The stars of WE reality series Raising Sextuplets, Brian and Jennifer Masche, would occasionally compare themselves to Jon and Kate Gosselin on their show. They’re now much more like Jon and Kate, because they’re breaking up too. Dad Bryan can be verbally abusive to his wife and was often shown chewing her out on their show. Masche made headlines earlier this month when he was arrested for threatening his father in law while visiting family in Arizona. Masche was described in the police report as belligerent and to have resisted arrest. Now Jennifer has had enough of his cruel treatment and has filed for a legal separation.

Jennifer filed a petition for separation from her husband at Yavapi County Superior Court on September 17, 2010. The breakdown of their marriage comes after he was arrested in Arizona on September 1 following a family bust-up during which he allegedly shouted profanities at his wife and threatened to “flatten” his father-in-law.

Masche exclusively told RadarOnline.com that he was “not a criminal” but his wife has decided to call it quits on their relationship. He had been charged with two counts of disorderly conduct for domestic violence, one count resisting arrest and one count threatening domestic violence.

The couple were being touted as more positive reality role models than Jon and Kate Gosselin prior to his run-in with the law. Before his arrest, We TV admitted that the couple was seeing a relationship counselor. Masche allegedly refused to comply with deputies’ commands and that’s when he was arrested. Their children were not in the house at the time.

He was taken to the Yavapai County Detention Center where he was booked and released on a $3,500 bond.

Jennifer is a physician’s assistant at a hospital in their new hometown of Destin, Florida. Their sextuplets, three girls and three boys, were born in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 11, 2007. The couple got married in January 2, 2004, after Bryan asked Jennifer to marry him on National television at an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game in 2003.

Now it looks like just like she will have to follow in Kate Gosselin’s footsteps by raising her children by herself.

[From Radar Online]

Good for Jennifer. She’s probably better off raising those kids alone than with a guy who treats her like that. I wonder if we’re looking at another movie-star-in-training type like “Kate” though. Given the size of her inflated lips, the answer might be “yes.”

Radar has more on the separation filing, and Jennifer is asking for child support and sole physical and legal custody of their six children, with visitation for Bryan. She doesn’t want spousal support, nor does she want to have to pay spousal support to her estranged husband. It’s clear that Jennifer, a physician’s assistant, is the one who brings in more money. Brian was training for some kind of new career and clearly didn’t have the ability to earn a living yet. They really do seem like Jon and Kate.

Here are some clips from Raising Sextuplets. You can see the writing on the wall.

Photos are from 6/11/10 at the sextuplets’ third birthday. Credit: WENN.com