Kate Gosselin Biography

Kate Gosselin is an American television personality who is best known for starring on the US reality TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8. The show was about her and Jon Gosselin as they raised their atypical family of sextuplets and twins.

Kate Gosselin Age

Kate was born Katie Irene Kreider on 28 March 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She is 49 years old.

Kate Gosselin Height

Gosselin stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches (163 cm) tall.

Kate Gosselin Family

Kate was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Charlene and Kenton Kreider, a pastor. She has five siblings; three sisters, Kendra, Christen, and Clarissa, and one brother, Kevin.

Kate Gosselin Husband

Kate was married to Jon Gosselin on June 12, 1999, whom she had met at a company picnic on October 5, 1997. The two announced that they were separating on June 22, 2009. Their divorce was finalized on December 16, 2009, and Kate was granted ownership of the family home and primary custody of the children.

Kate Gosselin Kids / Kate Gosselin Children

Gosselin has eight children. Her firstborn is twin girls, Cara Nicole and Madelyn “Mady” Kate, who were born on October 8, 2000, at 35 weeks gestation, five weeks premature. In the spring of 2004, she gave birth to sextuplets: sons Aaden Jonathan, Collin Thomas, and Joel Kevin, and daughters Alexis Faith, Hannah Joy, and Leah Hope who were born 10 weeks premature.

Kate Gosselin Net Worth

Kate has an estimated net worth of $500 thousand dollars.

Kate Gosselin Education

Gosselin studied at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center, where she earned her nursing degree. She became a registered nurse after completing her diploma program at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, Pennsylvania where worked as a labor and delivery nurse in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.

Kate Gosselin Career

After the birth of the sextuplets, Kate’s family of 10 was featured in NBC’s reality show Home Delivery. Their home in Wyomissing was even renovated to accommodate the new family. The family was then featured in Discovery Health as “Surviving Sextuplets and Twins” a show aired in the year 2005. In 2016, they were featured in another special entitled Sextuplets and Twins: One Year Later.

Due to the high ratings from the viewers, Discovery Health signed the couple to a reality series that aired beginning in April 2007, called Jon & Kate Plus 8, which documented their lives. The show’s first two seasons aired on Discovery Health Channel and then moved to The Learning Channel (TLC). The reality show aired its series finale that same year because Jon made the decision to stop filming altogether.

Gosselin continued appearing on television, occasionally co-hosting ‘The View’ and appeared as a contestant on the reality show “Dancing with the Stars” in the year 2010. In April 2018, Gosselin announced she would star in a new TLC series, Kate Plus Date, showing her efforts to get back into the dating pool. She has written 3 non-fiction books; “Multiple Blessing”, “Eight Little Faces”, and “I just want you to know”

Kate Gosselin House

Kate bought a $750,000 house in North Carolina in April 2018. The 3,562-square-foot home has four bedrooms, five bathrooms, a private pier, a pool, and more relaxing amenities.

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