Meet a Family with Sextuplets and Twins

Jon and Kate Gosselin welcomed their sextuplets into the world on May 10, 2004, and since then, the entire family has become TV stars thanks to their multiple reality shows, starting with Jon and Kate Plus 8 that premiered in 2007.

How old are the Gosselin sextuplets?
Kate and Jon Gosselin's sextuplets are 18! On Sunday, the reality stars each shared a birthday message on Instagram to their kids Hannah, Collin, Leah, Joel, Alexis, and Aaden. (The exes also share twin daughters Cara and Madelyn, 19).

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How much did Kate Gosselin's babies weigh?
The first boy, Aaden Jonathan, was born weighing 2 pounds, 7.5 ounces, measuring 13 inches long, followed by Collin Thomas weighing 3 pounds, . 5 ounces, measuring 15 inches long. The third girl, Leah Hope, was born weighing 2 pounds, 14.8 ounces, measuring 15.4 inches long.

How did Kate Gosselin give birth?
They were married on June 12, 1999, and on October 8, 2000, she gave birth to twin girls, Cara Nicole and Madelyn "Mady" Kate, who were premature at 35 weeks gestation. Gosselin became pregnant through fertility treatment because polycystic ovary syndrome left her unable to conceive otherwise.

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Why did Kate and Jon break up?
Jon Gosselin and Kate Gosselin seemed like the perfect couple on Jon & Kate Plus 8. But by 2009, 10 years into their marriage, they decided to call it quits. According to Kate, she and Jon started to want different things in their relationship. And infidelity rumors swirled around Jon at the time.

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Where is Kate Plus Eight now?
Kate Gosselin and her family just made a major change in their lives. After leaving behind their family home in Pennsylvania (the one we saw on Jon & Kate Plus 8), Kate and the kids have moved to North Carolina — but her oldest daughters don't seem to want to join the rest of the crew.

Can you get pregnant with sextuplets naturally?
Once an extremely rare phenomenon, fertility treatments have made multiple births slightly more common today. But conceiving sextuplets without the use of fertility treatments is extremely rare. In fact, the odds of giving birth to sextuplets spontaneously are one in 4.7 billion.

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How did Jon and Kate get pregnant?
Jon and Kate Gosselin, who already had twins, had wanted just one more baby, but IUI resulted in the sextuplets made famous on the TLC program “Jon & Kate Plus 8.” The same thing happened to Jenny and Bryan Masche, stars of “Raising Sextuplets,” the TV program on WE, the Women's Entertainment network.

How did Jon and Kate have 6 kids?
After undergoing IVF to conceive a third child, Kate became pregnant with six babies. The Gosselin sextuplets — three boys and three girls — were were born on May 10, 2004, in Pennsylvania. Joel, Collin, Aaden, Alexis, Hannah and Leah joined then-3-year-old twin sisters Cara and Madelyn “Mady.”

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How much money is Kate Plus 8 worth?
Kate Gosselin net worth and salary: Kate Gosselin is an American reality television star who has a net worth of $500 thousand dollars. As the mother of eight children, a set of sextuplets and a set of twins, Kate Gosselin starred in the reality series Jon and Kate Plus 8, which aired from 2007-2009.

How much do sextuplets weigh?
The average birthweight of a sextuplet is about 2 1/2 pounds,7 and nearly all sextuplets require medical care in a hospital NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) for several weeks to months after birth.

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Did Kate Plus 8 have IVF?
Kate had intrauterine insemination, which involved implantation of Jon's sperm via a catheter. She compares the procedure with in vitro fertilization, stating "there are no eggs removed or put back, as with IVF." She became pregnant on the second attempt, and gave birth to Cara and Madelyn on October 8, 2000.

Who is the oldest Gosselin sextuplet?
Aaden Jonathan Gosselin was born on May 10, 2004 and is the oldest boy of the Gosselin sextuplets ...

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What grade are the Gosselin sextuplets in?
The Gosselin sextuplets are officially high school juniors. On Wednesday, Jon Gosselin, 44, marked his daughter Hannah and son Collin's first day of 11th grade by posting a picture of the 17-year-olds before the start of their classes.

How common is sextuplets?
The Woman's Hospital said the odds of having sextuplets were estimated at one in 4.7 billion. Sextuplet births are extremely rare. One mother of sextuplets in Northern Ireland, who gave birth in 2009, said doctors advised her to abort several of the foetuses because of the risks of the multiple pregnancy.

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What is wrong with Collin?
Jon explained that Collin was sent to the educational facility because of behavioral problems related to ADHD. He also alleged that Collin was in a "cage" for three years, and that Kate only visited him on three occasions during this time.

Is Kate Plus 8 in a relationship?
Does Kate Gosselin have a boyfriend? According to Radar Online, who covered every messy off-screen episode in the Gosselin saga, Kate did not find love on her Monday night TLC show, and today, is still single.

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Did Courtney from Sweet Home sextuplets take fertility drugs?
After a miscarriage in January, they decided to use fertility medication, a very low dose, Courtney said. They knew multiples are always a possibility with fertility drugs, but they weren't worried about it. “It was the shock of our lives,” she said, when they had an ultrasound.

Did the mom on Sweet Home sextuplets use fertility drugs?
Courtney, who suffered a miscarriage during this time, started taking “a low dose of a fertility drug” to help her chances of conception. She and Eric did know that “twins [were] a possibility” with their fertility drug. But the couple thought the likelihood of such an event was low enough to give the drugs a try.

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Are any of the Waldrop sextuplets identical?
Although it's entirely possible to have a mix of identical and fraternal siblings in a single set of multiples (just look at the Busby quints; Ava and Olivia are identical, while the rest of the girls are fraternal), all of the Waldrop sextuplets are fraternal, People reported.

Where does Kate Gosselin live in 2021?
A source told HollywoodLife: “Kate picked up and moved the kids down to North Carolina to spend their junior and senior years there with a totally new life.”

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Where do Mady and Cara go to college?
Before settling on their respective universities, an episode of Kate Plus 8 showed the girls going through the college process and attending campus tours. They were seen walking the campus of Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina but ultimately decided New York was perfect for them.

Do Hannah and Collin live with Jon?
Collin and Hannah Gosselin, 17, live apart from their six siblings in Pennsylvania with their father Jon Gosselin, 44, and we've learned what their relationship looks like beyond the distance. “The kids occasionally speak to their sisters and brothers,” a source close to the family told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY.

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