Teen Mom Kailyn Lowry admits she was secretly on welfare and food stamps as a single mom during first seasons of show
Teen Mom 2 star Kailyn Lowry revealed she was secretly on welfare and food stamps as a single mom with Isaac during the early seasons of the series.
The mom-of-four added producers tried to convince her to show that part of her life, but she was too embarrassed at the time.
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Kailyn relayed on her Coffee Convos Podcast with Lindsie Chrisley and this week’s guest, Married at First Sight star Jamie Otis: “There was one season after Isaac was born where I needed to move out of my son’s father’s parent’s house, and I needed to get on my own feet. But the only way for me to do that was I had to be on welfare. I had to get food stamps. I had to get rent assistance for single moms, teen parents.
“And I had to kind of use this as stepping stones so I could get on my feet and do this on my own without assistance. So I remember them [producers]… trying to convince me to film about being on food stamps. And I just remember being so embarrassed that that’s where I was… That’s what I signed up to do to show people what that real struggle was for me… I wanted to show that, but I also was like embarrassed…
“I’ll never forget where I came from. So when other people write into me… I’m like that’s what those resources are for. You use them as stepping stones to get out of that place and when you need them they’re there… I think I should have just embraced it and taken it day by day and not been so embarrassed and owned whatever I was going through.”
On Kailyn’s other podcast, Baby Mamas No Drama with Vee Rivera, she claimed her son Lux’s teacher accused her of not feeding the 3-year-old enough for lunch.
She shared: “Lux is very hit or miss, and I don’t know if you can relate or like other moms can relate to this. It’s very hit or miss. Like some days he’s like this is his favorite food and then some days he’s like I don’t like that. And we’re like okay I won’t pack it in your lunch then.
“He won’t eat bread. He’ll eat lunch meat, but he won’t eat it on bread. He’ll eat it with crackers, string cheese whatever. We’ll he stopped eating the lunchmeat. Okay fine, we won’t pack it today. We’ll try again in two days, and it’ll be fine. So I pack his lunch without the lunchmeat and the next day I go in, and maybe she didn’t mean it this way.
“But she pulls me aside, and she’s like, ‘Hey.’ She’s like Lux was still hungry, and I just feel like you should try your best to like pack some more food for him.’ And I’m just like… literally are you trying to say that I don’t feed my kid, and I’m not providing enough food for him? So the first thing, I ran to WaWa and bought him a sandwich, and I’m like he can pick the bread off so whatever.
Kailyn continued: “I just felt so small because I told her it’s like hit or miss. Sometimes he’ll eat it and sometimes he won’t. And right now, he’s not eating it at home so I didn’t pack it in his lunch. So I didn’t mean anything by it. I just felt literally this big… It’s not what she said it how she said it that made me feel like are you judging me?”
On the last Coffee Convos Podcast Kailyn also relayed she’s not currently on birth control.
The Teen Mom star said she was previously prescribed a NuvaRing.
Kailyn said she told her gynecologist: “To be perfectly honest with you, I’m just not having sex.
“So to me it was like… why do I have to put hormones in my body or anything in my body if I’m not even having sex?”
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Kailyn is a mom to Isaac, 11, with ex Jo Rivera, and Lincoln, seven, with ex-husband Javi Marroquin.
She shares Lux, three, and Creed, five months, with her former partner Chris Lopez.