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Kate Gosselin Has PCOS and It’s None of Your Business
May 28, 2009 - Thursday
Posted by admin
May 27, 2009
11:30 p.m.
I’ve successfully avoided watching Jon & Kate plus 8 since the series started. Yesterday, I wasn’t so lucky. My daughter Caitlin came home from school dying to watch the show because her middle school - middle school! - was all abuzz about the infidelity angle and she wanted to see what the deal was. So last night, along with about half the population of the United States, I tuned in.
Oy vey. Now I get why I avoided it so stringently for so long.
According to Wikpedia, Kate has pcos, the same diagnosis as me. I didn’t know that. Women with pco are very inclined towards hyperstimulation syndrome and multiple births and since Kate did IUI’s, not IVF, she was way more likely to conceive high order multiples, which she did. Just like me. I talk a lot about my twins in this blog space but the truth is, Connor and Caitlin are not twins. They are surviving triplets. So the high order multiple thing really flips me out. And that’s why I’ve avoided this particular show for so long. Anything that glorifies, and therefore misrepresents multiple birth, truly upsets me.
On top of that I am not a fan of reality TV. I am not a shy person by nature. But this voyeuristic need to see all, and this self focused need to show all, totally baffles me. Why does everyone need to know, and see everything? And most importantly, for crying out loud, what about your kids? No matter what the potential financial gain might be, what you put out there for the world to see, frankly, gets seen by the world! And children are often the collateral damage of their parent’s need to show and tell their whole lives for all the world to see.
So this is where it all lands for me. These very real people, Jon, Kate, and their children, whose names are impossible to find on line, (what does that tell you?) are a family.
These heartbreakingly adorable children were clearly wanted, and their parents worked very hard to conceive them. So please. Remember why you had them, and protect them.
Unfortunately, parents can’t always be trusted to do right by their children. We all know that.
Laws must be put in place, now, that eliminate the possibility that children can be exploited through their participation on reality TV shows.
Life is hard enough. Having your life plastered on a national stage without your consent is no way to grow up, no matter how you were conceived.
Corey Whelan
Program Director
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