Kate Gosselin is “open” to still finding love after her 2009 divorce from Jon Gosselin, a source exclusively tells In Touch.

“She has a few friends, and to my knowledge, she’s not seeing anyone,” the insider shares. “She’s hoping to meet someone either through mutual friends or the more traditional way, perhaps in a grocery store or café.”

Despite being a mother of eight — sharing Cara, Madelyn, Alexis, Hannah, Leah, Aaden, Collin, and Joel with her 48-year-old ex-husband — Kate is open to finding love. However, the source notes that she is “not interested in dating apps” after having “tried them and disliking the experience.”

Kate, now 50, gained notoriety in 2007 when she and her extensive family featured on the TLC reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8, showcasing their lives as she and her then-husband managed their twins and sextuplets. More than ten years on, the once-married couple is not only divorced but also embroiled in an intense custody dispute over their younger children.

Following their split, Kate was romantically linked to millionaire entrepreneur Jeff Prescott in 2015. “Jeff and Kate have known each other for over a year,” a source told Us Weekly of the couple in January 2015, who had just started dating at the time. “They like each other.”

“Jeff is a really, really good guy,” another insider told the outlet of the divorced dad of three, who is COO and cofounder of Dreamstine, a microstock photography agency. “He is very respectful of Kate and her family.”

Although the pair were seen packing on the PDA in her home state of Pennsylvania that summer, Entertainment Tonight reported that the fling had fizzled out by September.

In 2019, Kate appeared on her reality show, Kate Plus Date, in which she teamed up with relationship and dating experts to try to find her perfect match. The series premiered in June 2019 but only lasted six episodes.

Kate is rarely seen in public anymore, living a quiet life away from the cameras at her home in Troutman, North Carolina. Kate relocated from Pennsylvania to North Carolina nearly four years ago with her kids Leah, Alexis, Joel and Aaden, now 20, and twins Mady and Cara, now 24, who were both attending college at the time but would come back and visit.

“It is the biggest mixed bag of emotions and stress I have ever faced,” Kate told People about Mady and Cara going off to college in the fall of 2019, noting it was a big step for her girls. “Mady and Cara really steered the ship in terms of applying to colleges; they knew what they wanted, and I trusted them. That same feeling is going to have to carry me through my fears now when I think about them going off on their own, fending for themselves, being alone for the first time.”

Hannah and Collin, also now 20, remained in their father Jon’s care when Kate moved.

In Touch confirmed that Kate renewed her nursing license until March 31, 2027, after originally receiving an R.N. License in August 1997, 10 years before shooting to fame on TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8.