KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (70 page)

This excerpt from my
U
S
Weekly
report details Kate’s grueling method of grocery shopping. She must have been exhausted watching yet another ghost helper bringing in the bags:

Jon and Kate Gosselin PA Reporting

November 2009

A sign that I’ve been on the job for awhile came when, ten minutes after I commented to the paps that I would expect to see about ten to fifteen grocery bags showing up any time now, a woman in a black Volvo SUV pulled into the driveway and parked by the front door. Sure enough, she made five solo trips into the house carrying … white plastic Giant grocery bags filled with what looked to be everything for Thanksgiving dinner, for a small army. The third trip she made was with a giant turkey in white plastic wrapping. She was a blonde and I’ve seen her there before but don’t know her affiliation to Kate. Nobody came out of the house to help this poor woman with the bags. She carried in 16 bags by my count, in the rain.

JUDY, JUDY, JUDY

Judy was the Gosselin’s absolutely wonderful nanny, and the one constant in the Gosselin children’s lives for a long time. She was the best thing that ever happened to the Gosselin kids, and they absolutely
adored her. She was loving and caring, and I always maintained that the kids were in great hands with her while Kate was away. Kate apparently didn’t seem to care about any of that, though.

Kate fired Judy because she remained friends with Jon after the divorce. It didn’t matter that Judy was friends with Jon long before Kate ever laid eyes on her, but that’s how Kate operates. After she let Judy go, the revolving door of strange nannies and sitters kept spinning, with the kids meeting new strangers to look after them while their mommy was away.

Kate’s vengeful nature allowed her to take away her children’s long-time, incredible nanny and subject them to being watched by a different high-school-aged girl every week, just to spite Jon. The kids missed Judy and suffered greatly once she was gone.

In addition to Judy’s duties as a nanny, which included
fixing the kids’ hair and dressing them and taking them to and from the school bus stop, Kate also gave Judy some other “nanny jobs.” It seems that Judy was more of a mother to the Gosselin kids than Kate was, but anyone close to the family already knew that. Kate was simply the “overseer.”

Here’s a
list of Judy’s “jobs” that I found. It was dated April 10, 2009.

• Duty:
  
• Shoes / jackets swim stuff cleaned up
  
• Trash if full – emptied & extra cardboard & trash to garage
  
• C&M lunches packed – healthy stuff
  
• Basement cleanup!
  
• Nightlights / TVs & movies turned off
  
• Each room / bathroom checked & straightened & throw away clutter
  
• Garage / toys / bike cleaned up
  
• Turn every light off as you leave rooms
  
• Empty reload & run & empty dishwasher
  
• Help kids make beds (teach, show & help them)
  
• Teach table manners (chew with mouth closed, eat neatly, sitting properly)
  
• Sweep kitchen & DR clean bibs, HC & table
  
• Empty & clean coffee pot
  
• Empty packages & discard wrappings
  

So Judy was in charge of teaching the kids how to chew, eat and sit properly? Isn’t this something that a mother would/could/should take the time to do personally rather than having the paid help do it for her?

There was a lot of babysitting/nannying going on in the Gosselin house. In this next email, Deanie from Figure 8 Films questions Kate about adjusting an invoice Judy had submitted for her hours. Deanie was concerned about how the charges would affect the budget, especially since they also had to pay Carla and Ashley for their services over the same period:

On April 4, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Deanie wrote to Kate to let her know she had received Judy’s hours from the last two weeks. She told Kate that she was a little surprised because she was expecting a flat day rate for the days Judy “slept over.” She was concerned there would be a problem ahead if they didn’t reach an understanding about Judy’s extended hours with the family.

Deanie wrote that for Season 5, the
Network had approved four days of babysitting per episode. That would be 40 hours per episode (or it could break out as 40 hours per week if they projected shooting one episode per week. She said it would be challenging to make the charges work because they had to include hours for Carla and Ashley as well over the same time period.

These are the days and hours Judy submitted an invoice for:

Week 1:

Monday,
March 23                6:30 am – 12:00 am              17.5 hours

Tuesday,
March 24                            12:00 am – 12:00 am              24 hours

Wednesday,
March 25              12:00 am – 12:00 am              24 hours

Thursday,
March 26                            12:00 am – 3:15 pm              15.25 hours

Friday,
March 27                              6:00 am – 6:15 pm              12.25 hours

Saturday, March 28
                              7:00 am – 8:00 am              1 hour

94 hours

Week 2:

Monday, March 30                            6:30 am – 4:30 pm              10 hours

Tues
day, March 31                            6:30 am – 2:30 pm                8 hours

Wed
nesday, April 1                            6:30 am – 12:30 pm                6 hours

Thur
sday, April 2                            6:30 am – 4:30 pm              10 hours

9
:00 pm – 10:00 pm                1 hour

Fri
day, April 3                            6:30 am – 12:30pm                6 hours

6
:00 pm – 8:00 pm                2 hours

43 hours

94+43 = 137hour
sx
25 = $3425 + ot $712.5 = $4137.50

Kate instructed Deanie to pay Judy the day rate for the days Judy invoiced. Kate said she had informed Judy about the day rate when she was hired and she would remind her of it. She also explained to Deanie that the network had recently offered to cover a full-time person in addition to Carla’s normal weekly hours. She said they would certainly need that to make Season 5 happen.

THE CARETAKER

Jon Gosselin loves his children and loves taking care of them personally, as this email from Kate’s divorce lawyer to Jon’s divorce lawyer
confirms. Jon didn’t want help taking care of his kids while he was at the house with them on his custody time. On June 17, 2009, Cheryl Young sent an email to Charlie Meyer asking him to “Please confirm that Kate should decrease the nanny for Jon’s time in the evenings.”

It’s no wonder and very obvious why Kate Gosselin has absolutely no bond whatsoever with any of her children. Kate has rarely ever done anything with or for her children personally. She either had Jon or a paid “helper” take on the responsibility of raising her children from the time they were babies. She did make time to personally hit her children for minor infractions like climbing out of their cribs.

NOT ENOUGH HELP

From her very first days of being a greedy, money-grubbing wannabe celebrity, Kate Gosselin has been very consistent in a number of areas: buying things for herself, pampering herself, making others do things for her that she doesn’t want to do herself, complaining that others who do things for her that she doesn’t want to do herself don’t do them as well as she could do them herself, and being completely ungrateful for everything anybody has ever done for her that she didn’t want to do herself. Here’s what she said about her helpers back in 2005:

“Volunteers have helped, some, but nowhere near enough.”

This quote is from the second-to-last episode of
Kate Plus Ei8ht
– in 2011:

“I’ve gotten help, but not the help to the degree that I was hoping to get.”

This is a paraphrased excerpt from a blog that Kate wrote for her
kateplusmy8.com
website: Walk a day in my heels and you’ll see what life’s like in my family’s 24/7 fast lane with never a chance for me to finish my list and to remove my load of responsibility that I shoulder mostly alone, or sleep a peaceful night of sleep.

On May 16, 2012, Kate took to Twitter to complain, yet again, about the kind of help she gets, or doesn’t get. On that particular day, it happened to be Kate’s 8-year-olds doing her wrong by only helping her like…well…8-year-olds. It would be interesting to find out exactly what kind of help Kate expected to get from 8-year-olds.

My quote of the day 'I guess if u ask an 8 yr old 4 help,you'll get an 8 yr old kind of help'(re :dog food all over floor after dog is fed)!

Finally, in this tweet, Kate tells the world, again and for the millionth time, that she is a martyr:

lol. As the mom saying goes ‘if I didn’t do it, who was going to??’

Who? How about the nanny, the babysitters, the cleaning lady, the laundry girl, the ironness, the cook, the pool boy, the landscapers, the bodyguard, and the manager, for starters?

“Kate is one of the most admirable

and amazing women I have ever known.

Kate should win the Mother of the Year award”

–
Beth Carson

Bob and Beth Carson were Jon and Kate’s best friends in the world at one time. They watched the Gosselin kids at their house and socialized with the Gosselin family on many occasions. Bob Carson even gave Jon a job at one point. Kate speaks very highly of them in her journal.