From talking about their man to talking about their birth child’s adoptive parents, it’s been a busy week for the stars/former stars of the Teen Mom franchise! In an effort to bring you up-to-date on the latest Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, Teen Mom OG and Teen Mom 2 news, The Ashley brings you the Teen Mom News Pile.
Here are some of the major (and minor but interesting) ‘Teen Mom’-related things that happened over the last week or so…
Catelynn Lowell Responds to People Who Say She & Tyler Baltierra Are “Stalking” Their Bio Daughter Carly & Her Parents
Earlier this week, Catelynn came out swinging at people who are criticizing her and her husband Tyler for being very (very) vocal about their unhappiness with Brandon and Teresa Davis, the parents of their biological daughter Carly. In a live interview on YouTube with creator Reality TV with Rei, Catelynn also gave her thoughts on people comparing her and Ty’s online crusade to reach Carly to “stalking.”
“I think it’s funny when people are like, ‘Oh, you’re stalking them,'” Catelynn said. “And I’m like, ‘When? Am I showing up to their house? Am I posting pictures of them? No. Am I calling them derogatory names? No. Am I literally just speaking about how I’m hurt and I’m speaking about other adoptees and their situations that they tell me? Am I speaking about statistics of adoptees? About open adoption? Yes.”
Cate also addressed fans who have told her that Teresa has no obligation to continue to communicate with her and Tyler.
“Well I did, you know, literally give her a whole human being,” Catelynn replied. “I feel like I’m not owed it but I think just a sense of morals and values that a normal person would say, ‘Hey, this is what’s going on.'”
As The Ashley has previously reported, Catelynn and Tyler’s relationship with Carly’s parents has been strained in recent years, but further deteriorated in May after Catelynn aired her feelings online about Brandon and Teresa refusing to do an in-person visit with them. In the months following, Tyler and Catelynn continued to speak out against Brandon and Teresa, who eventually blocked them and cut their communication with Carly completely.
“I’m not going to be silenced anymore,” Catelynn said on the YouTube Live. “…[Adoptive parents] can take away one of your most-precious things and that’s not fair….a lot of the comments that I’m seeing are saying, ‘[Catelynn and Tyler] broke boundaries’ and I’ve wrote to some people, ‘Please tell me the boundaries! I would love to know what boundaries that [Brandon and Teresa] have given me that I’ve broke.’
“The only boundary that they’ve ever given me is to not to read their text messages word for word [on TV]. I could summarize them but don’t read them word for word. That was the only boundary I’ve ever had,” Catelynn said, adding that Carly’s parents also asked them not to show Carly’s face publicly, something she says they’ve respected.
“We’re allowed to tell our story on television, which happens to be adoption,” Cate said. “And we shared pictures that we’re allowed to, that we had permission to share… we have never disrespected or broke boundaries.”
Catelynn and Tyler have criticized Carly’s parents for closing the adoption without giving them an explanation. While some fans have suggested that Tyler starting an OnlyFans (and Cate running it for him) was the reason Brandon and Teresa finally cut them off, Cate denied it.
“There is no link to that because our relationship [with Brandon and Teresa] was dwindling away slowly for years,” Catelynn said. “It’s been over a period of years. It just wasn’t overnight. I could feel things pulling away. Maybe it was just [Carly] getting older and asking more questions which, of course, would scare any adoptive parent. I totally understand the fears that they could have too.”
Months before Brandon and Teresa refused to agree to a visit with Cate and Ty, Tyler shaded them a bit online when he was asked by a fan how Carly’s very conservative parents felt about him selling risqué pics on OnlyFans. After a particularly racy batch of man-meat modeling shots went live on the site, Tyler and Cate received plenty of backlash from fans, with several even stating that Brandon and Teresa would disapprove of Tyler’s new, um, hobby.
Tyler clapped back, writing that he couldn’t get the approval of Carly’s parents even before he started showing his naughty bits online.
“What are you going to do in 10 years when the MTV money is gone and no one gives a damn about your [OnlyFans]?” the fan asked Ty in a tweet in February 2024. “Oh, and how do you expect Brandon and Teresa to respond to this? They don’t want to be associated with this nonsense!”
“IDK, I’ll prolly just move back into a trailer park where I belong,” Tyler responded. “And as far as B&T go, I couldn’t please them or get their approval if I was damn Mother Teresa herself lol. Besides, I refuse to live my life trying to live up to anyone’s expectations besides my own!”
Brandon and Teresa have never publicly responded to Catelynn and Tyler’s posts or interviews.
