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    Teen Mom’s Tyler on How He & Catelynn Contact Daughter Carly

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    Tyler Baltierra is detailing his and Catelynn Lowell‘s current reality.

    After years of a strained relationship with the adoptive parents of the  stars’ biological daughter Carly, Tyler revealed where they stand with the 16-year-old and how they stay in touch with her.

    “As far as our relationship goes,” he admitted on the April 27 episode of the Cake For Dinner podcast, “we don’t really have [one].”

    “I set up an email for her that me and Cate will write to,” Tyler continued, “and that’s pretty much the only way we’re maintaining any kind of communication.”

    As the reality star recalled, he and Catelynn—who placed Carly up for adoption in 2009—created the email address after the teen’s adoptive parents, Brandon Davis and Teresa Davis, closed the adoption in 2023.

    “We figured if we set up an email for her, and write to it, and then one day if she ever wants it, we can give her the login and the password,” he explained. “And she can kind of just go through the email herself.”

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    And the 34-year-old shared that he and Catelynn, also 34, make sure their firstborn is “not forgotten about,” noting that the couple sends Carly email messages when they’re “thinking about her” or want to send photos of their younger kids:Nova, 11,Vaeda, 7, andRya, 4.

    But it’s in Carly’s hands when it comes to how much she wants to be involved with her birth parents. 

    “That’s up to her. Me and Cate, we’ve accepted the fact that she might get older and not want anything to do with us,” Tyler explained, noting he and Catelynn’s years on reality TV as something Carly may not be a fan of. “She might not even like us, which is OK. That’s fine. As her birth parent, my duty is to be there to answer the questions she has as an adoptee. I think she’s owed that.”

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    While Tyler and Catelynn made the difficult decision as teenagers to place Carly up for adoption in the hope of her having a more secure upbringing, he previously admitted that he later came to “regret” the choice.

    “We didn’t know we were going to get financially stable,” Tyler told Dr. Drew Pinsky during the May 2025 season finale of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter. “We didn’t know that we were going to have resources to work on our mental health and get better before we brought more kids into the world.”

    And although the MTV reality stars have welcomed three children since tying the knot in 2015, other Teen Mom couples have gone on different journeys together. Read on to see where they all stand now…

    Catelynn Lowell & Tyler BaltierraViewers watched Catelynn Lowell and now-husband Tyler Baltierra make the difficult choice to place their first daughter, Carly, for adoption, in 2009 on the inaugural season of 16 and Pregnant. After 13 years together, the fan-favorite couple wed in August 2015 and have since had three more daughters: Novalee, Vaeda and Rya.While the absence of Carly—who lives with her adoptive parents, Brandon and Teresa Davis—still aches, the couple keep fighting for a future. Their hope is their bond “is whatever she wants,” Catelynn told E! News in January 2025. “Whether she just wants a relationship with her biological siblings, if she wants to have a relationship with us, awesome. If she doesn’t, totally understand. Whatever that looks like for her. Because it needs to be adoptee-centered.” 

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    Maci Bookout & Ryan EdwardsTogether less than six months when she got pregnant, viewers saw Maci Bookout struggle with an irresponsible Ryan Edwards on 16 and Pregnant. Though they got engaged, the high school sweethearts split less than a year after their son Bentley was born in 2008.These days they’re focused on building a co-parenting relationship. “We’re in a good place,” Maci revealed to E! News in 2023, adding that Ryan is showing up “more consistently now than maybe he ever has before.”

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    Maci Bookout & Taylor McKinneyMaci found her forever teammate in Texan Taylor McKinney in 2012 and the pair soon began building up their squad. They welcomed daughter Jayde in May 2015 and son Maverick a year later, then wed in Florida that October. Partners in parenting, life and their TTM Lifestyle fashion brand, “He’s just my person,” she told E! News in 2023. “Even when we’ve had a rough year together, I think at the end of the day, I still choose him. I like him. And even if I want to punch him in the face sometimes, I’d rather argue with him or have a rough patch with him than never have a rough patch with anybody else.” 

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    Cheyenne Floyd & Cory WhartonDespite moving on with new significant others, the MTV stars, who connected while filming The Challenge, continue to co-parent their daughter Ryder together.”Our biggest thing since day one of Cory coming into Ryder’s life was what kind of dad he wanted to be and what kind of parent he wanted to be,” Cheyenne explained to E! News in March 2020. “I wasn’t going to allow him to be a Disneyland dad or an Instagram dad or just in the moment. He had to be 100 percent. I think from the beginning, he saw my mindset and appreciated it so that’s why we co-parent so well.”

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    Cheyenne Floyd & Zach DavisAfter their romance ended in 2018, the pair decided to give their relationship a second chance. While celebrating her 28th birthday, Cheyenne confirmed on Instagram that she was back with Zach. In May 2021, the couple welcomed their first child together, son Ace, and got married in September 2022. “We spent the past two years knocking things off our list,” Cheyenne told E! News in 2024. “We wanted to have a baby, we had Ace. We wanted to get married, we had our wedding. We wanted to buy a house, we bought our house.”And now, she continued, “I don’t want to do anything. I don’t want to set a goal. I want to sit down. I want to be really still. My goal is to be still and just to be happy with where we’re at. And just to like each other. That’s it. I want nothing else.”Well…maybe a little something. Cheyenne announced she was expecting her third child on a May 2025 episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter. “We definitely kind of teetered back and forth on wanting a baby,” Zach told Us Weekly. “I wanted one, and then she went through the phase of wanting one, and I wasn’t on the same page as her, but then we kind of came to the same chapter, and we tried to make it work.”

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    Cory Wharton & Taylor SelfridgeConnecting while filming Ex on the Beach may not sound like the start of a love story, but several years and two kids—daughters Mila and Maya—later, Cory and Are You the One? alum Taylor Selfridge are still making waves. “We just bought a house,” he shared with E! News in 2023, before bringing up that, yes, he’s aware that people want to know when they’re getting married. “It’s definitely being talked about. We have everything but the ring and me just letting her know. Taylor deserves that and it’s something that I want and she wants. Right now we’re just taking steps to get there.”

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    Ryan Edwards & Mackenzie StandiferTesting the limits of for-better-or-for-worse, Ryan checked into rehab not long after he married Mackenzie Standifer in May 2017, with her giving birth to their first son Jagger in 2018 while Ryan was still in treatment.Though the pair would welcome daughter Stella in January 2020, Mackenzie filed for divorce three years later.

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    Ryan Edwards & Amanda ConnerFollowing his breakup with Mackenzie, Ryan started dating Amanda in 2023. He popped the question the following year during a family vacation.The pair welcomed daughter Presley in February 2025, seven months before announcing their marriage.
    Amber Portwood & Gary ShirleyWhile their very contentious romance came to an end for good in 2013, the couple managed to co-parent their now-teenage daughter Leah for years. “We have fun together but at a distance,” Amber told E! News in January 2022. “But our relationship is good. It’s a family now so we treat it as a family more than anything else.” Though, of course, sometimes families fight. In recent years, Amber has taken to social media with enough claims about Gary to suggest they’re no longer the friendliest of exes and her growing rift with Leah has been showcased on Teen Mom: The Next Chapter. 

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    Amber Portwood & Matt BaierAfter several years together, a proposal and one unsuccessful stint on Marriage Boot Camp, Amber and Boston transplant Matt Baier called off their engagement in 2017. “Honestly, you just get to a point when you’re done hearing things and you just start to not care in a relationship and I think that’s what started happening to me and him,” Amber revealed on Dr. Drew Pinsky‘s podcast later that year. “I started not to care anymore about the relationship like you should. I put a wall up so I wouldn’t get hurt again pretty much.”

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    Amber Portwood & Andrew GlennonAmber did find love while filming Marriage Boot Camp—connecting with crew member Andrew Glennon while on set. The pair made their debut as a couple at the 2017 MTV Movie Awards and in May 2018, Amber gave birth to the couple’s son, James.But the couple separated not long after Amber was arrested for domestic battery in July 2019. And after a contentious court battle, California native Andrew was awarded sole legal and primary physical custody of their son in 2022. “I’ve worked so hard to better myself and improve my relationships with my children,” the Teen Mom star told E! News at the time. “While I’ve always been candid about my past substance abuse and struggles with mental illness, a person should have the chance to redeem themselves and not be tethered to their problems from the past.”Determined not to give up, she added, “If your road has not been perfect, but you’ve worked hard to become a better, more stable and caring person today, keep moving forward as I will. I’ll never stop fighting for my children who I love more than anything.”

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    Amber Portwood & Dimitri GarciaAfter meeting Amber on the Internet, Dimitri Garcia made his Teen Mom OG debut in April 2020. “Dimitri is from Belgium. He’s 39 so he’s 10 years older than me. But he’s a very handsome man,” Amber shared on the show. “I started opening up to him and we decided we should meet since we like each other.”In April 2021, Amber revealed on the Teen Mom OG reunion special that she was still dating Dimitri. “We’ve known each other now for 18 months,” she explained. “But I haven’t seen him in a year though.” Though the pair never officially announced a split, Amber introduced new flame Gary Wayt during a June 2024 episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.

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    Amber Portwood & Gary WaytAfter Amber connected with Gary 2.0 on a dating app in the fall of 2023, he zoomed into the picture when the Teen Mom vet introduced him to her castmates during a virtual chat. Though he proposed in May 2024, their betrothal was short-lived. While in North Carolina for her brother’s wedding that June, Gary ran off after the pair had a fight, leading Amber to report him as missing. And while Gary was soon located, the duo’s engagment wasn’t the only thing left broken. “I’ve had to deal with thinking my fiancé was dead for three to four days,” Amber said on Teen Mom: The Next Chapter. “I had to deal with literally grieving and trying to make sense of why the f–k would somebody do this to me. I am going through something right now.””This man broke me,” she continued. “I was stable. Right now, this is the first time in years in my life I am not f–king right because a man put a ring on my finger.” 
    Gary Shirley & Kristina AndersonMonths after Gary and now-wife Kristina Anderson welcomed daughter Emilee in April 2015, they wed in a sweet beach ceremony. “You are one of the most beautiful souls I know,” Gary wrote in a 2022 Instagram post. “I don’t know how I would do this without you.”

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    Farrah Abraham & Derek UnderwoodThe father of Farrah Abraham‘s daughter Sophia died in an accident two months prior to her birth in December 2008.

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    Farrah Abraham & Simon SaranFor her first serious relationship since the death of her high school boyfriend, Farrah dated real estate agent Simon Saran on and off for over two years.Though their 2017 split got ugly (as in cease-and-desist ugly), the two gave a stab at trying to remain friends. Sorta.”I have no hard feelings against Farrah,” Simon told E! News at the time. “We are just from two different worlds. She likes the fake life, I want what’s real. I wish the best for her and much success in all of her future endeavors.”
    Jenelle Evans & Andrew LewisJenelle Evans and Andrew Lewis, parents to now-teenage Jace, split not long after his 2009 birth, with the model having little involvement in his son’s life. “I do feel bad because that’s Jace’s dad,” Jenelle reflected on a 2019 episode of Teen Mom 2. “But I know how he is, and I don’t want him to disappoint my son. I don’t want [him] to pop back in and then pop back out.”

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    Jenelle Evans & David EasonAfter a one-year marriage to Courtland Rogers, and having her second child, Kaiser, with ex-fiancé Nathan Griffin in 2014, Jenelle wed David Eason on their North Carolina property in September 2017, eight months after they welcomed their daughter Ensley.After a particularly rocky stretch saw David charged with a child abuse misdemeanor involving Jace (at the time, Jenelle likened it to a “smear campaign”), Jenelle revealed they had separated.”I would’ve skipped straight to divorce but I couldn’t because in the state of North Carolina, you have to be legally separated for a year,” she explained on social media, “and you have to prove you have two separate addresses.”Their divorce was finalized in July 2025.
    Chelsea Houska & Adam LindRemember the charmer who asked then-girlfriend Chelsea Houska when he could “sign the papers over for that mistake”?Completely in the rearview. Against all odds, the Teen Mom star-turned-HGTV personality has a somewhat copacetic relationship with her high school ex Adam Lind, mom to her eldest daughter Aubree. “There’s no bad vibes and it’s just a very open relationship,” she told Us Weekly. “There’s no bad feelings. We see him sometimes and it’s totally fine.”

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    Chelsea Houska & Cole DeBoerWhat began as a meet-cute at a gas station in 2014 became forever when Chelsea and Cole DeBoer wed in October 2016. After welcoming son Watson in 2017 and daughters Layne and Walker in 2018 and 2021, respectively, the pair launched a new joint project: Their HGTV series Down Home Fab. “If we were going to come back to TV, I wanted it to be something lighthearted, feel good and be able to show our authentic selves,” Chelsea explained to E! News, sharing why this move felt “so right.” As she put it, “This was just such a cool opportunity to do that.”As for whether they’re planning any more additions, “I have so many friends who are like, ‘We are done,’ and they just have that feeling,” Chelsea told E! in June 2025. “And I don’t know if I’ll ever have that feeling.” 

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    Leah Messer & Corey SimmsThough then-high schooler Leah Messer and Corey Simms fought to turn their friendship into a forever family, the parents to now-teenage twins Aleeah and Aliannah filed for divorce six months after their October 2010 wedding. Corey has been married to Miranda Patterson since 2013.

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    Leah Messer & Jeremy CalvertLeah went on to wed pipeliner Jeremy Calvert in 2012, the couple welcoming daughter Adalynn the next year.Though they split in 2015, they have made an effort to co-parent their daughter with sometimes mixed results.”I’m looking at a complete, better version of myself,” Leah told E! News of her girls. “And seeing everything that they love and enjoy doing, and being able to support them in their lives and be a part of it is magical. I love it. I love being a mom, especially a girl mama.”

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    Leah Messer & Jaylan MobleyBy the time Leah went Instagram official with Jaylan Mobley in 2021, the United States Army officer had already charmed her and her daughters. The couple announced their engagement in August 2022, but broke up that October. “I needed that breakup,” the Teen Mom star confessed to E! News a year later. “I’ve learned a lot from my last breakup and, moving forward, I do feel like my life is just beginning.” 
    Kailyn Lowry & Jo RiveraKailyn Lowry was just 17 when she and high school boyfriend Jo Rivera welcomed their eldest son, Isaac, in 2010.And though they split a year later, they’ve since settled into a comfortable co-parenting arrangement, Kailyn even hosting her now-canceled Baby Mamas No Drama podcast with Jo’s wife Vee Torres for years. “We’ve come a long way since we were 18,” Kailyn wrote on X after attending Jo and Vee’s 2018 wedding. “I couldn’t ask for a better stepmom for isaac.” 

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    Kailyn Lowry & Javi MarroquinKailyn’s second son Lincoln joined the squad in November 2013, roughly a year after the then-star of Teen Mom 2 wed his father Javi Marroquin. Splitting in late 2016, the former spouses have had an, at times, rocky relationship as they’ve each moved on.While Kail moved on to Elijah Scott, Javi wed Lauren Comeau at an intimate ceremony on Florida’s Vero Beach in April 2025. “Only my dad, our kids & pastor were there,” Lauren wrote on Instagram Stories of son Eli and daughter Maizee. “We have a reception planned for this summer with family and friends. They were fully supportive of this & Jav’s mom has got to experience his firsts already so there was no issues. We wanted it to be something special for the boys, and something intimate for our family, and for my dad to walk me down the aisle.”Months after their June 2025 beach bash, the newlyweds announced they were expecting their third child together. “The best honeymoon souvenir,” Javi wrote on Instagram in August 2025. “So grateful to be doing this again with you momma! You’re the strongest woman I know and we are beyond lucky.”

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    Kailyn Lowry & Chris LopezThough Kailyn welcomed sons Lux and Creed with Chris during their on-and-off romance, they eventually called it quits for good. “Right now, we don’t communicate at all,” she revealed to E! News in 2020. “I’m hoping that it will get better with time but I don’t have a big vision. I don’t have anything negative to say. I hope for our kids that everything works itself out in whatever direction that may be.”

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    Kailyn Lowry & Elijah ScottWith construction worker Elijah, Kailyn felt she had finally built that strong foundation. “It’s been very different from my other partners and my kids’ other dads,” she told People of Elijah, dad to her son Rio and twins Verse and Valley. “He pours concrete, he gets down and dirty at work. But he’s also just a real family man. He’s very, very much connected with his own family, with our family, and so he’s been a really good partner to me, and I feel like it’s a really good match.”A strong enough one that she finally said yes to one of his many proposals, in fact. “He asked me to marry him several times and I never said no,” Kailyn insisted to E! News in September 2024 of her neighbor-turned-life partner. “I was just like, ‘Yes, but not right now.'” Ultimately, though, the timing wasn’t right, Kailyn revealing in July 2025 that they had split. “I get a lot of s–t for leaving my kids’ dads,” she detailed on the Give them Lala podcast. “I left all of them because I, to some degree, take no s–t.”

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    Kailyn Lowry & Isaac “Ike” KnightonDespit having know Ike “since pretty much high school,” Kailyn said things didn’t turn romantic until 2025 following her breakup with Elijah.“I don’t think I expected to have a full-blown relationship,” she shared in a January 2026 Patreon video, “but after the first time we hung out, both of us just knew what it was.”Ike moved in with Kailyn soon after, a decision she admitted can seem “selfish” to her kids at first.”You cannot deny chemistry and attraction when it’s there,” she argued. “If I’m not happy as a woman first, I cannot be a good mom. And I’m not saying I’m relying on men for happiness because—if we are being honest and you look at my track record—they have all made me miserable.”

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    Jade Cline & Sean AustinThough Indiana-based Jade Cline and Sean Austin had more than their share of ups and down since welcoming daughter Kloie in 2017, in January 2022 Jade teased to fans that they were on the rise. “There were some major, major things that happened with our lives and major improvements that happen with Sean’s life as well and with his future,” she told E! News. “I’m really proud of him and where we are today.” Eight months later, the pair announced their engagement, marrying in October 2023. “I know for sure my relationship isn’t always perfect,” Jade told E! News in 2024. “But we love each other and we make it work.”

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    Ashley Jones & Bar SmithCalifornia natives Ashley Jones and Bar Smith privately wed in 2021—four years after they welcomed daughter Holly.But after calling off their romance several times, Ashley officially filed for divorce in 2024. 

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