Usually I just give a giggle and go on about my day, but this jon and kate feud is all over tv. I’m sure some of you have read, but Kate is accusing of Jon of taking all of the money out of a joint account for a total amount of 230k. She says she can’t pay her bills or feed her children now.

What do you think about this? Personally, I have to wonder where her real money went. She had a great selling book and made millions from the show. She should have at least 4m sitting around (calculating book sales and barring any godly shopping sprees). How is it that 230k (which is a fraction of what they’ve made on the show) all she has?

Discuss :D

She's full of bullshit.
That's what I think.

XD that's one popular response on the internet

Who the hell are these people?

Taken from cracked.com:

In a Sentence:

Two completely unlikable people ruin the lives of their eight children and get paid more per episode than parents who actually work.

Starring:

Jon. Kate. Their eight, indistinguishable children.

The Show:

I hear about this show all the time and I guess it’s the only one on this list that I can actually see being compelling. Jon and Kate have eight children, twins and sextuplets, and I’m almost positive that they hate every single one of them.

“Kids sort of lose their appeal after a few days. We’re big into those Hawaiian lays, now.”

The episode I watched was littered with moments of both parents saying things like “I can’t take this anymore” and “I’m going to have a break down any second, I swear to God.” It’s not a show about coping with raising eight children, it’s a show about two miserable people in a loveless marriage who are incapable of talking about anything besides their miserable, loveless marriage. All of this is happening right in front of the swarm of toddlers, who I have to assume are being supervised by the camera crew filming the series.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m no expert on raising kids, but that’s also precisely why I don’t have any. Here’s an exchange that perfectly sets the tone for the episode and, I imagine, the series: One of the girl babies was upset about her missing pony toy.

NAMELESS GIRL BABY
Mommy, I can’t find my pony toy, have you seen it?
KATE
OK, you’re getting a little obsessive-ish… Stop melting down, I’ve got to go save the world.

And then Kate proceeds to stand in front of her sink pretending to wash a single dish for a while before disappearing for the rest of the afternoon. And the world was safe for another day. In another moment, Jon is in the backyard with his dogs and children, cleaning up dog poop.”This is the story of my life,” Jon says, his voice coated with misery and regret, “cleaning up other people’s crap.”
I’ve never seen two parents more blatant about their total resentment for their children. The show is compelling if for no other reason than because you want to make sure the kids make it out of the season.

Conclusion:

This is pretty depressing as far as entertainment goes, but I can see it functioning as a useful experiment, a time capsule for eight children who can one day look back on the show as evidence of how much their parents despised them. When these poor kids grow up and wonder why they’re so maladjusted, they’ll be able to look back on Jon and Kate Plus 8 and say “Oh, OK, that’s why I have a difficult time making meaningful connections with other human beings: my parents treated me like a petulant piece of furniture that they begrudgingly had to feed from time to time.”

I didn't even know that they were already divorced. Seems fitting. This article was written on the 5th of june BTW

This is reason why I don't watch or read the tabloids anymore. It's to the poing of "who the hell cares?"

I always found she was too hard on him. I haven't followed for a while tho so I can't make a proper opinion on the situation.

Fuck them.

I've never watched the show, but I read Esmoreit's summary, and it sounds hilarious.

Is it?

Raising children costs a lot of money, and raising eight children would cost a fortune. People do it today with lots of government assistance, but people with incomes have to pay more of their wealth into child rearing. I'm sure that Jon and Kate are horribly in debt, even with book deals and tv shows.