A video is making the rounds on the internet. Its being called the Kate Gosselin water video because in it Kate denies her daughter water. Nine-year-old Mady is complaining of being thirsty, take takes a swig of water in front of her and doesn’t give the child any water. You can see the video below.
I have only watched the reality show ‘Jon & Kate Plus 8′ a few times. I just don’t watch that much television, plus it comes on at a time and on a channel I rarely am watching. Its not a show I seek out. Its oddly entertaining, but watching these two try to parent eight kids makes me tired. That’s probably because I’m projecting onto them how responsible I’d feel as the parent of that many children. It doesn’t seem to be stressing them out to that extent, but I could be wrong. I’m just a distant observer.
As can be expected, Jon and Kate Gosselin have become fodder for tabloids. There are rumors of Jon cheating on Kate and Kate cheating on Jon. Everyone analyzes parenting styles, their relationship, their looks. Every new Kate Gosselin hair style or pedicure gets a work over on the celebrity blogs and tabloids.
Recently, I’ve felt kind of sorry for the couple at the core of this reality show. The rumors seem to have gotten nastier and more frequent. Of course, the result of that is that Jon and Kate have become more famous and probably, therefore, richer. BUT, still, its rough. On the other hand, what did they expect when they signed up to do a reality show on their family life.
One of the consistent rumors about Kate is that she’s a b*tch. Is she? I don’t know. She has seemed very strict with the children and a bit of a shrill whenever I’ve seen the show. But I’m no expert on ‘Jon & Kate Plus 8′.
Then I saw this video. The Gosselin water video is really pretty appalling. In this video of a taping of their show, Kate is sitting with all her little children. Mady (or is it Maddy?), is complaining about being thirsty. She says she’s not had a drink all day. Kate asks the film crew for a bottle of water. Ah, I think, she’s getting her child a drink of water. But no, she takes a big swig of the water and then sits it on the floor. Maddy says ‘You’re so mean, you waved it right in front of my face.’ And she did. For a second it seems like Kate is going to let Mady have a drink. She’s looking around at the film crew while absent-mindedly reaching for the water bottle. She picks it up and starts to hand it to Mady. Then, she says, nope, its time to start filming …. too bad kid. She actually denies her daughter water in favor of filming their reality show.
Makes you kind of wonder how much of these kid’s lives is about filming and how often they have to wait for water, food, play, or whatever because its time to film.
Maybe Jon and Kate deserve the bad press they are getting after all.
Kate Gosselin Water Video
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:23 am
That is so wrong! The bad thing is mady was thirsty first and the kate ask for some water for her to drink and never gave mady even a quick sip. I just dont know about this anymore, I wish for the kids sake everyone would just quit watching so they will end the show. The kids no longer need to live this life she thinks is healty for them. Money should never be more important than your family..
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Cut her a break! She was going to give her the water right then but they had to interview. If anyone taped me in my household they would get the exact same as Kate. And the spanking incident, that is just ridiculous. So what if she spanks her children, every mother does, she didn’t stage it she’s stressed. Her husband is alledgedly cheating on her, wouldn’t you be stressed too?
Oh, and she also has eight kids, all under 10.Leave them alone.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
I don’t know about all of you, but it seems to me that the reason Kate was so absent minded was because she had a bug in her ear and prodcuction was talking to her. Haven’t you ever been on the phone talking and your child comes up “i want, i need” and you tell them to be quiet and wait until you are off of the phone or you ignore them??? It seemed more like that to me then her trying to dehydrate or “abuse” her daughter. Kids need to learn that you ask for something ONCE, and wait until the parent gets it. Not to keep whining and asking for it over and over again, this is how we create brats. I think she is a great mom.