My Take on Jon & Kate

I can live in a world with disease, famine, and sticky floors. I just don't know if I can live in a world where Jon & Kate Gosselin cannot make their marriage work. I guess I was one of those that fell into using a celebrity couple as a sort of role model. I mean--look at their large family and the stresses they faced together. Their marriage wasn't perfect, but they kept it together. They were two very different people, but they seemed like a good team.
With one tabloid report, that all changed. Suddenly we heard that all was not well in Pennsylvania with the new house and two new puppies. They weren't going to face this world together forever after all, as they pledged to do at their vow renewal last year in Hawaii.
It's similar to when you hear a seemingly healthy person is diagnosed with cancer. You absolutely didn't see it coming and are shocked when you hear the news. After the smoke clears, you hear that, yes, the person hadn't been feeling well for quite some time and it was just getting worse and worse.
This divorce seems to be falling into a common theme with those who suddenly become famous. Remember the young, innocent Beatles? In a few years, they were long-haired drug addicts. Remember sweet and tastefully dressed Britney Spears on the cover of her first CD? Soon she was out of control as well. Check out the Gosselin family in Season 1. Jon & Kate looked just like the rest of us. Now we have Jon showing off on his ATV and Kate sporting designer hair and a different bikini with each trip to the beach. Has this show REALLY been for the kids? If it was, they should have enough saved up for their college educations, or at least a start by now. A good friend of mine was one of six and she and her siblings all went or will go to college. Their parents never had a reality show on TLC. It's called financial aid.
My days of watching the show are over, not that anyone at TLC will notice. It just isn't inspiring or entertaining to see two parents shuffling their kids between each other as they lead seperate lives. In a world where so many marriages end in divorce, that's just too much reality on TV for me.