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Leah spends half her life making up dramastic nonsense for a story line, so it's possible she's exaggerating all of this for the show and sympathy from her family/fans/the girls. On the other hand, I do genuinely believe Leah is among the small percentage of people who are so intellectually challenged it is quite possible the doctor could tell her a tumor is benign and she would have no idea what that meant. I am also shocked by how much Leah's older daughter looks like her, and then I remember that we first started watching this nonsense when Leah herself was 16 or 17. The original kids are getting way to old for this crap, although at least with Leah she isn't currently broadcasting anything so dramastic as to be embarrassing to her kids, aside from how stupid she is, which isn't really a secret.

Oh man now I need to see pictures of the bridesmaids with the birds in their hair!

I think part of the issue was nothing was clear with the ex. Was he a stripper or was he a model who posed for art classes? Someone who normally poses for art classes at an art school might view it as unprofessional to leave. I've read that this is quite difficult work because you need to try to stand as still as possible for a long period of time, and many people never return after their first job as an artist's model because it is quite difficult to pose physically. Or he could be an actual stripper who just does this so women can paint and its a little less tacky than having a young man dance. That actually makes a lot of sense if you have an older group of women with a bachelorette party (skipping the stripper/artist completely makes even more sense, but what can you do). If he's a stripper working with an agency, he might be worried about getting fired if he walks away from a job. Also, did he ghost her after a couple of dates before things got physical? That's completely different than ghosting a woman right after you sleep with her, especially if you led her to believe you want a serious relationship with her and then immediately disappear right after sleeping with her. I was left with no idea if he was a jerk for ghosting her (I never resented a guy for ghosting me if that happened before things got physical but once a relationship started a guy is a real jerk for disappearing without explanation).

This tell all really left me disappointed in the producers and editors of this show. We had so much time in this season devoted to nonsense and yet I am left confused about what happened with Myrka and Ethan's parents. Did they explicitly promise her a roof over her head and college tuition if she had the baby? Or did she just believe they promised her what she wanted to hear? Why exactly did Ethan's mom throw all of them out of the house (and no I don't for a second believe it was due to a teenager mishandling a phone call.) I understand that she doesn't want to air the family's dirty laundry publicly, but being on this show wasn't a great choice if she'd like to maintain her privacy. What is the family's financial situation, and why on earth would they throw an expensive baby shower for a pregnant unwed teenager if they had financial difficulties? I am seriously left questioning whether Myrka is a spoiled teenager who expected way to much from Ethan's parents who generously provided her with a roof over her and her child's head, or if Ethan's parents were manipulative in promising a vulnerable pregnant teenager who had no support system the world so she'd choose not to have an abortion or place her baby up for adoption. Surely we could have cut some of Lilly and her boyfriend demonstrating that together they don't have the IQ of room temperature in order to address exactly what was happening with Myrka's family. It was fascinating from the beginning, since so few of the parents put their foot down and make it clear upfront that they do not support their child choosing to become a teen mom since it is such a difficult path.

The woman with the gun said that June was a walking target and wanted to leave her on the train. Given the fact that almost everyone who tries to help June winds up dead, she wasn't wrong about the level of danger associated with helping June and Janine. In additional to the sexual assault charges, we also have seen Serena hit Rita (when Serena was angry about all the attention June got at the baby shower). Serena also hit June when she became enraged after finding out about the visit to Jezebel's and choked her when she was pregnant, threatening to hurt Hannah unless June kept the baby she was carrying safe. Serena made June so scared for Hannah's safety that she asked Aunt Lydia and Rita to be the godmother and protect her baby. An ordinary wife might be able to claim all of these things happened under duress of an abusive husband, but Serena Joy was a highly visible supporter of Gilead before they came to power, and she will have a harder time playing an innocent victim of Gilead and her husband (although the fact that she's lost a finger will help her chances).

I don't know. I will say that if he is genuinely working an extra job to support the new family, I have a lot of questions as to why they threw that crazy expensive baby shower. I'm assuming that if this article is correct and the cast is only earning $425 per episode ( https://starcasm.net/reanna-taron-reportedly-cut-tlc-unexpected-season-4/ ) then there is no way TLC paid for the gender reveal party. And if I'm remembering correctly, was that the one with fireworks and dancers and chair covers? If they are truly needing a second job to pay for an over the top gender reveal party for a pregnant teenager, then they have made some spectacularly bad choices in life. I'd almost hope for a girlfriend over that level of stupidity, except Ethan's mom seems pretty nice and I had a lot of sympathy for her tonight, especially when she said she started to understand how Myrka's mom felt and why she was unsupportive of the teenage pregnancy.

It could be that. But I wonder if it is because she knows she's going to look like an idiot coming on national tv and admitting to hooking up with her ex whose now sleeping with another of her friends. Of course, you could stop hooking up with him or refuse to go on tv, but who knows what goes through these girls' heads.

This exactly. I'm incredibly bored with all the new cast members and don't care about their chaos and dysfunction. There was a girl on 16 and pregnant last week named Abigail (sorry not exactly Abigail but I can't remember the exact alternative spelling of her name - maybe it was Avigail?) who entered college early and hoped to become a doctor. She got pregnant while attending college when she had an IUD, and seemed very different than your usual 16 and pregnant/teen mom on a path to destruction with or without teen mom money. It would be interesting to follow her story and see how her life turned out since she had real goals and ambition.

I'm really confused about this. If Tyra wanted to be a hands on parent she would have enrolled in community college so she could see her baby every day. Would she really pull her baby away from Alex's home just so she can dump her on her mom/sister to raise? She seems spiteful enough to do that, so I guess the question is would Tyra's mom be willing to raise another kid? She has to see how uninvolved Tyra has been so far, and the baby seems fine at Alex's house (or at least as fine as any kid is on this show). Ah, yes. On this show someone like Alex's 30-something year old mom getting pregnant wouldn't be much better news than a teen mom popping out a second kid before her 18th birthday.

This is a very good point. But most of the girls on Teen Mom were on an absolute trajectory to disaster with or without the MTV money (without Teen Mom money I picture Amber on disability or welfare spending most of her days on her couch while her kids are raised by others). Jennelle would still be in and out of trouble with the law and abusive men, and Farrah might have wound up in porn anyway. Chelsea would have been primarily financially dependent upon her dad or a husband instead of MTV money. Leah would have found an older or married man to support her financially. Without MTV money, Jeremy's job would have been much more valuable to Leah, and she might have accepted his not being around and his not being the most emotionally supportive person in exchange for the money he brought into the family. Both Chelsea and Leah might have a minimum wage job, but they would find someone else to be their primary form of financial support. Tyler would have left Catlynn a long time ago, but I cannot imagine her breaking the cycle of poverty and abuse with or without MTV money. I'd picture Catlynn working at a minimum wage job, or on disability (if she could qualify) or welfare. Kailyn and Maci might have had a chance at getting a job that could support one child, but probably not three. The MTV money is a huge disinvestment to investing in an education and getting a job, but I wonder if with Teen Mom money Abygail would go the route of Chelsea, and be a good mom and focus on intensive therapy to help her mental health. She's a lot brighter than Chelsea, so it would be interesting to see how that would turn out.

can we start a petition to have Kyla added to one of the teen mom shows? I don't need another unremarkable mess of a mother with absolutely no hope of improvement to replace the next cast member who quits or gets fired. Kyla actually has a chance of completing school (online at least) and having a career. She clearly has a lot of mental health issues but unlike a person fused to her couch is actually working on trying to solve them. I'd much rather watch her try to raise her daughter and improve herself than see someone else whose name I can't even remember get into a screaming fight with their ex and let their children run ferrel. I can watch Teen Mom in about 7 minutes since I fast forward through all the fighting people, plus Maci since I don't need to watch her humiliate Bentley or whine about Ryan.

Good for Shawn - he really held in there, trying to bring Amber back to reality. Amber, I understand that you suffer from mental illness but please try to remember that you are on a tv show. We can see when you visit your kid, and when you choose your boyfriends/drugs over them. Them - plural - since no one ever even seems to mention James anymore, and you can expect to have this crisis with him in 10 years if you don't get off the couch and go spend time with him. Oh, and there will be no one defending you in that household, so you can really see what an undermining coparent looks like. I feel really sorry for the professors at Purdue University. What on earth was the admissions office thinking? If she ever manages to enroll, they're going to get emails at 3 am asking for extensions due to all of the people in her life sabotaging her and preventing her from doing her work.

Maci's segments will be divided into Saint Maci storylines in which Maci heroically helps women with PCOS or since no one believes she has PCOS, she might eventually try to spin herself into a hero and role model for families affected by the opiod crisis. Unfortunately, the other half of her segments will be her humiliating Bentley for story lines such as when she asked him if he pooped at school and informed the whole world that he was afraid to use the bathroom at school, or when she thought it was a good idea to have a discussion about sex ed with Bentley on camera (it's really good to discuss sex ed with Bentley but not on camera for MTV).

I was a unhappy to see Gary tell Leah that their relationship "was a two way street" when Leah talked about her mom sleeping all the time during her visits and not spending time with her in general. Its good that Gary doesn't say anything bad about Amber to Leah, but when she quite accurately described her relationship with her mom and why she's upset she needs to know Gary and Christina are 100% on her side. And he's hurting Leah by making it feel like its her responsibility to fix the relationship with her mom. So many children of abusive parents lose themselves in trying to keep their parents happy and earn their love. Gary should never say anything bad about Amber, but he can just validate Leah's feelings when she says the truth about her mother. If Leah says, "she's never around," Gary can say, "I'm really sorry about that. That must be so hard." Leah isn't a little girl anymore. She knows exactly who her mother is, and any judge determining visitation and custody would take into account her wishes at this point. If Gary is still catering to Amber's delusions, that's either because he genuinely wants to help her or he wants to maintain a good relationship with her to keep the MTV Teen Mom gravy train rolling. I hope he meets with a child psychologist to get a sense of how to help Leah navigate this very difficult relationship. And no that doesn't include that brain dead quack Dr. Drew!

The snoo was after my time with infants, but we were passed down one of those fancy Mammoo swings, which was lovely. Just think of it this way - you can lend it out to your friends and get it back if you have another child, and you can eventually donate it to a friend when you are done having babies.

I think the basketball game looked so pathetic because of covid restrictions on fans. Of course, that raises the separate question of why an unranked (low ranked? whatever this is it isn't Gonzaga) college basketball program needs to travel halfway across the county for games or bring its cheerleaders to a game in Miami in the middle of a pandemic. Uh, Jenna, you are filming a show about teenage pregnancy. Normally in a high school, everyone knows you are pregnant about 15 minutes after you pee on a stick, but in your case you really don't need to officially confirm this fact since there's a whole camera crew following you around. Skip the whole baby shower altogether if you are hoping to avoid gossip and judgement. I can sympathize with the fact that Myrka's mom doesn't support the pregnancy, but she could handle this a little better. When your teenage daughter calls to tell you she's in labor, you can at least wish her well. It's not a great time to make an unkind comment - you've proven to her that you will not be rescuing her and her baby by throwing her out of the house, so you can afford to be kind now and just tell her good luck. With covid restrictions, a new mom is lucky if one person is allowed to come as the support system so Myrka's mom is even off the hook for showing up at the hospital.

This was my favorite episode since the first one where they explored the history of pizza and visited Ischia and the Amalfi coast. I really loved seeing his family and learning more about the Medici family. It would be interesting to see Stanley Tucci visit more countries; he has the same love of travel and respect for people that Anthony Bourdain had but of course he does have his acting career to continue and I'm guessing this series is a labor of love because he wants to share Italy with Americans.

I also loved seeing Tyne Daly

According to this article, the cast members are reportedly only being paid $425 per episode. Considering how badly most of them come off, and the fact that the cast changes so frequently, appearing seems like an even worse life decision than I would have originally thought. https://starcasm.net/reanna-taron-reportedly-cut-tlc-unexpected-season-4/ Also, the article speculates that the couple who left did so on their own, and that the producers did not choose to fire them. Not sure about that, but I guess if you only pay 425 per episode the risk you run is that someone will stop filming once they realize how badly they are coming off for nothing. The MTV twits are very well compensated for being hated by most of America (plus even the most brain dead useless lumps like Jenelle have crazy fans who support them).

I don't know how old the brother is now, but I'm guessing if he's at least 9, Mryka probably did the heavy lifting of watching him when he was little and the mom is going to let him be an unsupervised latchkey kid now. I taught in the NYC public school system, and would sometimes have parents tell me they didn't have time to deal with their kid's problems. It would be interesting to know if he's taking over chores of running the house, or if he just hangs out with his friends all the time (this would be a whole lot more interesting to watch than listening to people whine about baby daddies or try to tell the people who they dumped their kid on how they would like their child raised while they pursue their dreams of being a cheerleader and hanging out in Miami).

I had thought it was highly questionable to have fireworks and chair covers and dancers for a teenager's baby shower, but figured if Ethan's parents have that kind of money to burn, that's their choice. But if Ethan's dad is now working two jobs to support his new grandchild, then it was completely insane to host that kind of event unless discovery was footing the bill (which I don't think happened since none of the other girls got that kind of over the top bridezilla-esque baby shower). I agree that Liliana doesn't have to support the grandchild, but a lawyer would need to weigh in on whether she can legally refuse to support Myrka until her 18th birthday. I'm just not sure if Liliana can turn custody of Myrka over to the state or to Ethan's parents and not be required to pay child support. I'm just not certain if Myrka is considered an emancipated minor once she gives birth.

Legal abortion is one of the safest medical procedures, and much safer than giving birth. However, when I underwent IVF I was told that the saline sonogram to check for uterine scarring which is normally strongly recommended for everyone was especially recommended for me because I had a D&C after a miscarriage that didn't pass on its own (this is the exact same medical procedure as an abortion). I was told by my fertility doctor that a D&C carries a very slight risk of uterine scarring, which usually can be easily corrected, but should be treated prior to undergoing IVF. A saline sonogram is used to check the uterus for scarring, and mine, like the overwhelming majority of patients who undergo a D&C was absolutely fine. My SIL however had scarring from a D&C following a miscarriage that was not tested for and caused two later miscarriages. Then her doctors did a saline sonogram, discovered scarring, easily treated it, and she was able to have children after that. I don't say this to support the antiabortion movement - a termination in the first trimester is much less risky than giving birth, but while undergoing fertility treatment, Kate absolutely should have disclosed a prior D&C because there is a very small risk of uterine scarring that can be easily treated. She didn't have to tell Toby - she could have told the dr privately but it should be disclosed to the doctors who did her IVF.

The best plan for a teen parent would be an online community college degree, followed by an online or close in person degree at a state school, unless one qualified for a full ride in grants at a private university. Alternatively, there are some community college/public universities that offer vocational courses that lead to becoming a certified electrician, plumber or other skilled technicians. Those jobs can support a family and it might be a much better path for some of these girls. But looking at all of the girls who have appeared on the various iterations of this show and Teen Mom, I can't say that critical thinking skills appear to be their strength. Aside from Farrah on Teen Mom who seemed like she had a strong work ethic (although a completely unpleasant and possibly mentally ill person), I'm not sure we've even seen a girl on these shows who had any particular goals beyond getting paid for d-list reality tv fame. Cheer might be the only thing that gets that girl through college. Of course, if she winds up going into debt and never graduates so she can pursue her hobby of cheering, that would be a disaster, but at least attending college is a plan beyond attempting to be a "domestic engineer." The reunion was much better than the Teen Mom ones, and I was really glad not to see a moronic host ask stupid questions during the reunion. It would help me greatly if they did a brief compilation of who each of these girls are before updating their segment. 2020 felt like it was a hundred years long, so it took awhile into the segment until I remembered who each of the girls and their families and boyfriends were.

I'm wondering what is going on with Marcus. Did he actually invite his friends to meet Kristy and that got edited out to make him look extra creepy? Was he going overboard trying to convince Kristy that he would be a good father because he is respectful to his mom/housemom? Even if it was the producer's idea, why would he waste precious time while Kristy was there trying to fix his pants? Gut feeling - Stewart is one of those guys who will eventually get married, but normally the woman he marries will be a 20 something model, fitness instructor or pr person. The competitive aspect of this show might make him chose Kristy, but in real life I cannot imagine him marrying a woman her age (and I'm a woman her age so it's not even remotely a criticism of her).

I really liked how decisive she was in sending Alan home, saying that in her 20s she'd have chased after a guy who didn't really seem to be into her, but that she had learned a lot and was now sending that guy packing. I hope things work out either here or in real life for her.