Fans will have ample opportunity to mingle on board with the mom of eight Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter , Friend us on Facebook , Subscribe to Us Weekly

Find out how quickly the mother of eight finished the Las Vegas race Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter , Friend us on Facebook , Subscribe to Us Weekly

Ready to prove her athletic prowess to the world, Kate Gosselin strapped on her running shoes to compete in the Zappos.com Rock N Roll Las Vegas Marathon on Sunday (December 4). Clad in a stylish running outfit, the former TLC reality star mom joined a record 44,000 competitors as she took to the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino venue while running her heart out to benefit The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation Of America.

“I will take all of the talk about how rested and young I look as a compliment,” she says Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter , Friend us on Facebook , Subscribe to Us Weekly

Doing anything she can to bring in some bucks, Kate Gosselin contributed her first blog for her new gig at CouponCabin.com. The former “Kate Plus 8” star wrote about ways to prepare for Thanksgiving and gave hints on how to save money over the holiday season. In part of her first post called “Black Friday: My Tips for Saving Money (And Sanity!),” Kate wrote, “I discovered this wonderful world of Internet shopping way back when I was stranded at home with eight kids under the age of four years old.

Down Under to kick things off, Kate Gosselin opened Steve Irwin Day at the Australia Zoo in Sydney earlier today (November 14). Dressed in a khaki ensemble, the mom of eight was all smiles for the shutterbugs as she attended the event in honor the late crocodile hunter.

“She is blessed she didn’t run over him” one parenting expert says Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter , Friend us on Facebook , Subscribe to Us Weekly

Bill Blankenship also worked on such TLC family shows as 17 Kids and Counting and Table for 12 Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter , Friend us on Facebook , Subscribe to Us Weekly

Bill Blankenship also worked on such TLC family shows as 17 Kids and Counting and Table for 12 Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter , Friend us on Facebook , Subscribe to Us Weekly