Collin Gosselin is now a business owner.
The former “Jon & Kate Plus 8” star announced Monday that his new power-washing company has “officially filed as an LLC.”
“Gosselin Pressure Washing LLC is ready to tackle that job you’ve been needing to get done!” he wrote alongside a promotional image on Instagram.
“With the spring season approaching fast, our goal is to make your home shine, with our pressure washing/soft-wash services,” the post continued.
The 20-year-old seems to be already taking clients, as he added the business’s email address and phone number, writing, “Let us take the pressure off your shoulders!”
Gosselin first teased the endeavor in November 2024, telling his followers he was planning to run the day-to-day operations while simultaneously getting his college degree.
The career change came nearly one year after he revealed he was “not [in the US Marine Corps] any longer” due to his time in a mental health institution.
In an August 2024 interview with “Entertainment Tonight,” the reality TV star said he had been “discharged” toward “the end of training” despite being “close to graduating.”
“The paperwork was looked into, and they found out that I was, in fact, in an institution at one point in my life,” he told the outlet, noting that the Marines did not “need any deeper reason” to let him go.
“Being in an institution, that’s good enough … to discharge me,” he explained. “It was the fact that I was in an institution and that’s it.”
Their decision was heartbreaking for Gosselin, who had “very few other wishes in life that would top being a United States Marine.”
In 2016, his mother, Kate Gosselin, revealed she had sent her son to a residential program for kids with special needs — but did not reveal his exact behavioral issues.
He was 12 years old at the time of his treatment.
After two years in the facility, Collin reached out to his father, Jon Gosselin, in a letter, begging to be released from the Fairmount Behavioral Health Institute in Philadelphia.
Jon then sought full custody of Collin, and a family rift ensued, with some of the children siding with their mother while Collin and his sister Hannah Gosselin went to live with their dad.
In 2019, Jon claimed his ex-wife had “institutionalized [Collin] without a diagnosis and then created a diagnosis.”
“He did not need to be in an institution. Just because he was a difficult child did not mean he needed to be sent away against my will, against my rights,” Jon said on the “Dr. Oz Show,” adding, “I did not know where he went. It took me two and a half years to find him. It took me another year to get him out.”
Colin later claimed his mom had sent him to the mental health institution because he told his teachers about her alleged “abusive” behavior toward him.
“I was starting to tell people what was going on at home and, you know, she caught wind of that and had to put me somewhere where I wouldn’t be able to get the secrets out,” he claimed in an episode of Vice TV’s “The Dark Side of the 2000s” titled “Jon & Kate Plus 8: Family Circus.”
In a bombshell 2024 interview with the US Sun, Collin alleged Kate had “zip-tied” and locked him in a basement when he was a child.
He claimed his mom “had a room built” in their unfinished basement with “cameras in it, a tiny window in the corner and [that] was bolt-locked from the outside.”
Collin said he was put in the “containment room” “multiple times” with his hands and feet tied.
“It had a mattress on the floor, and that was how I lived,” he claimed, noting that the lights were turned off.
Kate has vehemently denied Collin’s allegations of abuse over the years, calling him a “very troubled young man” with a “history of unpredictable behavior and violent tendencies.”
She claimed she did what was needed to protect herself and her other children, claiming “Collin’s distorted perception of reality is one of the many issues that he has always struggled with.”
Hannah and Colin are two of the former couple’s sextuplets, along with Leah, Aaden, Alexis and Joel. Jon and Kate, who divorced in 2009, also share twins Mady and Cara, 24.
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