When people find out that I have triplets one of the first first questions I get besides the “Are they natural?” is “Do you watch Jon and Kate Plus 8?” I usually smile politely and say, “Well, not really” and I change the subject or the kids do something to change the subject.
But the truth is that I am or I was a viewer of the show. I found the show when I was just a couple months pregnant with Quinn, Jake and Claire. My sister actually called me on the night that their very first one hour special. From the moment that I turned the TV on, I was hooked. I was a fan. I watched their second one hour and then I became a regular viewer of the show. I watched it religiously. I fell in love with this family.
But you see the truth is at that time in my life, I needed to this show. I had no idea how I was going to handle having multiples. I had no idea how I was going to manage four kids under the age of two. I found Jon and Kate and maybe they weren’t the best examples, but if they could manage double the amount I was going to have with some shred of sanity, then I thought maybe I could to.
So I watched. I learned. I saw that life with multiples wasn’t such a bad thing. I saw them concur challenge after challenge together as a team and I felt like Jeff and I were going to be fine.
Then as my kids grew older and became louder, I could not watch the show any more. Because at the end of the day, I wanted to sit down in silence and the last thing I wanted to so was watch a show full of little kids running around screaming. The show was just too close to my real life so I stopped.
But I still kept tabs on it. I would watch a snip-it of an episode here and there. I read about it so ultimately, I learned of all the terrible things that were happening with them. And honestly, the whole situation is just sad.
What is really sad to me is that not that show is ending because really in my book the show can end or go on, but the real sadness is how perverted everything has become. It is just sad that they have to suffer all this hurt in public. And I yes, I know that they put themselves in this place by agreeing to do the show but I also know that they didn’t sign up for all this public ridicule. Can’t we show them a little compassion?
But what breaks my heart the most, is that this show will not be around any longer to give help and hope to a newly pregnant mother of multiples. Because like it or not, the show did help me and for that I will always be eternally grateful.
My heart goes out to this family and I can’t imagine the hurt and pain that they are all going through. I wish them well and hope that they get the help that they need.
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