The news that Chris Lopez was expecting a third child came to us from an unexpected source.
Kailyn Lowry broke the news on Instagram, seemingly as revenge for something that Chris had said or done.
We’re used to all sorts of pettiness from these …
Kailyn Lowry doesn’t appear to have very high standards when it comes to the men she dates.
Not only that, but she’s demonstrated a willingness to have kids with men who have already demonstrated that they’re not very good dads.
Kail is obviously…
For years, viewers have seen Leah Messer as a conduit of Teen Mom drama, and for good reason.
She is a reality star. She’s had her ups and downs over the years. It goes with the territory.
All of those experiences have helped her grow, however.
Now, Leah is using her lived experiences and that hard-earned wisdom to push for a better future for all Americans.
West Virginian Leah Messer posted a full op-ed in the Gazette-Mail to voice her support for national paid leave.
“With the news that paid leave might be cut from the Build Back Better plan,” Leah began.
She emphasized: “I must share my story and its importance to West Virginians like me.”
“Although many of you might know me as a cast member of MTV’s Teen Mom,” Leah allowed.
She continued: “you might not know that I’ve grown that experience.”
Leah wrote that she has grown “into a small, thriving marketing and promotion business.”
“And,” Leah continued, into someone who now has “three beautiful daughters over a decade later.”
She advised: “In moments like these, a robust, universal paid family and medical leave policy would come in handy.”
Leah warned: “More than 100 million hardworking Americans have to make the impossible choice.”
Leah noted that one third of the country risks having to choose “between a paycheck and critical medical interventions.”
This is, among other things, “including treatment for substance use disorders.”
“It doesn’t have to be this way,” Leah affirmed.
“The national paid leave program initially proposed by President Joe Biden in his Build Back Better package,” Leah wrote.
This proposed package “would have supported many of the reasons we need to take time off.”
“The plan supported paid leave, parental leave, time to heal from medical surgery, and caregiving,” Leah listed.
“Caregiving leave also would greatly support my family,” Leah pointed out, “as my daughter Ali has muscular dystrophy.”
“It also would have provided up to 12 weeks of paid leave for those seeking addiction treatment,” she added.
“Paid leave would be a game-changer for West Virginia families,” Leah informed readers.
Leah addressed West Virginians, “too many of whom are currently facing the challenges of substance use disorder.”
“West Virginia has the highest rate of opioid deaths in the country,” she lamented.
“I am imploring Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to put his support behind this critical program,” Leah announced.
“Now might be the only time we can get it done,” Leah stated with concern.
“And,” she sagely added, “any delay is more lives lost.”
Leah added that “this program would support small-business owners like me.”
“The current paid leave proposal would be a direct worker benefit funded by the government,” Leah laid out.
This would be “so employers who want to do right by their employees, or need to access this time to care or heal themselves.”
These employers “would finally be able to afford this critical benefit.”
“Paid leave is an earned benefit,” Leah described, “that increases workforce retention and promotes more income equity.”
“When people are able to return to jobs rather than quit when crises occur, it leads to higher earnings over time,” she explained.
Leah added that this is true “especially for the women of color who are, so often, primary caregivers.”
“And a federal paid leave program would be critical to the ongoing labor shortage facing small businesses,” Leah affirmed.
“Roughly 10.6 million workers left their jobs in the past year,” she cited, “because of caregiving responsibilities.”
“Paid family leave could help 37% of unemployed Americans return to work sooner,” Leah projected.
“We must treat addiction,” Leah stressed, “because failure to do so can affect our families, communities, and the overall small-business economies.”
“We failed to support marginalized communities during the crack epidemic, and it had a lasting impact on the economies of those communities,” she acknowledged.
“And,” Leah correctly expressed, “that’s just plain wrong.”
“While nearly 20 million Americans suffer from addiction, only 10% of them seek treatment,” Leah noted.
“We must remove the roadblocks to recovery,” she emphasized, drawing upon her own experiences.
“And,” Leah explained, “paid leave is a critical step.”
“Lawmakers who have called for action to address the opioid and addiction crises should step up to support national paid leave,” Leah wrote.
This is a huge step for “making it easier for people to access treatment.”
“We must get paid leave back in the Build Back Better plan,” Leah emphasized, “and Manchin can do it.”
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Leah Messer has dealt with a lot of hardship in her life.
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From on-camera brawls to social media feuds and legal threats, the cast of Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2 sure know how to go hard.
Engagements. Breakups. Marriages. Babies.
Moments that made you cringe ’cause they were so painful, or smile ear-to-ear. Scenes that were fights, or made you fight back tears.
The franchise really does have it all, and as such, it’s become one of the most entertaining in the history of the reality TV genre.
Below, we look back at some of the MTV gang’s most explosive feuds, and however you might rank them, this much is undeniable:
Way back then. Not so way back then. Last year. Last month. Last week. Probably right now. There is no shortage of beef.
NOTE: We’ve saved the craziest for last, so we suggest that you a deep breath, sit back, grab a hat and hold the f–k onto it …
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On Thursday night, Kailyn Lowry posted one of the most sarcastic Instagram Stories of her career.
The longtime Teen Mom 2 star took to the site to congratulate baby daddy Chris Lopez on the news that he’ll be welcoming another child.
“Congratulat…
Kailyn Lowry’s choices don’t always make a lot of sense to the rest of us.
Mostly, they’re her choices to make … with a few notable exceptions.
But recently, a rumor has circulated that Kailyn Lowry is engaged to Chris Lopez after everything they’ve been through.
Kail is finally ready to discuss this with her fans.
Earlier this week, Chris Lopez took to Twitter to share an eyebrow-raising message.
“How [are] you [supposed] to know what size ring to get the girl if it’s a surprise?” he asked.
Though Chris has since deleted the tweet … well, it was obviously too late. People saw.
Rings can serve many purposes and can make amazing gifts.
But the most obvious reason for a ring gift to be a “surprise” is if it is an engagement ring for a proposal.
And Chris’ most famous entanglement is Kailyn Lowry. I mean, they have two kids together.
Obviously, Kailyn’s fans were horrified at the idea, especially as rumors turned his tweet into full-blown engagement panic.
“Why are people saying you’re engaged to baby daddy No. 3?” one of Kail’s fans asked her on Instagram.
This was during an Instagram Q&A session that she held this week.
“Well, that’s a new rumor to me,” Kailyn admitted.
“I would never, ever accept a ring from him,” she affirmed.
Fans were reassured at this news.
Together, Kailyn and Chris have two children.
Lux is now four years old.
Creed is just 14 months old.
It wasn’t that they got together, had two kids, and then split.
There was a lot of ugliness and bitter conflict between Lux’s conception and Creed’s.
For that matter, Lux didn’t have a name for weeks because Kail waited (in vain) for Chris to be involved enough to discuss it with her.
Most people wouldn’t have a second child with someone after he publicly burned their book.
(And that is to say nothing of the alarming accusations of physical abuse)
With all of that ugliness in their history, fans were obviously less than confident that Kailyn is done with Chris for good.
It’s a relief to hear that they’re not engaged right now, at least.
And if Chris were planning a surprise engagement-slash-reconciliation (two for one!), Kail would say no.
At least, she says that she would. That’s the best that we’re going to get.
But … that doesn’t explain what Chris Lopez was talking about in the first place.
Was he just baiting Kailyn’s fans? That’s not entirely unlike him.
According to Kail’s social media on Thursday, Chris might have been ring-shopping after all.
“Congratulations to Chris & his new family,” Kailyn wrote on her Instagram Stories on September 16.
“So exciting for the boys to have a new sibling to love,” she gushed.
Excuse me????
Kailyn appears to be implying that someone — someone who is not her — is pregnant with Chris Lopez’s baby.
That would mean that Lux and Creed will have a paternal half-sibling.
Additionally, it looks like Chris aims to put a ring on it with this baby mama. Unless Kailyn is just trolling to get back at him. …
They should’ve known that this would be a bad idea.
Last month, it was announced that a Teen Mom spin-off show featuring cast members from all three series (Teen Mom OG, Teen Mom 2, and Teen Mom Young and Pregnant) had been greenlit by MTV execs.
…
It often feels like Kailyn Lowry was the very last person to realize that Chris Lopez was a loser.
Now, she is trashing him and his former side piece, albeit not by name.
Kail is opening up about her ex’s cheating tried to land her in hot water.
A couple of years back, she was being blackmailed … but it didn’t work out as intended.
In a recent episode of Baby Mamas No Drama, Kailyn told her co-host Vee Torres and the podcast’s listeners about what went down.
The mother of four was hit with an attempt at financial extortion.
“She said, ‘You can pay me to keep my mouth shut,’” Kaily recalled.
While Kailyn did not actually name which ex got her into this, but … everything about this story screams “Chris Lopez.”
“I was absolutely in love with this person,” she said of her ex.
“Like, you say jump, I say ‘how high?’ I loved him,” Kailyn confessed.
“I had stayed with him through a lot a bulls–t,” Kailyn admitted.
“But I just thought if I held him down long enough, he would pick me,” she admitted, “ride or die.”
It would be great if she loved herself enough to choose better. Also if she loved her kids enough to vaccinate them.
“I was always worried about the same two girls that were always coming around,” Kailyn recalled.
“He couldn’t let go of them,” she explained.
Kail added: “I never really worried about random girls.”
“He kept rotating between me and these other girls …” Kailyn characterized.
“I’m a phone checker, I go through phones,” she admitted, describing one of her toxic qualities.
“If I don’t know the password, I will tap it to see, did someone text you?” Kail shared.
“A number kept coming up,” Kailyn revealed, referring to the proceeds of her toxic snooping.
“At first it was not saved,” she added, “so I put it in my phone.”
Apparently Kail confronted the unnamed guy (Chris), who told her that it was “nothing.”
He went so far as to answer a call from this unknown girl’s sister in front of her.
However, he seemed reluctant to admit that he was in a relationship at all, which was a huge red flag.
“But what can I do?” Kailyn lamented. “I don’t have proof that they’re together.”
One day, yet another contact from that number prompted Kailyn to message the unknown girl.
The response informed Kail that she was in a “full-blown relationship” with Kailyn’s erstwhile man.
It was only after that Kailyn received a “long f–king text” threatening to humiliate her.
Kailyn received a lengthy message “saying she’s going to reach out to MTV and tell them my secret, and if I don’t pay her …”
“She said she was going to write in to MTV and ‘wait until they find this, this and this out,’” she added.
“She had my address, which was not the address I was at now,” Kail noted.
“She knew things about me that only he would know, nothing that the public would know,” Kailyn continued.
These were intimate things that you talk about in a relationship, not even things you talk about with your friends,” she shared.
“So you knew he was pillow-talking with her,” Kail explained. “I was like, ‘Go ahead [and tell MTV].’”
The response from this girl was a request to meet up “because she wants to fight.”
Fortunately, Kail did not take the bait, unlike with her Applebees altercation.
“That was a different girl that I was cheated on with,” Kail detailed. “Same man, different girl.”
The girl didn’t let up, though, even texting her a photo from inside of his room alongside her Cash app info.
She was threatening to reveal the affair if Kail didn’t pay up.
“She said, ‘You can pay me to keep my mouth shut,’” Kail shared.
“I sent her MTV’s address and was like, ‘Here you go!’” Kailyn continued.
Sure, being cheated on by Chris is humiliating, but is it any more embarrassing than dating him or having his kids?
At least the cheating isn’t directly her fault. Can’t say the same about the other stuff.
Later, the girl reached out to apologize.
“She was like, ‘I’m sorry I did that, I just needed money for my kids for Christmas,’” Kail recalled.
“So … you tried to extort me and you were threatening to ruin my life, my reputation, and my family and my relationship and my business?” she asked.
“I was being a smart ass so I texted her back. I said, ‘If you needed money you could have just asked,'” Kailyn shared.
“I was being a smart ass,” she clarified.
Kail recalled: “But she came back and said, ‘I’m really sorry. I just needed money for my kids for Christmas.’”
After that, Kailyn asked how she ever “got back with this man.”
It’s almost like she makes very poor decisions at times. Not new information.
“I was getting back with someone I didn’t trust and I was setting myself up for failure every time,” Kail acknowledged.
“You can’t keep a man who doesn’t want to be kept,” she admitted.
“He didn’t want to be kept; it was convenient,” she characterized his motives.
“All of us were all wanting to be with him, but we were all convenient for him,” Kail added.
“He literally said to me, with his own mouth, that if he could be with all three of us at the same time, he would,” Kailyn ashared.
Apparently he told her “because he gets different things from all of us.”
Well, if all four of them were down for that, polyamory could be great. But if not, then it’s cheating.
(Well … Chris also sucks for other reasons unrelated to cheating)
“Low self-esteem will really have you f–ked up, and that was me,” Kail admitted.
“I’m talking about myself. I had low self-esteem,” she added.
“I was going through some s–t to be with someone who would put me through that,” Kailyn said.
“I stayed through that … I don’t know why I was weak,” she added, “but I got caught up in that mess.”
By the way, she did confront him about “Extortion Girl” … but apparently it didn’t change his relationship with that girl. Class act.
