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Kate Gosselin is opening up about her experience with fertility issues and pregnancy loss.
The 50-year-old nurse and former reality TV star, best known for her time on “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” took to TikTok on Aug. 29 to begin a series of videos about her past pregnancies and birth journeys.
At one point during the first three videos, Kate Gosselin recalled how she was originally pregnant with seven children (not six) before giving birth to her sextuplets in 2004.
On Sept. 3, she returned for the fourth installment of the series and clarified more details about the pregnancy loss that occurred in the months leading up to her famed birth.
“I forgot to tell you a really important story about the seventh baby,” Kate Gosselin said in the clip, according to Today. “We had our first ultrasound at six weeks and there were seven babies.”
“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,” she continued.
It was during that appointment that Kate Gosselin and her then-husband Jon Gosselin learned that their seventh baby had “stopped growing.”
Several weeks later, Kate Gosselin recalled another setback that left her assuming the worst.
“At some point I started bleeding,” she added, per E! News. “I, of course, thought this was the beginning of a miscarriage. I was losing them all, but we already knew the seventh baby had stopped growing.”
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After being sent to the emergency room, Kate Gosselin received yet another ultrasound.
“And all of a sudden, she said, ‘I see six,’” Kate Gosselin recalled the nurse saying. “And I said, ‘You see six what?’ And she said, ‘I see six heartbeats. They’re there.’
“That was the moment I knew that I was committed to these babies, because I realized the relief and I started sobbing,” she added.
Kate Gosselin said the experience of almost losing her sextuplets helped her realize how much she had already loved them. She decided right then and there that she was “going to fight for them.”
Sure enough, the former TLC star gave birth to sextuplets — Alexis, Joel, Leah, Hannah, Collin and Aidan — on May 10, 2004. They celebrated their milestone 21st birthday earlier this year.
Jon and Kate Gosselin are also parents to twins Mady and Cara, born on Oct. 8, 2000, according to People.
The couple divorced in 2009, two years after their reality show debuted on TLC. The show was later renamed “Kate Plus 8” before coming to an end in 2011.
Kate Gosselin reveals the name she would’ve given baby No. 7
This isn’t the first time Kate Gosselin has opened up about the tragedy of losing her seventh baby.
In her 2010 memoir, “I Just Want You To Know: Letters To My Kids On Love, Faith and Family,” the reality star mentioned baby No. 7 in a passage written to her daughter Alexis.
“As you know, our seventh baby now lives in heaven with Jesus and went there when she was very tiny," she wrote in the letter, according to Today.
During an April 2010 interview with Access Hollywood, Kate Gosselin was asked about the pregnancy loss.
“I didn’t spend time maybe grieving or dealing with the fact that there was a seventh baby,” she said, per Today. “It makes you wonder like, who would this baby have been?”
“Alexis still asks about her and so I wanted to kind of include that in her letter,” she continued.
As for the name they would’ve chosen for baby No. 7, Kate Gosselin remained coy at the time.
“Well, we still talk about what we would have named her,” she told Access Hollywood. “I mean, I only mentioned it once in passing once or twice here or there over the years.”
In the comment section of her recent TikTok video, Kate Gosselin was again asked about the gender and name of baby No. 7 — and she finally spilled the beans.
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“I’ve always thought girl. Her name would have been Emma,” Kate Gosselin replied in a comment of her own.
