Kate Gosselin is tired. The reality TV mom has been crisscrossing America this past month balancing work ('Dancing With the Stars') in Los Angeles and kids (8 of them) back home in Pennsylvania. These days, she's beat and is feeling the effects of being a single mom. Despite being all smiles while performing on 'Dancing' the night before
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"It's a struggle to be here
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"In my heart I'm always in my kitchen baking and cooking for my kids and I'll always be there."
Gosselin responded to critics who have challenged her abilities to parent while working across the country and spending so much time traveling.
"I'm on the first flight as soon as the show lets me out," she explained. "I'm on a plane and that's my night of sleep. I get home and I dance and I'm done by the time they get home from school and I spend the rest of the week with them. It's difficult. If I had 24 hours, seven days a week with eight kids it wouldn't be enough time in my book. So, to minus out the working days is really hard, but I make the most of every minute I do have with them."
She added: "They know I have to work and they know I have to go. They don't like it, but when I'm home we make those little spots really big in our memories."
Gosselin is in the midst of a bitter divorce and custody battle with ex Jon, but so far the animosity and mud-slinging has not reached the children.
"They're strong," she told Meredith. "I don't see anything negative they've taken from this. If anything, I see the kids and I getting much closer. They're more open to me."
She said the kids understand that their parents have split up for good, but "they don't like it," adding "they still say things like, 'Oh, I wish mommy and daddy could be together,' and those sort of things."
Gosselin will learn tonight whether she'll live to dance again on 'Dancing With the Stars,' but she's just surprised to be there at all, especially since she's never taken a dance lesson in her life.
"This is like speaking Chinese for me," she said of hoofing it on live TV for millions of viewers. "It's been a great opportunity. I've learned a lot about myself. I feel like I'm a stronger person."yilai:
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