Jon and Kate Gosselin once had a fairy-tale romance: they met at a picnic in 1997, and were married by 1999.
Due to Kate’s polycystic ovarian syndrome, the young couple turned to fertility treatments to start a family — which more than worked!
They welcomed twins Cara Nicole and Madelyn “Mady” Kate in 2000, and then sextuplets — Alexis, Hannah, Leah, Aaden, Collin, and Joel — in 2004.
Thanks to Jon and Kate’s unique situation of being parents of eight children, they proceeded to land a reality television on TLC called Jon & Kate Plus 8, which premiered in 2007.
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