I haven’t been able to record Teen Mom 2 lately due to scheduling problems. I thought I would do a quick recap to catch up. The first episode I missed is finally on Demand, so I’ll hit the highlights of that before recapping the second one that did record.
Leah
Leah has is in Greenville, SC. I think I might like to move there. It’s a really cool town. I used to go there on the weekends sometimes when I lived i Greenwood. Leah has decided to do another motivational speech. It’s really terrible. AGAIN. I wonder how much they had to pay these people to come. They seem miserable. Leah thinks it went great. Because, Leah.
I swear the only time Leah’s kids eat is when they are in the car, and it is always crap. Olive Garden is sponsoring Jenelle’s wedding and possibly Chelsea’s reception. It’s not much of a step up, but a bowl of spaghetti would be better than all the hot dogs and Cheetos, and beef jerky. Especially for the kid with health issues.
Corey takes his girls fishing. I notice we haven’t seen Jeremy’s girl the past two episodes. I wonder what is going on there? These two girls are fighting a lot. Allie was not into the fishing trip at all but the other one was having fun. At the drop off Corey tells Lean that Aleeah needs some counseling regarding her aggression toward her twin sister. Wow, Aleeah thinks she caused Ali’s MD by squishing her up in the womb.
Kailyn
Kailyn is mad that Javi and Jo are not coming to her graduation. Then she says she doesn’t want them there. Baby Daddy #3 is not coming either. Neither is her mother. I just realized that the chick who went to graduation with her is Becky, her girlfriend. She was on the first episode of Marriage Boot Camp last night. It’s odd seeing her in the audience with the boys hanging all over her.
A very pregnant Kailyn is taking the boys to St. Thomas. This seems like a ridiculous idea. Javi has told Kail that he will drop the child support case if shows him proof she has dropped the protective order. She has not done that, so they still have a hearing set the week she is jetting off to St. Thomas. Javi had no idea she was taking the boys until he dropped off Lincoln. Kail says she will go to the courthouse the next day and get the paperwork regarding the PFA. Kail says that she got the info on the PFA and sent a photo in an email to Javi, but he says that is not dropping anything until they talk. Javi says he will drop it the next day, the same day they go on vacation.
Briana
Briana is coming home from the hospital with Stella. She says that Stella is fine but she has a really miserable cry. Nova is NOT happy to be a big sister. Luis is staying with the Nova and the baby for a few days. I do not expect that to go well. Briana’s mom is such a meddler when it comes to Luis. Then she calls him a loser and a douchebag. If Luis is not going to contribute, why was he so against adoption? Maybe it is just editing, but Luis seems to be trying. He also seems depressed. Briana’s mother and sister are NOT HELPING things. Nova is always in the room even when Briana is reading her mean texts to Luis.
We get the pleasure of Stella shitting all over Briana. Luis has excuses for not coming over to the house. Briana is mad that Luis would not let her put Stella up for adoption. After leaving on the second night, Luis never came back. A day or so later, Briana noticed that Stella’s hands and feet were blue and she wasn’t breathing normally. Stella was taken to the hospital.
Chelsea
Things are still perfect in South Dakota. Chelsea is planning her public reception to celebrate her wedding. She’s decided to do a smaller one in her hometown. They are pitching a big tent in a park and renting a dance floor. Chelsea talks to her lawyer about Aubree’s visitation. She also wants to hyphenate her last name to include Cole’s last name. She is worried about Aubree’s visitation due to the drug situation.
Jenelle
All we ever see David doing is working in the yard getting ready for the wedding. Jenelle just sits there drinking her Starbucks. Olive Garden is going to cater the wedding with chicken alfredo and breadsticks.
Barbara is sad that she doesn’t have a relationship with Jenelle anymore. I get it, Barb but it’s probably best that way. Jenelle is just inviting 120 of her closest friends to the wedding. Was there an open casting call for friends? Is this the first time that Jenelle makes it down the aisle? I just realized she is dress shopping in NYC.
Jenelle and David are fighting and will not let producers in the house. David is threatening to call the police on production. The next day production returns and everyone acts like nothing happened. David gets pissed when production asks about the fight and takes off.
Barbara calls Jenelle screaming at her about booking Jace’s birthday party. Barbara says she will just book a separate one. Barbara tells Jenelle that the therapist wants he to have sessions with Jace but without David. Jace has a lot of anxiety now. Ya think? I had anxiety watching Barbara and Jenelle screaming at each other. Someone needs to be the adult.
Jenelle decides not to hire a professional photographer for her photos. What photos? Some picture of her in daisy dukes hanging off a wooden save the date sign. Instead, she has a producer shoot the photos while Doughnut is having a major meltdown screaming, “Feed me!” It is heart breaking and I don’t know how the producers deal with this sort of thing. I’d have already picked him up, rules be damned. David just keeps screaming at Kaiser and the two lovebirds make out in between talking about how annoying Kaiser is being. Jace plays quietly alone. These two need to lose custody of all their children. They are horrible parents.
I can’t stop watching this show even though it’s heartbreaking. Aubrey is the only child on the show with a stable home life and even she has to deal with a deadbeat, drug-addict birth father. I understand Briana’s frustration that Luis was against the adoption but now that the baby is here she needs to stop talking about it. Poor Stella will watch these episodes one day and see how desperate her mom was to give her up. Jenelle is severely mentally ill and regularly attracts other mentally ill people. The selfishness and narcissism of these parents is outstanding.
Janelle was married, briefly, to some dude named Courtland. David and Courtland met in jail. When David was released he looked Jenelle up. Now they are married. Having been in an abusive relationship, I recognize the signs. David is isolating jenelle, demeaning her, scaring her speechless and gaslighting her. It is sad to watch. I feel heartache watching how Jace and Kaiser are treated.
Fast forward Briana.
Lincoln and Isaac seem to love Kail very much so she is doing something right. They also have manners, are reasonably well behaved and are loving toward one another.
Leah has her hands full.
It just dawned on me. Was that “squished in the womb” a planned explanation for how Gracie is behaving? WHO ON EARTH WOULD COME UP WITH THAT AT AGE 6 on their own? Would they do that? Have Gracie say that? God I hope not, and for the love of God, someone take care of Kaiser!!
Best guess is that she asked why her sister was different and someone, without thinking, gave that explanation.
My 3 year old understands he and his brother were in Mommies womb at different times. It makes sense at 6 she completely understands she and her sister shared a womb in mommy’s tummy. She I guess blames herself. It might be a realization that sister is different than her. I don’t know though. Just my guess.
I’m going to assume Leah is going to use everything possible for her”speaking”. It would be a reason “don’t feel bad about yourself”, and I’m sure she will use the children and tell them what to say. I just think that was a very random thing for Gracie to say, out of the blue. I’m just unable to trust anybody on this show anymore. I believe that they are using the children big time. They are not acting natural sometimes. I worry a lot, and wish MTV would worry more.
Jenelle..oh my, I just want to scoop Kaiser up and run! It seems that Kaiser’s grandmother is trying to get custody of him, I honestly hope that happens, Jenelle seems so angry at that little boy. I have such a bad feeling about David, the fight was creepy and the whole denial was weird. Ugh Jace, I feel like he is not safe there and he probably doesn’t even feel safe in therapy with Barbara telling jenelle & then Jenelle questioning him.
Briana is a mess. I would have fled too if I was Luis. What was the point in having g him sleep there of he wasn’t even in the same room as the baby?!?! It’s like they just wanted him there so they could scream at him. Her mom right away asking him when he’s going to buy milk and everything, the baby was a day old. When he left her sister said the baby was 2 days old and she did more for her..un what did they want him to do in two days? Why the heck is Nova up in the middle of the night with all of them? I wish they would quit talking about the adoption, Stella will see this one day and why discuss this all in front of Nova? Do they all want camera time that bad that none of them can take Nova in the other room?
I just can’t with Kail..
Chelsea is the one example of someone doing it all right.
Did anyone else watch the Teen Mom 2 Special, Being Nathan? It was enlightening… Nathan is obviously not the brightest, has PTSD from his time in Afghanistan, and in denial about what a mess he is. However, his mom was normal and would be so much better for Kaiser.
I also watched Being Vee, what a great girl she is…not a drama queen, just nice.
David makes me uncomfortable. All of those children are going to be screwed up about relationships because they have never seen a healthy one of any sort. Mtv should turn in the footage to DCS after each day of filming with them.
Kail angers me because she is such a manipulator. Her boys are great kids, though, so points to her for being a good mother.
I saw the special on vee. Wish I saw it on Nathan. Vee is a nice girl. Close to her family, smart and good mom and seems to love Jo. I really think despite Kail banging every human with a pulse those children are well cared for and happy.
My on demand has both, maybe check for Nathan there. His was so good, the producers didn’t let him own the narrative about him and his ex (the one after Jenelle that has case against him), they called and met with her.
There’s a Simon one, too, but it has loads of Farrah in it…?
I feel so bad for Kaiser and Jace. If they treat poor Kaiser like that when the cameras are around I can only imagine how they are alone with those poor kids.
So sad especially since Kaiser, like Ensley, was the planned baby.
I truly believe that, if a dad-to-be refuses to allow the child to be put up for adoption, he should be required to abide by court orders regarding parental visitation, child support and his share of expenses for clothes, school expenses, dentists, etc., or else go to jail. It’s easy to say, no, no, no, don’t give the baby away, and then fail to be there enough to help. It’s so unfair, both to the mom and the baby, when the dad isn’t really involved, and yet made the mom keep the baby when she clearly felt she was not up to it. She knew the baby would be better off with a loving family and yet, here she is, despite her love for the child, feeling trapped and overwhelmed because of his selfishness. If a guy doesn’t care enough about someone he impregnated to put a ring on her finger, then to hell with him, he should have no say in what she does. He’s more of a bystander in the life of the child than an active participant.
Kaiser yelling “feed me” were the most honest words to come from that household all season.
Janelle and David are lying liars who constantly lie.
Briana and the rest of the bitter Betty’s don’t have a clue of what a healthy relationship looks like. Nova was likely awaken in the middle of the night by her grandma yelling, “OMG Briana” (drinking word of the nights). Brianas life probably most accurately reflects a real life teen mom with out the MTV money. She lives in a 3 bedroom apartment with her family and shares a room with her 2 know kids. Think back to Season 1 when Kail was practically homeless, Leah lived in a dumpy trailer with subpar facilities to bathe her kids and Janelle and Chelsea still lived with their parents.
My prediction: Jace will be in a group home or facility by middle school because he will be too aggressive for Barb to handle. Janelle will take no responsibility this. Kaiser will be with Nathan’s mom and the new baby may be in foster care.
Nova will be pregnant by 15 and latch on to the first guy that shows her any attention.
The teen moms I know are still struggling to keep and put roofs over their heads 10+ years later. These girls have no idea how good they have it. Hopefully Brianna will take that MTV money and get her own house. I really hope she does, but Roxanne might have different plans for that money… she is so used to using guilt as a weapon to manipulate those girls. I can just hear her OMG Briana, i really need that vag rejuvenation surgey. Do you KNOW what having two kids did to me? U are so ungrateful, maybe I should have put you up for adoption back then
Am I the only one who got confused when Corey and Leah were talking about the twins needing therapy. Allie, Aleah, Addie, Gracie (I know she is twin that blames herself) I had to rewind to see exactly which twin was the mean one. They both seem a little mean to one another to me. When they call Gracie by her twin name Aleah it throws me off.
WHEN DOES ALL THIS END??? WHEN DO ALL THESE CRAZY WOMEN STOP TAPING THEIR LIVES AND GET ON WITH THE BUSINESS OF BEING ADULTS AND PARENTS?? I thought this program was designed to be a deterrent for young girls (puberty to age 18) having children before emotionally spiritually, and maybe most importantly, ECONOMICALLY find a way to provide for these children. I know they are paid for being on this show but COMON does MTV plan on taping this show (Teen Mom, Teen MOM OG, I wanna get preggers so I can be a star on Teen MOM) until the kids are grown adults? The “Teen Mom’s” are no longer teenagers and from the cars they drive to the places they call home not one of them appears to be in any type of desperate circumstance. With the exception of Janelle (she is a real example of drug abuse and severe family issues not for public viewing), started the program showed the lives of pregnant teenage girls in very difficult circumstances JUST WHAT THE SHOW WANTED OTHER GIRLS TO SEE AND THINK ABOUT BEFORE GETTING PREGNANT, then each one of the cast members started to change and not for the better, aside from psychological issues their economic circumstances gradually started to change due in large part to the payments from MTV. Chelsea was going to be WELL TAKEN CARE OF regardless of MTV but the extra checks did not hurt at all, Kailyn is a user, she used Javi to cover herself and her first son with good health insurance and a guaranteed paycheck there was never love in that marriage she is just like her mother she will use men her entire life. That girl is one shady “be-otch”. Briana, her mother and sister are “man eaters”, none of them has anything nice to say about the male species especially those men Briana willingly opens herself to and wa-la gets pregnant. This is 2017 if Briana did not want to get pregnant she could have had the birth control straws inserted into her arm protecting her for up to 5 years but she wanted to get pregnant. Her mom and sister constantly put the first “baby daddy” through a grater, they have made it impossible for the father of her fist daughter to have a relationship with his daughter. It looks like they are setting up the second baby daddy the same way, no wonder he left, who could blame him. To see Briana cry like she is the victim is silly but normal for an immature person. Leah has a heavy load to deal with, dealing with a sick child is the worst thing ever. I feel bad for her and I understand the jealousy one twin has because her sister is getting all the attention. The twin without the illness needs therapy before it escalates into something really bad for everyone. Family therapy for everyone and I mean EVERYONE, Leah and her extended family, the girls father, his extended family including his new wife, his dad hell, anyone in Leah’s circle should be involved if their goal is to help the twin without the disease know how special she is as well as therapy for the girls alone. I wish Leah the best and all good things come to her. Now Jenelle, not enough space anywhere to talk about her, I just hope she does not have any more kids or a new boyfriend and I would like to see her hold down a job ANYTHING, even as a waitress at the Olive Garden.
The one good thing about this show, is that some of the MTV money automatically goes into trust for the kids.
I’ve been saying it for months: “Jenelle, you in danger girl.” Those poor babies. Someone needs to step in STAT.
Donut will go to Nathan’s mom and the little girl will go to Barb and Jace. It’s such a shame. She makes beautiful little children but treats them like shit. My heart breaks for those children.
I literally cannot watch the segments with Jenelle and David. They are horrible, terrible human beings and parents (if you can even call them that). I feel so sad for poor Jace and the effects all of this will have on him, especially when he’s older. Barb is not perfect but she stepped up when she didn’t have to. Poor little Kaiser too! I want to adopt the lil bugger and feed him some healthy, home cooked food.
I want to take all of her kids. Feed them and hug them. Those poor children. She needs to STOP having kids with every dude released from jail that hits her up online. For fucks sake maybe Barb shouldn’t have Jace she did a horrible job raising Janelle. It breaks my heart the scenes with Barb because I want to hug her too. I have worked my whole life, got an education and waited a while to have children with my husband and my home and cars are shit compared to Janelle. She did mighty fine for herself from a haroine addict to banking on the drama of her liffe for mtv. Kail is another horrible human being but seems to be somewhat of a good mother. Leah and Chelsea seem sweet and try. Leah is just as dumb as a rock. She has a hard life I think. I don’t think its easy to be Leah. I feel for her. She is a horrible mother but sometimes I suppose she tries. Brianna’s mother hates men. She will ruin every relationship her daughters ever have with a man. Brianna did not have to get pregnant. She easily could have had multiple different birth control options put into her body that lasts 5 years 6 weeks after she had the first baby then had to go back to the dr after 5 years and would have been offered to do it again. Unless she wanted to get pregnant there is pretty much no chance she would have if on an IUD or arm thing, etc.
Jace/Kaiser/Ensley/ future kids to Jenelle: Mon how did u and dad meet
Janelle: he slid into my DM and my panties
That picture of jenelle with the teeny tiny pupils looks like me from years ago when I was addicted to opiates. Those pupils are freakishly pin-point and I think she uses more than just pot.