The Teen Mom cast is about to get a little bigger!
Ryan Edwards‘ girlfriend Amanda Conner recently confirmed on social media that she is pregnant with the Teen Mom: The Next Chapter star’s baby, months after online speculation began saying that she was knocked up.
After posting several videos to TikTok in which her baby bump was on full display (including one in which Ryan is, um, admiring his work by rubbing her pregnant belly), Amanda confirmed the pregnancy in the comment section of a TikTok video posted on Sunday. In the video, Amanda— whom Ryan began dating while both were rehabbing in 2023— claps back at nay-sayers who criticized her for featuring her vape pen in a video posted in last September.
In her response video, Amanda used the classic Teen Mom 2 audio in which Jenelle Evans screams that she has, “NOT.SMOKED.ALL.DAY.” (#NeverForget).
Amanda later admitted to being pregnant and vaping, although she stated that she’s trying to quit vaping.
“Currently working on putting the vape down,” Amanda wrote in the video’s comment section. “Thank you so much for being concerned.”
“This has been a rough pregnancy,” Amanda told another person in the comments.
This will be the second child for Amanda, who has a son whom she does not currently have custody of, due to her going to prison and having an extensive criminal history. (Amanda is currently 15 months sober and does have visitation with her son.)
This will be Ryan’s fourth child, as he shares son Bentley with Maci Bookout and two kids— Stella and Jagger— with his soon-to-be ex-wife Mackenzie. As The Ashley previously reported, Ryan and Mack are still going through a nasty divorce and custody battle. She recently accused Ryan of not helping her to support their kids (even though, as The Ashley recently revealed, he’s pulling in a hefty $35,000 paycheck for each episode of ‘Next Chapter’ he appears in.)
Anyway, fans have been speculating for a while that Amanda was “with child,” and Mackenzie even recently confirmed the pregnancy news while also claiming that Ryan fathered another child around 2014. (According to Mack, that child’s mother allegedly signed a non-disclosure agreement stating she would not go public with the news that Ryan fathered her child, in exchange for financial support. Ryan’s mother, Jen Edwards, denied these claims in a statement to The Ashley.)
Anyway, Mack simultaneously spilled the news of Ryan’s alleged lovechild and Amanda’s pregnancy last month by writing a message to Ryan in the TikTok post’s comment section.
“You have 5 kids. Please take care of them. And yes I can count on…” Mackenzie wrote, before responding to a fan asking if she was including the kid Amanda is pregnant with.
“Including,” she wrote.
(Just FYI: The Ashley did not officially confirm Amanda’s pregnancy before this because it is The Ashley’s policy not to write pregnancy rumor stories. Now that Amanda has confirmed it, The Ashley is writing about it.)
Amanda and Ryan have not yet revealed when their baby is due, or if they’re having a boy or a girl. (The Ashley can confirm, though, that the couple does know the gender, as do many crew/production sources from the show. However, The Ashley is choosing not to reveal that information.)
