{"id":62413,"date":"2025-10-06T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/62413\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:51:08","slug":"kate-gosselin-details-brutal-recovery-after-life-altering-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/62413\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Gosselin Details Brutal Recovery After ‘Life-Altering’ Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate Gosselin<\/a> has a long road ahead after suffering a \u201clife-altering leg injury<\/a>,\u201d sharing an update with fans about her recovery journey after being discharged from the hospital.<\/p>\n

The former reality TV star, 50, reflected on her stay in a new TikTok video posted on Friday, October 3, revealing that she was told by a surgeon<\/a> on the morning of her procedure that she would need an \u201cOpen Reduction Internal Fixation [an ORIF]\u201d which meant a \u201cplate down my shin bone, a huge metal plate, and then there\u2019s three screws \u2026 to screw my tibia back together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gosselin was hurt during a freak accident while she and her rumored boyfriend, Steve Neild<\/a>, were playing fetch with her German shepherd Meika, she revealed in a September 30 TikTok post, causing her to endure a tibial plateau fracture.<\/p>\n

In her update, the mom of eight \u2014 who shares twins Mady and Cara, 24, as well as sextuplets Alexis, Hannah, Leah, Aaden, Collin and Joel, 21, with ex-husband Jon Gosselin \u2014 noted that she had to undergo surgery for the \u201cfirst time in my life alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"KateCourtesy of Kate Gosselin\/Instagram<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very scary,\u201d she continued. After the procedure, Kate was informed that her bones were \u201csoft\u201d for her age which came as a surprise since she takes every vitamin \u201cunder the sun\u201d \u2014 except for Calcium, noting that she will begin incorporating that more now that she is aware.<\/p>\n

Kate said she was told she should\u2019ve had a \u201cdecent\u201d injury from that type of collision, but it shouldn\u2019t have been \u201ccatastrophic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star described the pain and swelling she had been experiencing as \u201cunbelievable,\u201d sharing that she has at least three months ahead of recovery.<\/p>\n

Upon her discharge, Kate told fans she was happy to be on the mend, despite needing extra care. The TLC alum noted that it was a bit \u201coverwhelming\u201d due to the instructions she was given, all while learning the medications she must take and the appointments she still has to make.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to give you a quick update that my first night at home<\/a> was amazing, and it\u2019s all sinking in how helpless I am,\u201d she said in a separate TikTok. \u201cIt\u2019s making me think back to over what 21 years ago, when I was on bed rest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"KateCourtesy of Kate Gosselin\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Kate also reflected on the moment Meika collided into her, noting she saw the dog \u201crunning towards me at the speed of light.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She added, \u201cI remember thinking, \u2018I only have a second to get out of the way.\u2019 I went to step and I miscalculated and I stepped the wrong way into her path and she slammed the side of her body full force into my leg.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI will never forget the power of that impact,\u201d Kate continued. \u201cIt made a thud sound \u2014 not a breaking bone sound, a thud sound. And I just froze and crumpled.\u201d<\/p>\n

After going public with her story, she asked critics to be compassionate, noting that she is brushing off the cruel remarks. Kate said, \u201cWhatever, I just know you don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going through and that\u2019s fine too but we should all keep our mean comments to ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate Gosselin has a long road ahead after suffering a \u201clife-altering leg injury,\u201d sharing an update with fans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,5663,5123,156,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-62413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-health","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}