Kate Gosselin's kids are reportedly encouraging her to start dating again. According to a report from In Touch Weekly, the "Kate Plus Eight" star wants her children to have a male role model following her nasty split with ex-husband Jon Gosselin.

"I would love to date...I would love for the kids to have that male role model," Kate Gosselin said.

"They are encouraging me more and more. I just don't have a lot of time to be out there... searching for someone."

"I don't know if I believe in marriage...I wish it would have worked for me," she added.

Since Kate Gosselin's kids are supposedly hoping that she would start dating again, the reality star specified that her future partner needs to be "comfortable" with her fame. She and her family gained worldwide popularity for their TLC reality series entitled "John and Kate Plus Eight."

The single mom also added that her dream man needs to be fine with her noisy household, where Kate Gosselin lives with her eight kids: twins Cara and Mady, 14, and 10-year-old sextuplets, Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Collin, Leah, and Joel.

According to a report from Radar Online, Kate Gosselin also reportedly wants to focus on her kids in order to not give any attention to her haters.

"To a degree, I try not to let it get to me. I ignore a lot of it because I'm busy," the TV personality said about her critics.

"To this handful of people who decided to devote their lives to hating me: I feel bad for them. I mean, what a sorry, sad life to try to take down another individual - like, do you really think you have an effect on my life? You don't."

"You've never met me. You've seen me on TV but you don't see the whole thing [so] you don't know the whole thing," Kate Gosselin added.