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"Catelynn and Tyler contemplate having another baby." Does anybody remember how scared Cate looked when Tyler said they needed to have more kids so he could finally have his coveted son? I wonder what his reaction would be if they did conceive again and found out they were having another girl? He'd probably find some way to blame Catelynn because it's always her fault no matter what.

That makes sense. With Butch in and out of prison, she'd have to be working her ass off to support two kids. Kim seems stable enough, but I dislike her. I don't like the fact that she simultaneously expects Tyler to grow up and mollycoddles him. She also validates all of his asshole behavior and constantly encourages him to throw Catelynn under the bus. Remember when she referred to Cate as 'the girl who came to our house and never left" at their wedding reception? Something tells me Kim wasn't joking around.

I agree. Tyler seemed like he had a semi-normal home growing up. I know Butch being in and out of his life had to be rough, but Kim's been on the straight and narrow for years. Cate, on the other hand, would've been better off being raised by wolves. I guess it just annoys me that they talk about losing weight, going on diets, and then do absolutely nothing. Then the cycle starts up again at some point---complain, half-ass some attempt at exercise/diet, repeat. It's the same as their spending years talking about going to college and getting good careers, yet nothing came out of it.

They know how to do that, but then they'll just dump a ton of salt all over their food and completely undo any of the health benefits they could be getting.

I know we only see a very small glimpse of these people's lives, but I don't doubt for a second that Catelynn and Tyler eat take-out all the time. Catelynn gained a lot of weight after having Carly and tried to blame it on her pregnancy. I know she put on about 70 pounds or so the first time around, but there's no way she got that heavy if she hadn't been making so many poor eating choices. There's no way that was all from being pregnant. Their poor diet is also catching up to Tyler. I know he looks skinnier than Cate because he's taller and probably has faster metabolism, but you can see it in his face that it's catching up to him. He's starting to look a little chunky himself, yet he has the audacity to call Cate a heifer because her weight gain is more obvious. What an ass. I know from first-hand experience that eating nothing but garbage and then not doing any activities or exercise will make you feel like crap. That's probably one of the reasons why they look so miserable; they're eating fast food all the the time and then sitting around, checking their social media likes or trying to type the Great American Novel. Tyler's a bullshitter through and through, but they both could do with going out for walks with their daughter every evening or so. It would make them feel so much better and get the ball rolling when it comes to exercising and getting healthy. But they just choose not to. They're, what, only twenty-four at this point? They're both already looking so rough and worn-out. It's almost a shame.

Tyler will absolutely give Nova shit if she becomes overweight like Catelynn (and, given that neither of this kid's parents seem to be modeling healthy eating habits for her, it's very likely). I mean, Ty's already made fun of Carly for being so tall, and she's the golden child. I can just imagine the crap he'll dole out to Nova if she even gets a little too heavy for his liking.

The next time Tyler gets in on Catelynn about her weight gain, I really want her to snap back about how he still looks and sounds like he's thirteen-years-old. Why is he still dressing like some wannabe gangster? When I think of tough guys, Tyler Baltierra does not spring to mind. Ponyboy Curtis has more street cred than this assclown does. In a way, Cate really does need to get serious about losing weight. She constantly brings it up and then does nothing about it. So, yeah, that can be annoying. But Tyler had no right calling her a heifer because, yes, that's what he was calling her even though he said he wasn't. I thought Cate's snide "Well, maybe I'll put off losing weight until we're done having kids" comment was really directed at him for that awful, awful response. She knows it really bugs Tyler that she's overweight and isn't shedding the pounds. She'll never call him out for saying shit like that to her, but she can be just as passive-aggressive when she wants to be. These two are so dysfunctional together. They're more like platonic roommates than a loving husband and wife. I see more chemistry between freaking Kail and Jo than I do between Cate and Ty. Not a good sign.

I totally agree. I think Catelynn and Tyler see how well Carly is doing and want to take credit for it, like their genes and their genes alone are the sole reason why she's thriving. It couldn't possibly be because she's being raised by actual parents who put her first and probably don't plop her in front of the TV or ship her off to Grandma's every chance they get (I mean, I don't know how B&T parent their children, but something tells me that it's nothing like how C&T are "raising" Nova). In one episode of "OG", Catelynn and Ty;er actually sat there and congratulated themselves for being parents for the past seven years. Are you freaking kidding me? If these two still haven't figured out that they're not Carly's real parents, then I don't think there's any hope for them realizing it. Just because Tyler contributed to her existence and Catelynn gave birth to her does not mean that they can sit there and brag about how well she's doing as if they had something to do with it. It's one thing if they were just proud and happy of how well she was doing, but they were flat-out patting themselves on the back as if they are the sole reason why she's such an amazing little girl. As if. The only good thing they've ever done for that child was giving her up and---like Tatum says---that decision wasn't as selfless as C&T like to act. Anyway, I think that's part of the reason why Tyler got so pissed when Brandon and Teresa asked him to stop sharing Carly's photos online. He wanted to brag about how well she was doing and how it was all because of his choice to give her up for adoption. He wanted to show her off to his slobbering fans and B&T put a kibosh to that right away. He sees that child as some sort of status symbol as opposed to an individual person with her own thoughts and feelings. Carly is just some sort of extension of Tyler the Great, Tyler the Selfless, Tyler the Most Amazing Husband and Father EVER. It's awful how he so blatantly uses her to prop himself up. And then he had the audacity to say he would've picked different adoptive parents just because B&T stopped him from exploiting Carly as she got older. What a useless asshat. I really, really hope nurture trumps nature in Carly's case. She's a direct descendant of Tyler: she has a lot to overcome.

Tyler brings to the table: verbal and emotional abuse; an incredibly unwarranted amount of self-entitlement; awful tattoos; and a stupid hairstyle.

So Delta Dawn is younger than forty-three and already a grandmother four times over? Maybe five times, since I'm not sure whether or not Victoria had her baby yet. How long will it be before Dawn becomes a great-grandmother? Hell, she could very well see one of her great-grandchildren have a kid or two. I really, really hope the A girls get a decent sex education so they won't repeat these kinds of mistakes. I know Leah said she would put her daughters on birth control as soon as they hit puberty, but what really helps is if she sits down and explicitly talk about the consequences of having sex at such a young age. God speed, A girls. God speed.

Man, Kail is such a tryhard. It doesn't matter how many tattoos she gets or how big her butt is. She's always going to be some girl from Pennsylvania whose only claim to fame is that she got pregnant as a teenager.

On the "Being Catelynn" special a couple years ago, C&T threw a shit-fit after Brandon and Teresa asked them to stop posting Carly's photos online. Tyler said that he would've chosen different adoptive parents had he known about this rule beforehand, and Catelynn went on this rant about how she was the one who gave birth to Carly (her actual words were "I was the one who pushed that baby out of my vaginal canal!) and gave Teresa something she couldn't give herself. It was actually awful to hear.

I could buy Teresa being the ideal maternal figure for Catelynn. She was the one who helped Cate with her veil on her wedding day---something that I think the bride's mother usually does---and you can tell that they really care about each other quite a good deal. I think their relationship is one of the only reasons why the adoption is still open. I don't know Teresa personally, but she must have a heart of gold to be so close to Catelynn after Cate made those disparaging comments about Teresa's fertility issues a few years ago.

What's going to happen when this second kid is eventually born? Will Tyler compare its birth to Carly's like he did to Nova? Will he post a photo of the new baby's face next to Carly's and claim that they're identical? Will he send such a photo to B&T? Will B&T give the new baby some of Carly's things? Will C&T bring the new baby to their visits with Carly? Will they expect the baby to have a close relationship with Carly growing up? I think as Catelynn and Tyler slowly expand their family, Brandon and Teresa will just close up shop more and more. Nova's birth did not fill the void in C&T's lives or give them the incentive to stop focusing so much on Carly. Instead, they became even more obsessed with her and zeroed in on her and Nova having a ~sisterly~ bond. They so badly want to blend their family with B&T's, and it's just not going to happen no matter how many children C&T have. They're ignoring the fact that, despite being biologically related, Carly is growing up in an entirely different world than her future bio-siblings and may not want to have anything to do with them when she gets older. I mean, Catelynn in particular was convinced that Carly would be closer to Nova than she is to B&T just because she and Nova are actually related. There's just so much that's wrong with the way C&T regard the situation. They still have these fantasies seven years later even after proof that the adoption did not and will not go down the way they wanted it to.

Don't they mean second child? I know biologically Carly is their daughter, of course, but I don't count her in the same group as Nova and any other unfortunate children Cate and Ty decide to foist upon their family members. Catelynn and Tyler are not doing a thing to raise and support Carly. They are not her parents beyond mere genetics. They need to realize once and for all that they have to stop regarding her as another family member. She isn't away at summer camp. She's not on vacation. She's gone. It's been seven years. They need to start letting go and stop focusing so much on Carly or including her in all of their ~milestones~. It isn't healthy for Cate, Ty, and Nova. As for the post-partum stuff...Cate would be making the biggest mistake of her life if she decides to have another kid right now when she can barely handle the one she has (not the two she has; just one). She's already jumping into trying to get onto another TV show so soon after therapy. But having another kid? Jesus God it would be a disaster in the making. She'd be stuck taking care of the baby all by herself---and Nova, unless she gets booted off to April's semi-permanently---while Tyler would berate her for being a poor mother, for being overweight, for being sad, and do nothing to help her get better. And then she'd have two (not three. Two) children suffering and being subjected to the same exact lifestyle Cate and Ty had to endure and that golden child Carly got to escape.

So Farrah is blaming the principal for the reason why Sophia wears makeup? It couldn't be because Sophia has a mother who sells blow-up dolls version of herself, has molded her lady parts for men to use sexually, had modeled suggestively in front of her daughter, has put her first set of implants in her daughter's baby box, plans on using her PORNO to teach her daughter about sex someday, has gotten so much plastic surgery that she's easily aged two decades in just a couple years, and completely values her looks above everything else? All righty then. Thank you, Farrah, for helping me see the light.

She totally knows everybody is right about him, and that's why she keeps putting off marrying him. I'm almost positive that this isn't the first time she's put the wedding on hold. Come on, Amber. It won't completely redeem you, but dumping this guy is still a good start.

Agreed that she should've stuck with the dental hygienist route. It seemed like a really good job for her, something she really liked and excelled at. Then she got bitten by the fame bug and decided, "Hey, I'm on TV! People would LOVE to see more of me!" Keep dreaming, Kail. Maybe Sports Authority will take her back when this show ends for good.

I still scratch my head when I hear of Kail deciding to get a degree in media. Does she think that she'll automatically be invited to host TV shows just because she was on "Teen Mom 2"? She has no personality to speak of, no emotion in her voice (besides anger and annoyance), no charisma or anything that can translate to "successful media personality". I remember Maci expressed an interest in hosting duties and MTV allowed her to host some "Teen Mom 2" after-shows. However, she was so bad and bland at it that they gave her the boot and replaced her. I'm not sure why these girls think they can have a career in media when they don't have any natural talents that can help them. Just because they were on this crappy show doesn't mean immediate success in the future.

Considering that they were teen parents, Maci and Jenelle should be the last people pushing girlfriends on their grade-school children. Although I could totally see those two acting like GILFs in the near future.

So is it safe to assume that Jenelle is flat broke already? Or is she just being a selfish cow like always? This is worse than Maci and Amber not paying their taxes. You're making all this money---how can you not have any left? It just boggles the mind.

I think Cole is twenty-five or twenty-six, so you're all good.

So unless my eyes deceive me, it looks like Leah is letting Gracie play on Ali's wheelchair...again. I can't wait to hear her excuse about how this one broke.

What gets me is that Tyler acts like Cate needs him to survive but it's the other way around. She's the Teen Mom. She makes the money. I'm not sure how much Tyler makes per episode, but something tells me that it's not as much as Cate since she's one of the titular mothers. At least I hope he's not. If he ever broke up with her, then his screen time may get drastically reduced like the other dads in the franchise. He would also lose a buttload of popularity with the fans, and we all know he can't lose that. By staying with Cate, Tyler has created his very own hell. Unfortunately, he's dragging his wife and daughter down with him.

I sort of watched them when they were on "Couples Therapy" and a few things stuck out for me. One was when they all took this questionnaire thing to decide if they were really compatible with their partners. One of the questions asked, "Are you okay dating somebody who has children?" Catelynn said she would because she technically had a child herself (even though, you know, she wasn't raising said child). Tyler, however, said that he wouldn't date a single parent. I think it threw Catelynn for a loop since she wanted more children with Tyler someday. Even though they ended up having a kid together, that scene always stuck with me for some reason. It just highlighted how different they were from each other. Tyler wanted to be an actor at some point, right? If he were such a good actor, he'd be able to convince us that his love for Catelynn is genuine. Instead, he can barely stomach her. I bet he wishes he had run off to Baruba before their wedding like he "joked".