Teen Mother's Amber Portwood Unearths She’s Relationship Novel Man After Gary Wayt Breakup
Amber Portwood revealed she's dating a fresh man one 300 and sixty five days after breaking up with Gary Wayt, who went lacking for days amid his engagement to the Teen Mother: The Next Chapter star.
Amber Portwood has started a fresh chapter in her like existence.
The Teen Mother: The Next Chapter star revealed she’s been dating a fresh man “for over a month” in a TikTok Are residing captured and posted by followers on June 23, calling their romance “a appropriate ingredient.”
“He’s bought a job for 20-something years, identical precise job,” Portwood shared, picking to preserve her man's title a secret. “He’s bought this thick accent—mountain accent on fable of he's from North Carolina—and he's dapper sweet to me.”
The connection comes one 300 and sixty five days after her dramatic breakup with Gary Wayt, who went lacking amid their engagement while the pair delight in been staying at a resort in Bryson Metropolis, N.C.
“That is a expansive deal,” Portwood shared in a YouTube Are residing amid Gary's disappearance in June 2024. “Now we delight in no longer had explosive fights, we are in like. This man requested me to be with him. This man then requested me to marry him. I if truth be told delight in no longer touched this man in any noxious methodology. He does no longer contact me in any noxious methodology. We quit no longer shout at every varied. Now we delight in a fair relationship.”
Wayt became once point to in Oklahoma—over 900 miles some distance from where he became once closing noticed—days after Portwood reported him lacking. She finally called off their engagement, later explaining on Teen Mother: The Next Chapter that she became once serene “f–ked up from what came about, what he did to me.”
“That man left for no reason,” Portwood tearfully shared in a September episode. “I'm in this sort of odd home that I've by no way been in. This rambling is so backward for me.”
Explaining how she had been navigating her bipolar disorder and borderline persona disorder diagnosis for over 15 years, Portwood said her quick-lived engagement with Wayt “broke” her.
“I became once right,” she persevered. “Today, here’s the first time in years in my existence I am no longer f–king swish on fable of a person build a ring on my finger.”
Old to her relationship with Wayt, Portwood dated Gary Shirley from 2008 to 2011. The 2 are parents to 16-300 and sixty five days-faded daughter Leah, who has publicly expressed her needs to be adopted by Gary's now-partner Kristina Shirley.
Portwood can be mother to 7-300 and sixty five days-faded son James with ex Andrew Glennon, who she dated from 2017 to 2019.
For extra significant system in regards to the like lives of Teen Mother stars, attend reading.
Catelynn Lowell & Tyler Baltierra
Viewers watched Catelynn Lowell and now-husband Tyler Baltierra make the complicated replacement to enviornment their first daughter, Carly, for adoption, in 2009 on the inaugural season of 16 and Pregnant. After 13 years together, the fan-favourite couple wed in August 2015 and delight in since had three extra daughters: Novalee, Vaeda and Rya.
Whereas the absence of Carly—who lives alongside with her adoptive parents, Brandon and Teresa Davis—serene aches, the couple attend struggling with for a future.
Their hope is their bond “is whatever she needs,” Catelynn advised E! News in January 2025. “Whether she perfect needs a relationship alongside with her biological siblings, if she needs to delight in a relationship with us, superior. If she doesn't, fully realize. With out reference to that appears to be like to be love for her. Due to it wants to be adoptee-centered.”
Maci Bookout & Ryan Edwards
Together lower than six months when she bought pregnant, viewers noticed Maci Bookout struggle with an irresponsible Ryan Edwards on 16 and Pregnant. Though they bought engaged, the highschool sweethearts split lower than a 300 and sixty five days after their son Bentley became once born in 2008.
For the time being they're indignant about constructing a co-parenting relationship. “We're in a appropriate enviornment,” Maci revealed to E! News in 2023, at the side of that Ryan is displaying up “extra consistently now than maybe he ever has prior to.”
Maci Bookout & Taylor McKinney
Maci stumbled on her forever teammate in Texan Taylor McKinney in 2012 and the pair soon began constructing up their squad. They welcomed daughter Jayde in May perchance well perchance perchance 2015 and son Maverick a 300 and sixty five days later, then wed in Florida that October.
Partners in parenting, existence and their TTM Way of life model trace, “He's perfect my person,” she advised E! News in 2023. “Even when we've had a rough 300 and sixty five days together, I reflect at the quit of the day, I serene resolve him. I love him. And even if I have to punch him within the face infrequently, I'd reasonably argue with him or delight in a rough patch with him than by no way delight in a rough patch with someone else.”
Cheyenne Floyd & Cory Wharton
With out reference to transferring on with fresh necessary others, the MTV stars, who connected while filming The Area, proceed to co-father or mother their daughter Ryder together.
“Our excellent ingredient since day with out a doubt one of Cory coming into Ryder's existence became once what extra or much less dad he desired to be and what extra or much less father or mother he desired to be,” Cheyenne explained to E! News in March 2020. “I wasn't going to enable him to be a Disneyland dad or an Instagram dad or perfect within the moment. He wanted to be 100%. I reflect from the starting attach, he noticed my mindset and liked it in inform that's why we co-father or mother so properly.”
Cheyenne Floyd & Zach Davis
After their romance resulted in 2018, the pair decided to present their relationship a 2d likelihood. Whereas celebrating her Twenty eighth birthday, Cheyenne confirmed on Instagram that she became once abet with Zach. In May perchance well perchance perchance 2021, the couple welcomed their first youngster together, son Ace, and acquired married in September 2022.
“We spent the past two years knocking things off our listing,” Cheyenne advised E! News in 2024. “We desired to delight in a teenager, we had Ace. We desired to catch married, we had our wedding. We desired to buy a home, we sold our home.”
And now, she persevered, “I don't have to quit anything. I don't have to connect of abode a goal. I have to sit down down. I have to be if truth be told serene. My goal is to be serene and perfect to be elated with where we're at. And perfect to love every varied. That's it. I desire nothing else.”
Successfully…maybe a puny something. Cheyenne launched she became once awaiting her third youngster on a May perchance well perchance perchance 2025 episode of Teen Mother: The Next Chapter.
“We positively extra or much less teetered again and forth on looking a teenager,” Zach advised Us Weekly. “I wanted one, and then she went by the a part of looking one, and I wasn’t on the identical web tell as her, nevertheless then we extra or much less got here to the identical chapter, and we tried to make it work.”
Cory Wharton & Taylor Selfridge
Connecting while filming Ex on the Seashore may perchance perchance well simply no longer sound love the starting up of a like fable, nevertheless loads of years and two kids—daughters Mila and Maya—later, Cory and Are You the One? alum Taylor Selfridge are serene making waves.
“We perfect sold a home,” he shared with E! News in 2023, prior to citing that, yes, he's mindful that folk have to know when they're getting married. “It's positively being talked about. Now we delight in the entirety nevertheless the ring and me perfect letting her know. Taylor deserves that and it's something that I desire and she needs. Today we're perfect taking steps to catch there.”
Ryan Edwards & Mackenzie Standifer
Making an try out the limits of for-better-or-for-worse, Ryan checked into rehab no longer lengthy after he married Mackenzie Standifer in May perchance well perchance perchance 2017, alongside with her giving starting up to their first son Jagger in 2018 while Ryan became once serene in therapy.
Though the pair would welcome daughter Stella in January 2020, Mackenzie filed for divorce three years later.
Ryan is now engaged to Amanda Conner, with the pair welcoming their first youngster, daughter Presley, in February 2025.
Amber Portwood & Gary Shirley
Whereas their very contentious romance got here to an quit for correct in 2013, the couple managed to co-father or mother their now-teenage daughter Leah for years.
“Now we delight in enjoyable together nevertheless at a distance,” Amber advised E! News in January 2022. “Nonetheless our relationship is appropriate. It's a household now so we treat it as a household extra than the relaxation.”
Though, needless to mutter, infrequently households fight. In fresh years, Amber has taken to social media with ample claims about Gary to signify they're no longer the friendliest of exes and her increasing rift with Leah has been showcased on Teen Mother: The Next Chapter.
Amber Portwood & Matt Baier
After loads of years together, a proposal and one unsuccessful stint on Marriage Boot Camp, Amber and Boston transplant Matt Baier called off their engagement in 2017.
“If truth be told, you perfect catch to some degree when you're done listening to things and you perfect starting up to no longer care in a relationship and I reflect that's what started taking place to me and him,” Amber revealed on Dr. Drew Pinsky's podcast later that 300 and sixty five days. “I started no longer to care anymore in regards to the relationship love it’s most likely you’ll perchance well delight in to. I build a wall up so I wouldn't catch damage all over again barely significant.”
Amber Portwood & Andrew Glennon
Amber did acquire like while filming Marriage Boot Camp—connecting with crew member Andrew Glennon while on attach of abode. The pair made their debut as a couple at the 2017 MTV Film Awards and in May perchance well perchance perchance 2018, Amber gave starting up to the couple's first youngster, James.
Nonetheless the couple separated no longer lengthy after Amber became once arrested for home battery in July 2019. And after a contentious courtroom struggle, California native Andrew became once awarded sole factual and first bodily custody of their son in 2022.
“I've worked so hard to raised myself and beef up my relationships with my kids,” the Teen Mother star advised E! News at the time. “Whereas I've at all times been candid about my past substance abuse and struggles with psychological illness, a person must delight in the likelihood to redeem themselves and no longer be tethered to their issues from the past.”
Optimistic no longer to present up, she added, “In case your avenue has no longer been perfect, nevertheless you've worked hard to develop right into an even bigger, extra right and caring person at the present time, attend transferring forward as I will. I'll by no way end struggling with for my kids who I love extra than anything.”
Amber Portwood & Dimitri Garcia
After meeting Amber on the Internet, Dimitri Garcia made his Teen Mother OG debut in April 2020. “Dimitri is from Belgium. He's 39 so he's 10 years older than me. Nonetheless he's a if truth be told excellent man,” Amber shared on the demonstrate. “I started opening as a lot as him and we decided we may perchance perchance well delight in to fulfill since we love every varied.”
In April 2021, Amber revealed on the Teen Mother OG reunion particular that she became once serene dating Dimitri. “We've known every varied now for 18 months,” she explained. “Nonetheless I haven't viewed him in a 300 and sixty five days though.” Though the pair by no way formally launched a split, Amber launched fresh flame Gary Wayt sometime of a June 2024 episode of Teen Mother: The Next Chapter.
Amber Portwood & Gary Wayt
After Amber connected with Gary 2.0 on a dating app within the tumble of 2023, he zoomed into the image when the Teen Mother vet launched him to her castmates sometime of a virtual chat.
Though he proposed in May perchance well perchance perchance 2024, their betrothal became once quick-lived. Whereas in North Carolina for her brother's wedding that June, Gary ran off after the pair had a fight, leading Amber to document him as lacking.
And while Gary became once soon positioned, the duo's engagment wasn't the excellent ingredient left broken.
“I've had to home thinking my fiancé became once needless for three to four days,” Amber said on Teen Mother: The Next Chapter. “I had to home literally grieving and attempting to make sense of why the f–okay would someone quit this to me. I’m going by something swish now.”
“This man broke me,” she persevered. “I became once right. Today, here’s the first time in years in my existence I am no longer f–king swish on fable of a person build a ring on my finger.”
Gary Shirley & Kristina Anderson
Months after Gary and now-partner Kristina Anderson welcomed daughter Emilee in April 2015, they wed in a sweet seashore ceremony.
“You is most likely to be with out a doubt one of many most fair souls I do know,” Gary wrote in a 2022 Instagram post. “I don’t know the way I would quit this with out you.”
Farrah Abraham & Derek Underwood
The daddy of Farrah Abraham's daughter Sophia died in an accident two months prior to her starting up in December 2008.
Farrah Abraham & Simon Saran
For her first severe relationship on fable of the death of her highschool boyfriend, Farrah dated precise estate agent Simon Saran on and off for over two years.
Though their 2017 split bought grotesque (as in end-and-desist grotesque), the 2 gave a stab at attempting to remain associates. Sorta.
“I create no longer delight in any hard emotions in opposition to Farrah,” Simon advised E! News at the time. “We’re perfect from two varied worlds. She likes the faux existence, I desire what's precise. I wish the excellent for her and masses extra and masses success in all of her future endeavors.”
Jenelle Evans & Andrew Lewis
Jenelle Evans and Andrew Lewis, parents to now-teenage Jace, split no longer lengthy after his 2009 starting up, with the model having puny involvement in his son's existence.
“I quit if truth be told feel defective on fable of that’s Jace's dad,” Jenelle mirrored on a 2019 episode of Teen Mother 2. “Nonetheless I do know how he’s, and I don’t desire him to disappoint my son. I don’t desire [him] to pop abet in and then pop abet out.”
Jenelle Evans & David Eason
After a one-300 and sixty five days marriage to Courtland Rogers, and having her 2d youngster, Kaiser, with ex-fiancé Nathan Griffin in 2014, Jenelle wed David Eason on their North Carolina property in September 2017, eight months after they welcomed their daughter Ensley.
After an extraordinarily rocky stretch noticed David charged with a teenager abuse misdemeanor difficult Jace (at the time, Jenelle likened it to a “smear marketing campaign”), Jenelle revealed that they had separated.
“I would've skipped straight to divorce nevertheless I couldn't on fable of within the inform of North Carolina, it be significant to be legally separated for a 300 and sixty five days,” she explained on social media, “and it be significant to point to it’s most likely you’ll perchance well need two separate addresses.”
Chelsea Houska & Adam Lind
Bear in mind the charmer who requested then-lady friend Chelsea Houska when he may perchance perchance well “tag the papers over for that mistake”?
Fully within the rearview.
In opposition to all odds, the Teen Mother star-became-HGTV persona has a severely copacetic relationship alongside with her highschool ex Adam Lind, mother to her eldest daughter Aubree. “There’s no defective vibes and it’s perfect a if truth be told starting up relationship,” she advised Us Weekly. “There’s no defective emotions. We deem him infrequently and it’s fully excellent.”
Chelsea Houska & Cole DeBoer
What began as a meet-comfortable at a gas attach of abode in 2014 became forever when Chelsea and Cole DeBoer wed in October 2016. After welcoming son Watson in 2017 and daughters Layne and Walker in 2018 and 2021, respectively, the pair launched a fresh joint mission: Their HGTV sequence Down Dwelling Fab.
“If we delight in been going to return abet to TV, I wanted it to be something lighthearted, if truth be told feel appropriate and be in a attach to illustrate our reputable selves,” Chelsea explained to E! News, sharing why this transfer felt “so swish.” As she build it, “This became once perfect this sort of fab opportunity to quit that.”
Leah Messer & Corey Simms
Though then-high schooler Leah Messer and Corey Simms fought to relate their friendship right into a forever household, the fogeys to now-teenage twins Aleeah and Aliannah filed for divorce six months after their October 2010 wedding.
Corey has been married to Miranda Patterson since 2013.
Leah Messer & Jeremy Calvert
Leah went on to wed pipeliner Jeremy Calvert in 2012, the couple welcoming daughter Adalynn the next 300 and sixty five days.
Though they split in 2015, they’ve made an effort to co-father or mother their daughter with infrequently blended results.
“I'm taking a peek at a total, better version of myself,” Leah advised E! News of her girls. “And seeing the entirety that they like and expertise doing, and being in a attach to beef up them in their lives and be a declare of it’s magical. I love it. I love being a mother, severely a lady mama.”
Leah Messer & Jaylan Mobley
By the point Leah went Instagram reputable with Jaylan Mobley in 2021, the US Military officer had already charmed her and her daughters.
The couple launched their engagement in August 2022, nevertheless broke up that October.
“I wanted that breakup,” the Teen Mother star confessed to E! News a 300 and sixty five days later. “I've realized loads from my closing breakup and, transferring forward, I quit if truth be told feel love my existence is right starting attach.”
Kailyn Lowry & Jo Rivera
Kailyn Lowry became once perfect 17 when she and highschool boyfriend Jo Rivera welcomed their eldest son, Isaac, in 2010.
And though they split a 300 and sixty five days later, they've since settled right into a elated co-parenting association, Kailyn even web hosting her now-canceled Child Mamas No Drama podcast with Jo's partner Vee Torres for years. “We’ve reach a lengthy methodology since we delight in been 18,” Kailyn wrote on X after attending Jo and Vee's 2018 wedding. “I couldn’t build a ask to for an even bigger stepmom for isaac.”
Kailyn Lowry & Javi Marroquin
Kailyn's 2d son Lincoln joined the squad in November 2013, roughly a 300 and sixty five days after the then-star of Teen Mother 2 wed his father Javi Marroquin.
Splitting in slack 2016, the earlier spouses delight in had an, at times, rocky relationship as they've every moved on.
Whereas Kail is engaged to Elijah Scott, Javi wed Lauren Comeau at an intimate ceremony on Florida's Vero Seashore in April 2025. “Handiest my dad, our youngsters & pastor delight in been there,” Lauren wrote on Instagram Tales of son Eli and daughter Maizee. “Now we delight in a reception planned for this summer with household and associates. They delight in been fully supportive of this & Jav's mother has bought to expertise his firsts already so there became once no issues. We wanted it to be something particular for the boys, and something intimate for our household, and for my dad to toddle me down the aisle.”
Kailyn Lowry & Chris Lopez
Though Kailyn welcomed sons Lux and Creed with boyfriend Chris Lopez sometime of their on-and-off romance, they at closing called it quits for correct.
“Today, we don't insist at all,” she revealed to E! News in 2020. “I'm hoping that this may perchance catch better with time nevertheless I don't delight in a mountainous imaginative and prescient. I don't delight in anything detrimental to mutter. I am hoping for our youngsters that the entirety works itself out in whatever route that will more than most likely be.”
Kailyn Lowry & Elijah Scott
Along with her fresh partner Elijah, Kailyn in the end feels she has a solid foundation. “It's been very varied from my varied companions and my kids' varied dads,” she advised People of Elijah, dad to her son Rio and twins Verse and Valley. “He pours concrete, he will get down and dirty at work. Nonetheless he's also perfect an exact household man. He's very, very significant connected with his delight in household, with our household, and so he's been a if truth be told appropriate partner to me, and I if truth be told feel love it's a if truth be told appropriate match.”
A solid ample one who she in the end said yes to with out a doubt one of his many proposals, surely.
“He requested me to marry him loads of times and I by no way said no,” Kailyn insisted to E! News in September 2024 of her neighbor-became-existence partner. “I became once perfect love, 'Optimistic, nevertheless no longer swish now.'”
And though she acknowledged that the event employee “positively modified my stance on marriage,” she's no longer exactly speeding out to buy a white costume. Joked Kailyn, “How soon we catch married is depending on the day that you just attach a ask to me now.”
Jade Cline & Sean Austin
Though Indiana-essentially based Jade Cline and Sean Austin had extra than their half of americaand down since welcoming daughter Kloie in 2017, in January 2022 Jade teased to followers that they delight in been on the upward thrust.
“There delight in been some most foremost, most foremost things that came about with our lives and most foremost improvements that happen with Sean's existence as properly and with his future,” she advised E! News. “I'm if truth be told overjoyed with him and where we are at the present time.” Eight months later, the pair launched their engagement, marrying in October 2023.
“I do know for sure my relationship isn't at all times perfect,” Jade advised E! News in 2024. “Nonetheless we love every varied and we make it work.”
Ashley Jones & Bar Smith
California natives Ashley Jones and Bar Smith privately wed in 2021—four years after they welcomed daughter Holly.
Nonetheless after calling off their romance loads of times, Ashley formally filed for divorce in 2024.
Briana DeJesus & Devoin Austin II
Years after 16 and Pregnant star Briana DeJesus and Devoin Austin II welcomed their daughter Nova in 2011, they flirted with giving their romance one other shot.
For the time being, then all over again, Briana advised E! News in 2024, “I desire a man man, I don't desire a puny bit of boy that I've been so old to dating abet within the past.”
Briana DeJesus & Luis Miguel
After starring on the single season of Teen Mother 3, Briana joined the solid of Teen Mother 2 in its eighth season, and gave starting up to her 2d daughter, Stella, with ex-boyfriend Luis Miguel, on July 2017.
Since then, Luis' involvement has been spotty at most productive. “I reflect he needs a household with me,” Briana explained to Dr. Drew in a December 2019 Teen Mother 2 episode, “and since I'm no longer giving that to him, he perfect needs to spoil away fully.”
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