Kate Gosselin is getting real about how she "survived" empty nest syndrome after her children left home for college. "I remember when Mady and Cara went to college, I unhealthily pretended for the first three months that they were just upstairs sleeping," Gosselin, 50, said in a Friday, August 15, TikTok video of her eldest daughters. "[I acted like] they were home, but they were upstairs sleeping. I couldn't accept the fact that they had left, they were gone and I wasn't gonna see them until the holidays.