Kate Gosselin celebrates sextuplets’ 20th birthday with rare photo of four of the kids
Kate Gosselin posted a rare photo of four of her sextuplet children to celebrate their 20th birthday on Sunday.
The “Jon & Kate Plus 8” alum shared a snap of daughters Alexis and Leah and sons Aaden and Joel Gosselin sitting and standing over a chocolate cake that was decorated with a pickle and peppers.
“No more teenagers in this house! Happy 20th birthday, my forever babies! I love you! Who feels old? I know I do! #20yearsold #ItsaPICKLE 🎁🎉🎈🎊,” she captioned the picture.
Kate, 49, does not frequently post pictures on Instagram and the last photo she shared of her kids on the platform was in 2019.
Two of the other sextuplets, Hannah and Collin (who live with their dad, Jon Gosselin), were noticeably missing from the birthday post.
Kate and Jon’s oldest twins, daughters Mady and Cara, were also not present in the picture. They have both lived in New York since graduating college in 2023.
Jon, 47, didn’t share a social media post for the sextuplets. However, Hannah posted two solo pictures of herself wearing a blue sundress walking through a field.
“made you look, twice #20thbirthday,” she captioned the photo, while Jon commented, “Happy 20th!!!! Daughter. ❤️ u.”
Jon and Kate have an estranged relationship and have reportedly not spoken to each other since getting divorced in 2009. The kids are also estranged from the parent they do not live with currently.
The Gosselins made headlines again last year after Collin accused his mom of being “abusive” to him in a bombshell documentary, “Jon & Kate Plus 8: Family Circus.”
Collin further claimed that Kate sent him to live in a behavioral institution for his alleged “special needs” when he was 12 years old.
Shortly afterward, Kate took to Instagram to allege that she sent him to a treatment center for his “unpredictable and violent behavior.”
“For the safety of myself, his brothers and sisters and for his own well-being, he was placed in a facility following years of outpatient treatment which proved insufficient for his needs,” she wrote via Instagram in July 2023.
