Looks like being irritated is the new child abuse behind closed doors — at least it is when it comes to Kate Gosselin and her eight children.
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When Kate's show, Kate Plus 8, returned to television on Dec. 8, the last thing the 40-year-old mom of eight didn't anticipate the resurrection of her money-making machine being a bad thing.
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But unfortunately the premiere of the show seems to be brining out the skeletons, because author Robert Hoffman just re-released his expose, Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled The World, and the timing is perfectly terrible.
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The shocking book includes alleged excerpts from Kate's private journals from 2006 and 2007 and, according to a source at
RadarOnline, she recorded some self-incriminating info about her tumultuous marriage and alarming mothering skills, or lack thereof.
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In an entry dated July 26, 2006, the eternally irked mom details a spanking she gave to her then 5-year-old daughter Mady, saying: "Mady was grouchy and received a few spankings with the spanker that newly joined the emergency supply stash in the big blue bus!!!! She eventually happied up!"
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In other entries she admitted to being "too rough" with her then 2-year-old son Collin, and when her other 2-year-old boy Joel climbed out of his crib, she "spanked him and put him back in" because she does "not tolerate crib climbing!!!!!"
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The source also divulged that Kate admitted to spanking all of her children at one time for playing with some tissues. She even claimed to pull her son Collin up by his hair and proceed to then spank him.
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On Jan. 2, 2007, she revealed that her son Collin made her so angry that she "grabbed him and spanked him as hard as I could and thought I may seriously injure him so I sent him to his crib....And whipped him into it very hard!"
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The harried mom reportedly confessed to huge fights in front of the kids with her ex-husband & the children's father, Jon, now 38. "I feel like we are the worst parents in the whole world!"
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Kate once became so overwhelmed with rage that in June of 2007, she prayed to God for help, and her children Hannah and Leah offered some. She penned her thankful feelings, saying: "I appreciated their support if nothing else!!!".
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Photo credit: INFPhoto.com
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When Kate's show, Kate Plus 8, returned to television on Dec. 8, the last thing the 40-year-old mom of eight didn't anticipate the resurrection of her money-making machine being a bad thing.
Photo credit: Splash News
kate-gosselin-horrible-mom-2
But unfortunately the premiere of the show seems to be brining out the skeletons, because author Robert Hoffman just re-released his expose, Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled The World, and the timing is perfectly terrible.
Photo credit: Splash News
kate-gosselin-kate-plus-8-1
The shocking book includes alleged excerpts from Kate's private journals from 2006 and 2007 and, according to a source at
RadarOnline, she recorded some self-incriminating info about her tumultuous marriage and alarming mothering skills, or lack thereof.
Photo credit: INFPhoto.com
kate-gosselin-kate-plus-8-8
In an entry dated July 26, 2006, the eternally irked mom details a spanking she gave to her then 5-year-old daughter Mady, saying: "Mady was grouchy and received a few spankings with the spanker that newly joined the emergency supply stash in the big blue bus!!!! She eventually happied up!"
Photo credit: INFPhoto.com
Kate Gosselin Visits
In other entries she admitted to being "too rough" with her then 2-year-old son Collin, and when her other 2-year-old boy Joel climbed out of his crib, she "spanked him and put him back in" because she does "not tolerate crib climbing!!!!!"
Photo credit: Getty Images
kate-gosselin-horrible-mom-5
The source also divulged that Kate admitted to spanking all of her children at one time for playing with some tissues. She even claimed to pull her son Collin up by his hair and proceed to then spank him.
Photo credit: Splash News
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On Jan. 2, 2007, she revealed that her son Collin made her so angry that she "grabbed him and spanked him as hard as I could and thought I may seriously injure him so I sent him to his crib....And whipped him into it very hard!"
Photo credit: Splash News
kate-gosselin-kate-plus-8-3
The harried mom reportedly confessed to huge fights in front of the kids with her ex-husband & the children's father, Jon, now 38. "I feel like we are the worst parents in the whole world!"
Photo credit: Splash News
kate-gosselin-horrible-mom-3
Kate once became so overwhelmed with rage that in June of 2007, she prayed to God for help, and her children Hannah and Leah offered some. She penned her thankful feelings, saying: "I appreciated their support if nothing else!!!".
Photo credit: Splash News