Kate Gosselin Reveals Lost Baby’s Name in Viral TikTok

Kate Plus Eight alum Kate Gosselin could have been a mother-of-nine had she not tragically lost a baby during her sextuplet pregnancy back in 2004.

The 50-year-old pediatric nurse detailed her infertility, pregnancy, and birth journey in a six-part TikTok series – which she posted between August 19 and Sunday.

During part four, which went viral after dropping last Wednesday, Kate recalled her and ex-husband Jon Gosselin’s first ultrasound at six weeks.

‘There were seven babies,’ Gosselin (born Kreider) noted.

‘I think they had us come back the next week — it was either the next week or two weeks, I can’t honestly remember — to see how they had progressed. In between that time, the seventh baby stopped growing.’

Months later, the Pennsylvania-born blonde started bleeding and thought it ‘was the beginning of a miscarriage [and] I was losing them all.’

‘At some point, she just got really quiet and I thought, “Here we go, it’s done,” and I was really, really scared,’ Kate – who boasts 1M social media followers – recalled.

‘All of a sudden, [the ultrasound tech] said, “I see six.” And I said, “You see six what?!” And she said, “I see six heartbeats, they’re there.”‘

Gosselin continued: ‘From that point on, I was in it. I was going to fight for them. I was going to do whatever. Not that I wasn’t before, but just the fact that it was dangled, I was threatened with losing them, it made me realize how much I already loved them. So that was very miraculous.’

In the comments section, the hot-tempered star replied to a fan that she ‘immediately thought’ her late baby would’ve been a girl and she would’ve named her Emma.

Due to her Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Kate conceived all of her children through fertility treatments, including intrauterine insemination (IUI).

Gosselin’s son Aaden, daughter Alexis, son Joel, daughter Leah, and formerly estranged daughter Hannah are now 21 and most of them are enrolled in college.

On October 8, the North Carolina-based star will celebrate the 25th birthdays of her New York-based twin daughters, Mady and Cara.

Mady works in sales at DECIEM, the Abnormal Beauty Company, after graduating from Syracuse University in 2023 while Cara works as a leasing credit officer at Bank of America after graduating from Fordham University in 2023.

Kate is estranged from her son Collin – who alleges she abused him as a child, had him hospitalized for 22 months spanning 2016-2018, and ‘crushed’ his dream of becoming a US Marine in 2023 by publicly posting about his ‘multiple psychiatric diagnoses’ and ‘violent behavior.’

On Saturday, the 21-year-old college RA announced he’s ‘been given the opportunity to write my very first book.’

‘Today was a very important part of that process!’ Collin announced via Instastory.

‘This morning, I had a wonderful phone call with some pretty great friends of mine, who are a part of this journey.’

The former child star is impressively paying his own tuition as a waiter at a chain called Damon’s and he recently launched his own LLC, Gosslin Pressure Washing.

Jon & Kate Plus 8 aired for five seasons on TLC spanning 2007-2010, once amassing 9.8M viewers with the fifth season premiere.

After Kate’s acrimonious decade-long marriage to the 48-year-old DJ ended in 2009, she produced and starred in her own spin-off Kate Plus 8, which ran for six seasons spanning 2010-2017 plus a ‘College Bound’ episode in 2019.

In 2023, Gosselin – who now works 12-hour shifts as a nurse – only made it one episode on Fox’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test due to a neck injury.

Kate has also appeared in Say Yes to the Dress (2008), co-hosted four episodes of The View (2009-2010), competed on Dancing with the Stars (2010), Celebrity Wife Swap (2013), The Apprentice (2015), and wrote three non-fiction books.