Jon & Kate Gosselin’s Son Collin Details Relationship With Siblings

Collin Gosselin is thinking about what could’ve been.
The Jon & Kate Plus 8 alum—one of Jon Gosselin and Kate Gosselin’s 21-year-old sextuplets—penned an emotional message to his siblings on social media following more than a decade of family drama and estranged relationships.
“Born to be a team, us against the world,” Collin—brother to Alexis, Aeden, Hannah, Leah and Joel, as well as 24-year-old twins Mady and Cara—wrote over an old family photo shared to TikTok August 8. “Forced to do it alone, and wonder everyday what our lives could’ve looked like.”
After all, the siblings’ onscreen childhood was often accompanied by cheating allegations, custody battles and estranged relationships.
“Forced apart, pitted against each other,” Collin—who currently lives with his father and sister Hannah while he remains estranged from his mother and six other siblings—continued in the caption. “All the fame and money in the world, but what about kids being kids?”
“I will always love them more than anything,” he added. “The tears I shed behind closed doors, thinking about the memories we could’ve shared. I love you guys…”
Back in 2023, Collin blamed his mother for their broken family dynamics. After all, Kate sent him to a boarding school for children with behavioral issues back in 2016 before his father stepped in to remove him two years later.
"I think my mom kind of drove a social barrier between us," Collin said in a July 2023 episode of Vice TV's Dark Side of the 2000s. "She told them the story one way, and, obviously, I see the story a different way."
Then, last year, he went as far as accusing Kate of locking him up in their basement when he was growing up.
“My mother had a room built in our unfinished section of the storage basement," he told The U.S. Sun last September. "She had a room put up with cameras in it, a tiny window in the corner and it was bolt-locked from the outside. It was like a containment room, and it had a mattress on the floor and that's how I lived.”
And while alleging his mother often became “physically aggressive and verbally very abusive,” Collin continued, “When my mother would put me in that room multiple times, she had zip-tied my hands and feet together and bolt locked the door, turned the lights off and had cameras there just watching me."
Days later, her lawyer Richard Puelo issued a response.
"She never wants to comment because she always knows that this gets taken out of context," Puelo told Fox News at the time. "She doesn't want to comment. Doesn’t need to. The record speaks for itself."
"The facts belie the truth,” he continued. “Whatever took place, the ones that are truthful are the ones that took place."
For more of the Gosselin family through the years, keep reading…
Sextuplets Hannah, Collin, Alexis, Aaden, Leah and Joel turned 21 May 10, 2025 and Kate shared pics from the latter four's birthday celebration.
Hannah celebrated her birthday with her dad and his fiancée Stephanie Lebo.
On Mother's Day 2024, two days after the former couple's sextuplets turned 20, Kate shared a tribute the four who lived with her: Alexis, Aaden, Joel and Leah.
"No more teenagers in this house! Happy 20th birthday, my forever babies! I love you!" she wrote on Instagram. "Who feels old? I know I do! #20yearsold #ItsaPICKLE."
Hannah shared new pics of herself on her and the other sextuplet's 20th birthday.
On to the next chapter! The sextuplet graduated from high school in 2023.
Jon shared a pic of sextuplets Collin and Hannah graduating from high school in 2023, years after they had moved in with him.
Kate appeared with twin Mady and Cara in New York City in this 2019 pic.
"Happy 18th birthday!" Jon wrote on Instagram in 2022. "Today is your birthday we gonna say it loud. I love you. Love, Dad."
"Our big celebration of #15 is finally winding down here! We celebrated ALL DAY LONG, beginning with a present at 6:30 am before school! I'm so very thankful for my ‘babies'.... somehow they are 15 already?!" Kate wrote on the special milestone in 2019. "I'm amazed by them each day! I'm so proud of the positive qualities I've seen developing as they edge closer to adulthood."
"This was yesterday! Feels like school never ended...and they're already back! #SeniorYear #EighthGrade #ProudMom," Kate wrote on Instagram in 2018.
"Happy 15th Birthday Hannah, Collin, Alexis, Aaden, Joel and Leah!!!! Wow I can't believe you are 15!!! Time is flying by!!!" Jon Gosselin shared on Instagram when posing with Hannah and Collin Gosselin. "I love you all very much. I wish you the best day ever and I hope you enjoy your birthday celebrations today and this weekend!!! Love always, Dad."
"My beautiful 'little girls' .... they keep reminding me how many days until they turn 14. Today it was '12 days til we turn 14, Mom.' HOW'S THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!" Kate shared with her followers in 2018. "I told Leah that she's too small to turn 14. She said 'Yeah, true. Are you sure I'm not turning 11 or 12?' I'm positive. I gave birth to you. They'll always be my babies....I love them so very much!"
"I can't believe they're 13!" Kate Gosselin wrote on Instagram when celebrating a major birthday for her sextuplets.
Rewind to 2014 when Kate and her children found themselves visiting Alaska.
Kate also treated her twin daughters Cara Gosselin and Mady Gosselin to a trip to New York City in 2014, where they stopped by the Manhattan Hotel.
"A precious Christmas memory. My 6 were 6. Christmas Eve 2010 and they're SO excited for Christmas!" Kate Gosselin wrote on Instagram with a throwback photo. "Look at those adorable smiles! #TheyAreMyHeart #My8ReasonsToKeepOnKeepingOn #NoMatterWhat #TrueLoveX8."
Back in October 2007, Jon and Kate Gosselin gathered their eight kids together for a trip to New York City. First stop? A visit to NBC's Today show.
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