Kate Gosselin and Jon Gosselin’s divorce drama caused one of Kate’s business deals to meet the same fate as their marriage. In a May 2009 appearance on “The Rachael Ray Show,” Kate hyped her collaboration with the children’s clothing brand Healthtex. “I’m proud to have partnered with Healthtex [for] their exclusive line at Walmart coming up,” she said. Kate provided her sartorial input for at least one outfit, which Ray’s audience members got to take home as a gift. But that July, a Healthtex rep told Radar, “Our project is on hold while [Kate] focuses on her family.”
We’d be remiss if we didn’t note that Jon’s divorced dad look was the catalyst for another clothing collab catastrophe. It all started when he was gifted some apparel from Ed Hardy brand creator Christian Audigier, per TMZ. Jon was soon photographed rocking his free tees, which featured designs inspired by American traditional tattoos — think hearts, roses, skulls, and assortments of animals with wings or sharp teeth. Audigier told E! that he and Jon even spoke about collaborating on a kids’ clothing line together.
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But in 2013, Hardy himself, the tattoo artist who created the colorful graphics featured on Audigier’s clothes, told the New York Post that Jon ended up killing the entire brand instead. “That Jon Gosselin thing was the nail in the coffin,” he lamented. So, no toddlers showed up at preschool looking like they were ready to party with the “Jersey Shore” cast.
