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Kate Gosselin posted a rare photo of four of her sextuplets. On May 12, 2024, the “Dancing With the Stars” season 10 alum celebrated Mother’s Day. But she used the day to celebrate the 20th birthday of her kids as well.
Gosselin’s sextuplets were born on May 10, 2004, nearly four years after she gave birth to twins Mady and Cara. Gosselin and her husband, Jon, went on to star in the TLC reality show “Jon and Kate Plus Eight” with their children. The couple divorced in 2009 after 10 years of marriage.
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Kate Gosselin Shared a Photo of 4 of Her Kids With Their Birthday Cake
For the birthday tribute, Gosselin posted a rare photo of her kids Alexis, Aaden, Leah, and Joel as they celebrated their 20th birthday at home in North Carolina. The four siblings posed around a table with a candle-lit homemade chocolate cake. Missing from the photo were their sextuplet siblings Collin and Hannah.
Gosselin captioned the photo with, “No more teenagers in this house! Happy 20th birthday, my forever babies! I love you! Who feels old? I know I do! #20yearsold 🎁🎉🎈🎊”
Followers commented to question why Gosselin was only honoring four of her kids.
“Wasn’t there 6 of them? Where’s the other 2?” one commenter asked.
“Wish they could all be together,” another wrote.
Others couldn’t believe how fast the Gosselin kids grew up.
In a separate post, Jon Gosselin wished her daughter Hannah a happy birthday. After Hannah posted a photo of herself, Jon Gosselin wrote, “ Happy 20th!!!! Daughter.”
Hannah and Collin Gosselin lived with their mom when they were little. But they moved in with their dad from their early teen years and through high school. Kate Gosselin attended Collin and Hannah’s high school graduation ceremony in June 2023, but she is completely estranged from Collin.
“Hannah invited Kate and… we saw each other, but there was a whole football field between us,” Jon Gosselin explained to People magazine in a 2023 interview. “I talked to Hannah and Collin before graduation to make sure that it was gonna be cordial.”
Kate Gosselin’s Last Instagram Post Was About Collin
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Fans watched all eight of the Gosselin children grow up on “Jon and Kate Plus Eight.” Following the Gosselins’ divorce, Kate appeared on the show solo with the kids. Fans began to notice that Collin was missing from the show.
In 2016, the mom of eight revealed that she sent Collin to a residential program for children with special needs. At the time, she did not specify what Collin’s needs were. She told People magazine,“(There’s) a fairly fluid diagnosis of what those needs are, but he needs to learn certain strategies to help him deal with things. …It’s not something that has only impacted me or him — our entire family has been impacted.”
Collin was later taken from the facility by his father. In a 2022 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Collin Gosselin claimed he never saw his mother after his father removed him from the behavioral facility. “After being there, I didn’t have a relationship with her,” he said at the time.
He shared darker comments about his strained relationship with his mom in the Vice TV special, “Dark Side of the 2000s,“ per Today.com.
In July 2023, Kate Gosselin posted an upsetting update. In a lengthy Instagram post, she wrote, “My son Collin, who I love with all of my heart, has received multiple psychiatric diagnoses over the years. For the safety of myself, his brothers and sisters and for his own well-being, he was placed in a facility following years of outpatient treatment which proved insufficient for his needs.”
The former TLC star went on to allege that her son had violent tendencies when he lived with her.
“Unfortunately, I believe Collin remains a very troubled young man who continues to need a lot of help,” she wrote. “His brothers and sisters and I have not been directly involved in his life due to his history of unpredictable behavior and violent tendencies towards us.”
The post about Collin was Kate Gosselin’s last Instagram post before the 20th birthday photo of his siblings.
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Kate Gosselin Shares Rare Photo of 4 of Her Sextuplets For Their 20th Birthday