Jon Gosselin and his girlfriend Hailey Glassman prepare for departure at Nice airport on July 14, 2009. BAUER-GRIFFIN.COMUs Magazine
Is
Jon Gosselin's new girlfriend out to be a star herself?
Multiple sources confirm to the new issue of
Us Weekly -- on newsstands tomorrow -- that 22-year-old
Hailey Glassman is dating the newly-separated dad of eight, 32, "to get famous."
Glassman -- whose father performed Kate's 2006 tummy tuck -- has tried out for MTV's
Real World and Oxygen's
Bad Girls Club.
See photos from Jon and Hailey's getaway to France."I think after realizing she had a connection to Jon through her father and that Jon and Kate's marriage was rocky, she saw an opportunity to get famous," one of Glassman's pals tells
Us.
James Appleton, who describes himself as her "hookup friend," tells
Us Glassman dropped him abruptly just before news of the pair broke.
See Jon's scandalous relationship pics."A couple days later a mutual friend was like, 'Oh hey, your girl Hailey is pretty famous. She's dating this older guy who has like eight kids,'" says Appleton, who met her during a 2007 spring break trip to Acapulco, Mexico.
Before leaving for St. Tropez, Glassman (who was
arrested in 2005 for marijuana possession) changed her Facebook status to "In a relationship."
Check out photos of reality love gone bad.They made their relationship public by
holding hands Saturday before boarding Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier's yacht in France.
Despite reports, they
aren't collaborating on a children's clothing line.
"Christian is absolutely not starting a kids' clothing line with Jon," a rep for Audigier told
Us Monday. "As of right now, there is no clothing line in the works between them at all."
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