Teen Mothers Maci Bookout Reveals The attach Her Co-Parenting Relationship With Ryan Edwards Stands Now
Teen Mother star Maci Bookout is solely as bowled over as followers that she and ex Ryan Edwards are aloof efficiently co-parenting. She and husband Taylor McKinney crammed E! News in on the attach they stand.
Seems there's something to that entire time-heals-all-wounds cliché. On fable of extra than a yr after Teen Mother stars Maci Bookout and Ryan Edwards committed themselves to in actuality co-parenting 15-yr-former son Bentley, the exes are aloof hopping alongside, even getting together for a joint Easter occasion March 31.
“Who would glean figuring out?” Maci marveled to E! News in an distinctive interview, revealing they’ve been in a position to care for a wholesome relationship. “It's positively been tense. But I verbalize now we glean been in a position to care for this mutual appreciate.”
The attach up to now a miscommunication would possibly presumably presumably without ache lead to a huge battle, now, “If one of us has a ask, we don’t appear to be horrified to call each other and the opposite fetch the cell phone,” she explained. “It's delight in, 'What attain it’s probably you’ll presumably presumably presumably like to attain about that? How attain it’s probably you’ll presumably presumably presumably like to handle this?' The dialog is solely so powerful extra respectful. And I would yelp it's fair simpler.”
And, dare she yelp, she, husband Taylor McKinney, Ryan and his new girlfriend Amanda Conner are one good, chuffed-ish family.
“Ryan and I got abet to a home the attach we're in actuality fair associates,” Maci explained. Now they indulge in a mutual appreciate for every other and “only a bit extra caring about how you consult with anyone or how you handle something. And I verbalize that's been in a position to in actuality power the co-parenting because we enter those conversations in a extra gentle methodology, in a extra working out methodology.”
Even though that's now to now not yelp they nail it every single time.
“Peaceable got a protracted methodology to trudge—don't receive me nasty,” Maci allowed. “But I will be able to't verbalize we're, delight in, a yr and a few months into it and issues are aloof very accurate. We've aloof got a protracted methodology to trudge for the attach I verbalize a conventional co-parenting relationship would be, however I verbalize naturally it's transferring in a approach that works for all americans, in particular Bentley.”
And that's partially because all and sundry on Crew Bentley has committed to following one easy rule.
“We in actuality strive to trudge away Bentley out of a host of that,” Maci explained of their parental chats. While she's been open with Bentley about all the pieces from Ryan's 2023 overdose to his factual be troubled and rehab stays, when it involves his fogeys navigating their relationship, “Bentley in actuality shared with me that he doesn't want to know sure issues or be requested sure issues.”
So whereas she acknowledged it's a bit of a you-are living-you-be taught be troubled (“It's now not that I verbalize it was once nasty,” she said of provocative Bentley extra up to now, “it's fair that I didn't know any better”), her new motto is that “he doesn't want to know anything else he doesn't want to know,” Maci famed. “We’re going to indubitably be delight in, 'Hi there, attain it’s probably you’ll presumably presumably presumably like to attain this?' Or, 'Attach you desire to trudge over right here?' On fable of he's a teen, you never know what mood he's in. But besides that, it's fair in actuality leaving him out of it, letting the adults glean the adult conversations.”
As for the adults in the room, Maci and Taylor, also fogeys to Jayde, 8, and Maverick, 7, appreciated the reset they were given whereas filming the brand new third season of Teen Mother: Household Reunion.
“Truth be told, strolling into it, I used to be once delight in, Oh, immense, we receive to be far from the kids, be with each other and hang out with our associates,” said Maci of signing on for the expertise. “Adore, it's a vacation. I'm undecided we were waiting for all of the work we were going to want to attain when we got there.”
But after committing to the homework, they aced their relationship class.
“Getting far from the kids for a short time, in actuality helped us reset and realize, delight in, 'Hi there, we are on the an identical team,'” said Taylor. “That fair gave us the time to reset and reconnect.”
And they weren't the most attention-grabbing ones who had a winning expertise whereas filming in Colombia. Signal in with the rest of the Teen Mother solid and their favourite teammates.
Viewers watched Catelynn Lowell and now-husband Tyler Baltierra make the complicated approach to home 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 glean since had three extra daughters: Novalee, Vaeda and Rya.
While the absence of Carly—who lives with her adoptive fogeys, Brandon and Teresa Davis—aloof aches 14 years later, the couple are living for their meetups. “The girls delight in her,” Catelynn told E! News of her youthful daughters' response to Carly. “It's moderately awesome to glean the capability to survey it. And we're blessed that we attain glean an open adoption to glean the capability to survey it. It's in actuality a blessing to glean the capability to survey all of this stuff over time.”
Together now not up to six months when she got pregnant, viewers seen Maci Bookout battle with an irresponsible Ryan Edwards on 16 and Pregnant. Even though they got engaged, the high school sweethearts slice up now not up to a yr after their son Bentley was once born in 2008.
This day they're interested in constructing a coparenting relationship. “We're in a accurate home,” Maci revealed to E! News in 2023, adding that Ryan is exhibiting up “extra persistently now than presumably he ever has earlier than.”
Maci Bookout & Taylor McKinney
Maci stumbled on her with out a sign of ending teammate in Texan Taylor McKinney in 2012, the pair quickly elevate their squad. They welcomed daughter Jayde in Might possibly possibly presumably fair 2015 and son Maverick a yr later, then wed in Florida that October.
Companions in parenting, lifestyles and their TTM Lifestyle style price, “He's fair my individual,” she told E! News in 2023. “Even when we've had a rough yr together, I verbalize at the smash of the day, I aloof resolve him. I delight in him. And although I want to punch him in the face in most cases, I'd moderately argue with him or glean a rough patch with him than never glean a rough patch with someone else.”
Despite transferring on with new essential others, the MTV stars, who linked whereas filming The Area, proceed to coparent their daughter Ryder together.
“Our perfect component since day one of Cory coming into Ryder's lifestyles was once what extra or much less dad he wished to be and what extra or much less father or mother he wished 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 fair in the moment. He needed to be 100%. I verbalize from the starting, he seen my mindset and appreciated it so that's why we coparent so effectively.”
After their romance resulted in 2018, the pair made up our minds to present their relationship a 2nd likelihood. While celebrating her twenty eighth birthday, Cheyenne confirmed on Instagram that she was once abet with Zach. In Might possibly possibly presumably fair 2021, the couple welcomed their first child together, son Ace, and got married in September 2022.
“They are very in tune in this form of pure methodology,” Maci Bookout told E! News. “They simply trudge together so smoothly and for my fragment, they're awesome to be around however together, they are a blast. And they’re at all times down for anything else.”
Cory Wharton & Taylor Selfridge
Connecting whereas filming Ex on the Seashore would possibly presumably presumably also fair now not sound delight in the originate of a delight in story, however extra than six years and two young of us—daughters Mila and Maya—later, Cory and Are You the One? alum Taylor Selfridge are aloof making waves.
“We fair sold a apartment,” he shared with E! News in 2023, earlier than citing that, yes, he's mindful that folk want to know after they're getting married. “It's positively being talked about. We glean all the pieces however the ring and me fair letting her know. Taylor deserves that and it's something that I desire and she needs. Honest now we're fair taking steps to receive there.”
Testing the boundaries of for-better-or-for-worse, Ryan checked into rehab now not long after he married girlfriend Mackenzie Standifer in Might possibly possibly presumably fair 2017, with her giving delivery to their first son Jagger in 2018 whereas Ryan was once aloof in treatment.
Even though the pair would welcome daughter Stella in January 2020, Mackenzie filed for divorce three years later.
Amber Portwood & Gary Shirley
While their very contentious romance came to an smash for accurate in 2013, the couple glean since worked out a approach to efficiently coparent their now-teenage daughter Leah.
“We glean enjoyable together however at a distance,” Amber told E! News in January 2022. “But our relationship is correct. It's a family now so we handle it as a family extra than anything else.”
After a number 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.
“Honestly, you simply receive to some extent must you're performed hearing issues and also you simply originate up to now not care in a relationship and I verbalize that's what began going down to me and him,” Amber revealed on Dr. Drew Pinsky's podcast later that yr. “I started now to now not care anymore about the relationship similar to it’s probably you’ll presumably presumably presumably also fair aloof. I put a wall up so I wouldn't receive anguish yet again moderately powerful.”
Amber did receive delight in whereas filming Marriage Boot Camp—connecting with crew member Andrew Glennon whereas on home. The pair made their debut as a couple at the 2017 MTV Film Awards and in Might possibly possibly presumably fair 2018, Amber gave delivery to the couple's first child, James.
However the couple separated now not long after Amber was once arrested for domestic battery in July 2019. After a contentious court battle, California native Andrew was once awarded sole factual and necessary bodily custody of their son in 2022.
“I've worked so tense to better myself and enhance my relationships with my kids,” the Teen Mother star told E! News at the time. “While I've at all times been candid about my past substance abuse and struggles with psychological illness, a individual have to glean the possibility to redeem themselves and now not be tethered to their complications from the past.”
Definite now to now not present up, she added, “If your avenue has now not been supreme, however you've worked tense to turned into an even bigger, extra stable and caring individual this day, care for transferring forward as I will. I'll never smash combating for my kids who I in actuality delight in extra than anything else.”
After meeting Amber on the Cyber 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. But he's a extraordinarily comely man,” Amber shared on the demonstrate. “I started opening up to him and we made up our minds we would possibly presumably presumably also fair aloof meet since we delight in each other.”
In April 2021, Amber revealed on the Teen Mother OG reunion particular that she was once aloof dating Dimitri. “We've known each other now for 18 months,” she explained. “But I haven't viewed him in a yr despite the truth that.” Even though the pair struggled with now not having the capability to physically gaze each other all over the pandemic, they are reportedly aloof talking.
Months after Gary and now-wife Kristina Anderson welcomed daughter Emilee in April 2015, they wed in a candy beach ceremony.
“You are one of the crucial crucial beautiful souls I know,” Gary wrote in a 2022 Instagram post. “I don’t perceive how I would attain this without you.”
The father of Farrah Abraham's daughter Sophia died in an accident two months sooner than her delivery in December 2008.
Her first serious relationship since the loss of life of her high school boyfriend, Farrah dated right property agent Simon Saran on and off for over two years.
Even though their 2017 slice up got gruesome (as in smash-and-desist gruesome), the two gave a stab at making an strive to remain associates. Sorta.
“I make now not glean any tense feelings against Farrah,” Simon told E! News at the time. “We are fair from two various worlds. She likes the false lifestyles, I desire what's right. I desire the very best for her and a lot success in all of her future endeavors.”
Jenelle Evans and Andrew Lewis, fogeys to now-teenage Jace, slice up now not long after his 2009 delivery, with the mannequin having no involvement in his son's lifestyles.
“I attain in actuality feel execrable because that’s Jace's dad,” Jenelle reflected on a 2019 episode of Teen Mother 2. “But I perceive 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.”
After a one-yr marriage to Courtland Rogers, and having her 2nd child, Kaiser, with ex-boyfriend 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 a in particular rocky stretch seen David charged with a toddler abuse misdemeanor provocative Jace (at the time, Jenelle likened it to a “smear marketing campaign”), Jenelle revealed they’d separated. “I would've skipped straight to divorce however I couldn't because in the say of North Carolina, it be principal to be legally separated for a yr,” she explained on social media, “and it be principal to advise you glean two separate addresses.”
Be mindful the charmer who requested then-girlfriend Chelsea Houska when he would possibly presumably presumably “tag the papers over for that mistake”?
Entirely in the rearview.
Against all odds, the Teen Mother star-turned into-HGTV personality has a critically copacetic relationship with her high school ex Adam Lind, mother to her eldest daughter Aubree. “There’s no execrable vibes and it’s only a extraordinarily open relationship,” she told Us Weekly. “There’s no execrable feelings. We gaze him in most cases and it’s fully supreme.”
What began as a meet-comely at a gasoline put in 2014 grew to turned into with out a sign of ending when the pair wed in October 2016. After welcoming son Watson in 2017 and daughters Layne and Walker in 2018 and 2021, respectively, the pair launched a brand new joint project: Their HGTV series Down Home Fab.
“If we were going to come abet abet to TV, I needed it to be something lighthearted, in actuality feel accurate and have the option to illustrate our respectable selves,” Chelsea explained to E! News, sharing why this switch felt “so appropriate.” As she put it, “This was once fair this form of fab opportunity to attain that.”
Leah Messer & Corey Simms
Even though then-high schooler Leah Messer and Corey Simms fought to scream their friendship into a with out a sign of ending family, the fogeys to now-teenage twins Aleeah and Aliannah filed for divorce six months after their October 2010 marriage ceremony.
Corey has been married to Miranda Patterson since 2013.
Leah went on to wed pipeliner Jeremy Calvert in 2012, the couple welcoming daughter Adalynn the next yr.
Even though they slice up in 2015, they’ve made an effort to coparent their daughter. “I'm taking a glance at a total, better model of myself,” Leah told E! News of her girls. “And seeing all the pieces that they delight in and indulge in doing, and having the capability to augment them in their lives and be a part of it’s miles magical. I in actuality delight in it. I in actuality delight in being a mother, in particular a girl mama.”
Leah Messer & Jaylan Mobley
By the point Leah went Instagram official with Jaylan Mobley in 2021, the USA Military officer had already charmed her and her daughters.
The couple launched their engagement in August 2022, however broke up that October.
“I wanted that breakup,” the Teen Mother star confessed to E! News a yr later. “I've learned a lot from my final breakup and, transferring forward, I attain in actuality feel delight in my lifestyles is solely starting.”
Kailyn Lowry was once fair 17 when she and high school boyfriend Jo Rivera welcomed their eldest son, Isaac, in 2010.
And despite the truth that they slice up a yr later, they've since settled into a delighted coparenting affiliation, Kailyn even internet hosting her Toddler Mamas No Drama podcast with Jo's wife Vee Torres. “We’ve come a protracted methodology since we were 18,” Kailyn wrote on X after attending Jo and Vee's 2018 marriage ceremony. “I couldn’t ask for an even bigger stepmom for isaac.”
Kailyn's 2nd son Lincoln joined the squad in November 2013, roughly a yr after the then-star of Teen Mother 2 wed his father Javi Marroquin.
Splitting in slack 2016, their relationship has been rocky now and again, with Javi and girlfriend Lauren Comeau—already fogeys to son Eli—announcing in December 2023 that they were waiting for their 2nd child together, a girl.
Even though Kailyn welcomed sons Lux and Creed with boyfriend Chris Lopez all over their on-and-off romance, they finally called it quits for accurate.
“Honest now, we don't keep up a correspondence at all,” she revealed to E! News in 2020. “I'm hoping that this would possibly presumably presumably get better with time however I don't glean a good imaginative and prescient. I don't glean anything else negative to claim. I hope for our young of us that all the pieces works itself out in whatever course that will presumably presumably also very effectively be.”
Kailyn Lowry & Elijah Scott
With fresh boyfriend Elijah Scott, Kailyn finally feels she has a solid foundation. “It's been very various from my other companions and my young of us' other dads,” she told Of us of Elijah, dad to her son Rio and twins Verse and Valley. “He pours concrete, he will get down and soiled at work. But he's also only an precise family man. He's very, very powerful linked with his hang family, with our family, and so he's been a terribly accurate accomplice to me, and I in actuality feel delight in it's a terribly accurate match.”
But she's now unable to head down the aisle fair yet. “He's been pushing for it,” admitted Kailyn. “But I've already extra or much less performed marriage once and I f–ked it up royally. So I'm a bit hesitant.”
Even though Indiana-based Jade Cline and Sean Austin had extra than their share of u.s.and down since welcoming daughter Kloie in 2017, in January 2022 Jade teased to followers that they were on the upward thrust.
“There were some necessary, necessary issues that came about with our lives and necessary enhancements that happen with Sean's lifestyles as effectively and with his future,” she told E! News. “I'm in actuality jubilant with him and the attach we are this day.” Eight months later, the pair launched their engagement, marrying in October 2023.
“I know needless to claim my relationship isn't at all times supreme,” Jade told E! News in 2024. “But we delight in each other and we make it work.”
California natives Ashley Jones and Bar Smith wed in 2021—four years after they welcomed daughter Holly. And whereas the pair has publicly called off their romance a number of times, they aloof appear to be together.
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.
This day, then yet again, Briana told E! News in 2024, “I desire a man man, I don't desire a bit boy that I've been so worn to dating abet up to now.”
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 delivery to her 2nd daughter, Stella, with ex-boyfriend Luis Miguel, on July 2017.
Since then, Luis' involvement has been spotty at perfect. “I verbalize he needs a family with me,” Briana explained to Dr. Drew in a December 2019 Teen Mother 2 episode, “and since I'm now not giving that to him, he fair needs to care for away entirely.”
Quickly after celebrating their one-yr anniversary at a tropical vacation pickle in 2019, Briana called it quits with then-boyfriend John Rodriguez.
To place it bluntly, she shared in an episode of the MTV hit, she simply stopped loving him. “It sucks because I kicked him to the curb,” she famed, “however he didn't battle to be with me both. I needed him to battle for me however he didn't.”
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