Kate Gosselin defended a photo that many called racist. The controversial photo showed Gosselin wearing a geisha wig and pulling her eyes back so that they were "slanted" in what seemed to many like a racist gesture.

Gosselin addressed the racist photo issue, saying it was a "personal photo" that was stolen from her computer, and part of a joke with her former husband.

Reality star Kate Gosselin, 36, is a mom of eight half Korean-American children, and she says she was addressing race and being the only white person in her family, not being racist.

"This was a happy memory of mine," Gosselin wrote on her website, explaining the accusations of racism for the pic. "Jon and I were opening fan mail together one afternoon ... when we opened this plastic Asian dress up wig sent from a caring fan, we smiled, each taking turns posing in it and snapping photos (on my phone) of each other."

"Naturally I 'slanted' my eyes to show him my best Asian impression, which made him smile ... At the time a common topic of our show was 'everybody's Asian'-except for mommy, so a thoughtful fan figured she'd help me look Asian too," Gosselin continued.

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Gosselin said addressing race as part of a biracial family was necessary, and didn't imply prejudice.

"I married an Asian," she wrote. "I have eight biracial children therefore I'm quite certain that I'm the last person that could be called a racist."

Gosselin defended the image of her slanting her eyes as educative for her children.

"It's normal to talk about and even 'exaggerate' the feature differences between family members of a biracial family as they are noticed by curious growing children," she added. "These types of discoveries and at-home discussions are a normal part of being a loving, accepting biracial family and it does not make any of us prejudiced!"

Gosselin reaffirmed her objection to the notion that the photo or gesture were racist.

"I couldn't be more proud of my eight beautiful children and wouldn't change anything about them or their heritage," she added. "They are absolutely perfect just the way they are."