TEEN Mom alum Kailyn Lowry has confirmed long-held fan theories that the stars of the show were made to wear wigs to reshoot old scenes.
Kailyn, now 33, spilled the gossip to former Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent on her podcast Give Them Lala on Wednesday, June 25.
The mom of seven, who quit Teen Mom in 2022 after 12 years on the show, claimed she was “manipulated” and “edited” by the reality show’s producers to give them the explosive content they wanted.
“I know what this is going to look like after the fact,” she told Lala, 34, of how she learned the producers’ intentions after a few years on the show.
“I know how people are going to perceive this. I know that they have to edit down six months of content to four minutes per episode.”
She said she started to “push back” at producers’ directions, and continued to drop more reality TV secrets.
“If you weren’t there for huge moments, they had us wearing wigs, or they’d have us like change our phone number contacts to a producer that was on set,” she explained.
“So, for example, if my ex texted me something outrageous and they weren’t there for the real moment, they would have me change my producer’s name in my phone to be my exes’.
“And then they would text me a similar text so that they could get an onscreen reaction.
“We called them pickups, and they were not real time.”
The U.S. Sun previously revealed all the times the Teen Mom stars were rumored to be wearing wigs on the show to hide reshoots or staged scenes.
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Kailyn quit Teen Mom in 2022, and initially claimed the show had “run its course,” and she made enough money from her successful podcasts.
But the star later confessed she had learned she was pregnant with Rio, her fifth child, and didn’t want to discuss the situation on TV.
“Yeah, I left in 2022 when I got pregnant with my fifth son,” she told fellow podcaster Trisha Paytas in 2024. “Because I was like, ‘I can’t, we’re not doing this.’”
“We did not plan to get pregnant. It was the first time I slept with him,” she added of her ex-fiance, Elijah Scott, the father of her three youngest kids. “And we had just developed a relationship.”
“I felt like I would give them this laundry list of things that I wanted to film, but they only wanted to talk about the relationships that I had with my kids’ dads.
“That’s old and tired, right? I have other drama, I can give you drama, I’ll do whatever you want, but let’s talk about it.”
Kailyn Lowry Family Tree
Fans met Kailyn Lowry on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant. They followed her journey on Teen Mom 2 as she navigated relationships, motherhood, her career and more. Meet Kailyn’s seven children from four of her relationships.
Isaac Elliot Rivera (14) – Kailyn and her then-boyfriend Jo Rivera welcomed their son in January 2010 on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant.
Lincoln Marshall Marroquin (11) – Kailyn’s son with her then-husband Javi Marroquin. They were married from 2012 to 2016.
Lux Russell Lowry (7) and Creed Romello Lowry-Lopez (4) – Kailyn welcomed two sons with Chris Lopez, who she had an on-again, off-again relationship with. She gave their first child her last name because of their tumultuous relationship. Her second son’s name is hyphenated, according to Instagram.
Rio Scott (2) and Verse and Valley Scott (both 1) – Kailyn welcomed her son Rio with Elijah in 2022 and twins, including her first daughter, with him in 2023.
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Kailyn’s life continued to be dramatic off camera.
After welcoming Rio, she immediately got pregnant with her twins, Valley and Verse.
She quietly welcomed the babies in October 2023, and told the public the news in January 2024.
Kailyn has since broken up with Elijah, after he was accused of cheating with another woman on a cruise.
As The U.S. Sun reported, she is now dating local Delaware fisherman Isaac Knighton.
