Jon Gosselin is getting hitched and hoping to reunite with his estranged children on the same day.
The former Jon and Kate Plus 8 star, who recently popped the question to girlfriend Stephanie Lebo after three years of dating, told Entertainment Tonight that all eight of the children he shares with ex-wife Kate Gosselin will “definitely” be invited to his upcoming nuptials, including the six children from whom he’s estranged.
“I would definitely send an invite to all of them,” Jon told the outlet. “You know, they are my kids. It’d be nice for [Stephanie] to meet my other kids.”
As fans know, Jon shares sextuplets Alexis, Aaden, Leah, Joel, Collin and Hannah and twins Cara and Mady with Kate. The former TLC couple divorced in 2009 and in 2018, Jon became the primary guardian of Collin and Hannah, while the six other Gosselin children remained in Kate’s care until they turned 18.
While Jon continues to have a relationship with both Collin and Hannah, he has been estranged from his six other children for years. Due to that ongoing estrangement, Jon said he only shared his proposal plans with Collin and Hannah, claiming they were both fully supportive of the pair tying the knot.
Still, Jon said he’d happily welcome a reunion with his other children, especially if it means having them at his upcoming wedding.
“I just kind of support the kids that are integrated into the family,” he said. “If other ones wake up and realize what’s going on, the door’s always open here.”
Back in October, Jon told Us Weekly that he reaches out to his 23-year-old twin daughters whenever he’s in New York (where the girls currently reside), and remains optimistic that they will one day be receptive to his efforts to reconnect. (Jon also revealed to the outlet that Hannah “talks to all of her siblings,” while Collin doesn’t have a relationship with his mom or his siblings, aside from Hannah.)
“Maybe one day it’ll just happen, but we’ll see,” Jon said of reconnecting with Cara and Mady. “We talk about it a lot. Holidays are coming and maybe that’ll happen.”
In the highly likely event that Jon’s estranged children opt not to attend their dad’s wedding, Collin and Hannah won’t be the only children on hand to support Jon and Stephanie on their big day, as Stephanie has a 14-year-old daughter who lives with the couple. Jon told People that “it’s really nice” having the teen at home with him and Stephanie.
“I’ve never had one kid before, so I’m learning as well,” he added. “So it’s very different, but it’s cool to see Collin and Hannah be the big brother and big sister, because they never had that. So they’re mentoring her as well, so it’s very interesting.”
While Jon is no stranger to getting his procreating on, he confirmed that he and Stephanie will not be adding any children to their blended family.
“We’re both fixed, so it’s not happening,” he said. “I’m not getting a reversal. It was annoying enough to get it fixed so I’m not going down that road. I’m 47. She’s 36. We just want to enjoy life.”
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If Jon just stopped harassing his kids online, and just tried to privately, keep doing right by his kids. Then they might reach out. But this posting everything to do with his kids for clout and money, I get why they don’t want anything to do with him.
Its seems like most of his kids have chosen that they don’t want anymore of their life on camera, they had their childhood taken away to make money, and since most of them are working now, I don’t know if they actually made anymore, or if Kate squandered it all, as she is now working as a nurse again.
Just leave them alone, if they reach out they reach out, if they don’t well, going online to talk about it, isn’t going to make them more likely to get in touch.
Kate is awful, but Jon is no saint either.
TRULY. and saying he hopes they “wake up” is hateful. If they are abused by Kate like he and Collin have said, then its not as easy as “waking up”. They are being manipulated and his tone is not very nice towards his abused kids.