KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (14 page)

Wow, so Kate just had the absolute most horrible day in history because Jon bought his own lunch and was so afraid to tell her about it that he lied?

She’s not finished with this one. She now wishes that because of this, that Jon would crack the bible daily and really seek the Lord in this matter! She asks God to help Jon to become a man of integrity!!!!! Lord Please!!!!! Jon could be the perfect man if he could get these things under control and let God take control!!!!!

These journal entries show Kate keeping a very close eye on any potential competition to her reality show future. She is revel
ing in the misfortunes of another:

June 2007

             
Kate mentions a Stacy Bailey from Arizona being pregnant after her frozen transfer and says they are waiting to hear how many. She says she is nervous that Bailey is trying to come up with another TV show for herself.

July 2007

Kate checks in to celebrate the fact that
Stacy Bailey is NOT pregnant saying she has two more embryos that she needs to use but they are of bad quality supposedly. She seems very happy about this sad news for the Bailey family.

RING MY BELL

Here is an example of Kate’s grateful side. This was a sign posted on Kate’s front door when she was being overwhelmed with support from the community
that was helping to take care of her new babies. Help that she had begged for. There’s nothing wrong with a family wanting their privacy, but there was no justification for her rudeness. A “Please” would have been in order. Kate named the actual computer file she used to make the sign “GO AWAY.doc”. And while the lowly helpers were forbidden to ring the doorbell, any delivery services bringing packages were welcome to ring away.

Thanks for watching!

If you are here to offer your services of any kind,

Do Not Ring the door bell

(this excludes package delivery services. Ex: FedEx, UPS, etc.)

BOMBINGS OR WHATEVER

Like the rest of the world, you would think that Kate must have been shattered, heartbroken and distraught over the events of September 11, 2001. Indeed. She displayed her caring, sensitive and empathetic nature when she entered her private thoughts about the 5
th
anniversary of the 9/11 tragedies into her daily journal.

On September 11, 2006, Kate Gosselin wrote that “today is the five year remembrance of the September 11
th
bombings or whatever.”

You read that correctly. Kate Gosselin callously and inexcusably (and inaccurately, I might add) described the events of our September 11, 2001, national and world tragedy in her journal as “
bombings
or whatever
.” Aside from her stunning ignorance about the cause of the events that unfolded on that tragic day, she reveals herself to be completely devoid of any emotion about the loved ones and sense of security our nation lost.

Some will excuse her words as nothing more than a lapse in judgment, either because they do not understand, or simply refuse to believe, that it is completely in character for Kate to not care about anyone or anything if it doesn’t benefit her personally.

As the years passed, there were some positive signs that Kate was becoming more aware and sensitive to the despair of others. On the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, Kate’s tweeted this:

Wish I could say GM 2day butthere’sstill so much hurt in the air-it’s palpable! We will nvr 4get! Thx esp 2day2all who hav fought fear..&won!

I’m watching CNN- Time tribute to 9/11 &I still can’t bear the accounts. We will NEVER forget! Survivors/ victims families u r in r hearts
!

Maybe there was a ray of hope after all that Kate had actually learned something in the 6 years since the 5th anniversary of 9/11, when she wrote of “bombings or whatever.” Maybe she wasn’t now being phony in expressing concern for others. Maybe she was showing compassion. Then again, maybe not.
At this point, Kate had been abandoned by the entertainment industry and was desperate for attention and even more desperate to change her negative image. Twitter was her only outlet.

In October of 2012, Kate reverted to form. Her inability to feel or express empathy for the plight of others was on full display when she took to Twitter to immortalize her thoughts about Hurricane Sandy. That devastating “superstorm” was responsible for more than 120 deaths in the US alone, thousands of people losing their homes and/or livelihoods, millions losing power for extended periods of time, and billions of dollars in damage. Despite all that, Kate stayed sheltered in her little cocoon of ignorance and tweeted these happy things:

Is it bad 2say that so far,we r having nothing but FUN w Sandy(or the lack of her)? HurricaneSandy

Winding down now with some uber exciting Disney channel.. #SuperfunSandy

Tragically,
Superstorm Sandy wasn’t “Superfun” at all.

THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR

Kate’s
communications with others tell a lot about her personality and reveal a distinct superiority complex. She is condescending and dismissive towards anyone who has nothing of value to offer her. Numerous examples of her disdain for others litter her email communications.

Since there
might be possible legal issues with reprinting actual email texts in their entirety here, I have, instead, only provided the dates of the emails, and summarized and paraphrased the email text. Where necessary, I have included parts of actual quotes. I have in no way changed the meaning or intent of the email communications.

Kate frequently signed off in her emails with
a “Thanks! Have a gr8t day!” The last line in her emails was often the tag “Sent from my PINK iPhone”. I have set the separate email subjects apart from one another with spaces above and below. Thanks! Have a gr8t day!

On August 1, 2006, an Ohio University student sent an email to the [email protected] address to suggest that Jon and Kate apply to be on
Extreme Makeover/Home Edition
. “Abby T” addressed her note “Dear Gosselins.” She said she had watched their story and was “truly touched” by their family, love and strength. Abby went on to say that their children are “beautiful and so adorable” and that Jon and Kate are “amazing and funny as well!” She told them that they are “so deserving” and “so sweet that viewers would melt.” Abby then provided the website address to the ABC casting department in case Jon and Kate wanted to apply.

This poor young woman’s heart was in the right place. Little did she know, however, that her idea would fall victim to Kate’s disdain. Jon got the email and forwarded it to Kate, who got a good laugh out of
Abby T’s sincere suggestion. When she replied to Jon, Kate mockingly said that the girl obviously doesn’t understand the world of television. She followed that with a “Thanks but absolutely no thanks!!!!!!!” and a derisive “HAA HAA HEE HEE.”

In an email dated Monday, November 27, 2006, a representative named Liz from the 32 Flavors Public Relations company forwarded an email to Kate from a book agent who wasn’t interested in Kate’s book proposal. The book agent, a woman named Laurie, thanked Liz for thinking of her, but said that after checking out Jon and Kate’s website, she decided it wasn’t quite right for her. Laurie said it was a good story, but it was “not particularly unique,” and she had seen a lot of book proposals like theirs.

Liz apologized to Kate
that it didn’t work out, telling her, “geez I didn’t think it would go this way.” Kate brushed off the rejection saying, “Ha- she obviously doesn’t know how rare we are!” The book was later reworked by Beth Carson into the Christian love story,
Multiple Blessings
, and the rest is history.

Still in November of 2006, Kate sent an angry email to Jon for, well, just being Jon, I guess. She told him she was “sooooooooooooooooo frustrated” with him, and that she “begs and pleads and begs some more” for him to do things around the house that she can’t do. She asked him why he couldn’t see that he had to help with more than just the daily stuff in order to keep the house running smoothly, because then everybody would win. Kate also told Jon not to take the “lazy approach,” and informed him that if he helped more, she would be happy, which meant that everyone else would be happy as well, including him. She threatened that she was “not going away,” so he could either do the stuff she asks or “live miserably!” and ended by saying, “You choose!” She signed it “me”.

On December 31, 2006, Jon forwarded Kate an email that he had received the day before from the coordinator of something called the “MOST” forum. (MOST stands for Mothers of Supertwins.) The forum coordinator, “Patti T,” asked Jon if he would post something to introduce himself and his family on the forum at http://www.mostonline.org/MostBB/viewtopic.php?t=92. It is not clear why Patti T’s email annoyed Kate, but her curt response to Jon about it is offensive. Kate said, “
These people are retarded!
”

In March of 2008, Kate sent Jon a list of ways the kids should help at home. She also included a Gosselin Family Mission Statement and listed principles based on the statement. Kate did not preface her letter with a “Hi Jon,” or even a small greeting. She simply greeted him with the dictatorial command, “Here’s what I want.” She instructed Jon to write out the items on her list and include a picture to describe the task next to each item. These are the
10 Ways To Help at Home
that Kate listed:

1. Clean up toys.

2. Sweep floor after meals
.

3. Turn
off lights when I leave a room.

4. Make my bed
.

5. Brush my teeth
.

6. Put th
ings where they belong.

7. Put dirty laundry in hamper
.