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I wonder who picked the slogans for these t-shirts? I'm sure none of this was Amber's idea; probably someone(s) came to her and gassed her up about how her fans would love to buy merch from her (all funded by her, of course). So did those people convince her that "Fighter for Life" would be a good slogan for a known domestic abuser who is currently under court supervision? Are they trolling her? Amber's "brand" is "Crazy, Violent, Lazy Reality Star" or, most charitably, "Openly Mentally Ill." How does either of those translate to shirts that even remotely imply violence? Doesn't another one say "I'll Portwood Your Ass" or something? They have to be trolling her, right?
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On 11/24/2021 at 6:27 PM, toodywoody said:
For me, she never puts in the work. She just says her behavior is because of xyz and that's how it is and deal with it and never comes across as sorry for anything because it's just because of xyz. I truly believe without all of her mental disorders she would still be a hideous person.
ITA. Amber has real and serious mental illnesses and that sucks, but... she's also just a horrible person. I believe that her assholeish tendencies are exacerbated by her mental illnesses, but... she's still an asshole. Lots of people dealing with mental illness(es) are kindhearted, sweet, compassionate, empathetic people. Amber is none of those things and she seems to want to use her diagnoses as a "Get Out of Jail Free" card that means she never has to really take responsibility for her behavior/choices. She feels like everyone, including her kids, needs to "understand" that she's mentally ill and, therefore, it's unfair and unkind to judge her for anything she does or even to feel bad because of her actions.
She abandoned Leah emotionally and practically and physically, but she wants Gary/her psychiatrist/Leah's potential therapist to "explain" to Leah that Leah shouldn't feel bad about that or blame Amber because it's "not Amber's fault" because she's mentally ill. It doesn't even occur to her, at all, that maybe she should think/care about Leah's feelings. Like, that's not even a blip on her radar. The best she can muster is, "I get why Leah feels bad, but I don't think she understands why I'm such a shitty mom. Someone needs to explain that to her so she'll stop hassling me." She thinks that if Leah "understood" her mental illnesses, she'd get that she should perform a close relationship on Amber's terms and stop feeling bad because Amber is so self-involved and malicious. So when Leah saw a video of Amber maligning the woman who takes care of her every day while Amber wallows in her mental illnesses and focuses on her bfs, Leah would feel like she had to defend and protect Poor Amber and call Kristina a homewrecking slut who sabotaged her relationship with her "real mom," etc., etc. Amber would love that. She'd be happier if Leah were a troubled teen, acting out and giving Gary and Kristina hell because she blamed them for hurting Poor Amber. Deep down (well, actually, not that deep down, just below the surface level), Amber doesn't give a fuck about anyone else, including her kids. But she wants that to be ok because- SHE'S MENTALLY ILL!!!
If she deserves a pass for all the horrible shit she does because of her mental illnesses, don't OriginalRecipe!Matt, nuMatt, and all of the other people who have allegedly done her wrong deserve the same consideration? Or does she win the Blameless Olympics because she's the most mentally ill? Gary arguably has some kind of emotional issues that led him to being in an abusive relationship with Amber, so why does he have to put up with all of her bullshit on top of taking 100% responsibility for Leah, along with all of the other stuff he has to do (while Amber has no responsibilities at all)? Kristina probably has emotional issues; Leah certainly has emotional issues, but none of that matters in comparison to Poor Amber, the World's Most Important Mental Patient, who makes 6 figures self-medicating, lounging on her bed/couch and spewing vitriol at anyone she thinks isn't being sufficiently accommodating to her.
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On 11/20/2021 at 11:39 AM, Cinnabon said:
I think she is truly severely mentally ill and would be on disability if not for the MTV money. IMO she has a personality disorder, and those are very hard to treat even with meds. None of this excuses how she acts and treats her kids, but I think her mental illnesses are real. Thank goodness her kids both have dads able to raise them.
ITA. Amber's mental illnesses are obviously real. What she doesn't seem to understand is that others have the right to protect themselves and their kids from her abusive, hurtful behavior. They're not being "mean" or "ignorant" or "insensitive." If someone is a homicidal maniac, that's a "mental illness," but it doesn't mean that people have to let her kill them or be totally fine with her killing people and just do whatever the killer wants to support, protect, and enable her while she goes on killing people.
Amber doesn't understand that other parents have a hard time getting out of bed to visit their kids because of their mental (or physical) illnesses. Or even just the stresses of being a functional adult. Depending on the circumstances, many of them get out of bed anyway because they want to do the best they can for their kids. And Amber only has to visit with her kids, it's not like she's actually taking care of them. She's "too sick" to see her kids once a week for a few hours for weeks and weeks at a time and she doesn't even call to talk to the kid or try to come by another time. When anyone calls her out, she gets defensive and self-pitying, insisting that everyone, including her kids, should "understand" that she's mentally ill, which justifies all of her behavior. Same thing when she posts nasty rants about Leah's real mom online, embarrassing and hurting Leah. Same thing when she chases James and his dad with a machete. Same when she intentionally tries to hurt Leah and ruin her 12th birthday by blowing her off at the last minute (again). Etc., etc. Amber isn't even sorry for all the horrible shit she does; she doesn't even pretend to be. She actually blames everyone else and paints herself as a victim. Even on her best day, she has ZERO gratitude toward Kristina and Gary for taking care of her kid and she's actually pissed at Kristina for it. She seriously believes that that makes sense and that Kristina has somehow wronged her by being a great stepmom to Leah (while Amber was in jail/more focused on herself or her latest bf). Like, she seriously expects other people to see it like that too, even Leah. How can anyone have a healthy relationship with someone like that?
Amber isn't just benignly mentally ill. She's extremely toxic and abusive and she seems to have no empathy, even for her own kids (who have been through a lot, mostly because of Amber). It's really impressive that Leah is able to recognize that and set some boundaries with Amber since Gary and Kristina have been so codependent and enabling with Amber up to this point (K seems to be done now). I hope Leah is able to get help in understanding that choosing not to endlessly indulge Amber is appropriate and healthy and find a way to make peace with her birth mom being in her life on a limited basis (if at all). I think it's unrealistic to think that Amber will someday get it together to the point where Leah will be able to have a "normal" close relationship with her in a healthy way.
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32 minutes ago, teapot said:
I might sound insensitive; I fortunately don’t have an illness that requires me to take meds to feel normal. And I know mental illnesses are real.
BUT Amber is milking it, right? She looked so smug while trying to explain to Gary that he wasn’t “like her”, like it made her special or something. I’m positive we have ordinary moms in this world who are “like her” who just get up, take their medication, take their kids to school, go to work and get on with it
Yeah. Amber is a horrible "mental health advocate" because she's not managing her mental health issues well. At all. With all due sensitivity and consideration, she just isn't. She doesn't have any kind of custody of either of her kids (rightfully, for the kids' well-being); she keeps getting in trouble with the law for acting out violently; she posts destructive (to herself and her kids), "crazy" rants on SM; she doesn't seem to understand why her daughter has been hurt/alienated by her behavior; etc., etc. Amber is a mess. There are mentally ill people who are holding down jobs, being good parents, helping others, raising awareness about managing mental illness, planting flowers in the park, whatever. Amber isn't doing any of that stuff. Personally, I don't even necessarily buy her story that she's getting As and Bs in her two classes at Purdue Global (but good for her if she is).
Amber's idea of "raising awareness" about mental illness is convincing everyone in her life and the general public that people who can claim "mental illness" should be exempt from any judgment or scrutiny of their actions. "Oh, you slapped me/chased me with a machete while I was holding our baby?-- No problem! You're mentally ill! That makes it all ok! My bad! I'm sorry! No really, I should have understood that you have an uncontrollable need to abuse me and our child. I apologize for being such an insensitive asshole. Are you ok, Amber? Is there anything I can do for you (besides taking 100% responsibility for caring for our child since you obviously can't because-- Hey, MENTAL ILLNESS-- but you're still an awesome mom!) Again, I'm so sorry! I'm such an asshole and you're awesome!" She's literally delusional.
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On 11/17/2021 at 12:23 AM, eskimo said:
It looks like Kristina is completely over Gary trying to accommodate Amber. If she said that on camera then things must really be boiling under the surface, otherwise she'd have smiled and nodded until the cameras left.
I noticed that too. Good for Kristina being over Amber and her bullshit. I think Gary's heart is in the right place with trying to find a way to positively engage Amber in Leah's/their lives, but... it's Amber. She's fucked up. There's nothing her psychiatrist can explain to make it ok. She seriously hopes that therapy for Leah would entail a mental health professional telling Leah that she's got Amber all wrong and that Amber is a great mom who's always been there for her, but Amber has some mental health issues that are totally beyond her control. Those issues somehow make Amber prioritize men over her daughter, blow off visits, and be totally self-involved.
In all fairness, the self-involvement probably is due to Amber's mental illnesses and that's kind of the root cause of the other behaviors. BUT "I'm an asshole because I'm mentally ill, so everyone just has to accept it and excuse all of my assholeish behavior" doesn't really work, especially with a child. Amber's idea of "resolving things" is to make Leah/Gary/Kristina understand that Amber is Mentally Ill, so whatever she does is ok and their role is to unconditionally support and kowtow to her. Gary's idea is to somehow make Amber a functional adult/parent who gives a fuck about her daughter. They'll never be on the same page. Gary needs to focus on supporting Leah in understanding and accepting that her birth mother will never care about her the way she should and moving forward positively however she can. That's a very tall order which leaves little/no bandwidth for trying to make Amber feel better about being an asshole.
Do people who already have two kids really go on "babymoons"? It was so weird hearing Cate go on about how they won't have any time for themselves after the baby comes when-- they already have two young kids. Obviously, those kids will get less attention when there's a newborn in the house, so how about having a "parentingmoon" during which they give the kids extra attention in anticipation of them having to adjust to their baby sister? No? Too child-focused? I can't imagine how stressful it is for two people who have no jobs to contemplate having to care for their infant (who isn't even a boy!). My heart goes out to them.
Speaking of two parents, zero jobs, I am riveted by the ongoing saga of How Will Maci and Taylor Organize Picking Up and Dropping Off Their Three Kids for School and Activities? Hopefully, MTV will do a spinoff show focusing on that exclusively. I didn't even understand what Maci's alleged beef was. Does she feel like it's a parenting failure if anyone but her or Taylor picks the kids up from school? Why? People with jobs have to rely on others picking up/dropping off their kids all the time. Are they all substandard parents? What damage does it do to kids to have a non-parent pick them up from school? Is it greater than the damage that having their privacy sold on MTV does? I hate Maci.
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On 11/10/2021 at 1:13 PM, Marisagf said:
Rage Regardless Ryder. It's the charity Cheyenne has for her daughter's VLCAD issue. I think. I have no idea what that phrase is supposed to mean.
I thought it was "Ryder Raging Regardless," but I admit that I have no idea. I guess the upside of the RRR name is that it doesn't matter what order the words go in? Taking the "meaningless phrase" thing to a new level...
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3 minutes ago, toodywoody said:
I can't believe she's 13 already. It's time for her to have privacy.
Yeah. These kids have basically lived The Truman Show since they were born. It must be weird for them reaching adolescence and starting to put together how warped that is, especially for TM kids like Leah whose parents/experiences are so fucked up. I was just trying to think of a TM kid whose parents/experience aren't fucked up and I couldn't come up with anyone except maybe Ryder, who is still pretty young and, hopefully, the show will be over by the time she's old enough to really understand what's going on.
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13 hours ago, MaggieG said:
I'm also wondering what's happening there. Did she actually go to DC, get pregnant and decide to leave again?
I FFed most of Cheyenne's segments, so I only saw the part with her sister saying she was pregnant and was happy her kids would be back in CA with her. I was confused about the timeline with her moving to DC to be with her son's dad and what their relationship status (I assumed he was the dad) is. So that wasn't explained on the show?
12 hours ago, Jeanne222 said:I was thinking about Leah and Amber. When Leah was telling the story of the video Amber immediately made it all about her by getting up and leaving.
Perhaps Leah is afraid Amber will take her away from Gary and Kristina. Maybe Amber could have reassured her by saying something nice like 'I'm sorry the little girl was worried. Young people should have a voice in where they want to live and where they are happy".
Amber needs to become the mother and stop being the offended party. She's not that. She has for a long time been the offender.
Sadly for Leah, I think there's pretty much no hope for Amber to be an even ok parent. She actually held it together pretty well (for her) with Leah snarking on her to her face and not buying into the Poor Amber Show (which, Go, Leah!, not just for giving Amber her just desserts, but also for being true to herself and not falling for Amber's (and even, to some extent, Gary's) gaslighting).
Amber is hopelessly narcissistic and just generally fucked up. A big part of her problem with Leah (and probably with James in the future) is that, deep down, she doesn't really give a fuck. I believe that she cares about Leah on a superficial (for an egg donor/gestational carrier) level, but if Leah challenges her (even as a child who's obviously hurt by Amber's neglect) she's quick to go to "Fuck Leah." Amber is already framing Leah speaking up about how she feels about Amber being such an objectively shitty mom as Leah being bratty and unreasonable while Amber is being generous and patient, though (justifiably) annoyed, in response. Uh, no. The bullshit with her complaining about having wasted her time (basically) driving 40 minutes to see her daughter was nauseating. Especially since Amber has no job or other responsibilities besides having her son visit for a few hours once a week (which she was hoping to fob off on Gary and Kristina like she did before when James was visiting and she took him over there every time, sometimes leaving him there while she went somewhere else). Oh, sorry, I forgot about all the hours she spends studying to maintain her A-B average at Purdue
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1 hour ago, BrownBear2012 said:
Maci: Is it me? That whole "sick' with PCOS thing looked fake as hell. Taylor checking in on her looked fake, moaning on and on about PTSD...please. It all looked rehearsed and scripted. If that truly is her diet, that's pretty bad. A banana for breakfast, a Coke for lunch and Chick Filet for dinner? I think that was it. And why did that woman have to drive to see Maci in person for ten minute conversation and diet plan? Fake, fake, fake...she has no compelling storyline this season without Ryan and his family of fools. It would appear that Taylor has no job to go to. Another Teen dad just sitting on the couch.
I had the exact same thoughts about Maci's storylines being totally fake/staged. Last week when Bentley "spontaneously" asked her to pick him up from school was so obviously fake. Are we to believe that all this time, for months, she has just refused to pick up/drop off B at school without explanation and that B just randomly asked her to pick him up from school one day, totally not seeming pressed or concerned, and she filled him in on the PTSD she's been suffering with for months and he was just like, "Oh, ok."? There are lots of scenes with Taylor that are obviously staged/scripted (by Maci). I think her only real scenes are with the little kids and even then, her prompts/reactions are fake/planned. I hate Maci.
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1 hour ago, sandwoman said:
THIS. Also I HATED that Cate said "we're weaning her" as she's holding a screaming child who they are making go cold turkey. That's not weaning! They don't know anything! They don't even have to read a book, literally they could google "How to wean two year old from pacifier" and find simple blogs and videos with tips that aren't torturing a poor baby for no reason.
And what made it all so much worse for me was that I felt like C & T were doing it for a storyline on the show. Neither of them strikes me as thoughtful enough for it to occur to them to try to change their child's behavior except to eliminate behaviors that are annoying for C & T. The binky is the opposite, a simple thing that keeps the kid out of their hair sometimes. I don't see why either of them would even think to "wean" Vaeda from the binky. It's not like they read about in a parenting magazine or heard about it from a friend in a moms group. I think the only rationale they expressed was Ty saying, "Who wants their kid using a binky when they're [some age]?!" [in that super cool and funny way he has. why hasn't he been swooped up to star in a sitcom yet?!]
I think they were trying to come up with some kind of "Vaeda's going to be a big sister now. How will that affect her?" storyline (like Nova's last week) and the binky thing seemed like a good idea. Since they're morons and horrible parents, it was the best they could come up with and they didn't even think to look up any information about how to support your child in making that transition. I'm sure they thought the storyline would make them relatable to "normal" parents, but, like all their attempts to appear "normal," just-- no.
It's gotten to the point where all of the OGs + Mackenzie have resorted to a strategy of using their kids' challenges and life events as content so they can maintain their own privacy. It's disgusting. Cheyenne's Party of the Week storylines are annoying and boring, but at least she's not exploiting her kids (as much).
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Bentley's Orange Mullet is literally the most interesting aspect of Maci's story, yet they haven't addressed it at all. I would much rather hear about BOM- whose idea was it? how and when was it executed? what kind of reaction does it get?- than listen to Maci drone on about her alleged PTSD.
Why did Cate and Ty have a third child? Well, I know why, but every one of their segments screams "PLEASE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE KIDS!!!" It seems like they barely interact with either of the kids they have, though they do chat with Nova a bit more now that she's older. Vaeda, like Nova when she was younger, always seems to be running around screaming in the background while her parents melt into the couch glued to their phones.
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1 hour ago, Cosmocrush said:
As far as story lines go, like many before me have noted this show should be over. None of the stories are compelling and none of their lives are very interesting anymore. Even Maci has cleaned up her Big Pile O'Crap - literally and metaphorically. I was glad to see and hear very little Bentley problems this week.
Yeah, it's really gotten to the level of Beyond Ridiculous at this point. All of the actual OGs' kids are too old to be involved in this mess; Mackenzie's story is just depressing; and Cheyenne was never a teen mom and her kids aren't even in the same age range as the OGs. If they wanted to bring in a random "teen mom," why didn't they get someone around the same age as Amber/Cate/Maci who had a kid as a teen? They could have found someone who ended up getting some type of education and career (to contrast with the OGs). That would have been somewhat interesting and still in keeping with the original intent of the show. Even a more developed and successful (apart from MTV) teen mom in her late 20s could have interesting stories related to having a child who's much older than people would think based on her career/lifestyle; having a partner who isn't her kid's biodad; dealing with her kid's biodad; etc. Not that I'm advocating for more adolescents to have their privacy sold on MTV, but someone like that could have worked. Or some very trainwrecky woman who had her first child as a teen and had something else interesting going on. I just don't see what Cheyenne or Mackenzie add to the show. Cheyenne is just boring and annoying and Mackenzie is boring and annoying and sad.
Maci's segments have literally come to featuring her struggles with going to all of her kids' sports activities. No, seriously. How could anyone imagine that anyone gives a fuck about that? Cate and Ty are featuring Cate's fake career fucking up people's eyebrows and Ty going on about how he wants a son and he's tripping on ketamine for therapy. Amber's story at least provides some level of entertainment marveling at how fucked up she is and cheering Leah on in calling her out (and they didn't even include that this week).
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1 hour ago, estellasmum said:
See, I think that would be a normal feeling for most people. I'm just not that sure that is how Amber feels about Gary and Kristina's life. There is a biiiiig part of me that feels that as long as she has a couch, the ability to order things online, and nothing to do, that IS her definition of a good life. Maybe even living one's best life.
I think Amber is envious of the image that Gary and Kristina have as functional, even good, parents, adults, and community members. She would love it if people saw her as that type of person rather than a nasty, lazy, crazy drug addict. However, I don't believe for one second that when she sees IG posts of Kristina taking Leah to the dentist, or even making cupcakes or something, she thinks, "I wish I could do that stuff with Leah. Even going to a dr.'s appointment would be an opportunity to spend time with her and I want her to know she can count on me to take care of her." She's enraged because she would like to post images of herself doing that stuff on SM. If Kristina offered to let Amber take pics of herself with Leah in the parking lot of the dentist's office, Amber would be more than happy to come to do that for 10 minutes, then leave.
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That's the best I've seen Cate looking in years.
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I wonder what the official protocols are around what questions and follow-up questions the hosts are allowed to ask. I thought Bar's "I don't understand the basis for these questions?" was OTT ridiculous and I wish they would have responded, "They're based on police reports that you were arrested and have felony charges pending. Is that information correct?"
It was also ridiculous for Ashley to try characterize them as finally having their shit together and Bar's lawbreaking being 3 years ago when he has felony charges pending. His nearly resolved DUI charges are funny compared to that. And, even apart from that, does Bar have a job? Last we heard about his college career, he forgot about his midterms. What about him says "Good Husband Material" to Ashley or her mom?
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2 hours ago, StatisticalOutlier said:
I'd always thought Briana has kept her timeshare-selling job throughout the show, but something Devoin said at the reunion made it sound like she had the job during the time that her iteration of TM was cancelled or whatever, but doesn't have it any more, since the show started airing again. I remember that she was working at some point during the show, but now that I think about it, that hasn't been mentioned lately. And wasn't there some sort of salon deal she was involved in? Maybe that's her job now, which would be much more related to her TM stardom than selling timeshares.
Was she even selling timeshares? My understanding was that she had some kind of admin support job at a timeshare company. Either way, kudos to her for having a job, but I think people who sell timeshares have greater income potential and at least the possibility of building an "upper-middle class career," even without a lot of education or work experience.
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12 hours ago, Adiba said:
Didn’t watch, but why did Kail say she started harvesting her eggs before she found out she had PCOS? Didn’t she think she was going to have fertility issues before getting pregnant with Lux? She makes no sense. There is so much bullshit that comes out of that girl’s mouth she should wear a diaper around her head.
I don't 100% believe that Kail was/is harvesting her eggs, but, before the PCOS story, she was telling a story that her doctor had told her she was infertile and would need to do IVF, etc. to get pregnant after Lincoln. She claimed that Lux was, therefore, a "miracle baby," but I feel like she dropped the miracle baby stuff with Creed (or maybe I just missed it). Based on that story, I think maybe she was claiming to be harvesting her eggs a while ago (at least before the PCOS story). If there's any truth to the egg harvesting, I would guess that it's rooted in Kail's personal pathology of seeing babies as relationship glue/insurance/trophies and inability to imagine a "serious" relationship without having kids in common. I think she'll probably have more kids, but without medical intervention (who doesn't love a "miracle baby"?).
7 hours ago, Scarlett45 said:Devion kind of reminds me of the husband of my sister's former caregiver, who's name also started with a D.
D had a lot of demons, basically raised his little brothers and sisters, his Mom was awful to him and her boyfriends abused him. D dropped out of high school, could barely read, met a woman and had ONE child. When his child was growing up he was better about keeping a low skill job, but he drank A LOT. He bounced around to various relatives homes sleeping on sofas, in basements and guest rooms. He eventually met my sister's caregiver in his later years and married her, he is a good caregiver to her in their senior years (she is sick from diabetes). My sister ADORES D. ADORES HIM- and trust her instincts better than my own about human character. And he always treated my sister REALLY well, they adored each other.
Devion like D, probably does have a kind spirit, but has a lot of demons and is not capable of "adulting". Not a morally corrupt human being, but not someone you want to raise a child with. What makes that sad is that if he "got it together" he could be a REALLY great parent/caregiver because he has the heart for nurturing others. I trust the instincts of children, Stella adores him which likely means he is a kind person.
But Devion is not going to change until HE wants to do so, so Brianna needs to cut it out. I understand she wants a storyline, but god damn it CUT IT OUT.
I know people that are freezing their eggs if they have the financial means to do so, and they have not found a partner around 30/31, just in case. But these people do not have ANY children. Kailyn has FOUR. There is nothing wrong with her meeting "the love of her life" later (although Kailyn is so awful, who would fall in love with her for real) and NOT having a child together.
Yes, of course there is nothing saying women cannot have more than 4 children, but Kailyn has not demonstrated she is caring for (emotionally) the children she has- much less any others that would come along.
It struck me that poor Stella has no idea what makes someone a "dad" and she has her mom telling her that this creepy stranger is her dad and she's, therefore, obligated to love him and spend time with him whenever he feels like stopping by. Meanwhile, her sister gets a dad who is cool and comes around to play with them and cook for them at least semi-regularly. It wouldn't be surprising if she thought that maybe she could ditch Luis and upgrade to a better dad like Devoin. She's used all the agency she has to try to accomplish that. On multiple occasions, she's said, "I don't like my dad; I like Devoin." and now, apparently, she's gotten herself included on Nova's visits with Devoin. She might think that will make Devoin her dad instead of Luis. Good for her, but heartbreaking.
I think Devoin is a decent person (better than Briana), though kind of a fuck up at life in general. But if it weren't for MTV and support from her family, I doubt that Briana would be doing much better than him. Even if she is "better" than him, she should appreciate the emotional support that he provides for both of her daughters (as well as at least semi-consistent childcare). She doesn't have to think Devoin is the best dad ever or buy him a medal, but she could stop publicly haranguing him and lying about him and trashing him in front of both kids all the time.
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Kail's almost total focus on the weight gain aspect of her alleged PCOS further convinced me that it's all bull. Out of all the potential symptoms, that's the only one she claims to have and her primary concern isn't the health ramifications, but how hurtful it is for people online to criticize her for being fat. Drew and Nessa tried to throw her a lifeline with the questions about the potential fertility issues and she was like, "Yeah, that too. But I started harvesting my eggs before I found out I had PCOS..." I think she landed on this as an excuse for her weight gain that she could use to silence and shame anyone who gave her shit. If she loses the weight, she'll undoubtedly go on and on about how hard it was with her PCOS and how she hopes she can be an inspiration to other women with health problems that cause them to gain weight.
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19 hours ago, zenme said:
Brianna‘s treatment of Devoin was OTT. It started off so nicely in her thanking him for being there for Stella. Luis is an ass.
18 hours ago, Rebky said:It's like she realized she was acting way too normal and flipped her bitch switch.
I think Briana feels like her brand is "Badass single mom who does it all on her own and isn't shy about calling out her trifling baby daddies," so she tries to have these "epic" moments where she imagines all the single mom supporters out there are going, "Yeah, you tell him, Bri! He's a bum just like my dad/baby daddy!" Even if it makes no sense. So, this time, she started off with Devoin tearfully thanking him for loving Stella, then was ripping into him moments later. I think it's largely a performance for her that she thinks is what her "fans" want to see. I thought Devoin was right to leave when she started carrying on. She wasn't trying to resolve anything; she just wanted to make a big scene for TV.
And what she doesn't seem to get, at all, is that "Amazing, Independent, Together" single moms don't put so much energy into bitching and crying about their baby daddies, in front of their kids, on SM, and on TV. Especially when they have enough money to support the kids very comfortably. Especially when they have consciously chosen not to "put the dads on child support." She's setting a horrible example for her daughters in so many ways. It's sad how her mom and sister are always telling her what a great mom she is. She's actually a terrible mom, IMO. Which is why all the "grilling" the new bf to see whether he's good enough for Briana was such a joke. In reality, he should be getting an STD screening and doubling up on birth control. That's not even snark or hyperbole; it's a rational response to dating someone with Briana's history. I realize that he is probably as nasty as she is, but still.
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2 hours ago, StatisticalOutlier said:
I'd forgotten this. Do we know why they had to pay a year's rent in advance? I mean, just looking at Bar and his forehead and teardrop tattoos I'd demand it, but I'm judgy like that. I'm wondering what their landlord was basing it on.
As I recall from the episode where Ashley talked about it, it was supposedly because the house was newly constructed and "most people don't want to rent out a brand new house." Except that that makes no sense. I would assume that the real reason is that they have a bad credit score/rental history and/or because they were planning to have film crews coming in and out.
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On 7/20/2021 at 10:07 PM, TooMuchRealityTV said:
Leah, a cyst is not a tumor. It's not something your kids need to be informed about. You don't have cancer. Even if you legit thought you might you should probably wait until you were certain before telling the kids. They shouldn't have to worry about something like that unless you really have cancer. Please come up with a better fake storyline next year, or retire from reality tv.
I was actually impressed by how Leah managed to spin a cyst into a 3-4 episode "OMG, what if I have cancer?!" storyline (after being told in like the first episode that it wasn't a tumor and wasn't cancerous), but yeah. Completely ridiculous. I can't blame her for fucking with MTV to get the check, but she shouldn't have involved the kids.
10 hours ago, BrownBear2012 said:I was appalled at Brianna's ill conceived decision to allow Luis to pick up Stella from school. Because she never knew her father, she is determined to force a relationship between Luis and Stella, despite the fact that Stella clearly is uncomfortable and frightened of him. To me, this is abusive. Stella's fear and dislike of him is concerning. If this was my child I would keep him at arms length and not allow her to be alone with him. Luis creepy and gross...Brianna had a drunken one night stand/booty call with a loser she met in a nightclub. She did not have a meaningful or loving relationship to build a healthy foundation for a relationship between Stella and Luis...so stop...just stop. You are terrorizing your daughter. If you want child support on a regular basis, go to court. But stop pushing this relationship mess with your daughter. It's not meant to be and Stella seems just fine being loved by her mom, grandma and auntie...for the good of this child STOP!
All of this, but I feel like it's not even really about Briana wanting Stella to have a relationship with her sperm donor; it's about Briana wanting a storyline for her reality show. Disgusting. Stella has very clearly stated that she doesn't like Luis and doesn't want to be alone with him over and over. It's weird and disturbing that Briana ignores that while she feigns concern for storyline reasons. I wasn't even sure that she really met with an attorney because what she said makes no sense. Based on what she's said previously, Luis has no "parental rights" to revoke. He doesn't see Stella because he has court-mandated visitation; he sees her because Briana allows him to whenever he asks/it's convenient for her. It was sad to see the Coven sitting around bitching about what an asshole Luis is while they allowed him to pick Stella up alone. Why couldn't any of them have gone with him to make Stella more comfortable? I think they wanted Stella to have a meltdown for "storyline reasons," which is abusive and disgusting.
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31 minutes ago, BrownBear2012 said:
Stella picks up on all the bad vibes that Brianna and Brittany spew about Luis right in front of her...it's no wonder she has a response like this when she's told he's coming over.
Yeah, this too. Brianna constantly talks about what a deadbeat Luis is and negatively compares him to even Devoin in front of Stella, then she turns around and is all, "Why don't you want to see your dad, Stella? You have to be nice to him; he's your dad!" Brianna has pretty explicitly had sex with Luis in order to incentivize him to spend time with his daughter (to no avail), yet she still essentially gaslights Stella about him. "Your dad is meeting us at the park!... Psych!" "Your dad is coming over to spend an hour with you while I run errands! Why aren't you happy and excited?! Stop being so obnoxious!" It's so twisted.
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5 hours ago, Snarky McSnarky said:
Definition of humblebrag: To make a seemingly modest, self-critical, or casual statement or reference that is meant to draw attention to one's admirable or impressive qualities or achievements.
Exhibit A:
And I'm SO TIRED of Kail trying to make her "chaos" seem cute. Yes, a household with four young kids is probably going to be rambunctious/noisy/messy, but "chaos" isn't cute. Especially when the primary chaos isn't the kids being hyper, but Baby Daddy #3-4 being dragged away by police after some kind of dust-up (again) with the World's Best Boy Mom. Or the World's Best Boy Mom having (another) falling out with one of her friends/childcare providers. Or WBBM having (another) falling out with one of her baby daddies. Or WBBM just having a meltdown for no particular reason.
Untreated mental illness (especially in a parent of 4 kids) isn't cute. Kail takes no responsibility for the chaos she has already created in her kids' lives and doesn't seem realistically resolved to be less chaotic in the future. She doesn't even seem to get how the chaos is problematic for her kids, even if they're (at this point) pretty well behaved and they go to private schools.
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S11.E09: Falling On The Grenade
in Teen Mom 2
All of this. Roxanne and Briana seem to have this idea that if they can just figure out the right strategy, they can somehow force Luis to be a good and caring father. And that, in the meantime, they have to force Stella to want and enjoy attention from her
sperm donordad. That's a big part of the Operation Make Luis Be a Good Dad strategy. If only Stella and Luis would comply, everything would be great!It sucks for Stella. If they had never mentioned Luis coming to the lunch, she would have just been excited to see Devoin and if Luis showed up and it wasn't totally awkward with him, that would have been a bonus. But Briana needed drama for her storyline on her reality show, so she had to do the whole, "Do you want your daddy to come? Ok, I'll invite him..." I hate Briana.
Yeah. Javi seriously needs his head examined if he's even thinking about getting back together with Kail. The whole scene seemed very fake to me. This entire episode struck me as odd in terms of most of the scenes being obviously staged to provide (phony) exposition. It was all very, "So, Dad, how do you feel about Leah's new boyfriend?" "Oh, I think he's great, son." Weird.