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Christmas Cards from Just Kate or Plus Eight?

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 by dalaga
Kate Gosselin's Christmas cards

Will Kate Gosselin's 2010 Christmas cards feature a photo of sexy (or rather, trampy?) mom from her DWTS days minus eight?

Kate Gosselin has become one of the most talked about moms in history. She has books and TV shows sprouting up all over the place, which leaves us to wonder when she has time for the kiddies that made her such a celebrity. Will she be sending out Kate Plus Eight Christmas cards this holiday season or will she be ditching the kids to show the glamour of her newly found fame? You decide.

Back in 2000 Kate and Jon Gosselin had fraternal twins, Cara Nicole and Madelyn (Mady) Kate. And then four years later they were blessed with sextuplets: Alexis Faith, Hannah Joy, Aaden Jonathan, Collin Thomas, Leah Hope, and Joel Kevin. The Gosselin family dynamic would forever change (and so would their Christmas cards!). The birth of the sextuplets was filmed for a Discovery Health special and followed by a second special when the sextuplets were one. The popularity from these two specials created the reality series Jon & Kate Plus 8. Hello! These were cute kids and we loved them.

At first we didn’t notice that Kate started getting bitchier or that Jon was getting quieter and the kids were no longer the main focus. And then it became evident that the show was more and more about Kate and the products and trips that were being promoted. The relatives and friends that were frequently on the show to help with the kids were no longer around, and Kate was all over the talk show circuit proclaiming how wonderful her kids were. And she knew this because she was what – watching them on TV? She sure wasn’t at home taking care of them. She did see them when the show was taping, but I didn’t notice a lot of hugging going on when the kids were featured more on spectacular vacations and less in their everyday lives. Greed for more and more perks had changed the show and our perception of the Gosselins forever. Their Christmas cards list seemed to shrink as friends and family who were in earlier shows were suddenly not around.

John and Kate plus 8 Christmas cards

Smile...or not! A picture is worth a thousand words, and the looks on the Gosselin kids' faces says it all. Perhaps they knew it would be the last John and Kate plus Eight Christmas.

Kate moved her family into a million dollar-plus home where she was seen in one episode spending the “whole” day cleaning the refrigerator herself while presumably the kids were exploring. Puhleeze…a martyr she is not! She has expensive clothes, professional (but sorta ugly) haircuts, and demands first class accommodations along with her speaking fees, and this woman is cleaning a refrigerator?

This is a woman whose family Christmas cards became a thing of the past when Jon and Kate divorced in 2009. This is a woman who claims she is working for her kids, but their bedrooms are on the other side of the mansion from hers. Kate says that she is not after fame but trying to support her kids now that she is a single mother. That’s why she had a dance studio built in her home. That’s why she was on Dancing with the Stars (no gagging please), and that’s why she is all over the magazines and gossip papers without her children.

Guess what? Other mothers are raising their children without all the perks and promotions and do pretty well. Here’s a suggestion – sell the mansion, bank the money, and support the kids on the residuals from your books and television. You can then spend time with your children, or on second thought, they may actually be better off with you away.