“Kate: Her Story” Is Like A Televised Therapy Session
Posted by: Kate Torgovnick
Filed in:
entertainment
10:40AM, Tuesday November 3rd 2009
Last night, because “Kate Plus 8” is in limbo thanks to a certain someone (JON! That’s you!), TLC decided to air a special called “Kate: Her Story,” featuring Kate Gosselin being interviewed by Natalie Morales. Morales failed to ask really important questions—like, “How do you feel about Heidi Montag being you for Halloween?”—and basically just gave Kate a forum to cry and smear her smoky eye makeup. Since you probably couldn’t stomach the idea of watching the whole thing (plus, you were busy watching the World Series), here are the choicest quotes from the hour-long special.
On whether she brought this on herself:
“I put myself on a reality show, but I did not do anything that would put me in the tabloids ... We did four seasons without paparazzi.”
On how she’s handling the divorce:
“I still think the phone will ring and it’ll be the old Jon.”
On whether she’s really a shrew:
“I was very hard on [Jon] and I would never deny that. I was wrong to treat him that way. Was it good, healthy and wonderful? No. Am I proud of those moments that were captured? No.”
On whether she regrets doing the show:
“Had we never done the show, it would have been me a nurse, him in I.T., and that would have gotten the better of us even sooner.”
On the rumor of her affair with a bodyguard:
“It’s so unthinkable to me that to have to think about it makes me sick ... To have Jon fan that into this huge tabloid nightmare, it’s disgusting.”
On her paranoia:
“You look around and very close, trusted people who you swear on your life would never ever, ever cash you in, for lack of better words, and those people do that ... When people leave your house and tell completely different stories, you tend not to trust people.”
On her childhood:
“I’m famous for telling my mom growing up, ‘Mom, five kids is too many, you lose something in the details.’ Ironic, yes, and she reminded me of that when I ended up with eight kids. She said, ‘Do you remember what you always told me?’”
TheFrisky.com is part of the Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital Network
shoeluvher
wrote on November 3 2009 @ 03:08 pm: [report]
On whether she regrets doing the show:
“Had we never done the show, it would have been me a nurse, him in I.T., and that would have gotten the better of us even sooner.”
I agree with her on that one. The pressures of trying to make ends meet for a family of 10 with the income that comes from those kinds of jobs probably would have made life a lot worse for them. And she is also correct in saying that they did 4 seasons without the paparazzi. Before Jon started having affairs and accusing her of having one, they really were just a big family who had a reality show on TLC. Yes, they weren’t always nice to each other and yes, maybe they got a lot of perks, but they were just a family and the media really didn’t care about them. So the show in and of itself is not what brought about all of the media attention, and they shouldn’t be blamed for having the show to begin with.
juujuu3
wrote on November 3 2009 @ 06:42 pm: [report]
I should have just kept watching Dancing with the Stars, more entertaining. I still beleive that she is trying to hard to make herself lookgood. I have felt from the start that many of her actions and outbursts were just for TV. Cut the tears and cut the show until you can be a natural Mom on TV. Stop trying to tell the world how very normal and well behaved your kids are, no one cares anymore.
silkyhair
wrote on November 3 2009 @ 07:12 pm: [report]
Kate said her children deserve the world on a golden platter…so you tell me what parent doesn’t think that of nor wish it for their children? But we are not doing it at the expense of our children. Our children live with what we can afford to give them. My daughter never got a vacation for I couldn’t afford to do that. But her kids get the best of everything? Sorry, I’ve no feelings for her nor Jon. But the kids will always suffer for their wrong doings. Now they’ll just have to be like the rest of our children and get the best of what they can get by their parents working real jobs like the rest of us do and face the world as it really is. If they don’t they will be screwed up forever.
secretstevie
wrote on November 4 2009 @ 08:41 pm: [report]
@silkyhair, the assertion that wealthy parents can’t raise great children is absurd. stupid even. there are parents who are poor who are great. parents who are poor who are terrible. same goes for the wealthy. there are lots of things to judge her and jon for but their bank account is not one of them.
silkyhair
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 06:18 am: [report]
Not sure where I laid blame on anyone other than the two I wrote of. Idiot. Its a show of their lives that they put out there for us to comment on. Just as I did. My thoughts mean nothing to you! They are getting paid for our looking at their program, interviews and web sites. Get a life secretstevie. These two would of probably been great parents had they not decided to put their children out there along with their dirty laundry to observe. You play you pay. Rich or poor@secretstevie!
stillkikkin2
wrote on November 11 2009 @ 11:57 pm: [report]
I love all of the Gosselin children. They made me laugh and cry. How sweet is one child, but they were blessed with eight! I had my Monday nights set aside to watch as they grew. I thank them all for doing the show. The sweetest kids on tv in a long time. I hope that it does not end all. I would love to hear how each of them are doing. If that means I have to like the parents, I say yes. If your life is so perfect, just turn the channel.