Dark Secrets The Gosselin Family Tried To Hide

Perhaps the most egregious tale about the Gosselin machine is that the family copied another family's hyper-fertile trajectory. In the book Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled the World, The Rise and Fall of a Reality TV Queen, author Robert Hoffman claims (via Radar Online) that Kate was so inspired by Bobbi McCaughey's headlines for having septuplets in 1997 that she became determined to follow the same path, no matter what.

Hoffman said his book points out "eerie, and some downright creepy, similarities" between McCaughey and the Gosselins, whose sextuplets were born nearly 7 years after McCaughey's multiples. According to the author, both mothers were strongly opposed to reducing the number of babies in their wombs and both claimed to be devout Christians, using the phrase "God gave us these kids." Hoffman claims even Kate's baby names are disturbing. "When discussing the naming of her sextuplets in her book, Kate Goselin says that they just picked first names randomly," the author writes. "Bobbi McCaughey's first-born septuplet daughter was named Alexis, and her last-born septuplet son was named Joel. Kate Gosselin 'randomly' named her first-born sextuplet daughter Alexis and her last-born sextuplet son Joel."

Kate slammed the allegations, with a source telling The Hollywood Gossip, "She feels the book is already 'out there' and 'even though a lot of things are fabricated and untrue,' she doesn't feel the need to drudge up old news."

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