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By MOLLY DAVIS
An ex-employee of Jon and Kate Gosselin has come forward with some shocking allegations about Kate’s hair-trigger temper.
Has her cockatoo-do gone from her head to her hands?
Sorry, I just can’t resist taking shots at the reverse mullet that resides on her cranium.
Back to the story.
So that’s what the former staffer is spilling to the press.
The once-worker declares that “Kate Gosselin is a regular boozer who has angrily paddled her kids with a kitchen utensil” and that she saw Kate “getting cozy with bodyguard Steve Nield, the silver-haired hunk with who she’s been rumored to be romantically involved…”
Whoa.
The drama meter just jumped a notch.
Maybe two or three notches.
I’m pretty sure Kate indulging in a glass of wine doesn’t classify her as a “boozer,” and if the story is indeed true, how she chooses to discipline her kids is hers and hers alone.
I personally wouldn’t use a plastic mixing spoon, but to each his own.
On the heels of this story come the photos of the octo mom smacking littlest sextuplet Lea on the behind.
In Touch splashed the pix, taken on June 13 outside their home, on the cover.
According to the accompanying story, Lea blew a whistle after being asked to stop.
Kate allegedly grabbed her arm and spanked her.
On the butt.
Abusive?
No way.
Acceptable?
Absolutely.
If you are a parent or a child, and can honestly say you have never been on the giving or receiving end of a slap, you are either lying or you live in a bubble.
There is a big difference between corporal punishment and an occasional disciplinary pop on the tush in the midst of a tantrum.
But this, like everything else, about Jon and Kate, will be blown out of proportion.
Poor Kate.
I am starting to empathize with her a little more everyday.
Although she may not be the most likable woman in the world, in my eyes, she is doing the best she can.
Would anyone do better?
With EIGHT children?
Spend a week in her shoes and then get back to me.