14 DAY TRIAL // More excerpts from Robert Hoffman’s scandalous book on Kate Gosselin have emerged online and, if they’re true, you have every reason to feel infuriated. The book also includes a letter from 2005 that Kate wrote to the State of Pennsylvania practically begging for free, full-time childcare by saying that her sextuplets are “disabled.”
“Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled the World, the Rise and Fall of a Reality TV Queen” has been in the works since 2009, when Hoffman was working as a field reporter for Us Weekly and he came up with the idea of doing a more exhaustive coverage of the most famous mother in America.
When it was over, Hoffman was barred from releasing it after being served with cease and desist letters both from TLC / Discovery and Kate’s legal team. Now, he’s finally able to put it out there: the material is available for order on Amazon but will also get a print version very soon.
Radar Online has seen the letter referenced above, which is included in the book in full. In it, Kate argues that she needs more assistance from the state in the form of permanent and free childcare, because whatever support she’s received from the community is not enough.
She doesn’t try to pass the sextuplets off as “disabled” in return for it; that’s just a poor choice of words.
“We have eight children four years old and under. Our six youngest are 11 months old. In a sense our children (our six 11 month olds) are disabled. They cannot feed themselves, transport themselves up and down stairs or at all, bathe themselves, get a drink when they are thirsty, go to the bathroom by themselves, put themselves to bed or dress themselves,” Kate says.
She also argues that the kids are a danger to themselves and might poke their eyes out if they’re not supervised around the clock, which, obviously, she can’t do. No person could ever undertake such a task and perform it in a satisfactory manner.
Kate writes that she’s also been receiving help from nannies from Community Resources, but professes herself profoundly disappointed in the experience because all she had to deal with were youngsters who would cancel at the last minute if something better came, or old women barely able to go up and down the stairs twice a day, let alone do it with one or even two children in their arms.
She writes that she should be allowed to keep nurse aide Angie Krall (who would later go on to tell horror stories to the tabs about her time in the Gosselin household), because she would not have the time to look for a viable replacement.
“This is all too exhausting and unworth it for me and family!” Kate writes.
Most sentences in the letter end in “!,” which goes hand in hand with Krall’s later interview, in which she said the mother of 8 “thought they were owed stuff. The money factor was huge.”
As per the aforementioned media outlet, the book includes another letter on the topic too, this time from Senator Michael A. O’Pake, saying he’d been contacted by Gosselins to write to the state’s Welfare Secretary, Estelle Richman, and get her to give in to Kate’s demands.