On Mother’s Day, Kate Gosselin, the popular TV star, shared a special photo. It was of her four children – Alexis, Aaden, Leah, and Joel – celebrating their 20th birthday. The picture showed them with a chocolate cake marked with ’20’ candles. Kate doesn’t usually post on Instagram but chose to do this for their birthday.
Kate has eight children: twins and sextuplets. The twins were not in the photo. Collin and Hannah, two of the sextuplets, were also not in the picture. Both live with their father Jon. They have not talked to Kate or their other brothers and sisters for some years now.
Kate and Jon were once a famous TV couple. Their show “Jon & Kate Plus 8” on TLC was a big hit. The show was about their life with the twins and the sextuplets. After their marriage ended, Kate had a new show, “Kate Plus 8,” which was about life as a single mom. These shows stopped in 2017. However, in 2019, she had another show about looking for love.
Vocabulary List:
- Celebrating (verb): Marking a special occasion with festivities or joy.
- Siblings (noun): Brothers and sisters individuals who share the same parents.
- Postponing (verb): Delaying something to a later time or date.
- Estranged (adjective): Having no communication or relationshipoften due to disagreements or disputes.
- Reality Show (noun): A genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations.
- Heartbreak (noun): Overwhelming distress or anguishespecially caused by intense emotional loss or disappointment.
