Teen Mom's Tyler Baltierra & Catelynn Lowell Acknowledge to Accusations He Faked Autism Prognosis
Teen Mom stars Tyler Baltierra and spouse Catelynn Lowell pushed back at critics who expressed skepticism over his autism prognosis, which he shared in August.
Tyler Baltierra is firing back at his critics.
Two weeks after the Teen Mom huge name shared he had been diagnosed with autism, he and spouse Catelynn Lowell reacted to comments they’d viewed accusing him of faking his prognosis.
“I don't know what's going on,” Tyler began on the Sept. 10 episode of his and Catelynn’s Cate & Ty Damage It Down podcast. “Society is either dropping empathy, we’re getting hardened. I don't know what's taking place. The comments had been so appalling.”
Detailing comments claiming he didn’t even maintain autism nonetheless as an replace change into as soon as “lawful an a–gap” or “narcissistic,” he expressed how disheartening it change into as soon as to at the moment face doubt.
“What get I gotta get? Pull out my whole file and level to it to you?” Tyler requested listeners. “Have we gotten right here to society where we're, in space of announcing, 'Oh wow. Are you able to show off more about that?' Or, 'What is that love?' You're gonna test people's prognosis? You're going to actually shame them for having it, mutter them that they're liars for having it? What goes on?”
“It's ableism,” he continued. “It in fact is.”
Catelyn, too, minced no words about the negative commentators.
“When you occur to're judging anyone on chronicle of they're sharing that they maintain an autism prognosis,” the 33-year-extinct, who shares four teenagers with Tyler, acknowledged, “you would possibly maybe presumably presumably presumably be a in uncomfortable health, frigid-hearted individual.”
They moreover concept the elevated affect the comments maintain.
“You're no longer lawful announcing it to me,” Tyler renowned. “You're announcing about anyone who's reading these comments who maintain autism, or from now on or much less aspect.”
His spouse added, “And you then surprise why people don't wanna discuss it. Or they're too nervous or taken aback to get diagnosed.”
Even though Tyler and Catelynn had been upset by the loathe he obtained after sharing his prognosis on the Aug. 27 episode of their podcast, he moreover shared what it meant to earn so powerful strengthen from fans.
“I've had non-public messages of oldsters writing to me,” Tyler explained, “and announcing, 'Thanks so powerful for being susceptible and sharing this prognosis publicly and talking about it and lawful getting people talking about autism.'”
Survey back at Teen Mom couples, past and level to.
Catelynn Lowell & Tyler Baltierra
Viewers watched Catelynn Lowell and now-husband Tyler Baltierra accomplish the tough replace to space their first daughter, Carly, for adoption, in 2009 on the inaugural season of 16 and Pregnant. After 13 years collectively, the fan-current couple wed in August 2015 and maintain since had three more daughters: Novalee, Vaeda and Rya.
Whereas the absence of Carly—who lives with her adoptive people, Brandon and Teresa Davis—serene aches, the couple retain combating for a future.
Their hope is their bond “is whatever she needs,” Catelynn told E! Data in January 2025. “Whether or no longer she lawful needs a relationship with her organic siblings, if she needs to maintain a relationship with us, superior. If she doesn't, entirely heed. Whatever that appears to be like love for her. Due to it needs to be adoptee-centered.”
Maci Bookout & Ryan Edwards
Collectively no longer as a lot as six months when she got pregnant, viewers noticed Maci Bookout fight with an irresponsible Ryan Edwards on 16 and Pregnant. Even though they got engaged, the excessive college sweethearts rupture up no longer as a lot as a year after their son Bentley change into as soon as born in 2008.
In the within the meantime they're centered on constructing a co-parenting relationship. “We're in a lawful space,” Maci revealed to E! Data in 2023, adding that Ryan is exhibiting up “more consistently now than presumably he ever has earlier than.”
Maci Bookout & Taylor McKinney
Maci found her eternally teammate in Texan Taylor McKinney in 2012 and the pair rapidly began elevate their squad. They welcomed daughter Jayde in Could well also 2015 and son Maverick a year later, then wed in Florida that October.
Partners in parenting, existence and their TTM Standard of living model mark, “He's lawful my particular person,” she told E! Data in 2023. “Even when we've had a rough year collectively, I judge at the discontinuance of the day, I serene settle him. I love him. And despite the indisputable fact that I wish to punch him within the face as soon as in a whereas, I'd moderately argue with him or maintain a rough patch with him than never maintain a rough patch with anyone else.”
Cheyenne Floyd & Cory Wharton
Regardless of absorbing on with new predominant others, the MTV stars, who linked whereas filming The Scenario, proceed to co-father or mother their daughter Ryder collectively.
“Our ideal aspect since day one among Cory coming into Ryder's existence change into as soon as what more or much less dad he desired to be and what more or much less father or mother he desired to be,” Cheyenne explained to E! Data in March 2020. “I wasn't going to permit him to be a Disneyland dad or an Instagram dad or lawful within the moment. He needed to be 100 percent. I judge from the foundation, he noticed my mindset and liked it so that's why we co-father or mother so successfully.”
Cheyenne Floyd & Zach Davis
After their romance resulted in 2018, the pair decided to give their relationship a second likelihood. Whereas celebrating her Twenty eighth birthday, Cheyenne confirmed on Instagram that she change into as soon as back with Zach. In Could well also 2021, the couple welcomed their first tiny one collectively, son Ace, and got married in September 2022.
“We spent the past two years knocking issues off our checklist,” Cheyenne told E! Data in 2024. “We desired to maintain objective a tiny one, we had Ace. We desired to get married, we had our wedding. We desired to aquire a residence, we provided our residence.”
And now, she continued, “I don't wish to get one thing else. I don't wish to space a arrangement. I wish to sit down. I wish to be in fact serene. My arrangement is to be serene and lawful to be chuffed with where we're at. And lawful to love every other. That's it. I need nothing else.”
Properly…presumably a tiny one thing. Cheyenne announced she change into as soon as waiting for her third tiny one on a Could well also 2025 episode of Teen Mom: The Subsequent Chapter.
“We positively more or much less teetered backwards and forwards on wanting objective a tiny one,” Zach told Us Weekly. “I wished one, after which she went via the portion of wanting one, and I wasn’t on the same web page as her, nonetheless then we more or much less came to the same chapter, and we tried to accomplish it work.”
Cory Wharton & Taylor Selfridge
Connecting whereas filming Ex on the Sea fling would possibly maybe well merely no longer sound love the open of a treasure epic, nonetheless several years and two teenagers—daughters Mila and Maya—later, Cory and Are You the One? alum Taylor Selfridge are serene making waves.
“We lawful provided a residence,” he shared with E! Data in 2023, earlier than citing that, yes, he's mindful that people wish to know as soon as they're getting married. “It's positively being talked about. We maintain all the pieces nonetheless the ring and me lawful letting her know. Taylor deserves that and it's one thing that I need and she needs. Lovely now we're lawful taking steps to get there.”
Ryan Edwards & Mackenzie Standifer
Testing the boundaries of for-better-or-for-worse, Ryan checked into rehab no longer long after he married Mackenzie Standifer in Could well also 2017, with her giving delivery to their first son Jagger in 2018 whereas Ryan change into as soon as serene in therapy.
Even 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 tiny one, daughter Presley, in February 2025.
Amber Portwood & Gary Shirley
Whereas their very contentious romance came to an discontinuance for lawful in 2013, the couple managed to co-father or mother their now-teenage daughter Leah for years.
“We maintain stress-free collectively nonetheless at a distance,” Amber told E! Data in January 2022. “However our relationship is lawful. It's a family now so we address it as a family more than one thing else.”
Even though, for certain, as soon as in a whereas households fight. At the moment, Amber has taken to social media with adequate claims about Gary to counsel they're no longer the friendliest of exes and her rising rift with Leah has been showcased on Teen Mom: The Subsequent Chapter.
Amber Portwood & Matt Baier
After several years collectively, a proposal and one unsuccessful stint on Marriage Boot Camp, Amber and Boston transplant Matt Baier known as off their engagement in 2017.
“If truth be told, you lawful get to a degree whilst you occur to're performed hearing issues and you lawful open to no longer care in a relationship and I judge that's what started taking place to me and him,” Amber revealed on Dr. Drew Pinsky's podcast later that year. “I started no longer to care anymore about the connection a lot like you would possibly maybe presumably presumably merely serene. I set a wall up so I wouldn't get hurt again gorgeous powerful.”
Amber Portwood & Andrew Glennon
Amber did gain treasure whereas filming Marriage Boot Camp—connecting with crew member Andrew Glennon whereas on space. The pair made their debut as a couple at the 2017 MTV Movie Awards and in Could well also 2018, Amber gave delivery to the couple's son, James.
However the couple separated no longer long after Amber change into as soon as arrested for domestic battery in July 2019. And after a contentious court fight, California native Andrew change into as soon as awarded sole upright and foremost physical custody of their son in 2022.
“I've worked so onerous to better myself and toughen my relationships with my childhood,” the Teen Mom huge name told E! Data at the time. “Whereas I've continually been candid about my past substance abuse and struggles with mental illness, a particular person will must maintain the likelihood to redeem themselves and no longer be tethered to their problems from the past.”
Certain no longer to stop, she added, “In case your highway has no longer been ideal, nonetheless you've worked onerous to alter into a greater, more trusty and caring particular person this day, retain absorbing ahead as I will. I'll never discontinuance combating for my childhood who I in fact love more than one thing else.”
Amber Portwood & Dimitri Garcia
After assembly Amber on the Data superhighway, Dimitri Garcia made his Teen Mom OG debut in April 2020. “Dimitri is from Belgium. He's 39 so he's 10 years older than me. However he's a extraordinarily pretty man,” Amber shared on the level to. “I started opening as a lot as him and we decided we would possibly maybe well merely serene meet since we love every other.”
In April 2021, Amber revealed on the Teen Mom OG reunion particular that she change into as soon as serene courting Dimitri. “We've identified every other now for 18 months,” she explained. “However I haven't viewed him in a year even supposing.” Even though the pair never officially announced a rupture up, Amber presented new flame Gary Wayt for the length of a June 2024 episode of Teen Mom: The Subsequent Chapter.
Amber Portwood & Gary Wayt
After Amber linked with Gary 2.0 on a courting app within the autumn of 2023, he zoomed into the image when the Teen Mom vet presented him to her castmates for the length of a virtual chat.
Even though he proposed in Could well also 2024, their betrothal change into as soon as brief-lived. Whereas in North Carolina for her brother's wedding that June, Gary ran off after the pair had a fight, main Amber to file him as missing.
And whereas Gary change into as soon as rapidly located, the duo's engagment wasn't the proper aspect left damaged.
“I've had to address thinking my fiancé change into as soon as pointless for three to four days,” Amber acknowledged on Teen Mom: The Subsequent Chapter. “I had to address actually grieving and attempting to accomplish sense of why the f–k would any individual get this to me. I am going via one thing lawful now.”
“This man broke me,” she continued. “I change into as soon as trusty. Lovely now, this is the first time in years in my existence I am no longer f–king lawful on chronicle of a particular person set a hoop on my finger.”
Gary Shirley & Kristina Anderson
Months after Gary and now-spouse Kristina Anderson welcomed daughter Emilee in April 2015, they wed in a candy sea fling ceremony.
“You are one among the most enticing souls I know,” Gary wrote in a 2022 Instagram publish. “I don’t know the plot I could maybe well get this without you.”
Farrah Abraham & Derek Underwood
The father of Farrah Abraham's daughter Sophia died in an accident two months prior to her delivery in December 2008.
Farrah Abraham & Simon Saran
For her first serious relationship for the reason that loss of life of her excessive college boyfriend, Farrah dated proper property agent Simon Saran on and off for over two years.
Even though their 2017 rupture up got horrid (as in dwell-and-desist horrid), the two gave a stab at attempting to dwell chums. Sorta.
“I haven’t any onerous feelings against Farrah,” Simon told E! Data at the time. “We’re lawful from two assorted worlds. She likes the fraudulent existence, I need what's proper. I wish the proper for her and loads success in all of her future endeavors.”
Jenelle Evans & Andrew Lewis
Jenelle Evans and Andrew Lewis, people to now-teenage Jace, rupture up no longer long after his 2009 delivery, with the mannequin having tiny involvement in his son's existence.
“I get in fact feel inappropriate on chronicle of that’s Jace's dad,” Jenelle mirrored on a 2019 episode of Teen Mom 2. “However I know the plot he is, and I don’t need him to disappoint my son. I don’t need [him] to pop back in after which pop back out.”
Jenelle Evans & David Eason
After a one-year marriage to Courtland Rogers, and having her second tiny one, 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 a critically rocky stretch noticed David charged with objective a tiny one abuse misdemeanor intriguing Jace (at the time, Jenelle likened it to a “smear advertising campaign”), Jenelle revealed they’d separated.
“I could maybe well've skipped straight to divorce nonetheless I couldn't on chronicle of within the affirm of North Carolina, or no longer it is some distance a must-must be legally separated for a year,” she explained on social media, “and or no longer it is some distance a must-maintain to level to you maintain got two separate addresses.”
Their divorce change into as soon as finalized in July 2025.
Chelsea Houska & Adam Lind
Take into accout the charmer who requested then-lady friend Chelsea Houska when he would possibly maybe well “signal the papers over for that mistake”?
Fully within the rearview.
In opposition to all odds, the Teen Mom huge name-turned-HGTV personality has a considerably copacetic relationship with her excessive college ex Adam Lind, mother to her eldest daughter Aubree. “There’s no inappropriate vibes and it’s lawful a extraordinarily originate relationship,” she told Us Weekly. “There’s no inappropriate feelings. We concept him as soon as in a whereas and it’s entirely fine.”
Chelsea Houska & Cole DeBoer
What began as a meet-adorable at a gasoline space in 2014 turned eternally 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 new three plot partnership: Their HGTV sequence Down Dwelling Fab.
“If we had been going to get back back to TV, I wished it to be one thing lighthearted, in fact feel lawful and be in a plight to level to our reliable selves,” Chelsea explained to E! Data, sharing why this breeze felt “so lawful.” As she set it, “This change into as soon as lawful this kind of groovy opportunity to get that.”
As for whether or no longer they're planning from now on additions, “I in fact maintain so many chums who’re love, 'We’re performed,' and additionally they lawful maintain that feeling,” Chelsea told E! in June 2025. “And I don't know if I'll ever maintain that feeling.”
Leah Messer & Corey Simms
Even though then-excessive schooler Leah Messer and Corey Simms fought to flip their friendship into a eternally family, the people 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 subsequent year.
Even though they rupture up in 2015, they maintain got made an effort to co-father or mother their daughter with as soon as in a whereas blended results.
“I'm a full, better version of myself,” Leah told E! Data of her girls. “And seeing all the pieces that they treasure and enjoy doing, and being in a plight to bolster them in their lives and be an aspect of it is magical. I in fact uncover it irresistible. I in fact love being a mother, critically a lady mama.”
Leah Messer & Jaylan Mobley
By the time Leah went Instagram respectable with Jaylan Mobley in 2021, the United States Navy officer had already charmed her and her daughters.
The couple announced their engagement in August 2022, nonetheless broke up that October.
“I wished that breakup,” the Teen Mom huge name confessed to E! Data a year later. “I've realized plenty from my final breakup and, absorbing ahead, I get in fact feel love my existence is lawful foundation.”
Kailyn Lowry & Jo Rivera
Kailyn Lowry change into as soon as lawful 17 when she and excessive college boyfriend Jo Rivera welcomed their eldest son, Isaac, in 2010.
And even supposing they rupture up a year later, they've since settled into a chuffed co-parenting association, Kailyn even cyber web web hosting her now-canceled Tiny one Mamas No Drama podcast with Jo's spouse Vee Torres for years. “We’ve come a protracted plot since we had been 18,” Kailyn wrote on X after attending Jo and Vee's 2018 wedding. “I couldn’t set a test to for a greater stepmom for isaac.”
Kailyn Lowry & Javi Marroquin
Kailyn's second son Lincoln joined the squad in November 2013, roughly a year after the then-huge name of Teen Mom 2 wed his father Javi Marroquin.
Splitting in unhurried 2016, the extinct spouses maintain had an, now and then, rocky relationship as they've every moved on.
Whereas Kail moved on to Elijah Scott, Javi wed Lauren Comeau at an intimate ceremony on Florida's Vero Sea fling in April 2025. “Simplest my dad, our teenagers & pastor had been there,” Lauren wrote on Instagram Stories of son Eli and daughter Maizee. “We maintain a reception planned for this summer with family and chums. They had been fully supportive of this & Jav's mother has got to experience his firsts already so there change into as soon as no factors. We wanted it to be one thing particular for the boys, and one thing intimate for our family, and for my dad to stroll me down the aisle.”
Months after their June 2025 sea fling bash, the newlyweds announced they had been waiting for their third tiny one collectively. “The true honeymoon memento,” Javi wrote on Instagram in August 2025. “So grateful to be doing this again with you momma! You’re the strongest lady I know and we’re past lucky.”
Kailyn Lowry & Chris Lopez
Even though Kailyn welcomed sons Lux and Creed with boyfriend Chris Lopez for the length of their on-and-off romance, they in the end known because it quits for lawful.
“Lovely now, we don't talk in any appreciate,” she revealed to E! Data in 2020. “I'm hoping that this can enhance with time nonetheless I don't maintain a mountainous vision. I don't maintain one thing else negative to explain. I hope for our teenagers that all the pieces works itself out in whatever direction that will be.”
Kailyn Lowry & Elijah Scott
With construction employee Elijah, Kailyn felt she had in the end constructed that trusty foundation. “It's been very assorted from my other companions and my teenagers' other dads,” she told Other folks of Elijah, dad to her son Rio and twins Verse and Valley. “He pours concrete, he gets down and soiled at work. However he's moreover lawful a proper family man. He's very, very powerful linked with his hold family, with our family, and so he's been a extraordinarily lawful partner to me, and I in fact feel uncover it irresistible's a extraordinarily lawful match.”
A trusty adequate one which she in the end acknowledged yes to one among his many proposals, in level of fact.
“He requested me to marry him several times and I never acknowledged no,” Kailyn insisted to E! Data in September 2024 of her neighbor-turned-existence partner. “I change into as soon as lawful love, 'Yes, nonetheless no longer lawful now.'”
In a roundabout plot, even supposing, the timing wasn't lawful, Kailyn revealing in July 2025 that they’d rupture up.
“I get a form of s–t for leaving my teenagers' dads,” she detailed on the Give them Lala podcast. “I left all of them on chronicle of I, to a degree, preserve close no s–t.”
Jade Cline & Sean Austin
Even though Indiana-essentially based entirely Jade Cline and Sean Austin had more than their fragment of united states of americaand down since welcoming daughter Kloie in 2017, in January 2022 Jade teased to fans that they had been on the upward thrust.
“There had been some foremost, foremost issues that happened with our lives and foremost improvements that occur with Sean's existence as successfully and with his future,” she told E! Data. “I'm in fact soft with him and where we’re this day.” Eight months later, the pair announced their engagement, marrying in October 2023.
“I know for certain my relationship isn't continually ideal,” Jade told E! Data in 2024. “However we treasure every other and we accomplish it work.”
Ashley Jones & Bar Smith
California natives Ashley Jones and Bar Smith privately wed in 2021—four years after they welcomed daughter Holly.
However after calling off their romance several times, Ashley officially filed for divorce in 2024.
Briana DeJesus & Devoin Austin II
Years after 16 and Pregnant huge name Briana DeJesus and Devoin Austin II welcomed their daughter Nova in 2011, they flirted with giving their romance one other shot.
In the within the meantime, nonetheless, Briana told E! Data in 2024, “I desire a man man, I don't need objective a tiny boy that I've been so long-established to courting back within the past.”
Briana DeJesus & Luis Miguel
After starring on the most attention-grabbing season of Teen Mom 3, Briana joined the cast of Teen Mom 2 in its eighth season, and gave delivery to her second daughter, Stella, with ex-boyfriend Luis Miguel, on July 2017.
Since then, Luis' involvement has been spotty at ideal. “I judge he needs a family with me,” Briana explained to Dr. Drew in a December 2019 Teen Mom 2 episode, “and since I'm no longer giving that to him, he lawful needs to discontinuance away fully.”
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