The new issue of Us Weekly reports that Jon & Kate mom
Kate Gosselin -- known for being short with her husband, Jon Gosselin -- is
even more combative with her family and employees. Baby nurse Angela Krall, who watched the
sextuplets as infants for more than a year, tells Us that the short-fused Kate
fired 40 nurses and nurse's aides in the three months before she was hired.
A 2005 Associated Press story reported that a pre-TV Gosselin had petitioned
the state to extend payments for Krall, whose fees were first paid by Medicaid
(Jon was unemployed; Medicaid provides limited assistance to premature babies).
"Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with
the children, since modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which
can lead to multiple births," the AP reported. While Kate praised Krall in
the same story, Krall reveals that Kate
posted "demeaning" signs in every room detailing rules, and fired one
woman on the spot for washing her hands in the kitchen instead of the bathroom.
"Kate flipped," says Krall. "She thought it was
cross-contamination." That level of perfectionism also tore her apart from
her father, Kenton Kreider, a pastor, after he gave her cribsdonated by his parishioners. "They
didn't match and Kate rejected them," says a family source.
"Things like that caused a rift." Krall, who says all six babies
ended up with matching cribs, tells Us Kate "thought they were owed stuff.
The money factor was huge."