Kate Gosselin shares rare photo of her children for Mother’s Day

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Former reality TV star Kate Gosselin shared a rare photo of some of her children on Mother’s Day.

In her first Instagram post this year, the mother of twins and sextuplets posted a photo on Sunday of four of her sextuplets with a chocolate-iced birthday cake with candles shaped like the number 20.

“No more teenagers in this house!” Happy 20th birthday, my forever babies! I love you! Who feels old? I know yes! #20years #ItsaPICKLE,” she wrote in the caption. The sextuplets were born on May 10, 2004.

While Alexis, Aaden, Leah and Joel are featured in the celebration photo, two of the six, Collin and Hannah, are missing.

Collin, who lives with Hannah in their father’s house, said in a 2022 interview with Entertainment Tonight that he “didn’t have a relationship” with his mother and hadn’t spoken to Alexis, Aaden , Joel and Leah, or older twin siblings Cara and Mady, in five or six years.

After Gosselin divorced her ex-husband Jon in a highly publicized separation in 2009, she was awarded primary custody of their eight children. However, a custody battle between the two lasted for a decade, with Jon eventually gaining custody of Collin.

Collin said during the interview that he thought what was “tearing us apart” was “TV and what being in the public eye does to a family.”

The Gosselins rose to fame in the late 2000s with the hit TLC documentary-style reality series “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” which aired from 2007 to 2009.

In 2010, after the couple’s divorce, the series became “Kate Plus 8”, centered on Kate Gosselin and her children. It ended in 2017.

Two years later, Gosselin was featured on the TLC show “Kate Plus Date,” which documented her search for her perfect match after being single for a decade.

In a TikTok video from last year, one of her twins, Mady, said she was tired of the public feeling like they had access to her family because they were once TV stars -reality, stating that “it’s no one else’s business.” closed doors.

“Whatever narrative you created in your head from what you saw, my brothers and sisters are doing just fine. They are all extraordinary people. They’re all smart, they’re all kind, they’re motivated students, they work hard, they’re funny, they have style,” she added.