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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 1:50 pm
If my past life had reached the tabloids some of you would have tarred and feathered me.
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Keldogg
Member
08-12-2005
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 1:59 pm
Gee, I'm sure the article in US Magazine had absolutely NOTHING to do with the recent custody papers filed.

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Cynny
Member
06-20-2001
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 2:01 pm
LOL OG!!! You are not alone, my friend. 
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 2:06 pm
So why do you think that Kate has become such discussion point and the focus of so much negative criticism? There are all sorts of celebrities out there doing different stuff (including having lots of marital problems) and we don't see the same level of discussion here about them?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 2:29 pm
I think because we have been living in her house through tv for the past 4 years and "think" we know her. Hey, I just looked it up and it will be 4 years on May 14 that we were first introduced to Jon and Kate and their little ones with their first special.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 2:32 pm
sigh...as a mother who has thought each of her kids had 'just a cold' and ended up having strep (and more than once! LOL) ...again, so glad I am not on tv!!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 2:47 pm
Good point, Naja. And I guess we arguably do know her better than we know most celebrities. In fact, we may know her better than many people we've met in person.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 3:16 pm
I believe the operative word is 'think'. We think we know her when in all honesty we do not.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 3:24 pm
I've pondered this question for a while. What does it take to actually know someone?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 3:35 pm
good question, cause we do it here too. we think we know other posters, but like on tv, instead of producers showing us what they want us to see, we are the ones deciding how we want to be 'portrayed'.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 3:43 pm
I think that on a personal level it would be exchanging thoughts and ideas with a person to ever start to know them.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 5:26 pm
OG, there's a reason I'll never run for public office! Someone somewhere said... if Ms Gosselin took this year out to concentrate on the kids, to make sure THEY are OK with the divorce and all, then maybe she wouldn't be such a magnet for negative criticism.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 5:33 pm
Yes, I believe the difference is that we were welcomed into their homes and their lives. We haven't been welcomed into the homes or lives of Angie and Brad or Sandra Jesse. So, while we do comment on the big news in their lives, we don't feel like we "know" them. We haven't seen them eating dinner or wiping noses or changing diapers or giving their kids baths. It's a different level of familiarity. And yes, one has to wonder how different things would be if Kate had stayed out of the public eye, but she chose the exact opposite -- trying to put herself more into the public eye. So, people are still talking.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 6:17 pm
Unless you have DID (multiple personalities) AND the alters are co-conscious, you don't know what is going on in someone's head, or their motives, unless they tell you and are honest. Or maybe if you can read thoughts. And unless someone asks for an opinion I try hard not to state what they should or shouldn't do. Don't always succeed of course. Anyway, one more week of earnings she can use to pay her attorney in case Jon isn't told to pay all court costs of his latest filing.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 7:18 pm
We were welcomed into their homes and lives and yet we mock and chastise them for letting us in.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 7:37 pm
If Ms. Gosselin took this 'year' to focus on her kids, she'd have no income. Her kids would again be thrown into a bad situation where they would be having to move to a new home, new school, new friends etc. That on top of their dad not being around. However, I think Ms. Gosselin is focusing on her kids just as much, if not more, than any other woman going through a divorce trying to make the best of a really craptastic situation that is her an Jon's marriage. At least what she is doing now is trying to polish her image, not only in ours, but in her children's. THAT is important too. I get mad when people say she's not focusing on her kids. I think she is doing exactly that.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 7:37 pm
Well we weren't exactly welcomed. I think we were paying guests much like being at a hotel.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 9:39 pm
When I was raising my daughter by myself and I was working 2 and 3 jobs to support us, even though I was away from home alot working my every waking thought was of her. I would have loved to spend more time with her but I had to make a living to take care of us. If I'd been filmed for the world to see I probably would have been strung up for being a horrible mother.
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Shenanagon
Member
07-28-2009
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:36 pm
good point
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:41 pm
"Kate Gosselin to serve as 'Entertainment Tonight' guest co-host By Christopher Rocchio, 04/13/2010 Kate Gosselin is reprising her career as a guest co-host. The former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star and current Dancing with the Stars tenth-season celebrity participant will serve as a guest co-host on Wednesday's Entertainment Tonight broadcast. In addition, Gosselin will also "give her most revealing interview, with nothing off limits" to host Mary Hart, according to Entertainment Tonight. Topics that Entertainment Tonight teased Gosselin will discuss include her ex-husband Jon Gosselin's recent legal filing for primary physical custody of their eight children and her new TLC series Twist of Kate. Gosselin previously served as a The View guest co-host for three days last September -- filling in for regular Elisabeth Hasselbeck, as the former Survivor: The Australian Outback castaway was on maternity leave until mid-October after giving birth to her third child. She subsequently served as a The View guest co-host again last month." link
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:47 pm
Court sets May 25 hearing in Jon and Kate Gosselin custody case from link
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:50 pm
"Kate Gosselin on 'Dancing with the Stars': I'll always be there for kids By Christopher Rocchio, 04/13/2010 Kate Gosselin says it's a "struggle" for her to be anywhere but home in Pennsylvania with her eight children, but feels she has to work to provide for them -- hence her current Dancing with the Stars stint. "I'm a working mom and cameras are on me so people catch me traveling and working. I've got to work harder now than ever because I am a single mom," said Gosselin during a Tuesday appearance on NBC's Today show. "In my heart, I'm always in my kitchen baking and cooking for my kids -- and I'll always be there." There are several more paragraphs to the article at link
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:50 pm
Not sure about a hotel, Jimmer.. I never got a chocolate on my pillow!!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 6:20 am
Escapee, I disagree about the income aspect. Presumably, they've made investments with the thousands of dollars they made on TLC. There is investment income, and after four years of their show, I'm guessing that most people would willingly live on that interest. Taking some time off to focus on the children ("baking and cooking for my kids") isn't going to make much of a dent in their income and would probably make a major dent in the kids' psyches. Sorry, but I'll never by sympathetic to this woman. There are far too many people who are not living in the lap of luxury with their brood of kids.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 6:49 am
In total agreement with Costacat. There is a huge difference between your average single mom "Twinkie" who struggles like crazy to support a child/children and a single mom "kate." Cannot compare that apple to that orange. There is nothing wrong, absolutely nothing wrong with a struggling mom working and doing what she needs to make sure her bills are paid. I wasn't even a single mom and I had to work when Ryan was little and I hated it. I felt guilty and ripped off that i was missing parts of his life... But I did it cuz i had to. BUT there is no way. NO. FLIPPING. WAY. that I will believe that Kate struggled or would struggle like your average "Twinkie." She should have for sure, taken at least a year off, or at least 6 months, to devote 100% of her time with the kids. However, that is just my opinion. I don't doubt for a minute that she loves her kids. But I think her perspective is way off. She should devote some time to a womens' shelter or support group w/some single moms who are truly struggling.
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