A Teen Mom Teen Dad Freaks Me Out

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Erika

I no longer actually watch Teen Mom/Teen Mom 2, because I read all the spoilers online at gossip sites can’t stand to watch these teenagers traumatizing their babies. Not to mention, grossly misusing car seats. But I digress. Recently I read something on a Teen Mom gossip site that really disturbed me.

So, here’s Ryan Edwards, dad of Bentley Edwards (whose mom is Maci from Teen Mom).

Yes, he always look like that.

Ryan and Maci broke up at some point after Bentley was born, and Ryan lives with his parents, works on cars (or something) and dates a young woman named Dalis who is a fitness model and dyes her hair frequently, alternating between morning-pee yellow and entire-United-States-is-in-a-blackout-Black. (Seriously, though, her name is Dalis?!?!? Dear Parents: No. Just no. Yes, I have a son named Tiger but it’s not Tygr. Or Tiejr. JESUS.)

I guess we're not in Texas anymore.

Here’s what I read, from a completely reliable crazy Teen Mom gossip site:

Dallas (no I will not indulge in that crazy spelling) left her phone in her room and was out somewhere. Ryan tried to contact her, without success. Ryan then tweeted “I am single now,” knowing that as soon as his “fans” saw the tweet, people would start contacting her (and apparently would be more successful than he was). The ploy worked, she finally called him back, and all is well.

In my mind, this ploy sticks out as particularly controlling and obnoxious. If your significant other doesn’t have his or her phone — THEY’LL CALL YOU LATER. Or when they realize they left their phone at home. Or something. Why not accept that, and move on? Spend the day fixing cars or yawning, not stalking.

I think the issue is that these crazy-ass young people have been glorified by their status as teen parents since they’re on MTV, and now people genuinely CARE about them. So whatever Ryan Edwards does, people feel intimately involved and connected. And when people see that this ridiculous immature creepy behavior worked to get his girlfriend to call him back, they may think it’s a legitimate form of communication. Or that it’s reasonable to expect someone to be at your beck and call 24/7 (who isn’t your parent, when you’re a young child).

Or maybe I’m reading too much into this? I probably am. Still, it’s weird.

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MTV’s Teen Mom 2: Tsk, tsk, Leah.

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Erika

Oh, MTV’s Teen Mom 2 Leah. Leah, Leah, Leah.

I wanted to like you. I really did.

I, too, found myself unexpectedly pregnant with twins (although I was a ripe old 23 years old, not 16 like you).

32 weeks pregnant with Animal and Mineral

I, too, was a single mom of twins (although I met My Chemical Romance when Animal and Mineral were a few months old, and we got married when they were about six months old; you married your babies’ daddy, unlike me.)

Animal and My Chemical Romance, almost 9 years ago.

I, too, gave my kids not-great names. Animal’s name is ACTUALLY A WELL KNOWN ANIMAL, and Mineral’s, well, it’s very easy for a kid to mess it up due to rhotacism. (Although, in my opinion, neither is as bad as naming your kids Aleeah and Aliannah when your own name is Leah. “Hi, I’m Leah and this is Ali and Aleeah! Did I mention I’m 16? I may live to regret these names.”)

But Leah, you lost me when you got pregnant again at 19 with your new boyfriend of a few months, approximately a year after you got married to your babies’ daddy. (She married her babies’ daddy in November of 2010, divorced him in April 2011, started dating her new boyfriend in August 2011 and got pregnant in November 2011.)

Your twins were unplanned. I get that. I get that. And I do believe that all children are a blessing — at least til they’re about 5 and develop an attitude, but you’ll find that out soon enough. Some children are unexpected blessings. But once you have an unexpected blessing — and you end up living in a trailer in West Virginia and cooking chicken out of a can — don’t you learn from that? Don’t you see that unless your life situation changes drastically — and I don’t think MTV is paying you that much, plus I think the only responsible thing for MTV to do is to cut you loose now, since they’re trying to crack down on young women who are glorifying pregnancy — you’re going to be in that trailer forever? 20 years old with three kids? On your second marriage? Statistically, second marriages have a higher rate of divorce than first marriages. Statistically, teen marriages end in divorce more frequently than older marriages.

Leah, Leah, Leah. On the show, you seem like a sweet, nice girl who is trying to be a good mom to her daughters. I’m sure you will be a good mom to the next baby. But your bad decisions just set you up — and set your children up — for a very difficult life.

 

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Teen Mom 2 Recap: Slippery Slope

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Erika

While Oprah was in reruns all last week — seriously, O? Isn’t this, like, your farewell season? I think I’ve heard that mentioned a time or fourteen zillion; you could at least show some new episodes — I caught up on my reality TV.

Teen Mom 2:

1. Leah and Corey continue to be the cutest lil’hillbillies I’ve ever seen, and I continue to inadvertently cringe and shudder every time one of them opens their mouths. Remember, kiddies, two negatives is still a positive. “There ain’t nothing wrong” = there actually is something wrong. Little Miss Popular pointed out that Leah’s mom looks like an inbred victim of fetal alcohol syndrome, but I still got a little teary when she paid for Leah’s wedding dress.

2. Jenelle: it’s always two steps forward, five steps back with that one. She may be 19, but she acts like she’s 13. I wish she would either come home for good and mother her son, or leave for good and let her own mom take care of him. The boundaries are just nonexistent between the two of them, and I hate to see that carried on for another generation.

3. Chelsea: wins quote of the week when, after Adam called her a stupid fucking bitch for the 19th time in a row, she said, “I think our relationship may be on the rocks.” This is the same girl who thinks getting a GED is overwhelmingly difficult. However, I have some mom-love for her in my cold black heart; at least she wants to cuddle with little Aubree when she gives her a bottle of formula before bed. Everyone else seems just to prop bottles and walk away. Yes, Chelsea loves Aubree. Unfortunately she also loves Adam, the snotty little punk who spews every idiotic thought that goes through his pea-sized brain. Clearly the only person she doesn’t love is Chelsea. Le sigh.

4. Kailyn: From one ex-boyfriend who is a snotty little punk (but harmless) to an ex-boyfriend who is a possible sociopath and therefore quite harmful, I just wonder if MTV is keeping all these videos for the day when Jo actually kills Kailyn and his parents eagerly help him hide the body and Morgan J. Freeman has to testify in court about it. Seriously, that kid creeps me out. Maybe he is harmless in real life, but unlike Adam, Jo seems to actually think before he speaks, which makes his pronouncements of Kailyn as a whore and an unfit mother even more disturbing. And the way his parents are constantly enabling him to hurt Kailyn — mind you, the mother of his child! — seems just as awful. I want Kailyn and little Isaac to enter witness protection.

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