Tickets go on sale today for Maria Shriver's annual Women's Conference, which this year will feature speakers ranging from former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to reality TV megamom Kate Gosselin.
Gosselin, of TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8" fame, signed on for the conference months before her split from husband Jon Gosselin, the Associated Press reports.
The mother of twin girls and sextuplets will hold a 15-minute chat at a fair where she will be selling her latest book, according to AP.
In what likely will be an interesting, and heartbreaking, discussion, Shriver will host a panel on grief featuring three famous mothers who have lost teenage sons: actress Kelly Preston; Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards; and actress Susan Saint James.
Here's what AP's Samantha Young reports:
Preston has agreed to be interviewed for the first time about the death of her 16-year-old son with husband John Travolta. Both actors have kept low profiles since Jett Travolta died following a seizure in January.
Shriver said she will interview Preston as part of a panel on grief, along with Elizabeth Edwards and actress Susan Saint James, whose teenage sons were killed in accidents. The panel will be the only session not broadcast on the Internet.
"All three of them lost sons. All are at different stages of the grief," Shriver said.
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Shriver's conference will be Oct. 26-27 in Long Beach. Tickets cost $125 to $200 and are being sold on the conference's Web site. Much of the conference also will be streamed online.
For an earlier blog post about Gosselin's split from her husband, click here.
