Lights, camera, Kate Gosselin!
The reality mom, 34, announced on Monday's "Kate Plus 8" that she's ready to move from the small screen to the silver screen.
"I would love to be in a movie at some point. I'd like to be the voice in a cartoon for my kids ... and I would love for my TV career to be successful," Kate told viewers during the "You Ask, Kate Answers" episode.
Of being in front of a camera, Kate said, "I feel like this is normal."
Viewers flooded Kate with questions about the well-being of her kids, who have seen their parents battle it out in an increasingly ugly divorce.
"They're not suffering from this," Kate insisted. "They're kids 99 percent of the time," she said. Earlier this month, Jon halted production on their TLC reality show, claiming the kids were suffering.
Kate also confirmed the couple -- which have been fighting in court over money -- have set aside funds for their eight children. "There is a healthy amount of money put away, and it is safe and will not be touched," she said.
Kate announced that she's sworn off marriage, but added, "I don't want to be alone."
The mother of eight also has no qualms discussing the staff that helps her "survive" in day-to-day life. Gosselin admitted to having "a full-time babysitter, a girl who cleans my house and people to do the yard work."
She went on, "Does that sound pampered? It's called survival."
With production halted on the show, TLC has announced it only has enough footage to air episodes through November.
In October 2009, Kate said, “I'm saddened and confused by Jon's public media statements.”
“It appears that Jon's priority is Jon and his interests. My priority remains our children and their well-being.”
“We film it separately,” Jon admitted. "She has her film crew. And I have my film crew.
In September 2009 Jon said, “I can't sit on the sofa with that woman. I can't sit on the couch next to someone I despise… I despise her because she's not speaking from the heart.”
“While I certainly have a very different perception of how our marriage dissolved, for the sake of my children I maintain that I'm not going to go into details of aspects I believe should remain private.” Kate's statement to ABC regarding how she feels about revealing her personal life with Jon.
I Used to Have a Ring on It
Jon also slams his ex for using her wedding ring. “I think she still wears the ring for public perception,” he said. “I don't wear my ring because she took my ring. I don't have it.” Jon added, "So I laid it down one night. It was gone.
Jon revealed on “Good Morning America” that their marriage “will never be fixed.”
“I didn't leave Kate for Hailey. People think I left Kate for Hailey… because of the time frame and what they printed in the tabloids. You can't control who you love. I strongly believe that. You cannot control that. It's two people joined together.”
Jon admits in a September interview with ABC that he will always “love Kate as the mother of my kids. But to tell you right now, at this point of what's going on, I do not love Kate.”
After being photographed with a few different females in the media, Jon had this to say, “Like most people, I have male and female friends and I'm not going to end my friendships just because I'm on TV.”
Jon tells TLC's cameras “People think I've changed, and I have changed, but I'm now the person I know I am.”
“I don't trust her anymore,” Jon tells reporter Chris Cuomo of ABC. “I was abused… I'm not going back to that lifestyle.”
Kate told CBS in an interview, “He does not want to be married to me anymore.” Kate said it was not she who initiated the divorce.
In an interview with ABC, Jon said, “Well, excuse me, I'm taking care of the kids. She's on book tours, she's doing all these things. You know, she's gone a week. You know, comes back. Packs up and leaves again. I'm standing there like, 'Oh, OK. Your mom's gone again…”
Kate told CBS cameras, “This is a situation that absolutely would have happened whether the cameras were here or not. I don't want people thinking we traded marriage for fame. Ever.”
In an ABC interview, Jon said Kate deliberately “separated” him from his mother and brothers."
Jon said, “I was beaten down so long, I couldn't even make a decision for myself.”
Jon says Hailey Glassman, daughter of Kate's plastic surgeon, is someone he loves more than he did Kate — and that she shows him “love and respect” as Kate never did.
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