Where Is Kate Gosselin Now? All About the Jon & Kate Plus 8 Star’s Life Today as a Nurse

Kate Gosselin has been a household name since 2007, thanks to her family’s reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8.

The TLC series chronicled Kate’s life with her then-husband Jon Gosselin and their eight children: twins Mady and Cara and sextuplets Aaden, Alexis, Collin, Hannah, Joel and Leah.

Jon & Kate Plus 8 ran from 2007 to 2009. It was later renamed to Kate Plus 8 in 2010 and aired until 2017. The show featured joyful family moments and heartbreaking scenes, most famously Kate filing for divorce from Jon in June 2009. The split came with a lengthy custody battle between the couple that resulted in Kate receiving primary custody of all eight children (although Hannah and Collin later lived with Jon full-time). The other six kids have little to no contact with their father.

In July 2025, Kate joined TikTok and began to share updates on her life now with her two German shepherd dogs.

“There’s gonna be a lot of dogs on it. And kids, but mostly dogs and me,” she said, adding that she is in her “German shepherd dog mom era.”

So, what is the reality matriarch up to today? Here’s everything to know about where Kate Gosselin is now.

Who is Kate Gosselin?

Born Katie Irene Kreider in Philadelphia on March 28, 1975, Kate was the third of five children. Raised in Philadelphia suburbs, she became a registered nurse and worked as a labor and delivery nurse in Wyomissing, Pa. — Taylor Swift’s hometown.

In 1997, Kate met Jon, then an IT analyst, at a company picnic. They married on June 12, 1999, in a friend’s backyard.

Kate underwent fertility treatments after her polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) made it difficult to conceive. Jon and Kate welcomed their first children, twins Mady and Cara, on Oct. 8, 2000. The couple later welcomed sextuplets, who were born on May 10, 2004.

The family became the subject of a TLC documentary in 2006, and its success led to their series Jon & Kate Plus 8, which chronicled the family’s growth, trials and tribulations as a brood of 10. The show was a hit, even after she and Jon split in 2009.

After the divorce, the show was retitled Kate Plus 8 and ran until 2017. She later starred in Kate Plus Date, which aired for one season in 2019 and followed her journey finding love after her split from Jon.

Kate has also written multiple books, including Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets (which she co-authored with Jon and Beth Carson), I Just Want You to Know, Kate Gosselin’s Love Is in the Mix and Eight Little Faces.

Is Kate Gosselin in a relationship?

Kate briefly dated millionaire Jeff Prescott in 2015. However, she’s been largely single since her split from Jon.

The mom-of-eight chronicled her dating journey in Kate Plus Date. During the show, Mady shared that she believed her mom had “trust issues” since her split.

“She is doing this [show] and she wants to be happy and that comes with some sacrifices,” she said. “Like, if she has to suck it up and get started before she feels comfortable, she’s going to have to do it.”

However, Kate didn’t find anyone on the show. She told PEOPLE in January 2023 that she was considering getting back into the dating pool once the sextuplets had left for college. (All six graduated from high school in 2023.)

“I will never say never because I mean maybe, I don’t know. I don’t know what it’s going to feel like to be at home all the time by myself. Maybe I will end up being … lonely,” she said. “Let me just go hang out with a friend.”

Kate added that she largely keeps to herself, which may make finding a potential partner tricky. “I know I’ve said this for years and it’s boring, but it’s like, I’m not really a go-out, hangout-places person,” she said. “So I’m not really going to meet anybody.”

Do Jon and Kate Gosselin talk?

Kate and Jon remain estranged following their 2009 divorce and custody battle. During a sitdown on The Dr. Oz Show in November 2019, Jon said that he and Kate had “no relationship” whatsoever.

“We don’t talk, nothing. The only time I see my ex-wife is in court, because we’ve exhausted all opportunities to co-parent. It’s just never going to happen, due to personality disorders and everything else.” Jon added that he and Kate don’t see eye-to-eye on parenting their kids.

Kate responded to his claims in a statement to PEOPLE at the time, noting, “I have consistently made it a rule never to respond to Jon’s delusional ramblings, and I will not break that rule now. However, at some point soon, I look forward to making sure the absolute truth about our family is known.”

While Jon didn’t go into specifics about their disagreements, they have historically fought over how to parent their son Collin.

In 2016, Kate revealed that she had enrolled Collin in a live-in program for children with special needs. Jon pulled Collin from the program and obtained full custody of him in December 2018. Collin accused Jon of physical abuse in September 2020, including allegedly punching and kicking him. Jon denied those accusations and was never charged with abuse.

“It escalated into something, you know, I had to restrain him and I’ve done that a couple times,” he told Entertainment Tonight at the time. “I didn’t think he would call the police but he wanted to get his way and the police did their investigation and there were no charges or citations filed.”

In November 2022, Collin told Entertainment Tonight that reality TV “tore [his] family apart” and that he no longer had a relationship with Kate. In the July 2023 Vice TV special Dark Side of the 2000s: Jon and Kate Plus 8 Family Circus, Collin accused Kate of abuse. She denied the allegations, telling PEOPLE at the time that Collin had received “multiple psychiatric diagnoses” and inpatient psychiatric treatment in response to “unpredictable and violent behavior.”

In September 2023, Kate sued Jon for more than $132,000 in alleged child support payments. That November, a judge ruled in Jon’s favor, according to legal documents obtained by Entertainment Tonight.

What does Kate Gosselin do for a living now?

Since the end of Kate Plus 8 in 2017, Kate has appeared on reality TV multiple times.

In 2019, she starred in Kate Plus Date, and in January 2023, Gosselin appeared in the Fox reality competition series Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test. After injuring her neck while falling out of a helicopter into open water, she left before the end of the first episode.

“I knew, being a nurse, that I had to go get checked out and make sure there was no lifelong injury there,” she told PEOPLE at the time, adding that she was “angry” that she had to leave the show so early. “My neck still bothers me sometimes. It is muscle. I do tend to carry stress in my neck and shoulders. So I do think that that probably was a factor in it, then hitting it smack dab on the water.”

She also continues to work as a pediatric home health care nurse, per an August 2025 TikTok. When a commenter asked “what happened with all the income” from the shows, Kate opened up about why she continues to work.

“Honestly? Providing for 8 kids, college funds which I am proud to say covered all of their college and more and LAWYERS,” she wrote. “Sickening but I was drug [sic] into court constantly and that costs A TON. Sad bc my kids could have a lot more saved and I could have a retirement saved if it weren’t for lawyers :(. It’s okay. I’m helping other families and I feel needed and I enjoy helping.”

She added in another comment, “My kids got a good college fund, a beautiful home and private school. The lawyers got the rest of it. I don’t have a retirement savings. Reality tv doesn’t pay as well as it should when you have to provide for 8 kids on your own.”

Where is Kate Gosselin now?

Kate lives in North Carolina. For now, she’s still focused on motherhood and celebrating her kids’ milestones.

On May 12, 2024, she celebrated the sextuplets’ 20th birthdays with a sweet Instagram post, writing, “No more teenagers in this house! Happy 20th birthday, my forever babies!”

She joined TikTok in July 2025, sharing behind-the-scenes moments and answering questions from fans. Replying to a comment about “how lucky” she is to have her kids’ “precious” moments documented in Jon & Kate Plus 8, Kate claimed that her kids now watch the family’s series.

“Yes! My adult kids are now watching our show with their friends/bf and gfs!” she wrote. “Isn’t that cute?”

On Aug. 11, Kate shared throwback photos of her kids in 2010. In the caption, she called the photos “the good old days❤️.”