Katie Irene "Kate" Gosselin (née Kreider; born March 28, 1975) is an American television personality. She achieved national and international recognition on the US reality TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8, in which she and Jon Gosselin are profiled as they raise their atypical family of sextuplets and twins.
Katie Irene Kreider, who is of German, Scottish, and English descent, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Charlene Ruth Kreider (née Kolak, born January 14, 1958), and Kenton Eugene Kreider, (born May 1, 1949). She has three sisters, Christen, (born May 17, 1973), Kendra, (born June 10, 1980), and Clairissa, (born December 21, 1981), and one brother, Kevin, (born October 6, 1976).
Kreider became a registered nurse after completing a diploma program at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. She then worked as a labor and delivery nurse in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.