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“Certain events take place that make us sitting ducks. It makes us easy targets.” – Kate Gosselin on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in an interview airing later today.

Making the media rounds in an attempt to show she sucks slightly less than estranged husband Jon, Kate fashions herself as the one who takes the high road.

“Certain ones of us speak a lot; others of us prefer to keep our mouths shut,” she says, in reference to her Ed Hardy-wearing, PR-loving douche of a spouse.

Asked whether it helps or hurts that Jon is seemingly so in love with the press, Kate says, “I just know that on TV or off TV, I’ve been targeted and torn apart.”

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Still, don’t expect her to lose track of her priorities.

“I am a mother first,” she says. “I will always be a mother, and I would die for my kids if need be. I would never put them in a situation that was dangerous or unsafe for them … there is nothing I would do to put them in danger.”

“My focus is them. It’s not the paparazzi. My focus is not what trip I can go on, or what shows I can do as a result of this thing. This is my job. This is what I do.”

Well, that and shill for her new book …

A person who really needs to find a hobby stands in line to have her book signed by author and supermom Kate Gosselin. [Photo: PacificCoastNewsOnline.com]

She’s all about bashing Jon and saying that she’s better than him. But when the topic turns to dating, Kate clams up. Clearly she is still human – and hurt.

“The thought has crossed my mind at some point,” she told Ellen of dating again, but she fears any relationships she has are “going to be scrutinized.”

Instead of her wedding ring, Kate has been eyeing a ring that has “eight little diamonds surrounded by mother of pearl,” symbolizing her eight kids.

“It’s the symbol of me and the kids together forever,” she says, adding that she won’t actually get around to purchasing that until “I have a job again.”

Before the interview ended, in the spirit of this big weekend coming up, DeGeneres asks Kate about the new “Kate Gosselin Halloween costume.”

“Somebody emailed mesaying there was going to be a Kate Gosselin wig,” Kate says. “I thought, ‘Wow, is that really what my hair looks like?'”

It is. Just call it the reverse mullet / dead porcupine weave.