Kate Gosselin certainly has seen her ups and downs since the divorce from Jon Gosselin over a year ago, but she’s determined to “start over”. With her new special, Kate Plus 8, set to air on TLC on June 6th, Kate seems to be bouncing back after a dismal performance on Dancing With the Stars and a lot of public feuding with her ex, Jon Gosselin. And she’s busy. Very busy. “[Nine year-old daughter Cara] was upset with me because I forgot to sign them up for something at school. I said, ‘Cara, I had a really rough year. This is a new year. You’ve got to give me that. Let’s start over.’ So I’ve really worked to keep my word with them.”
Kate first met Jon Gosselin at a picnic in 1997. Before things got bad between the couple, Kate apparently said, “I never believed in ‘love at first sight’, but this came really close. Jon came walking across the grass and I saw him and was instantly intrigued!” Jon proposed to Kate with a modest engagement ring only six months after and the two exchanged wedding ringswith an elaborate garden wedding and subsequent honeymoon in Disney World.
The feisty stage mom had also been busy doing interviews backstage on Dancing With the Stars, as well as reporting from the ET news desk. Even after Kate got booted from Dancing With the Stars, she still felt only a minor speed-change. “It was just about two weeks before I was like, ‘Oh, hey, I’m resettled back into life. I feel like a normal mom again.’