In a new expose on the (now-grown) kids of reality TV,  described her life growing up in front of cameras while filming — revealing how it felt to know everything she did could have ended up on TV for millions of people to view and comment on.

Hannah— who, along with other reality TV kids such as star — spoke to Teen Vogue about the reality of reality TV life.

“You’re always surrounded,” Hannah said, adding that there was a time that the film crew even lived in an apartment above her family’s home. “The film crew was there 24/7….that was our normal.”

Hannah— who is one of  and ‘s eight children— stated that she and her siblings often filmed for the show late into the night, even on school nights. As fans know, Kate and Jon would eventually divorce and engage in legal battles that would last until the kids turned 18. (The Gosselin sextuplets turned 21 earlier this week.)

“[Filming] made my siblings and I closer to each other, even though it made my parents further from each other,” Hannah told the magazine.

The siblings— which include older twins and  (who are 24 now) and sextuplets , , ,  and — even bonded together and came up with a strategy to get the cameras off of them when they didn’t want something filmed.

“They realized that footage couldn’t be used if they said a name brand because of trademark and product placement issues,” the article states. “If the siblings ever wanted to say something that they didn’t want to end up on TV, one of them would say a brand name over and over while the other did or said whatever they wanted. Eventually, the crew caught on and told them to stop.”

As fans of the show know, the Gosselin family fell apart after Kate and Jon’s divorce, with the kids initially going to live with Kate. However, Kate sent Collin away to a facility, claiming he had “special needs,” something Collin (as an adult) and Jon have vehemently denied.

Eventually, both Collin and Hannah ended up living with Jon, while the other siblings stayed in Kate’s care. Today, Jon has no contact with the kids who stayed with Kate, while Kate is not involved in Collin’s life at all. (She and Hannah had reestablished a relationship; however, it is unknown if Hannah remains on good terms with her mother.)

While Gwendlyn Brown said that she and her siblings weren’t even paid to appear on the show until her mother  intervened and began paying her kids herself, Hannah and her siblings had a different experience. In 2012, the child labor laws in Pennsylvania were changed partly due to the Gosselin kids filming their reality show in the state and not having any sort of laws to protect them because reality TV had not been factored into the existing child labor laws.

Despite this, reality TV and other online influencing circumstances still remain mostly unregulated for kids, despite strict laws existing for child actors.

“Reality TV is the Wild West,” Sally Greenberg— executive director of the National Consumers League– told TODAY in a statement in 2022. “State and federal laws must be enhanced to … ensure children are not exploited and abused… child participants must have a portion of family proceeds placed into a trust fund for their future needs.”

Hannah told Teen Vogue that, because of the law they helped create, she ended up with enough money to pay for about half of her college education. 

This isn’t the first time that Hannah has revealed her feelings about filming for a reality show since birth. Back in 2023, she appeared on VICE network’s Dark Side of the 2000s along with Collin and Jon to discuss the effects of the show.

“I don’t resent my parents for putting us on TV because I understand why they did it,” she said at the time. “It was a good opportunity, and it just turned into something nobody saw it turning into…I never felt like I was forced into filming, but some days I didn’t feel up to it. But I still did it.” 

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