Kate Gosselin Shares Update After Undergoing Surgery: ‘Details Coming Soon’

UPDATE 9/30/25 at 4:40 p.m. ET: Kate Gosselin shared a “quick surgery update” with fans after sparking concern with a recent hospital photo.

“Update: I had surgery this morning and have five pain meds on board (top 3 most painful surgery),” she wrote in a TikTok uploaded Tuesday, September 30. “I am not in a position to go into the details now but only bc I can’t focus.”

Gosselin reassured her followers that she “did well” in the procedure. “Details coming soon,” she added. “CANNOT thank you enough for all your prayers. Love you guys!”

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Kate Gosselin is asking fans for prayers amid a mysterious hospitalization.

Gosselin, 50, took to TikTok in the early hours of Tuesday, September 30, to share a photo of her arm with an IV in it and a pulse oximeter on her finger as she sat in a hospital bed in a dimly lit room.

“Please pray for me tonight and tomorrow,” the Jon & Kate Plus 8 alum wrote over the photo. “I will be fine, but I’m scared and would appreciate your prayers! Thanks, guys.”

In the caption, Gosselin added, “Emergencies don’t care about schedules! Please DONT worry about me! Please pray [instead]!”

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Gosselin also promised that she would update fans later with a “story time when [she’s] able.”

“Love you guys! I’ll be back as soon as I can! 😘,” she concluded.

The post was set to an inspirational audio about surviving difficult times with grace.

Fans flooded the comments with support for Gosselin amid her hospitalization.

“You are a strong woman who can do hard things! Praying to Jesus for your comfort and healing. ✝️😇,” one commenter wrote, to which Gosselin replied, “Thank you Kel! I had to call upon that strength that I know I have deep down tonight! And I appreciate your prayers!”

Another user added, “Sending love and positive energy! I hope you are okay! You are loved by so many❤.”

Gosselin responded, “Awww [omg] thank you.”

“Oh no! I don’t know what happened … but I hope you’ll be ok ❤,” a third person added.

Gosselin rose to fame as a mom to a set of twins, Mady and Cara, 24, and sextuplets Alexis, Hannah, Collin, Aaden, Leah and Joel, 21, with ex Jon Gosselin. The Pennsylvania-based family was featured in two Discovery Health specials, Surviving Sextuplets and Twins and Sextuplets and Twins: One Year Later, before starring in their own series called Jon & Kate Plus 8 in 2007. The first two seasons aired on the Discovery Health Channel before moving to TLC.

After Kate and Jon, 48, divorced in 2009, the show was changed to Kate Plus 8 and focused on Kate’s life as a single mother. It continued to air on TLC until 2017.

Following years of legal battles with Jon, Kate moved to North Carolina in 2021 with Alexis, Aaden, Leah and Joel. (Mady and Cara attended college in New York at the time, while Hannah and Collin live in Pennsylvania with their dad.)

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While the former TLC star has mostly kept off social media over the years, she began documenting her life as an empty nester and a dog mom to German Shepherd puppies via TikTok over the summer, rapidly gaining followers and reigniting interest in her family.

Kate made headlines on September 22 when she shared via a Q&A on her TikTok page that she had been “finally” dating someone.

“I am dating somebody for the past year to a little over a year, maybe like 14, 15 months,” she said. “I am super, super happy. It’s somebody that I’ve known for a really long time and I am very, very happy.”

After Page Six reported that Kate is dating her former bodyguard Steve Neild, Jon took to Instagram to accuse his ex’s new flame of contributing to the end of their marriage.

“Guess who really ruined the marriage,” Jon wrote over a photo of Kate and Neild, as well as a screenshot of the Page Six article, on September 24. “Read for yourself.”

In the caption, he added, “Maybe when I speak people will listen now!!!”