Current:Home > ContactTeen Mom's Catelynn Lowell Slams Claims She Chose Husband Tyler Baltierra Over Daughter Carly -Blueprint Wealth Network
Teen Mom's Catelynn Lowell Slams Claims She Chose Husband Tyler Baltierra Over Daughter Carly
View
Date:2025-04-12 07:08:55
Catelynn Lowell is not letting the critics have the final say.
Days after the Teen Mom star shared that she and husband Tyler Baltierra had been blocked from communicating with their biological daughter Carly by the 15-year-old's adopted parents, Brandon Davis and Teresa Davis, Catelynn is responding to claims that Tyler forced her to give their child up for adoption in 2009.
"I'm seeing the comment a lot that people are saying that Tyler gave me an ultimatum," Catelynn began in a Sept. 19 Instagram video, "either my baby or him. First off, that comment is absolutely disgusting on so many levels."
The way the 16 and Pregnant alum sees it, when people say something like that, "it strips me of all of the strength and sorrow that it took me as a birth mom to place my child."
Catelynn doubled down on how false the accusations are. "If you think that I would just give my baby away for a man, that is absolutely untrue," she noted, "and to think that I would still be with said man after all of these years, if he did give me an ultimatum with either my baby or him, that's absolutely disgusting."
According to the 32-year-old, both she and Tyler, also 32, did want to keep Carly, but they knew adoption was the better choice for them, which echoes a sentiment Tyler had previously expressed.
"I know that there was a scene that was filmed that Tyler said that he thought that if we would have parented Carly, that we would not be together," she continued. "He's not implying that if I didn't place Carly, he would have broke up with me."
As the Catelynn explains, Tyler's comment had more to do with the fact that teen parents "typically do not stay together," noting that a majority parents on their show who kept their children are now broken up, while she and Tyler have been married since 2015 and share daughters Novalee, 9, Vaeda, 5, and Rya, 2.
"Teen parents go through stress and all of the things to raise a baby," she said. "So I agree with him. If we would have kept Carly, we probably wouldn't still be together."
And ultimately, she and Tyler are thankful for the choice they made because it gave them the life they have now.
"I guess at the end of the day, believe what you want," Catelynn said in conclusion, "but just know when you think things like that, it strips me of all of my strength as a birth mom and the strength of Tyler also being a birth dad. It's disgusting that any of you guys would think like that."
Over the past few days, the MTV star has not held back about sharing her frustration regarding the situation with Carly, especially because feels it's unfair to Carly and her siblings.
She also believes she was initially blocked because Carly's parents felt scared or threatened when the teen was asking "questions about why we don't get together anymore."
"When you're a bio mom you have no say... no control," Catelynn wrote on Instagram Sept. 9. "All I can do is show Carly in the future how much I tried and continue to do so... she can make the decision herself to understand who shut who out."
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News AppveryGood! (13559)
Related
- Hackers hit Rhode Island benefits system in major cyberattack. Personal data could be released soon
- Grand prize winner removed 20 Burmese pythons from the wild in Florida challenge
- Eva Mendes Reveals Whether She'd Ever Return to Acting
- MLB playoff bracket 2024: Wild card matchups, AL and NL top seeds for postseason
- Sonya Massey's father decries possible release of former deputy charged with her death
- Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ indictment alleges he used power to build empire of sexual crime
- Why Deion Sanders believes Travis Hunter can still play both ways in NFL
- Alumni of once-segregated Texas school mark its national park status
- Newly elected West Virginia lawmaker arrested and accused of making terroristic threats
- Marvel's 'Agatha All Along' is coming: Release date, cast, how to watch
Ranking
- Residents worried after ceiling cracks appear following reroofing works at Jalan Tenaga HDB blocks
- Washington gubernatorial debate pits attorney general vs. ex-sheriff who helped nab serial killer
- A vandal badly damaged a statue outside a St. Louis cathedral, police say
- Sean “Diddy” Combs Pleads Not Guilty in Sex Trafficking Case After Arrest
- Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September
- Ellen DeGeneres Addresses Workplace Scandal in Teaser for Final Comedy Special
- New York schools staff accused of taking family on trips meant for homeless students
- US Army conducts training exercise on Alaskan island less than 300 miles from Russia
Recommendation
Costco membership growth 'robust,' even amid fee increase: What to know about earnings release
Texas lawmakers show bipartisan support to try to stop a man’s execution
Taco Bell gets National Taco Day moved so it always falls on a Taco Tuesday
Now a Roe advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child tells her story in Harris campaign ad
Apple iOS 18.2: What to know about top features, including Genmoji, AI updates
Dolphins put Tua Tagovailoa on injured reserve after latest concussion
Singer JoJo Addresses Rumor of Cold Encounter With Christina Aguilera
Ellen DeGeneres Addresses Workplace Scandal in Teaser for Final Comedy Special