KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (45 page)

On October 4, 2011, Kate posted a blog on her website called “Just Another Day in Mommy Paradise.” She described a typical day in her life, and one of the things she mentioned is her morning bus stop procedure.

“I hug and kiss each one – not once – but twice and send them off for another day of brain filling instruction! Knowledge is power, after all!”

I’ve been at the bus stop watching the morning drop off somewhere around 40 times since 2009. I have NEVER, not one single time, witnessed a loving moment from Kate toward her kids. Not once. If she ever says anything nice to them before school, she must say it in the van on the way to the bus stop, because the only thing I have seen and heard on a regular basis is Kate yelling at and rushing her kids onto the bus. There’s always something that one or more of them have done wrong to incur Kate’s wrath in the morning…before a 45-minute ride to school. So the last thing they hear and see each morning before boarding the school bus is their mother screaming at them for something meaningless. She even climbs onto the bus with them and yells at them to get in their “Kate-assigned” seats on the bus.

Just a few weeks after Kate’s blog about being all huggy/kissy at the bus stop, she got busted by the paps. Kate hadn’t been photographed by the paparazzi in months, so her guard was down and she felt free to be herself and be nasty to her children in public.

On October 25, 2011, a few paps passing through town on their way to Philadelphia shot Kate at the bus stop at 6:45 AM, as she was yelling at her children while sending them off to school. Realizing the paps were there, Kate launched a preemptive strike. She knew the paps had caught her red-handed
verbally abusing her kids, so she wanted to get out in front of the story before it hit the Internet. She tweeted this:

Seriously? Paparazzi at busstop before 7 am? Inhumane! Glad I remembered to wipe yesterdays melted eyeliner off! Pictures of difficult school morning. We all have them though, right?

Every parent, guardian or caregiver has probably experienced a difficult school morning at one time or another. But most parents, guardians or caregivers would never resort to screaming and yelling at their kids at the bus stop. Personally, even on “difficult” mornings, I hug and kiss each of my children and tell them how much I love them and how much I’ll miss them each day while they’re at school. I also give them encouragement to work hard and have a great day. But hey, that’s just me (and every single other good, loving parent in the world). Kate ended up on Twitter defending and excusing her actions, as usual. Kate’s responses are in bold.

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 That’s ridiculous! Do the media hounds ever give you some peace? Try and have a great day.

Not sure what was up with those clowns this morning?! Tried to hide but I hear those clicks from miles away.

xxxxx @
Kateplusmy8
you always look hot Kate

Thanks for kind words but not this morning (or any for that matter) before 7 am!

xxxxx @
Kateplusmy8
must be a slow news week. They need to leave your kids alone

They wouldn’t have pictures of me ‘yelling at my kids’ then…Ugh

Agreed! How is that news? I do it every morning! Don’t we all?

xxxxx @
Kateplusmy8
I swear the paparazzi are going to extreme levels right now!!! Just keep you’re head held high and forget them Kate <3

Just sick of instructing like a mom and getting pics taken with scowl face… Then they say ‘Kate yelling at her kids’ uh…

First of all, why is it impossible for Kate to be “instructing like a mom” without scowling at her children? Secondly, Kate was yelling at her kids as she was sending them off to school. What should the tabloids say? Here’s a tweet from Kate about the bus from a different day:

They ride for 45 minutes..say it’s the best part of the day! So I no longer feel bad. Have ridden since pre k! Overall goes well!

I wonder why Kate can’t figure out the mystery of why the kids say the bus ride is the best part of their day. Could it possibly be that the long bus ride is the only time they can relax and be themselves, without having someone barking at them?

VOMIT-FEST, GOSSELIN STYLE

During the “A Rough Ride” episode of
Kate Plus Ei8ht
, Kate and about 20 people took the Gosselin kids to Bald Head Island to film a series of episodes about their summer vacation. This episode showed the world how ill-equipped, uncaring and unloving a “mother” Kate Gosselin really is. She can’t use her tired excuse that what was aired was all the result of bad editing because she had final approval over every bit of it; that means she must have been proud of her work. I recommend that you watch it on YouTube to get the full effect of Kate’s horrible parenting and exploitation of her children … for money and fame.

Here are a few of the lowlights.

Inside their beach house on Bald Head Island, Kate is preparing to take the twins surfing while the little kids go to the beach with Ashley the babysitter. When Kate is leaving and the kids come to hug and kiss her goodbye, the editing shows only the actual hug, not the yelling leading up to it. They cut out the part where Kate yells at the kids to “Get over here now and give me hugs for the camera so we can leave!!!”

Mady and Cara learn to surf while Kate, of course, is standing over Mady telling her what to do. Two professional surf instructors are there, but Kate feels the need to hover over Mady and chime in because of her vast surfing experience. Mady screams at Kate “Don’t yell at me!” and eventually quits and storms off. Just one more positive life experience ruined by Kate’s need to control everything.

In another of the many, many examples of Kate believing that everyone is beneath her, she makes this comment about her surf instructor:

“My little instructor man
said, when I knew I was falling I should concentrate on not screaming and closing my mouth so I didn’t drink half the ocean.”

I think he was only interested in her closing her mouth.

Later in the episode, they decide it would be a good idea to take the kids deep-sea fishing.

Watch how sad poor Cara is and Mady didn’t even go along. Neither of the twins wanted to be there. They wanted to be back playing on the beach like normal children.

On the deep-sea fishing boat, things get very ugly as all of the kids start feeling sick. They are all laying around, getting ready to start throwing up, and Kate, with all her wisdom as a nurse, decides to hand out animal crackers and juice! Eating and drinking is exactly what anyone would want to think about in the seconds before they begin vomiting.

And the vomiting begins. And Kate just barks orders rather than trying to comfort her sick children and help them through a horrible situation. She commands other people to take care of her children. She is a nurse, yet it would appear that she has absolutely no idea what to do during this “emergency.”

Kate screams, “I need something for vomiting now!” Steve the bodyguard comes running to the rescue with chum buckets. Chum buckets! Buckets that already stink from having chopped up rotted fish inside that are used to lure the sharks and other fish they hope to catch. Good idea, Steve, you jackass.

On the interview couch at home, Kate proudly says, “It was a vomit fest Gosselin style.”

What the Hell is that? A vomit-fest Gosselin style?

Cut back to the boat. Cara is now crying. All the kids are crying and sick.

Collin is wailing “I want to gooooo baaaaack.”

And Kate says in her loving and nurturing way, “Well you can’t go back. What’s wrong!?”

What’s wrong? All your kids are seasick, dumbass. That’s what’s wrong. Anyone who has ever experienced being seasick will tell you that it is complete and utter misery.

Kate says, “Crew members were holding buckets and security people were holding buckets and PAs were holding buckets.”

Guess who
wasn’t
holding a bucket though? Kate Gosselin, the children’s mother. Surprise.

So Kate, “the most organized person on the planet,” and a nurse no less, did not bring one thing along for the kids on a deep-sea fishing trip, just on the outside chance that one or more of them might get seasick. No Dramamine. No extra clothes. No meds of any kind.

No clue.

Thinking that the vomit-fest was television gold, we are exposed to even more of the children’s suffering. Steve holds Aaden over a bucket as Aaden throws up all over himself – with a TLC camera right in his face, of course. In the background you hear drill sergeant Kate yelling “Aaden’s throwing up!!!”

Kate’s firm grasp of the obvious is impressive. Don’t worry though, the cameras are already there documenting it.

Back home on the interview couch, Kate says, “It was a vomit fest Gosselin style! It was disgusting!”

Back on the boat Kate screams in a panic, “OK, oh crap, oh man!!” as Steve wipes vomit off of Aaden’s face.

Then Kate dramatically screams for the camera, “Oh my gosh look at him!!!” while pointing to the camera man who zooms in for a close up of Aaden and Steve walking away to clean up. “Look at the back of him!!” And the camera zooms in for a close-up of vomit on Aaden’s back.

What an example of wonderful mothering. And then Kate wonders why people accuse her of treating her children like props and commodities. There wasn’t a single second of film during that entire episode showing Kate comforting her sick children. It appeared that the idea never even crossed her mind.

Kate makes a big deal out of a genius camera guy who brought along an extra shirt to wrap one of the girls in. The camera guy was smart enough to bring a clean shirt. Kate the nurse, best mother ever and “most organized person on the planet” brought nothing.

Cut back to the boat and Kate is barking orders at the production assistant. “Scoop it right into that bucket!! You want me to do it? It’s my kid’s puke!”

She says that, but doesn’t actually do anything. Another surprise.

Then back on the interview couch, after all that we’ve just witnessed, Kate has the absolute nerve to say, “I guess that’s probably why I held it together so well. Cause I knew it was like a boat ride, it was a small period of time where this was gonna occur and then it would kinda be over.”

“But I mean uh, I was really grateful for the pockets of time that no one was throwing up, like really grateful, like that I got to sit down and like sit there for a minute. Um, I was grateful that the kids, you know did their throwing up and then a lot of them fell asleep and got away from the torture.”

She actually said that.

Thank God kids are resilient and they came around and at least got to have some fun fishing.

Once back on land, Kate says, “We were going to fish and I was going to grill them.”

Since the catching fish part of the plan clearly didn’t work out, they end up buying fish at a market. Kate is shown wildly dumping some kind of oil on the already-prepared-for-her fish and she’s complaining, as usual, and mumbling to herself “We should’ve gone out to dinner, I don’t know what …(Inaudible).”

Flash to Kate carrying the fish inside the house and throwing out paper plates on the counter like she doesn’t want to be there. Then she has the nerve to say, “I’m gonna start grilling fish more often. That’s like easy as pie.”

That was like easy as pie because Katie didn’t do it. A production assistant did.

Flash forward to March 6, 2012. Kate is responding to a Twitter fan regarding the televised “vomit fest.” It appears Kate is rewriting history, even though the ugly history of that day is forever recorded on DVD and YouTube for all the world to see.

After the Hell the kids went through on that boat trip, it is mind-boggling that Kate said she felt the worst for the film crew and her security guards. Not her suffering children.

xxxxx
@
Kateplusmy8
I'm still feeling sick after watching the film crew puke as well on the boat! U have a very strong stomach.