. </p>
<p>After reading about her OCD and self centeredness, this latest update on the family is of no surprise to me. She has alienated everyone-her family and friends. She pushed them all away because of her attitude.</p>
<p>I doubt she actually has OCD. In fact, she is not driven by an impending sense that something horrible will happen if her children don’t wear the same clothes or eat organic meat. She is simply someone who has a huge need to be seen as being right and perfect at all times- this is not OCD. She feels entitled to all that she is getting. This is not OCD. I don’t care what her father does for a living, he raised an ungrateful, selfish daughter who simply wants her own way. She married a cute, younger than she pushover of a guy and she pushed him around until he grew some b-lls and decided not to take it any more.</p>
<p>What does it say about any family that wants its dirty laundry and daily living aired on television? Do any of us want 3 million people seeing us while we clean up our kids vomit or clean the kitchen? Who wants these sorts of things… a narcisisst. That is Kate.
Obviously, she doesn’t want to listen to anyone and there is no one in her life who holds any sway with her. She is and always has been the ultimate authority on everything. She has even conned all these churches into believing she is ‘of the flock’ and is somehow a role model for other parents. She is only looking out for herself, and for the A-list children in her family who are being raised to believe that they, too, are very very special. </p>
<p>It would be nice to think that this situation, like the pregnancy itself, will have a happy ending, but it is much more likely that it won’t.</p>
<p>ccer’s have the jon&kate flu this weekend! :)</p>
<p>I too got sucked into the marathon this weekend. I keep wondering how long they can expect to produce the show even if there were no relationship issues. The youngest ones will be school age so I wonder if the plan is to home-school to be camera-available? I mean at some point won’t these kids have lives outside the house that can’t be captured on camera? It seems to me eventually there’s going to be a real world awakening; I hope for the sake of the kids that they’re at least stashing some of the money away for the kids for later…</p>
<p>New season begins tonight. I’ll bet with all this negative publicity, the ratings will be higher than previously. I won’t be able to watch as we just canceled our satellite subscription, so will have to read all about it.</p>
<p>Yep you are right. My youngest, home from college, has been watching the marathon when she isn’t working this weekend. It’s been making me crazy.
She was unfortunate to have been behind Kate in line at Target a few months back so the show has piqued her curiosity. She is going to rush home from work in time for the season premiere. I can’t stomach it.</p>
<p>MagnoliaMom:
The oldest have been attending a posh private “day” school in another county. I imagine they will send the sextuplets there for kindergarten, even if the bus ride is an hour. They live in a good school district but I’m sure it’s not good enough for Kate.</p>
<p>Okay, so we’re halfway through the hour and twice the commercial break has started with the announcement of “this special hour” of Jon & Kate brought to you by … Wondering if they are planning on taking some kind of break from this train wreck.</p>
<p>actually according to my TV guide, it runs an hour, 15 minutes.</p>
<p>That was sad. It seems that only a miracle could bring those parents back together. What a cautionary tale for any family thinking that a “Reality TV” show would be a good idea.</p>
<p>“The divorce rate is triple for parents of multiple kids. And we thought we could beat that.” - Kate</p>
<p>I guess it was just wishful thinking for the kids that they would take themselves out of the spotlight while they work through their issues since they just aired the promo for Kate and Mady at a spa next week.</p>
<p>The body language between Jon & Kate during the birthday party told the whole story. They couldn’t even look each other in the face and didn’t sit at the same table. I’m wondering if Jon resents being home so much with the kids when Kate goes on book tours, speaking engagements, etc. I’m afraid a divorce would put an even bigger strain on an already strained group of children. Even though I’m not a fan of Kate, I feel very badly for the family and I hope everything works out for them.</p>
<p>That show was painful for me to watch. I was hopeful that Kate would at least keep her mouth shut and not insult Jon, but she managed to get in a dig at the very end when he wasn’t conducting the BBQ on her time schedule. The twins silent and behaving as though they were adults and the ‘tups overdressed for a picnic party in a park. The commercial for next week had Jon at home taking care of the kids (like he did during the move when Kate, conveniently, had to go out of town) while Kate was visiting a spa in CA, with Maddie. At least Maddy got some individual time, but she and Cara look so subdued and sad. Honestly, just end the show, now, while they could exit with some dignity. No one believes the spiel about doing it "to document the kids’ lives" or because the “kids deserve it”. How much does Kate’s "shake and bake’ tan cost, ditto the hideous chunky highlites in her hair (with the big, pouffy thing on the back)? They must be doing great since they bought the 1.5 mil+ house without having even put the old one up for sale. If the adults followed the law and set money aside for the kids, and didn’t spent every cent, they should be able to end the show and fade away, quietly. There are jobs for RNs and good IT people with experience- the couple would have to go back to work, might have to sell the estate, but millioins of families are doing far better on far less. Give me “Table for Twelve”, with all of the love in that household any day!</p>
<p>Yes, they are pretty clearly separated. I just wish that they would get the TV cameras out of their children’s lives while they go through this. There probably should be privacy laws or something to protect the kids from this kind of intrusion.</p>