The Gosselins Take Their Children To The Doctor
JUL 18, 2009 AT 08:37 AM
I don't know how she does it. How does Kate put on a brave face for the kids whenever her soon to be ex husband is around? Knowing that he was parading his younger girlfriend around France over the weekend posing the paparazzi would just about do it for me.
She is a much stronger person than I am - that's for sure. I mean, look at how close she is standing to him. That would make my spine shiver!
Here they are taking their 8 children to the doctor for a well visit. Notice that Kate is still wearing her wedding ring while Jon is not. It's heartbreaking to watch! I hope Kate has someone to cry on because she really needs a friend right now.
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2020 points
Wow, he has really gone from being a sympathetic character to being a real d!ck. He always seemed like such a genuinely nice guy. Who would have thought that he had this type of cruelty and stupidity in him. Yes, Jon, I'm sure Hailey "really" loves you (rolls eyes). I am impressed with how Kate is dealing with this...I definitely wouldn't be able to
Oh please. She cheated on him with a married man (her bodyguard). Joon and Kate are both pathetic and do not deserve to be parents.
5081295 points
STOP the lying! She did not! Jon is that you????
3395 points
Haha! Part of me always thinks that the anonymous users that come here and Kate bash (and only EVER speak of her cheating first) are Jon and his friends. LoL - Couldn't you just picture it? ;)
Oh please. She cheated on him with a married man (her bodyguard). Joon and Kate are both pathetic and do not deserve to be parents.
76255 points
He's a complete loser. Obviously obsessed with the fame and not as interested in being in his children's lives every day. Why on earth would you move to the city and leave Kate to take care of the kids alone? :(
She always got slated for being strong and opinionated ...and taking control.
But, with a husband like Jon she had to.
Now, everyone can see the weak idiot of less than a man that he really is ...
Kate rocks! she is a good mother and a very strong woman. Those kids will do good. She works hard even on her reality show (they are set for life those kids) ... while Jon is jobless!
5081295 points
Yes she does! TEAM KATE! She is a far better person than Jon and always was. Too bad so many people didn't see that until now.
Finally, people are beginning to see that she was married to a weak, spineless loser and had to take the initiative. If left up to John they would probably be applying for welfare. I don't completely agree with pimping your children via a reality show though.
You must be kidding. It's called money and celebrity. Almost anyone could have a brave face for that.
12640 points
i was about to post the same thing. Kate is not brave, its called TV CONTRACT!!!! im sure they are filming for the show, as long as they have ratings the parade will continue. Kate nor Jon have dignity.
I think she is wearing her ring to play the victim.. she wants us to say "Oh poor Kate" The only thing heartbreaking is knowing how sad this is for the kiddies... and even sadder that I took the time to care enough to comment. :)
Exactly what I was thinking. Wearing her ring is so that she can "play the victim" as someone else said below.
The whole situation is just sad.
Kate has no friends. She kicked them all to the curb.
I always knew that it would turn out this way. She was always waaayyyyy to strong for him and he was always a passive-aggressive jerk. Oh, poor baby, your wife tells you to do something! So go out and date a 20-year-old drug addict! Her controlling nature has nothing on his chasing around loser chicks and doing God knows what! I always knew he was a jerk.
Maybe she is strong and brave, but from the way she's holding that coffee cup, it looks like she's going out of her way to get her wedding ring in the picture.
I don't think it's the wedding ring she's trying to show off. She probably has a sponsor deal with Starbucks. If she holds the cup like a normal person she would cover the logo. Every picture the coffee logo appears in is a payday for her.
3395 points
I am sure that it is hard to accept the fact that you are not going to be married to the father of you kids anymore. That being said, I am sick of reading anonymous posters complain about her cheating on her husband. None of us will know who cheated first, and basically, it is not our business.
For those of you still going after Kate, fantastic. Apparently you have a serious problem with a hard working, dedicated mother who is caring for her 8 children while her husband frolics in France with a 20-something year old druggie. Congrats on your judge of character.
14395 points
Hard working? How? Having this show pay you millions, get all that stuff thrown at you, pimping your kids out?
Sorry, they're both despicable characters who are just exploiting their kids, dedicated to fill their coffers.
14430 points
Are you freaking kidding me?? Hard working? or hardly working? She is choosing to tour and promote her own agenda and her show rather than be at home. No one is innocent in all this junk except the kids. I stopped watching the show once they both put the show first. They are both to blame. In the end only they (and apparently the ever present camera guys) know what happened.
I still say "STOP THE SHOW!!!"
1635 points
Wow it's almost unbelievable how much of douchebag Jon looks.
Lame sunglasses, earrings, shirt and the mid life crisis bike. What more could a druggie ask for?
595 points
I read somewhere he has complained about how he wasn't ready to have kids and all, that he was too young (23, I believe)... But then, here he is dating a 22-year old. So what makes him think that this 20 something girl is ready to be a step mother of 8 kids? Something that gets me is the fact that people blame Kate for going out of town on book tours and speaking engagements, etc... If the husband was the one working out of town, nobody would blame him. Think about professional athletes. After all, it's their jobs but also their dream. They are living their dream while their wives take care of the family. But nobody blames them. Plus, it looks like Jon is enjoying all that money she made anyway. How would he be able to afford all of this lifestyle without her doing all those works? It's just sad that all this money is from their children.
WOWZA> some very good points!
Jon's priorities are obviously all out of whack- I don't think he cares for a second about finding a good step mom for his kids, it's very sad
6815 points
I have a feeling she is still wearing her ring as a publicity stunt... Like a way to garner sympathy. She is probably doing it to make Jon look like the bad one, while she looks like the victim... They are truly pathetic, and I feel for those kids... You know in about 6 or 7 years we are going to hear about one of those kids getting busted for drugs or drunk driving.
5081295 points
As for the ring, she spoke about it on the show. She's wearing it for the kids. One of them, a boy I think, notices everything like nail polish colors. She is trying to ease them into their new life. Back off! As for future drug/alcohol use, Jon sure is setting up the perfect role modeling for that. The boys will also have a hard time ever having a good relationship with a woman based on Jon's example. The girls will have a hard time trusting men because of him as well. Great job Jon, your poor judgement will live on for another generation.
Gosh. You seem quite obsessed with Kate. Maybe you could be her new BFF since you agree with everything she does and seem to worship her. As far as the boys having a hard time finding a good relationship based on Jon's behavior.....how about Kate's constant nagging at him? Do you think it is okay for her to constantly b*tch and complain all the time? I find it hard to believe you watch this show and not see both sides. I just hope the boys do not fall in love with women like her who feel the need to be degraded by their wives constantly and made to feel nothing they do is right. I do not feel that Jon is doing right by no means, but there are always two sides to a story. I do recall Jon stating he wanted out of the show and out of the limelight because it was causing problems with their marriage. Kate didn't care though and chose money and fame over her marriage. Again, I do not agree with Jon moving on so quickly with a girlfriend, but I also don't agree with how Kate has handled things either.
I don't think people should be so quick to jump to conclusions like that- not every child is a product of their parent, it's all about the individual and how they choose to evaluate the situations in their life.
20685 points
I agree, A_Katz, they are both pathetic & the kids are the ones who will pay the price. As for Kate needing a friend, she should have been nicer to the ones she had.
Jon is such a man-whore douchebag. How can anyone - especially a man with 8 kids do this to his wife and children?
As far as his skanky girlfriend, I for one, would never go after another woman's man - especially one with 8 kids !!!
700 points
I have honestly flip flopped on which of these two I feel bad for. Now I have come to see that the ONLY people I should feel bad for are their kids. Kate and Jon need to keep it together for those poor kids.
5751775 points
poor kids
I'm sure it bothers Kate but she's playing her in all this. Her continued use of the wing is going to confuse the kids, not to mention Jon galvating with his girlfriend. They both need to be an adult about this especially with them in the public eye and try to explain what's going on. As for Jon saying he was to young for kids, I think that he said that he and kate discussed it and really wanted to have kids. All he had to do was say Kate, I think we should wait awhile before trying to have kids. I don't feel that I'm reading to be a father. She wasn't that much of a bully when they first got married.
I think that constant cameras in their house and the fact that they had 8 kids and no real time for themselves really put a strain on their marriage.
She filed for divorce, yet she's wearing her ring?
These two are a hot mess. For a long time I was on Jon's side but he's acting like a crazed puppy just let out of it's kennel. Kate's trying to get sympathy for pushing her marriage to the edge, then filing for divorce... it's all so sad. I wish they'd go away. They are both making fools of themselves.
620 points
Even though we see them on tv, we don't know them. If that is her dealing process, then that is her dealing process. I know it isn't the same, but when my ex-boyfriend's father died (it happened when I was with him), I said my goodbyes at the funeral and all that, but to this day, I still cannot delete his name from my cell phone. I just can't bring myself to do it. Silly, I know, but if leaving her ring on is still part of her dealing process, then so be it.
Filing for divorce may of just been her breaking point- she couldn't put up with what Jon was doing anymore but that doesn't mean that she didn't want it to work or that she wasn't having trouble letting go of the marriage. I know a few people who had very bad marriages and had to end them but it took a long time for them to actually be able to let the marriage go.
Everyone who has watched *plus8 knows how pushy Kate is. I don't know about her husband, but it never appeared that he was as into the 8 kid show as she was. It was Kate's show all the way, and often she made him look bad. Would that be healthy for the kids? I'd think not. But it is always about Kate. Now John has broken away and is trying assert himself by doing dumb things. Which is not good either. These are two immature people who had no business bringing 8 children into this world before resolving their issues and building a healthy relationship. A tragedy, for sure, but niether of them are the real victims. The children are.
She found out she really didn't respect, trust or love him. He's a wimpy on getting things done.. and vagabond yes man.
5355 points
Wonder if the kids are going to turn out emotionally scarred after all of this crap. If they were truely interested in protecting their kids they would remove them from the spotkight - or at the very least the show.
They are going to be scarred by his actions: leaving them to go globe trotting with a 20-year-old bi-sexual drug addict jailbird: than any controlling thing that she has ever done.
Millions of women are controlling and bossy! Ask any man! And the kids turn out fine.
But kids don't turn out fine when their daddy leaves mommy for a roll in the hay with a coke head teenager.
Clearly she is just more mature than you Vera.
20 points
He is such a weiner and damn ugly too.... shes better off without his douchbag ase around anyway....
935 points
we dont know everything that happened for all we know lats week was a publicity stunt
68134 points
Now it seems like Jon is enjoying the benefits of fame instead of staying with his family. They need to work things out.
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I was always team Jon before he started being a douche bag. Watching old episodes recently does show how controlling and out of control Kate can be. I feel bad for her now and I am not saying she deserves this, but Karma is a bitch. The Christmas episode where she screams at Jon like he is a child was indeed embarrassing. And she doesn't ever admit that she speaks to him in an inappropriate tone.
I do applaud her for finally not talking and saying anything and keeping her head on straight. Jon has been out of control lately and I know his kids are going to resent him for his behavior.
She gave up her job, he gave up his, but these are things you have to do for your family sometimes. And I would think nothing of her still wearing her ring. During their last aired episode, she sat comfortably in the middle of the sofa talking about what uncertainty her future had and Jon still sat in his left corner. Take from that what you will, I just think they both lose in this situation and hopefully they will stop acting like celebrities and start acting like parents.
1195 points
Agree with geeze..
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