Ellen Ross has been dating Jon Gosselin for less than a year, but is already jokingly calling herself ‘step mom’ to Jon and Kate Gosselin’s eight children. Ellen jokingly threw the ‘step mom’ title out on a Facebook post, and her friends also find humor in calling her step mom of the year. I’ve got a hunch that Kate has her Hanes bikini briefs in a bunch over this one!

“Ellen believes it’s no big deal that she’s called herself step mom to the kids. The step mom reference was meant to be a joke while discussing wrapping presents for the kids over the holidays that was all.”

The kids are still bitter about the divorce and are acting like fools in school, so I wonder how they’ll handle this? Although it’s a joke, their little minds are still trying to figure out what the hell happened to mommy and daddy being together.

Ellen is the most normal chick Jon has dated, so if anyone is going to claim the title of the Gosselin kids’ step mom, I guess it’s better her than trashtastic Hailey Glassman.