Talking with TODAY 4/13

This morning Kate, 35 talked with Mededith Viera on the TODAY show.

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Following her ex-husband's accusation that she is an "absentee mom," Kate Gosselin claims she is not choosing fame over her own children.

During a promotional appearance Tuesday morning on NBC's "Today" show, Gosselin explained that raising a family on her own leaves her no other choice but to work.

"I've got to work harder now than ever because I am a single mom," Gosselin, 35, said. "In my heart, I'm always in my kitchen, baking and cooking for my kids, and I'll always be there. It's a struggle to be here [in New York], to be anywhere. It is a struggle to be here. The emotion that you see is because I would rather be at home with them."

She added, "But I have to work. I have to provide for them. It's a struggle that every working mom, especially single moms, go through, and I'm really feeling it now, and it's really hard."

In addition to promoting her new book, "I Just Want You to Know," and competing every week on "Dancing with the Stars," Gosselin said she has been making as much time as possible to spend with her brood.

The reality star flies to Los Angeles once a week to compete in the televised competition program, but returns to her home in Wernersville, Pa., to practice routines with partner Tony Dovolani on a makeshift dance floor in her basement.

"I am on the first flight as soon as the show lets me out, and that's my night of sleep. I get home, and I dance, and I am done by the time they get home from school, and I spend the rest of the week with them," she said. "But I make the most of every minute I have with them. … When I'm home, we make those little spots of time really big in our memories."

Last week, her ex, Jon, 33, filed papers asking a Pennsylvania judge for primary custody of their eight children. In the court documents, he claimed that she "abuses" her authority in regards to scheduling visits with the kids.

Though the children are doing well, Gosselin said the bitter divorce battle has been tough on them.

"I don't think any child likes it," she said. "They still say things like, 'I wish Mommy and Daddy could be together.' They still have their same innocent love for each of us, and I appreciate that."