Katie Irene “Kate” Gosselin is an American television personality. She achieved national and international recognition on the US reality TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8, in which she and Jon Gosselin were profiled as they raised their atypical family of sextuplets and twins.
Kreider met Jon Gosselin at a company picnic on October 5, 1997. They were married on June 12, 1999. Gosselin became pregnant through fertility treatment because polycystic ovary syndrome left her unable to conceive otherwise. on October 8, 2000, she gave birth to twin girls, Cara Nicole and Madelyn “Mady” Kate, who were premature at 35 weeks gestation.
After further treatments, Gosselin became pregnant again and, on May 10, 2004, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center, she gave birth to sextuplets
Following the birth of the sextuplets, the Gosselins were featured in the NBC reality TV show Home Delivery when their home in Wyomissing was renovated to accommodate the large family.
Kate Gosselin worked as a nurse when Jon and Kate Plus 8 first aired in 2007, practising as a labour and delivery nurse at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Pennsylvania. In 2021 she obtained her multi-state, registered nurse license in North Carolina.
Kate Gosselin Age
Kate Gosselin is 47 years. Katie Irene Kreider, who is of German, Scottish, and English descent, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Charlene (née Kolak) and Kenton Kreider, a pastor.
The third of five children, she has three sisters, Kendra, Christen and Clairissa, and one brother, Kevin.
Kate Gosselin Education
Kreider became a registered nurse after completing a diploma program at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. She then worked as a labour and delivery nurse in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.
Kate Gosselin Show
Following the birth of the sextuplets, the Gosselins were featured in the NBC reality TV show Home Delivery when their home in Wyomissing was renovated to accommodate the large family.
The family was then featured in a special on Discovery Health in September 2005 entitled Surviving Sextuplets and Twins. A year later they were featured in another special entitled Sextuplets and Twins: One Year Later.
With high ratings from the specials, Discovery Health signed the couple to a reality series which began airing in April 2007, called Jon & Kate Plus 8, documenting their lives.
To produce the show, the family was filmed three or four days per week and the show’s first two seasons aired on Discovery Health Channel before moving to The Learning Channel (TLC). The family received payment for appearing on the show.
Kate Gosselin Instagram
Kate Gosselin’s Instagram is @kateplusmy8.
Kate Gosselin Website
Kate’s website is www.kateplusmy8.com
Kate Gosselin Today
Kate Gosselin has drastically changed her life after moving from a nearly 24-acre, 7,300-square-foot home in Pennsylvania to a .88-acre, 3,560-square-foot modest house in North Carolina.
An insider told The Post, the “Kate Plus 8” alum “is very happy and at peace” in her new downsized lifestyle, adding that at the moment she has no plans to return to reality television.
The news comes after her estranged son, Collin, recently addressed his lack of relationship with his mom, which he says started even before he was institutionalized for behavioural issues in early 2018.