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Kendra Wilkinson is looking back on her experience with Collin Gosselin and his siblings as his new memoir about his complicated childhood makes headlines.
“Did you notice anything about Collin when you visited theCelebrity Wife Swap episode?” a fan asked Wilkinson, 41,sode of the reality show where she swapped places with Kate Gosselin and spent time with her eight children. (Kate, 51, was already divorced from ex-husband Jon Gosselin at the time of filming.)
Wilkinson admitted it was a “long time ago,” but she noted there was something that stuck out about Collin, now 22, from that timeframe. “I remember he leaned on me a little,” she recalled.
The Girl Next Door alum confessed, “I did feel bad and awkward filming at times.” (Collin has claimed in his new book, In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood, that his mom abused him as a child, which Kate has previously denied.)
Wilkinson explained that her uneasiness about swapping houses and kids for the show helped her connect to all the Gosselin children.
“There was a moment [when] I gathered the kids and I told them to run from the cameras into the woods,” she shared. “We all ran away. [It] was a moment I’ll never forget.”
Kate and Jon, 49, were married 10 years before they announced their divorce in 2009. Prior to their split, the pair let fans into their lives on TLC’s Jon and Kate Plus 8 alongside their kids: twins Mady and Cara, now 26, and sextuplets Collin, Hannah, Leah, Alexis, Joel and Aaden, now 22.
Wilkinson, for her part, was married to former NFL wide receiver Hank Baskett when she appeared on marriage.)
“Finding out that I was switching with her with eight kids — I wanted to run!” she confessed. “I wasn’t necessarily thinking about the domestic side of things — and trust me, I needed a lot of help with that.”
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