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Oh, how they have grown! Ancient Jon & Kate More 8 stars Kate Gosselin and Jon Gosselin welcomed their sextuplets on May 10, 2004. The exes are also parents to twins Cara and Madythey welcomed in October 2000. With the arrival of their sextuplets – Hannah, Leah, Alexis, Joel, Aaden and Collin – four years later, the famous family was completed with eight children.
Jon and Kate met in October 1997. At the time, Jon was living with his mother and working in a hotel when Kate had just finished nursing school. The hotel Jon worked for held regular company picnics and Kate attended the event with a friend who also worked at the same hotel.
“There was this guy [who] crossed the grass and I wasn’t really looking for anyone because I was very self-sufficient. But he caught my eye, he had sunglasses on so I couldn’t see his eyes, but he looked cute. And I was like, ‘I’m not leaving here today until I meet him,’ I said that, actually,” Kate said in a joint interview with Jon for TLC. Although Jon had a girlfriend at the time, Kate said “she left the next day”.
The early years of their relationship seemed strong. “We were the couple that people always said we were ‘disgusting’, can you believe that?” Kate asked Jon. “Yeah, I don’t know what happened,” he said, and they both laughed.
Jon proposed to Kate just over a year later the day of Christmas 1998. They married on June 12, 1999 and spent their honeymoon at Disney World.
The couple struggled to conceive because of Kate’s polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), they revealed in their 2008 book, Multiple Blessings. She underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments for both of her pregnancies. After conceiving twins, the couple wanted one more child, but the procedure resulted in their sextuplets.

The size of their offspring has led to two one-hour specials on the Discovery Health Channel: Sextuplets and surviving twins and One year later. Following the success of the episodes, Discovery gave the family their own show, which ran from 2007 to 2009. The first two seasons aired on Discovery and the rest on TLC.
Unfortunately, Jon and Kate couldn’t make their relationship work. They announced their separation during an episode that aired on June 22, 2009. Their divorce was finalized in December. Kate was granted full custody of their eight children, but in 2018 Jon got custody of Hannah and Hake.
Despite their family’s ups and downs, the sextuplets have changed so much over the years. We’ve collected photos showing their transformation from cute kids to fashionable teenagers. Ready for some serious nostalgia? Scroll through the gallery below to see photos of Gosselin sextuplets past and present.