Kate Gosselin Quotes

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

While my season of 'The Bachelorette' was airing, people would call me awful, awful names. They'd question my integrity and character.

It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.

There's really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

I never really got any attention until I was on MTV. I became a household name because I was on every day from 3-4 P.M. I wasn't prepared for it - how mean they can be in the press.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

For some reason, I'm constantly attacked on social media in terms of how I dress. I've never understood that. That's been very hard.

We've talked through the fact that our family will be attacked. Our family will be dragged through the mud. My businesses that I've helped build and create will be attacked and dragged through the mud. That's politics. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about it or thinking about it.

I have been accused of many crimes. A TV channel even put up a show called 'Sins of Asin!'

People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.

I don't bash people in the media, like other people.

I have had people come up to me in the street - one woman actually told me she hated my accent, she can't believe I'm on the telly and my accent is so annoying. I ended up laughing because I thought, 'this person doesn't know me but she felt she could come up and slate my accent.'

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.

I probably felt more beautiful before I went on TV. 'Cos I get so much criticism now.

If I remembered when people said mean things about me, I would never speak to the media again.

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.