KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN Read Online Free PDF Page A

did pretty well for herself in marrying Jon because his father was extremely generous. He paid for their wedding, bought them their first house in Wyomissing, and quietly supported them financially, giving them a large check each month. He gave them a lot of support and a lot of money, and Kate LOVED that about him.
    OK. The self-proclaimed planner found herself a husband, check.
    What was next on the list?
     
     
     
     

THE ACTION PLAN
     
    “I’m the plan maker and you’re the plan follower.”
    – Kate Gosselin
     
     
    By the time Kate and Jon married, Kate had become fascinated and completely obsessed with something that was going on in Carlisle, Iowa. A woman named Bobbi McCaughey had given birth in 1997 to septuplets – seven babies at one time. Kate initially thought of her as a “freak show,” until she started reading about her…and reading some more.
    Kate read every word written about this miraculous story – a woman giving birth to seven babies at one time – but she could only focus on two things: the massive amount of media attention Bobbi McCaughey was receiving, and the money and gifts being heaped upon her by her adoring public.
    This was it. Kate found her new life’s mission. She wanted what Bobbi McCaughey was getting, and a whole lot more. Just for having a bunch of babies, Bobbi McCaughey was showered with a huge assortment of gifts, including seven years of free cable TV, college scholarships for all of her children, ten years of portrait photos, a lifetime supply of Pampers diapers, a 15-passenger van, and … a new and very large house.
    In addition to those gifts, she also received free meals, babysitting, housecleaning, laundry service and personal transportation. Her community turned out in full force to volunteer their services in doing anything and everything the family needed. Local banks opened up accounts for the donations that were already pouring in. President Clinton even phoned to congratulate Bobbi and told her, “You know, when those kids all go off to school, you will be the best-organized manager in the U.S.”
    And there it was! That last thing was what sparked the idea that led to Kate creating her “Supermom” persona. It was going to be her “brand.” Her master plan was to have two sets of Higher Order Multiples and build an empire bigger than Martha Stewart’s because, in addition to all of Martha’s skills, Kate would also be a “Supermom.” She would be everything Martha Stewart was, only with a house full of babies to take care of as well. Every mother in America would look up to her; mothers of the world would adore her!!
    With her idea fully formed, Kate just needed to figure out how she was going to conceive Higher Order Multiples naturally. The first major problem Kate encountered in achieving her master plan of having multiples was a sticky one. She didn’t have a fertility problem, having already become pregnant by accident a few years earlier. But that certainly wasn’t going to stop Kate Gosselin though. She was a nurse, and she did her research and concocted a good story that she told Jon, and later the world.
    She said that she had wanted to have children as soon as they got married but Jon wasn’t ready. She had a nagging feeling since she was a child that she would have a difficult time getting pregnant so she got herself tested right away and found out that she had PCOS, which is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. So according to Kate, they decided to check out fertility doctors “just in case” in would take a long time to get pregnant.
    Of course it didn’t take long. On only their second cycle of treatment, they were pregnant with twins and Kate was “ecstatic!!!!!!!!”
     
    First of all, the notion that Kate had a “nagging feeling” that she wouldn’t be able to become pregnant from as far back as when she was a child sounds preposterous. It is not something a child would even think about, much less be worried about. Kate would