Teen Mom's Kailyn Lowry Shares How She Came Up With the Names For Her Twins
Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, but Kailyn Lowry has finally mastered the art of shaking it off.
While the Teen Mom alum may feel that she's barely famous (hence the name of her third podcast that she launched in 2022), she's had to face off with an Internet troll or two in the 14 years since she made her MTV debut.
And in the past, she admitted during an exclusive interview with E! News, "I would say it doesn't bother me, but it absolutely did. I was absolutely still looking. I was reading the comments. I was checking up on the troll pages."
Until one day she just decided to log off.
"Now I just don't care," insisted the 32-year-old. "I don't want to see it."
Embracing the DGAF attitude people talk about achieving in their thirties, she continued, "I realize that everyone has skeletons, everyone has things that they don't want the public to know, everyone is messing up sometimes. And so I just humanize everyone. And if people don't want to humanize me, I don't want any part in it, because you clearly see from a completely different lens than I do."
Though she acknowledges it took her a minute for her to reach this particular point of view.
"I just wish that I really committed to it sooner," admitted Lowry. While she's been spouting off her see-no-evil, know-no-evil advice for years, "It has only been the last two years that I've actually listened."
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It's not as if she needs to add to the chaos that comes with raising seven kids—she shares Isaac, 14, with high school boyfriend Jo Rivera, Lincoln, 10, with former husband Javi Marroquin, Lux, 7, and Creed, 4, with ex Chris Lopez, and 22-month-old son Rio and 11-month-old twins Valley and Verse with fiancé Elijah Scott—and helming three podcasts, plus The KILLR Podcast Network she launched in 2021.
Her secrets to crushing it include putting everything into her phone—though she cops to the occasional mixup, like the one that had her rushing off to her kids' wrestling practice mere minutes after returning home from the first of her Barely F*ck$ing Touring shows—and scheduling the bulk of her work during the school day.
"Sometimes I'll end up back in my home office once the kids are in bed," the Delaware resident acknowledged of her neverending schedule, "but I'm okay with that, because, like I said, I thrive in chaos, and so if it means I'm sleeping for two hours, it's fine. I'll get it done somehow, someway."
And while she admittedly struggles to give herself credit for all she's accomplished ("I'm always looking at all of the things I still need to do, all of the growth that I still need to make and where am I falling short?" acknowledged the New York Times bestselling author. "I think it's ingrained in us as moms"), she has no issues pumping up her fiancé.
"I don't know how Elijah just seamlessly folded into this chaos and he handles it so well," Lowry shared. "I think he was like, 'OK, if we're going to make this work, I'm just going to do it, no questions asked and just figure it out as we go.'"
It helps that they're "polar opposites," added Lowry of the construction worker. "So when I'm having frantic moments or concerned about things, he's very cool, calm and collected. It's a really good balance. And my kids absolutely love him. So that also is a huge, huge, huge help."
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Because raising seven kids can be hard, y'all.
"We all have the moments where we're overwhelmed and it's like, I just need that extra person," Lowry explained. "And I truly hope that any single parent that is struggling with that, your time is going to come, you're going to meet someone that is going to come and be your person."
Of course she's not the only Teen Mom alum who's found her ideal costar. Keep reading to see how the rest of her former castmates are faring when it comes to love.
