KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN
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Silly tweeties... I see you calling me! I'm eyeball deep in wrapping and (shh) presents...I'm playin Ms Clause tonight... No run again 2day!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 MSD having a few drinks in your honor tonight. :O)
cool thanks. Ms clause is too busy to party
And on her own website, one of the things she listed in her December 24, 2011, blog, “8 things that tell me it’s Christmastime,” was this:
My bedroom is no longer anything but Ms Claus’ Workshop – I cannot walk in any direction without fear of colliding with a wrapped package!
I guess Santa doesn’t exist to her just like her children’s father doesn’t exist to her.
CHRISTMISC TWEETS AND “FEATS”
Here is a compilation of miscellaneous tweets from Kate in the month leading up to Christmas and on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day:
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Did u get your Christmas decorations up?
no. lights don’t work& ….. got frustrated&ran 10 mi instead. Tgiving is away&Christmas this wk bef I leave next wkend
Ok,seriously,why is EVERY store out of white Christmas lights???!Only ONE strand of ours works &I promised lights on tree yesterday! Oh no..
That tweet was at 6:00 PM. Kate left the kids alone in the house to go out shopping for more lights. She never had to do this by herself before in her life and she had no idea how to string tree lights. I found out that rather than splitting the strands of lights up over several extension cords or the special cord with several different outlets, Kate plugged them all in together, overloading the small fuse. The twins pointed it out to her.
This is a tweet from Kate answering a question about Christmas shopping:
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 do your kids still draw names for each other?
not this year…So far. Didn’t have a chance to go shopping for them… may do it last minute with the crowds, yikes!
TLC and paid employees helped Kate take care of that Christmas shopping in the past. Now she says she didn’t have a chance to go shopping? She’s home alone for eight and a half hours all day, every day, with no job and nothing to do except go to the tanning salon and get her hair and nails done, but she didn’t have a chance to go Christmas shopping for her kids as of December 15th?
This next series of tweets is all about stress and gift wrapping.
Okay, back to wrapping now.... And running etc... Day is too short, I can tell you that already...;)
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 how do you guys do Xmas now? Separate or together? Hope you finish ur wrapping! :)
def seperate. We do Christmas at home, same as always and they do Christmas at their dads after. It's the way kids requested
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 When you're don't wrapping you can come help me!! :) will seem like a little job compared to your stack, I'm sure!!
I won't be done til Christmas eve/wee hours of Christmas am I don't think. Want help then, lol?
GM all.Woke up as if it was a sch am today!!?!!:/ I'm just about2attack the wrapping again... Amongst many othr things 2day! Have a gd 1!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 u are all excited about wrapping, thats why u woke up early. lol ;-) have a gr8 day!
um, more like stressed about it... But close, lol!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 I struggle w/ 3kids, 1DIL & 1grand… Does Santa leave his gifts wrapped or unwrapped at ur house? Santa leaves our unwrapped.
nope, everything including stocking gifts are wrapped here… This santa is a glutton for punishment I know! Lol
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 you must need a lot of wrapping paper lol.
rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls
Kate said “rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls.” How about one big roll of blank, off-white newsprint?
Another of Kate’s Christmas illusions that I can personally call BS on is her claim that she always leaves baked goods outside for the trash men. Again, I was on Gosselin Christmas and holiday trash patrol starting in 2009, and I only wish she would have left a nice snack out for the trash men. I probably would have eaten it. It got lonely out there on Heffner Road. I photographed, observed and removed Kate’s holiday trash for 3 years. She never once left anything for the trash men…except trash.
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 I heard on the radio that you leave cookies out for the garbage men because there is soooo much of it after Christmas. Funny!
I do &candy etc. they r some of THE kindest garbage men ever! So patient when I’m late putting it out or have tons (weekly)!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 why did u make 121 loaves of bread?
teachers, trash men, bank lady, nail girl, friends who help out, bus drivers, etc and so on
I’m not sure exactly why Kate goes to such great lengths to create an alternate personality and universe for herself. Oh wait, yes I do. She has to lie to try to make people think she is a supermom. Here is an example of Kate getting caught in one of her lies/embellishments:
Merry Christmas Eve all… I have sixteen LOUD excited feet stomping above me.. Better go get them and feed them breakfast! Have a good one!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 You’d think 4 bigger feet could try to keep the 12 smaller ones quiet.
you’d think.But they r on other side of house..&asleep (they are tweens) so its just 12 loud feet now that I think abt it!
Kate’s Twitter fans can’t see inside of her house. She didn’t have to backpedal on her bullshit there. She could have gotten away with that tweet about the “sixteen LOUD excited feet.”
It just wouldn’t be A Very Gosselin Christmas without Kate talking about doing everything alone and her children’s screams of joy:
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Whats the hardest part about Christmas with 8 kids??? My 1 just about does me in!
honestly? Doing it alone. Wish I had someone to share the shrieks, smiles&excitement w! Overwhelming to orchestrate alone!
W/ 1hr&1min 2go til Christmas,I’m grabbing sum sleep be4 r Christmas am madness begins!I can’t wait2hear ripping/tearing/screams of joy!!
Merry Christmas all..Let the Gosselin stampede begin… Can’t wait 2thrill the kids!It’s the happiest day of the year for 8 marvelous kids!
TO VALENTINE’S DAY AND BEYOND!
Kate was tweeting her own horn talking about all her pre-Valentine’s Day preparations. Of course, just as she did at Christmas, Kate had to throw out there that she was “home alone doing this.”
It’s all about love today… Making my kids valentines and getting all their treats ready today just in time for Tuesday!!
Preparing to make our valentine boxes… This mom is home alone doing this…so we are all ready… http://t.co/Y7KakpUv
GM!Beginning to pack 8 V day lunches full of surprises 4 tomorrow..all abt LOVE here.. Kids get SO excited! Next, pre prepping ? breakfast!
Decorated V day boxes successfully..I was so into it,I 4got 2take a pic!Sorry guys! It was an enjoyable peaceful experience 4 all=amazing!
Kate’s tweeties were begging for a photo of her “amazing” “V day” boxes even before she started making them, but Kate somehow forgot to take the picture. Kate also “forgot” to take a picture of her “amazing” all-night Easter egg stuffing session and her “amazing” Thanksgiving Day dinner that she prepared for so many people because she “lost track.”
Even though Kate’s fans didn’t get to see a photo of the amazing “V Day” boxes she decorated, Kate did post a photo on Valentine’s Day showing the surprises that awaited her “8” at the table. The surprises were cute and mediocre and normal. She didn’t need to keep trumpeting how what she was doing was all about love, which is kind of the point of the day. They probably love anything nice that she does for them.
http://t.co/v8rHHZ3q St. Valentine(me- no, I’m not a saint!)is ready…?Surprises await my 8 at their places at the table..I’m SO excited!!
Wishing u the Happiest of Happy Valentines Days today…may urs b filled w/love&contentment..Our am was a huge success!We r loved&blessed!
Here comes trouble. Everything Kate does is so special and great that she thinks
she needs to present it to the world. Kate made the mistake of tweeting a photo of the “heart-y” breakfast she made. The photo showed what appeared to be a simple breakfast that would have required about 10 minutes to prepare. The portions on the kids’ plates looked like she was feeding 2-year-olds, and her fans and critics alike took notice and commented – which set Kate off. Her tweeties should have known that they can only tweet about how awesome Kate is at everything and never question her mothering.
Here was our ‘heart-y’ breakfast… http://t.co/1oGXiQ4X I LOVE doing this stuff for my kids!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 …. That’s all your kids have for the most important meal of the day? Wow..
and a bus snack already packed daily for the bus ride… They eat me outta house and home.. 6 am is light breakfast!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Turkey bacon, one slice: 31Kcal. Mini-muffin: 50 Kcal. 81 calories, plus a couple of kids got half an egg, another 40 kcal.
that was a cream cheesepoundcake muffin w/ abt 200 cal each… + a 100 calorie bus snack after. Don’t ? my mothering – thx!
And that right there folks is why there are no friends or family members involved in Kate’s or the Gosselin children’s lives. Because EVERYBODY questioned her mothering and they were all cast off.
This next tweet from Kate was posted at 2:47 pm on Wednesday, February 15, 2012. The kids were dropped off at the school bus EIGHT hours before, and Kate said she was still cleaning up the “fall out” from Valentine’s Day. She must have forgotten that she showed us pictures of what she did for the kids. Even if she cleaned up everything by herself, it was maybe 30 minutes of work. Kate knows her 15 legitimate Twitter followers are easily fooled.
..I’m here. Trying2 straighten up all the Valentines ‘fall out’.It was like a little Christmas here, I think! Not ignoring u tweeties!XO
2:47 pm on 2.15.12
I’ve been trying to post a tweet all day… Twitter not letting me… Ugh, I hate ‘twitter jail’… Sorry, guys. I’m not ignoring you.. :)
In fact, Kate is ignoring you. Whenever she wants to ignore her tweeties, which is usually when she’s doing something without the kids and she’s enjoying herself, meaning she’s with Steve, she always tells them that she is in “Twitter jail.” She has used this excuse many, many times. “Twitter Jail” actually exists, and it’s a sanction put on someone who tweets TOO OFTEN in a given day.
“All day” in Kate time equals 3 hours, because her first tweet was posted exactly 3 hours earlier.
DEAR SUPERMOM
Here’s a Twitter fan who obviously hasn’t watched a single episode of Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht or Kate Plus Ei8ht. If she had, she probably wouldn’t have been asking Kate for advice about crying babies. At least Kate gave this tweetie an honest response:
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Did your rock babies to sleep or let them cry them self 2 sleep??
must let them cry and learn to soothe themselves…Rocking triplets=you’ll never get2bed! I promise, Crying gets shorter ea pm!
Of course she never rocked her babies. Of course they had to learn to soothe themselves. She barely had any contact at all with her babies except for what was filmed for profit. Obviously, Kate Gosselin doesn’t have the first clue how to take care of eight children, or do anything on her own for that matter.
It is difficult to view Kate as the “supermom” she tries to portray herself as after reading her answer to a tweet such as this:
xxxxx@Kateplusmy8 Don’t you feel Blessed you have those memories on tape :) They are for sure treasures into the past for you and your kids.
I DO—now more than ever! I was physically present back then, but also phys/emotionally exhausted so I don’t remember a lot!
So Kate just said in her tweet that in all the time she was filming with her family – their entire lives from after the sextuplets were born up until 2011 – she was only “physically present” and she doesn’t remember a lot. That’s not exactly the picture of a “supermom.” She missed the most fragile, developmentally significant years of her children’s lives. But hey, at least she has professional “home movies” of herself being a narcissistic, rude, angry monster to her family and everyone she has ever come in contact with.
Kate is oblivious to the needs of young children. Why on Earth would anyone who’s trying to convince the world that her kids have wonderful, happy, carefree lives, tweet about how structured and inflexible their lives are? She is so proud of her rigidity that she brags about it to the world:
My motto on way home EVERYDAY: 'routine, chickens, dinner, chores, homework, showers then bed. Time to play if you hurry!' :) play..repeat..
She sounds like a drill sergeant running a boot camp. Kids need some structure and routine in their lives, but they also need spontaneity and flexibility. Her tweet makes it sound like she is pounding that “motto” of routine into her kids’ heads every single day. Constantly hearing that and never straying from the daily script must be an absolute nightmare for her children.
MOVIE NIGHT
Kate promised her followers that she would be having a “movie night” at home with her kids. Family movie nights should be a special time where Kate can share a relaxing and pleasant experience with her kids. But she makes it sound anything but pleasant. The children must sit in a certain order on the floor a few feet in front of the television –on the stripe of the rug so they can’t spill popcorn on said precious rug – and Kate sits behind them on a comfy sofa throwing a “Tweet Party” for complete strangers. Kate tweeted photos of her DVD and popcorn and of the kids sitting all lined up on the floor:
http://t.co/Kde2b5RR Our family night tonight…we can’t wait.
…moments til movie start..Sitting on ‘the stripe’(of the rug-2 avoid extra mess) w/buttery popcorn, munching&ready! http://t.co/4UcWMDwy
The Twitter “party” started out innocently enough, but as usual, things went sour pretty quickly:
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Great movie! Sounds like fun nght planned. But I don’t get why u don’t take kids to movie theatre? U have money.
…we all have money. It’s in our personal choices on how to spend it that counts… Have a good day!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Wow sorry that I hit a nerve by asking.But how much does it cost for a tanning session as compared to a movie?
comparing apples2oranges now? How I spend my per $ is also none of your business. Inspect your own finances,not mine!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Kate pls calm down.I didn’t mean to get you so upset.Just asking why deny kids movies at theatre.Still dn’t understand.
1st takes more2make me ‘uncalm’;2nd: not deny I CHOOSE not 2go into public&cause panic&spend $ 4same movie we can watch @ home!
In that last tweet, Kate is saying she can’t go out in public with the kids because it causes a panic. Not true. I’ve been out with Jon and the kids in public many times and guess what? There has never been a panic. At best, some teenage girls would politely stare for a minute or so. We’ve been to movies, fast-food places, arcades, playgrounds. No panic. The panic only occurs when Kate is with the kids in public and someone looks at her because she is screaming and flailing her arms in the air shouting, “They’re taking unauthorized pictures of us!!! They’re taking our picture!!! THEY’RE LOOKING AT US!!!!!!!!”
People would stare at anyone carrying on with such histrionics.
And now, back to the movie.
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Don’t ur kids ask 2 C new movies tht their friends saw & R talking abt?Most kids don’t want 2 be left out.
seriously? Theres a lot more2life than seeing latest movie…Like getting good grades&playing outside!geesh!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Geesh like I don’t know that? There are some movies kids should see in the theatres like 3D etc.
no; still don’t agree.Movies r never ‘shoulds’ in life!Good experience? Sure. But no one would die w/o them!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 There R many movies that my kids would nvr wait to C months later on DVD. Harry PotterStar WarsTwilight…
btw we have a 3D tv and glasses so all 3d movies can be viewed at home too;)
Could somebody PLEASE inform Kate that she doesn’t HAVE TO respond to everybody who tweets something she doesn’t want to hear? She always ends up making herself look bad. At the very least, she could try to be smart enough to think about what she’s tweeting. Minutes after tweeting that they have a 3D TV and glasses so they can view 3D movies at home, Kate felt compelled to tweet this:
except xtra glasses r $100 ea so we don’t actually have a pair 4 each person!Too many in Fam!
xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 By that logic than neither is owning 3 cars, tanning, nails, NYC, coloring hair, Iphone, Should I go on?