Collin Gosselin, son of Jon and Kate Gosselin of Kate Plus 8 fame – the 2000s reality show that followed the lives of the then couple and their young sextuplets and twins – has hardly been able to afford a private life. After his parents went through a very public and messy divorce, the spotlight turned to him when his mother had him institutionalised for his alleged “unpredictable and violent behaviour”, per People. Now, his past seems to have caught up with him and is standing in the way of him fulfilling his biggest dream: becoming a United States Marine.
This month, he revealed in an interview with Entertainment Tonight that he was discharged from the military a hair’s breadth away from graduation because they “found out that I was, in fact, in an institution at one point in my life”. Nevertheless, Collin, 20, aims to appeal the decision because, for him, there’s not much that tops being a US Marine. So what else do we know about Collin Gosselin – and what does he plan on doing next? Collin Gosselin’s complex family ties Collin is one of Jon and Kate’s sextuplets born on May 10, 2004.
Kate had primary custody of him and her other children after her 2009 divorce from Jon, per People, but Collin and his sister Hannah eventually started living with their father after he was awarded temporary sole legal and physical custody of them in 2018. (The show dropped its original name, Jon & Kate Plus 8 , after the former couple’s divorce.) When he graduated fr.