What happened to Jon and Kate Gosselin?
KATE and Jon Gosselin became household names thanks to their reality show, Jon & Kate Plus 8.
It profiled their atypical family of sextuplets and twins.
However, the couple split in December 2009 after a decade of marriage.
They first met at a company picnic in October 1997 and married in June 1999.
Jon and Kate welcomed twin girls in October 2000, Cara Nicole and Madelyn "Mady" Kate.
Kate went through fertility treatment and became pregnant in 2003.
The couple welcomed sextuplets in May 2004.
Sons Aaden Jonathan, Collin Thomas and Joel Kevin, and daughters Alexis Faith, Hannah Joy and Leah Hope were all born 10 weeks premature, when Kate was 30 weeks pregnant.
Jon and Kate announced on June 22, 2009 in an episode that they were separating.
Since their divorce, they have had a contentious relationship.
Since April 2018, daughter Hannah has lived with Jon.
In December of the same year, he was granted sole physical and legal custody of son Collin.
While Hannah and Collin now live with Jon, the other four sextuplets, Alexis, Aaden, Leah, and Joel, still live with Kate and don't speak to their dad.
Cara and Mady left home last year to head to two different colleges in New York in August 2019.
Jon now lives with his girlfriend Colleen Conrad, along with Collin and Hannah and Conrad’s children.
He was working as DJ and then working on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.
The reality TV dad is teaching doctors how to use telemedicine, according to .
He told them that he no longer hears from Kate, "I don't hear from Kate. It’s just totally like that person doesn’t exist anymore."
However, Jon got a surprise in June 2023 when Kate showed up at the graduation of the twins Hannah and Collin.
The dad, who has full custody of the twins was surprised ex , 48, decided to come to their high school ceremony, as she has been absent for a lot of their lives after the former couple went through a long and bitter custody battle.
Hannah and Collin, both 19, donned red gowns as they posed for pictures with their dad at their Pennsylvania high school.
Jon previously revealed how Hannah reconnected with her mom and the siblings in her care Alexis, Leah, Joel and Aaden on the sextuplets' 19th birthdays.
While Hannah spoke with her estranged family members, Jon told The U.S. Sun he, unfortunately, was unable to talk to his other four kids on their birthday.
Also in June 2023, Jon and Kate's daughter Mady revealed a new career move having graduated from college.
Mady shared a clip showing highlights from the Bubble Skincare SPF Launch event hosted by her employer, Bubble Skincare.
She celebrated a major milestone just days earlier as she walked at her college graduation.