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Kate Gosselin revealed she tragically lost her seventh baby during her famous pregnancy with her sextuplets.
The “Jon & Kate Plus 8” alum recalled being “really, really scared” during the horrifying event on her Wednesday TikTok — which is part of a six-part series where she discusses her fertility journey, pregnancy and birth.
“We had our first ultrasound at six weeks and there were seven babies,” Gosselin, 50, said.
“I think they had us come back the next week — it was either the next week or two weeks, I can’t honestly remember — to see how they had progressed,” she continued. “In between that time, the seventh baby stopped growing.”
Kate Gosselin revealed she suffered a miscarriage during her famous pregnancy with her sextuplets. Kate Gosselin/TikTok
The “Jon & Kate Plus 8” alum admitted in her Wednesday TikTok that she was originally carrying seven fetuses during her pregnancy. kateplusmy8/Instagram
But the couple soon ran into a major problem as the reality star suffers from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).
PCOS is described as a “problem with hormones that happens during the reproductive years” in women, according to the Mayo Clinic. The condition can make it difficult to conceive without medical assistance.
“Along the way there was another emergency — besides the kidney stones, besides the hyper-stimulated ovaries before that — there was another emergency, at some point I started bleeding,” she shared.
“I, of course, thought this was the beginning of a miscarriage [and] I was losing them all.”
“There was another emergency, at some point I started bleeding,” she recalled. Getty Images for Extra
Gosselin said the experience made her think she was losing all of her babies at once. kate.gosselin/TikTok
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Gosselin remembered being “on pins and needles” while waiting for the ultrasound tech to share the results from her pictures.
“At some point, she just got really quiet and I thought, “Here we go, it’s done,’ and I was really, really scared,” Gosselin added.
“All of a sudden, she said, ‘I see six.’ And I said, ‘You see six what?!’ And she said, ‘I see six heartbeats, they’re there.’”
Gosselin shared in her comments that she believed the seventh baby would have been a girl. Kate Gosselin/TikTok
“From that point on, I was in it,” she said of her remaining six babies. “I was going to fight for them. I was going to do whatever.” Turgeon/Winslow/Splash News
“From that point on, I was in it,” she said. “I was going to fight for them. I was going to do whatever. Not that I wasn’t before, but just the fact that it was dangled, I was threatened with losing them, it made me realize how much I already loved them. So that was very miraculous.”
In the comments section, Gosselin went on to share that she “always thought” that the seventh fetus would have been a girl if she had carried all of the fetuses to term during her high-risk pregnancy.
“Her name would have been Emma,” she added.
Gosselin went on to give birth to six babies — Aaden, Alexis, Collin, Hannah, Joel and Leah — in 2004. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
She and her then-husband, Jon, later starred in their own TLC reality series alongside their six newborns and their twin daughters, Cara and Mady. Zave Smith
Gosselin famously became pregnant and gave birth to six babies — Aaden, Alexis, Collin, Hannah, Joel and Leah — in 2004.
She became a household name after she went on to star on the TLC reality television series “Jon & Kate Plus 8” alongside her then-husband, Jon Gosselin, their six newborns and their twin daughters, Cara and Mady.
Jon and Kate divorced in 2009 after 10 years of marriage.
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