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Kate Gosselin Credits Divorce Legal Fees and Family Costs for Return to 12-Hour Nursing Shifts

On TikTok she shares her day-to-day pediatric nursing routine to illustrate how custody disputes plus college funds drained her reality TV earnings

Overview

  • Kate Gosselin resumed work this year as a pediatric home health care nurse, describing 12-hour days in recent TikTok videos.
  • She relocated from Pennsylvania to Troutman, North Carolina, and renewed her nursing license earlier in 2025.
  • Gosselin says income from Jon & Kate Plus 8 and its spinoffs was largely consumed by college funds for her eight children and by prolonged divorce legal fees.
  • She reports having no retirement savings after attorneys’ costs and childcare expenses exhausted her reality TV earnings.
  • Her TikTok posts blend work updates with reflections on personal growth and touch on family divides highlighted by her son Collin’s recent public posts.