Kate and Jon Gosselin’s kids are all grown up!
On Sunday, May 11, Kate shared a series of photos on Instagram featuring four of the pair’s sextuplets — Alexis, Aaden, Leah, and Joel — as they celebrated their 21st birthday. “And just like that, they turned 21! Happy Birthday to my 6! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #GosselinSextuplets” she captioned the snaps.
Hannah and Collin Gosselin — who were notably missing from the post — live with their father, Jon. The pair also share twin daughters Mady and Cara, 24. The family sprang to notoriety via their reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8, which aired from 2007 to 2017.
Collin and Kate have an especially fractured relationship, though there are plenty of signs the two could eventually mend things.
In October 2024, Collin told The U.S. Sun, “So, first and foremost, my relationship with my brothers and sisters is of top priority to me. And I think the only way that my mother and I would be able to reconnect and fix our relationship in the future is, if she would just come forward with the truth and all the things that she has kept under wraps.”
He added: “And you know the many times that she’s tried to soil my name and my father’s name. I just would want her to come forward with the truth. [But] yes, that door would be open, 100 percent.”
Jon was granted custody of Collin in 2018 after the young boy wrote a letter to his father from a mental health facility. At the time, Collin said Kate institutionalized him to cover up an alleged abuse. “I was starting to tell people what was going on at home, and she caught wind of that and had to put me somewhere where I wouldn’t be able to get the secrets out,” he claimed.
Collin also told The U.S. Sun Kate forced him to live in a closet. “My mother had a room built in our unfinished section of the storage basement. She had a room put up with cameras in it, a tiny window in the corner and it was bolt-locked from the outside,” he told the outlet.“It was like a containment room, literally, and it had a mattress on the floor and that’s how I lived.”
He further insisted his mother “zip-tied my hands and feet together and bolt locked the door, turned the lights off and had cameras there just watching me.”
Kate denied the allegations in July 2023. She told People at the time Collin “received multiple psychiatric diagnoses” and had “many attacks/outbursts.”
“All measures that were taken in our home were at the explicit recommendation of his pediatric psychiatrist and/or his team of specialists and were put into place to safeguard every member of our family, our friends as well as our family pets. … Collin remains a very troubled young man who continues to need a lot of help,” she added.
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