K-Fed has gained a lot of weight, but that’s been true for a while now and we’ve noticed it and kind of shrugged. All the guy does is watch his kids and get paid handsomely for it so it’s not like he has to hustle to keep in shape. Britney’s ex showed up at a golf tournament yesterday, his first event appearance in over a year, and it was even more obvious that he’s ballooned. MSNBC’s The Scoop reports that Federline is working on a deal for a reality show, as has long been rumored, and that it may focus on his struggle to drop the excess weight. As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, it’s thought that Britney is ok with Kevin’s plan for a reality show and that she’s agreed to let her children be shown on camera.

Sure, Kevin Federline has had his hands full, doing the lion’s share of child rearing for his sons Preston and Jayden James (not to mention caring for his kids with ex Shar Jackson, Kori and Kaleb).

So, he might be too busy to work out. But his seemingly sudden weight gain created a huge stir when he arrived at the X-Games Celebrity Skins Classic looking much heavier than he’s ever appeared.

The talk surrounding Federline’s extra pounds doesn’t involve so much how they got there, but how he might profit from taking them off — at least in media circles where there’s buzz of a weight-loss themed reality show deal for Federline.

He didn’t respond to requests for comment on the matter, but one friend of his says it would be wrong to expect Federline to admit something is in the works before the ink on a deal is dry. “He’s not hurting for money, but he’d like to make this work. He’s not going to kill anything that might be coming together by talking about it in too much detail before he’s really sure it’s going to happen.”

[From MSNBC]

I would watch this, and it’s a better idea to focus on Federline than his kids. It seems so dangerous to let children get involved in reality shows, especially those open-ended shows that could conceivably last for years, like “Jon & Kate Plus 8.” Those shows really change the dynamic in the family and disrupt home life in an insidious way that is probably hard for the participants to notice. Not to mention that the children will someday have to face the fact that their childhood moments were captured for public consumption and remain available forever. I’ve seen footage of one of the Gosselin kids crying about being constipated while Kate tells Jon to deal with it because she’s shopping for a couch. How is that kid going to feel when he’s a teenager about that incident and so many other things being made public? There are enough kids involved that some of them are going to take it badly.

Going back to Federline, he will hopefully make sure his show is limited in scope and that his children are only shown tangentially. Despite all the positive changes he’s shown in his transition to overfed house dad, he’s probably still the same douche we first go to know underneath it all. I would doubt that he’ll take measures to protect the kids if it potentially limits his fame. It’s possible he’s changed though, and maybe we’ll get to see another side to great big K-Fed on his show.

K-Fed is shown out with his girlfriend and sons on 7/6/09. Credit: Bauergriffinonline