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It doesn't look good. But what, exactly, does this photo -- posted on Twitter, featuring Kate Gosselin but not apparently posted to the former reality TV star's account -- actually say?
Here's what we know: Someone calling him or herself "KatieDeen" created a fresh account on Twitter on Sunday evening, and posted just one item -- this picture, with the accompanying caption information.
The comment -- that Gosselin "makes fun of Asians with 8 half Korean children" is making an assumption about what's going on in the picture, which shows Gosselin wearing a dark-haired plastic wig (with a bun on the top that could be said to resemble a geisha hairdo) and pulling the far corners of her eyes back.
The pose could be interpreted as a Caucasian trying to make "Asian eyes," a particularly offensive, racially-imitative motion that has popped up occasionally in odd places, including in 2008 when the Spanish Olympic Team were photographed en masse for an advertisement making the gesture.
Us Weekly speculated that the photo may have been taken prior to her separation from Jon Gosselin in 2009, owing to the band on her wedding finger.
Worth noting: The comment appended to the Twitter post itself is somewhat ill-informed. Gosselin's children, with her ex-husband Jon Gosselin, are not "half Korean": Jon Gosselin was born in Wisconsin, and his parents are a mix of European and Korean descent. Not that this should matter -- but it's clear a lot of jumping-to-conclusions are being done with one photo.
A representative for Kate Gosselin did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/twitter-photo-kate-gosselin-racist-6C10435408
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