Kate Gosselin Addresses Speculation She Married Former Bodyguard Steve Neild

Kate Gosselin and Jon Gosselin divorced in 2009.

So, for the most part, Kate's life now looks much as it did before her ex-husband remarried, Jon tying the knot with Stephanie Lebo in November after four years together.

But while former bodyguard Steve Neild remains her rock—if not the presenter of a rock, Kate quashing marriage speculation in January by clarifying she was wearing her "regular jewelry"—the 51-year-old has been busy on a healing journey, physically and emotionally.

Illustrating the milestone with a TikTok showing her heading into a medical appointment on crutches, Kate shared in December that she was walking again after enduring a "life-altering" leg injury she suffered in September during an unexpectedly hard-hitting round of fetch with her dogs.

“It's walking day!" she exclaimed. "It finally came. I'm so excited I can't even stand it.”

In the meantime, she added, “I have to start at 25 percent, and then 50 percent, 75 percent, 100 percent. So you won't see me really walking immediately, but I'm excited.”

"This is something I couldn't have done even a few weeks ago," she wrote atop a Jan. 6 video, adding the caption, "WALK to the water with me."

A week later, she ditched the crutch and it has made no more appearances on her socials.

So, the mother of twins Mady and Cara, 25, as well as sextuplets Alexis, Hannah, Leah, Aaden, Collin and Joel, 22—all shared with Jon—has mended in that respect. 

"I was just crying this morning," she said in the video, wiping tears from her eyes. "I'm tired. It's getting to be a lot, which makes me sound like a baby, but the truth is, I've just been on watch constantly hoping nothing, you know, happens and watching them all the time."

Unlike when her children were little, Kate noted, "I am 51 now. I'm not 29, 30. So it's just gotten to be a lot."

"Koda is a humongous personality," she continued. "She is now very obsessed with her ball equally as Meika, and she could run forever."

Steve was at work, Kate shared, and while she's alone with the pups "I always turn on Bob Ross painting," which apparently calms everybody down, "and I take them on walks."

Which, as a mother of eight, she's used to doing.

Kate shared rare footage of her human brood after celebrating Mother's Day and the sextuplets' 22nd birthday, revealing in a May 11 TikTok that there was "a scary twist" in the form of Leah getting into a car accident while behind the wheel.

“Fortunately, Leah and I are uninjured,” Kate wrote. “Her car did not fair so well…It's totaled...But as they say, the show must go on. We had a BIRTHDAY to celebrate! And lots of catching up to do!” 

Cut to a restaurant where she was sitting with Alexis, Leah, Aaden and Joel—Collin and Hannah have remained closer to their dad in recent years—and then holding up a book called Just a Few Things I Love About You Mom, which she called the "BEST gift my kids have ever given me."

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