Family is forever.
Hannah Gosselin reunited with sister Leah after years of separation due to their parents’ acrimonious divorce.
She shared a sweet selfie with Leah on social media recently, captioning it, per The US Sun, “Spend the day with me and my sister!!!!”
The 20-year-olds — who are two parts of sextuplets — became reality TV stars in the early naughts when they starred in “Jon and Kate Plus 8,” a TLC show where their parents navigated life with a pair of twins and sextuplets.
The series featured parents Jon and Kate Gosselin, twin sisters Mady and Cara, now 24, and sextuplets Hannah, Leah, Colin, Aaden, Alexis and Joel, all 20.
However, the show ended when the couple split in 2009. At the time, Kate, 49, was granted primary custody of her eight children and publicly feuding with Jon, 47.
TLC then premiered the spin-off “Kate Plus 8,” which ran from 2010 to 2017.
The show’s demise was precipitated when Jon tried to protect his kids from reality TV.
In 2016, Kate announced she had sent Collin, who was just 12 years old at the time, to an institution to manage his “special needs.” However, two years later, Jon removed Collin from the program after his son begged him to “save” him.
Collin went on to move in with his father and sister Hannah, who had moved out of her mother’s home two years prior, in Pennsylvania. The rest of their siblings and Kate remained in North Carolina.
Last year, Hannah and Collin publicly slammed their mother’s parenting in a Vice documentary.
Hannah claimed that her brother was intentionally kept away from the family growing up.
“He would be separated from us,” she said in “Dark Side of the 2000s.” “Like, he would not get to come and play outside with us. He would eat dinner at different times than us.”
In the same documentary, Collin revealed that he hasn’t spoken to the rest of his siblings in several years, blaming his mother for wedging a “social barrier between us.”
In another interview, he also alleged that his mom “zip-tied” and locked him in a basement when he was a child.
“My mother had a room built in our unfinished section of the storage basement,” he explained. “She had a room put up with cameras in it, a tiny window in the corner and it was bolt-locked from the outside.”
At the time, Kate explained that she was forced to send Collin away due to his “unpredictable and violent behavior.”
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