Kate Gosselin Reveals the Lasting Effects on Her Body After Her Sextuplet Pregnancy

Kate Gosselin is sharing really her assemblage was affected by her sextuplet pregnancy.

In a video posted to her TikTok account, nan Jon and Kate Plus 8 alum, 50, revealed nan lasting effects from her pregnancies connected her assemblage aft she gave commencement to her six kids.

Kate and her now ex-husband Jon Gosselin first welcomed copy girls Mady and Cara successful 2000, and later welcomed their sextuplets — Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Collin, Leah and Joel — successful 2004. The twins are now 24 and nan sextuplets are 21.

“When I was pregnant pinch them, my tummy was squished up here, for illustration 1 inch. You tin spot it connected an ultrasound," Kate said successful nan video. "And my bladder was squished measurement down here, compressed nan full clip pinch babe weight. Compressed, compressed, compressed."

"And truthful erstwhile I had my c-section, evidently they put a full-length catheter in," she continued. "Like nan long-term, in-dwelling catheter. I deliberation they went to region it possibly for illustration nan adjacent day. And each time I could not pee. And I had this symptom that kept increasing and increasing and I was successful horrible pain. I was nauseous, my tummy hurt."

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Kate said that nan symptom kept getting worse, and her expert yet ordered her to get a foley catheter, a conduit utilized to thief nan bladder drain urine.

"And it filled 1 and a half times. Which a foley catheter container is huge," Kate said. "I’m telling you, that is simply a humongous magnitude of pee. And I’m telling you, it filled 1 and half times."

"And they evidently near nan catheter in. Turns retired that my bladder was truthful compressed that it mislaid its expertise to do what a bladder is expected to do. It’s a muscle," she continued. "And it mislaid its elasticity aliases whatever. So I took nan catheter home, I kept it."

The mom of 8 said that nan catheter was removed aft a week, but since past her bladder has ne'er been nan same.

"Ever since then, my bladder has ne'er been right. It has ne'er been right," Kate said. "I can’t precisely explicate it, aliases put my digit connected it. But it conscionable is very different aft that."

She besides explained that she had different "really weird" point hap aft she gave birth.

“I was having really weird, atrocious pains and a chunk of thing came out," Kate said. "And I kept it because backmost past I couldn’t return a image and nonstop it to my doctor. And he said, ‘Come successful correct away.’"

"And it turns retired location were pieces of placenta near successful me, which could beryllium a horrific infection," she explained. "I deliberation he put maine connected antibiotics and aft that I was fine. But he went successful and dug around, for deficiency of a amended connection and sewage those."