Teen Mom Confidential: Secrets & Scandals From MTV's Most Controversial Shows (30 page)

6.
Maci purposely waited to call producers when she went into labor because she didn't want her son's birth to be filmed. The crew ended up missing Bentley's birth. The rest of the girls from season one all gave birth on-camera.

7.
After his marriage to Leah fell apart, Corey Simms briefly dated Nikkole. The two went on a date to a zoo in Columbus, Ohio, with their children in tow, which pissed Leah off.

8.
Leah and her second husband, Jeremy Calvert, spent their honeymoon in the Bahamas, without cameras.

9.
Girls appearing on the
Teen Mom
shows receive digital copies of the episodes only hours before they air.

10.
Executive Producer Morgan J. Freeman was also responsible for the MTV show, Laguna Beach.
11.
Maci’s middle name, Deshane, was also the middle name of her aunt Belinda, who passed away before she was born.
12.
Jenelle’s sister, Ashleigh, was pregnant with tripplets in early 2011. She miscarried two of the babies but gave birth to a son in November.
13.
Maci's older brother Matt wants nothing to do with MTV and had refused to appear on television. Still, the siblings are very close. In fact, Matt was the first person (other than her boyfriend, Ryan) that Maci told about her pregnancy.

14.
Chelsea was shown going into labor at school during her
16 and Pregnant
episode. But she wasn't actually in labor; she just had cramps. Chelsea actually went to the hospital the next day and had her baby.
15.
Dr. Drew Pinsky once appeared on the game show,
Wheel of Fortune
.
16.
Tyler used some of his
Teen Mom
money to pay for sister Amber's boob job.
17.
The four stars of
Teen Mom 2
all have matching red heart tattoos on their wrists. They got them while in Los Angeles to shoot the season one reunion show in August 2011.
18.
Each girl appearing on
16 and Pregnant
is given a Flip video camera. They use it to film the monologue shown at the end of their episode and, in some cases, to capture important events that happen when the MTV film crew is not there. The girls get to keep their camera after they finish filming.
19.
Jo's rap name is N.I.C.K. B, which is short for “Nerd In a Cool Kid's Body.” He chose to do a rap remix of an Alicia Keys love song for his first single in hopes that people would see a more sensitive side of him than they do on
Teen Mom 2
.
20.
Gary auditioned for the reality weight loss show
The Biggest Loser
in 2009.
21.
Although it was never discussed on the show, Gary worked as a nurse's aid for developmentally disabled patients during the filming of the first two seasons of
Teen Mom
.
22.
Kail and Jo conceived their son, Isaac, on prom night. Leah and Corey also conceived their twins on prom night.
23.
Leah took five pregnancy tests when she suspected that she was expecting. Even though all of them came back positive, she made her mother take her to the hospital to find out for sure.

24.
Gary was bullied as a child over his weight.
25.
Farrah, Amber, Maci and Catelynn, snuck into the taping of the 16 and Pregnant season 3 “Life After Labor” reunion special. They watched the show from the audience and later went backstage to meet the new crop of girls.
26.
Amber and Gary originally planned to name their daughter Madison.
27.
Kail has said that when she is in a store and sees any of her
Teen Mom
co-stars on the cover of a tabloid magazine, she will turn the magazine over.
28.
The youngest girl to ever be featured on
16 and Pregnant
was Taylor Lumas
of season three. She was 15.
29.
When Mackenzie Douthit first told her boyfriend, Josh, that she was pregnant he didn't believe her. In fact, he made her take a pregnancy test in front of him to prove it. Afterwards, he took a pregnancy test himself to see if the tests worked. (Just for the record, Josh wasn't pregnant.)
30.
Amber's episode of
16 and Pregnant
was the show's “pilot.” It was shown to the network to see if MTV wanted to pick up the show.
31.
Christinna Robinson of
16 and Pregnant
season two threatened to not complete the voiceovers for her episode unless producers edited out a few conversations she had with her boyfriend's grandmother in which they discussed her promiscuity.
32.
Kail named her son Isaac after Isaac Hanson of the 1990s band Hanson.
33.
Jenelle once tried to use a tabloid magazine with her name and picture on the cover as proof of ID when she was buying cigarettes.
34.
Amber was not allowed to attend the
Teen Mom
season four reunion special in New York City because she was on probation at the time for a recent drug arrest and the judge handling her case would not allow it, although MTV did try.
35.
Maci did not tell her then-boyfriend, Ryan, that she had sent in an audition tape to be on
16 and Pregnant
.
36.
The clothing company Aeropostale contacted MTV in the summer of 2011 to request that none of the
Teen Mom
stars be allowed to wear their clothing on the show. Gary, who frequently sported the company's T-shirts during filming, continued to wear Aeropostale apparel while filming the show, but the company's logo had to be blurred.
37.
Although she lived very close to
16 and Pregnant
season 4 star Alex Sekella (and they shared mutual friends), producers asked Kail to avoid associating with her.
38.
The only girl from the
Teen Mom
and
Teen Mom 2
series that does not have a tattoo is Farrah.
39.
Dr. Drew made every single girl from season 3 cry at least once during the “Life After Labor” reunion special.
40.
Jenelle's father Robert, who lives in Pennsylvania, had no idea his daughter had ended up pregnant and on a television show, until reporters from
Star
magazine called him and members of his family, looking for an interview.
41.
Kail once bailed Jenelle out of jail.
42.
Kieffer is of Jamaican and Irish decent.
43.
Ryan rarely, if ever, watched an episode of
Teen Mom
because he didn't like how MTV portrayed him or his family.
44.
Leah has a younger brother named Ezekiel Isaac that is not shown on
Teen Mom 2
.
45.
MTV employees monitor every cast member's social network postings. Before
Teen Mom 2
aired in 2011, all of the girls were required to disable their
Formspring
accounts.
46.
The girls are contractually required to participate in the “Life After Labor” reunion special with Dr. Drew. MTV pays for their travel accommodations.
47.
Maci says that she knew she had to end things with Ryan after she watched the first season of
Teen Mom
on TV and saw how poorly he treated her.
48.
Farrah's autobiography,
My Teenage Dream Ended
, peaked at #11 on the New York Times' E-books Best Sellers List.
49.
The “No Easy Decision” special in which
Markai Durham discussed her abortion was considered so controversial; MTV scheduled it to air at 11:30 PM with no commercials.
50.
The couple that adopted
Lori Wickelhaus' son did not allow their name to appear in the episode, or any of the press that followed the airing of her episode.
51.
Maci's natural hair color is strawberry blond.
52.
In February 2012,
Catelynn acted as a labor coach for a woman who was placing her son for adoption with the same parents that adopted Catelynn and Tyler's daughter, Carly. Catelynn watched as Carly's adopted little brother was born.
53.
Everyone that speaks on camera during the filming of these shows has to have a microphone on - even the babies!
54.
Had her son been a girl, Kail has said that she and Jo would have named her Brooklyn Brielle Shaunice.
55.
Maci doesn't allow fans to take photos with Bentley.
56.
MTV will not allow anyone that appears to be over the age of 30 to sit in the audience of its reunion show tapings for
16 and Pregnant
or the
Teen Mom
shows.
57.
Although many of the cast members of
Teen Mom
and
Teen Mom 2
smoke cigarettes, they are never shown on camera smoking. MTV also edits out any underage drinking and drug use.

58.
Chelsea is friends with Britney Spears' sister, Jamie Lynn. In February 2012, they took a trip to New Orleans together, along with Daniel Payne, star of MTV's
Caged
.
59.
In March 2013,
16 and Pregnant
season 4 star Danielle Cunningham revealed that she had been addicted to heroin during the months before she became pregnant with her second child.
60.
Amber suffered from gestational diabetes during her pregnancy.
61.
Chelsea's father, Randy, is often seen on
Teen Mom 2
, but her stepmother, Rita, has never appeared on the show. She also decided against appearing on Chelsea's
16 and Pregnant
episode, and
Teen Mom 2
because she did not like the show.
62.
Kail and Jenelle are both atheists. “Being ignorant is pushing your beliefs on other people,” Kail vented on Twitter. “I can still be a good person if I don't believe in God.”
63.
Teen Mom 3
cast member Katie Yeager met her baby's father, Joey, after their parents started dating.
64.
Maci and Ryan considered the name Ryder before deciding on the name Bentley. They planned to name their child Bentley whether it was a boy or a girl.
65.
Morgan J. Freeman met a woman named Katie at the hospital the day Maci gave birth to Bentley. The couple eventually ended up getting married in October 2012, and invited Maci to their wedding.
66.
Maci accidentally hit a parked car while filming a scene for
Teen Mom
at Chattanooga State University in October 2010. Maci and her camera crew left without reporting the accident, essentially committing a hit-and-run. The incident was filmed by onlookers, and the driver eventually filed a police report against her.
67.
Shortly after appearing on the fourth season of
16 and Pregnant
, Sarah Roberts' baby-daddy, Blake, impregnated another teenage girl.
68.
The girls' middle names are: Chelsea Anne; Leah Dawn; Jenelle Lauren; Kailyn Rae; Catelynn Judith; Maci Deshane; Farrah Lynn; Amber LeAnn.
69.
Growing up, Kail's mother gave her the nickname “chunky monkey,” which she hated.
70.
In September 2011, Gary got Amber's name tattooed on his back. Four months later, after the couple broke up (again) he had the giant tattoo covered up.
71.
Jenelle
graduated high school a semester early.
72.
MTV did not tell the season four girls who had been chosen for
Teen Mom 3
. Instead, the girls had to find out online and from each other who had been picked.
73.
Amber, her daughter, Leah, and her mother, Tonya, all share the middle name: LeAnn.
74.
Both Maci and
Teen Mom 3
's Katie Yeager competed in beauty pageants as children.
75.
The girls do their own hair and makeup for the show, with the exception of the reunion specials, in which MTV provides hair and makeup artists to help them.
76.
Leah and Jeremy bought their wedding bands at a pawn shop.
77.
Kail and her husband Javi have matching infinity sign tattoos.
78.
One of the only places the cameras are not allowed to follow the girls is the bathroom. If the girl goes into the bathroom and closes the door, the camera crew is not allowed to open the door and go in.
79.
Farrah disliked the name that her sister Ashley had picked out for her first child. Right before Ashley gave birth, Farrah urged her sister to change the name to Sayechelle, Serrica or Sapphire.
80.
Christinna Robinson was the only girl that did not allow MTV to come back and film a segment for the “Where Are They Now?” episode.
81.
Chelsea celebrated her 21st birthday at Rain nightclub at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas - the same club that the original cast of
The Real World: Las Vegas
worked at.
82.
Farrah invited a paparazzi crew from Splash News into the operating room with her to capture her nose job and chin implant surgery in October 2012.
83.
In January 2012, Maci and her then-boyfriend Kyle King were kicked out of an Anaheim, California hotel for physically fighting. The couple - and several of Maci's friends - were escorted off hotel property after the incident.
84.
Maci has never publically admitted to getting a boob job.
85.
Corey Simms proposed to his fiancé, Miranda Patterson in November 2012 by hanging an engagement ornament on the Christmas tree. This is the same way Leah's second husband Jeremy Calvert proposed in December 2011.
86.
In February 2012, Jo Rivera did a radio interview and was asked which of
Kail
's fellow
Teen Mom 2
co-stars he'd hook up with if he had to choose. Reluctantly, he chose Chelsea.
87.
Leah and Corey got in trouble with producers for posting their wedding photos on Leah's
Facebook
fan page, before their wedding episode aired.