Kate Gosselin
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Gosselin in 2008
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Katie Irene Kreider March 28, 1975 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Residence | Wernersville, Pennsylvania |
| Education | The Reading Hospital and Medical Center |
| Occupation | Television personality, author, former nurse |
| Known for |
Jon & Kate Plus 8 Kate Plus 8 |
| Spouse(s) | Jon Gosselin (m. 1999; div. 2009) |
| Children | 8 |
| Website | Kate+ my 8 |
Katie Irene "Kate" Gosselin (née Kreider on March 28, 1975) is an American television personality. She achieved national and international recognition on the US reality TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8, in which she and Jon Gosselin are profiled as they raise their atypical family of sextuplets and twins.
Katie Irene Kreider, who is of German, Scottish, and English descent, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Charlene (née Kolak) and Kenton Kreider. The third of five children, she has three sisters, Kendra, Christen, and Clairissa, and one brother, Kevin.
Kreider became a registered nurse after completing a diploma program at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. She then worked as a dialysis nurse in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.
Kreider met Jon Gosselin at a company picnic on October 5, 1997. They were married on June 12, 1999. On October 8, 2000, she gave birth to twin girls, Cara and Madelyn "Mady", who were, at 35 weeks gestation, five weeks premature. Gosselin became pregnant through fertility treatment because polycystic ovary syndrome left her unable to conceive otherwise. After further treatments, Gosselin became pregnant again, and on May 10, 2004, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center, she gave birth to sextuplets: sons Aaden, Collin, and Joel, and daughters Alexis, Hannah, and Leah. She gave birth at just shy of 30 weeks gestation. The sextuplets were born 10 weeks premature, which is common in the multiple births that result from fertility treatments. The early birth required that the six infants be placed on ventilators. According to Kate's newest book, very early in the pregnancy there were seven embryos, but one did not develop.
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