Kate Gosselin Explains “Slant Eye” Photo As Innocent Family Fun, Says Photo Was “Stolen”

June 25, 2013 by Hollywoodite

Yesterday evening, following allegations about Paula Deen’s storied history of poor treatment of Black employees, came an unrelated story in which Kate Gosselin made an inappropriate gesture toward the Asian community (this is in spite of the ethnicity of her ex-husband and her own children which, were this racist, would not actually excuse the behaviour any more than Deen’s “Black friends”).

Twitter user @katiedeen888kat shared the above photo, top right, on a Twitter feed baron of anything else, with the message “@Kateplusmy8 Makes fun of Asians with 8 half Korean children.” Kate Gosselin appears to be making the same “slant eye” gesture that got Miley Cyrus into trouble a few years back; that teamed with the headgear, it seems axiomatic what’s going on.

It’s been speculated that this is another of Gosselin’s rabid detractors who somehow got hold of the photo and is using it as part of an ongoing character assassination. If that was the aim, it didn’t really work; not least because this level of racial insensitivity pales compared to what Deen did over several years.

In response to the non-existent outrage, Gosselin explained it’s an old, stolen photo and her ex-husband did a similar pose the same day in the same room, their garage, and she released that photo too. It’s above, left.

The photos were stolen off her phone, she alleges in an open letter.

Clarification on my personal photo that was stored on our “home computer,” that recently surfaced and was released to the public, without my permission:

This was a happy memory of mine. It was a happy time for me and Jon, smiling and “goofing off” together. Jon and I were opening fan mail together one afternoon — which often filled the garage of our Elizabethtown home — and when we opened this plastic Asian dress up wig sent from a caring fan, we smiled, each taking turns posing in it and snapping photos (on my phone) of each other. Naturally, I “slanted” my eyes to show him my best Asian impression, which made him smile.

Evidently, a fan sent it for me to wear so that I too could “be Asian” like the rest of my family. At that time, a common topic of our show was “everybody’s Asian” — except for mommy, so a thoughtful fan figured she’d help me look Asian too! It’s normal to talk about and even “exaggerate” the feature differences between family members of a biracial family as they are noticed by curious growing children within the family. These types of discoveries and at home discussions are a normal part of being a loving accepting biracial family and it does not make any of us prejudice!

I married an Asian. I have eight biracial children therefore I’m quite certain that I’m the last person that could be called a racist. I learned to cook Korean foods from Jon’s mom and grandmother. I couldn’t be more proud of my eight beautiful children and wouldn’t change anything about them or their heritage. They are absolutely perfect just the way they are.

God loves each of us equally. We are each created perfectly in His eyes. In this family, we don’t see color or preference, we see qualities and hearts. Those photos taken on my phone were later uploaded to be saved on the home computer…..the same source of other private information that was taken and has since been made public, without my consent.

The blaring fact that remains is that a personal photo that left a warm and happy memory, was taken and misused without my permission and opportunistically turned into something that it never was intended to be.