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

been trying to conceive for over a year – and Kate began her journey into the world of infertility. It’s not uncommon for an infertility doctor to treat a woman without first diagnosing her problem, especially if she’s as convincing as Kate was. The business of infertility is extremely competitive among doctors, and the way to get more business is to have more success stories. I spent a lot of time on online chat boards talking to women about this subject, and I heard many stories of doctors treating patients without diagnosing them. They would take their patients at their word. It’s a business.
    And after all, who in their right mind would ever make up something like having PCOS and put themselves through the costly and painful process of infertility treatment if it weren’t really necessary?
    That’s a rhetorical question. Who, indeed?
    Even though Kate was young and healthy, really healthy, and even without actually having PCOS and with taking infertility medication, she still failed to become pregnant the first time around.
    The second cycle was a good one, and Kate became pregnant – with twins. Most people going through a similar situation would be thrilled at that news. Kate was disappointed , though, and angry again. “Just twins?” she said in a dejected voice.
    Kate said that they had prayed for twins because Jon was as “baby crazy” as she was that they decided that they would fight over just one baby. She also said that she and Jon joked about that since they were dating.
    Cara and Mady Gosselin were born that October.
    Although Kate says that she was thrilled, the reality was that she was upset because she was hoping for at least triplets. Higher Order Multiples was her ultimate goal.
    Kate had done the research and knew that having twins wasn’t going to get her the attention she desired. Even women not taking infertility drugs can have twins. Twins are no big deal.
    In 2000, when Kate’s twin daughters were born, there were more twins walking around than you could shake a home pregnancy stick at. These are the statistics about multiples that Kate had tucked away in a file:
     
    The number of births in twin deliveries rose 6 percent for 1999-2000 to 110,670 births - the largest single year rise in several decades.
     
    The number of Triplet Births climbed to 6919, a rise of 13 percent.
     
    Births in quadruplet deliveries increased from 510 to 627 between 1999 and 2000.
     
    The number of quintuplet and other higher order multiples was unchanged at 79.
     
    Since 1980 twin births have risen 62 percent and other higher order multiples births have jumped 470 percent.
     
    This was not good news for Kate, and she knew it. Now she was stuck with “just” twins, like more than 100,000 other parents that year alone.
    She did her best to make the most of her situation though. She tried to market her girls from the time they were babies. At less than one year old, she paraded Mady and Cara Gosselin down Main Street USA (Wyomissing Boulevard, actually) in a decorated “float” during the annual Fourth of July parade and celebration in her new hometown of Wyomissing, PA. Kate, their controlling and masterminding mother, had already put a label on them. They weren’t Mady and Cara Gosselin. They were “The Gosselin Twins!” and “Little Miss Americas!”
    The Gosselin name at that time meant as much as the Hoffman name in this area, which was absolutely nothing. So the idea of Kate making a spectacle of herself and her family was laughable to the affluent neighbors she passed by in the parade. But Kate held her daughters up and put them on display. Here they are world … “The Gosselin Twins!” The locals didn’t know what to make of Kate Gosselin, even then.
    Kate had headshots taken of the girls, contacted modeling agencies and tried to get them commercial jobs and anything else on television, but there were no takers. “There just was nothing special about a set of twins,” she was told by