Jon Gosselin shared that he’s been diagnosed with two pulmonary embolisms, one in each lung.
Jon Gosselin is appreciative of his well-being. A few weeks prior to his November 2025 wedding to Stephanie Lebo, the Jon & Kate Plus 8 star revealed that he was diagnosed with bilateral pulmonary embolisms, a potentially fatal condition in which a blood clot breaks free and goes to the lungs. John had one on each side of his torso.
The 48-year-old told The Daily Mail that he initially experienced "grueling pain" in his legs, which by the next day had spread to his shoulder. John saw as he woke up from a coughing attack, “I was like, ‘Something is wrong.’ I coughed up what looked like silly putty—it was a blood clot.”
After driving himself to the hospital, the reality star—who has eight children with his ex-wife Kate Gosselin—was diagnosed by an MRI.
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He remembered that his 21-year-old children, Hannah and Collin, "freaked out" over the news, and that "Stephanie was scared to death." Fortunately, medicine was able to control the illness.
“I'm on heart meds, blood pressure meds, aspirin, and then I take Eliquis,” he stated. “It's a drug that prevents blood clots.”
But Jon is still troubled by what may have been.
“I definitely could have died,” he issued. “If I had just stayed home that night, I could have had a real pulmonary embolism and just died.”
Jon's medical concern coincided with Kate's, with whom he co-starred for ten years on their reality program, experiencing one of her own. When Kate's dog ran into her leg while on a game of fetch in late September, she suffered a crippling injury.
“My boyfriend [Steve Neild] threw the ball, and she came running for it and she was running at the absolute speed of light, and I stepped the wrong way,” according to People, she revealed this during a TikTok Live at the time. “The only way I can describe it, it was like a concrete wall running at the speed of light.”
It would take 82 days for the 50-year-old to be able to walk on the wounded leg after undergoing surgery and physical therapy.
“It's walking day!” on December 20, while traveling to a doctor's appointment, she remarked in a video that was uploaded to TikTok. “It finally came. I'm so excited I can't even stand it.”
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