She hasn't been onscreen since her episode of 16 and Pregnant. But that doesn't mean that this teen mom has been keeping quiet. She recently gave birth to her third child...with her third baby daddy!
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Kayla first appeared on Season 2 of 16 and Pregnant with her boyfriend John Robert Davis, or J.R. She is from Centre, Alabama, a small town near the Georgia border. Kayla described herself as a “college bound starry eyed girl head over heels for my first love, JR.”
Over the course of the episode, she gives birth a few weeks early to their son, Rylan. It’s been almost a decade since that episode and now she has announced her newest baby!
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In a memorable moment of the 2010 episode, Kayla is desperate to take her newborn son horse-back riding with her, despite the reasonable objections of every other adult within earshot. “I want my son growing up knowing how to ride,” Kayla adamantly narrates in the voiceover. The horse’s discomfort is evident and her boyfriend takes the baby from her after a short period of time.
On her episode of 16 and Pregnant, J.R. proposed to Kayla and the couple became engaged. However, it quickly went south. Kayla shared, “Once we had our baby boy Rylan, our relationship fell apart.” She tells him in one clip, “I don’t think you realize how tough it’s gonna be raising a baby.”
She shared in her follow-up, “We just kinda co-parent with each other. Whenever I got pregnant, I pictured us being this happy little family. It turned out it wasn’t like that at all.”
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In a 2013 “Where Are They Now?” follow-up, Kayla was living with her mother and her stepfather. At the time of filming, she was taking a break from school. Kayla revealed that she was dating Ryan, the father of a one-year-old son, Nolan.
Things were serious enough that she shared her plans to move in with him onscreen, despite her mom’s evident disapproval. Kayla gushed, “As a mother, the quickest way to my heart is to see someone play with Rylan and be good with Rylan.” That relationship did not last long. Fans pretty much heard nothing more about the man she almost moved in with.
She then began dating Zach Bedwell shortly after their break-up. She announced their engagement by writing, “I am so excited that I get to spend the rest of my life with my best friend.”
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In a follow-up clip for MTV, Kayla tells viewers about her first pregnancy, “I was taking birth control pills. I’m forgetful and I forgot to take my pill and Voila…a baby!”
But when a Formspring user asked if she was on birth control, Kayla had a different response. She revealed, “i was on that seasonal (however you spell it) but it was messing me all up!!! So i got off of it and was gonna change too something else but then i got pregnant.”
It seems like Kayla did not learn her lesson. In 2015, Kayla gave birth to her second child, her first with Zach. “Welcome to the world Bryce Harper,” Kayla wrote on Facebook. Like his older brother, her second son came a few weeks early. Because of his premature delivery in 2010, MTV was unable to film Rylan’s birth for 16 and Pregnant.
She's been keeping up with the stars of 'Teen Mom'!
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Kayla announced her third pregnancy on Instagram with a snap of the sonogram captioned, “Sweet little Odin Lute Jones! Come on July!”
She recently married Dakota Jones, her third fiancé and the father of baby Odin. The Ashley’s Reality Roundup reported that her wedding took place in her home state of Alabama.
She carried a pink and green bouquet and the bridesmaids wore pale pink. Her sons, Rylan and Bryce (both from previous relationships) served as ring bearers. She wore a strapless gown with her hair in an updo. It was a backyard ceremony and guests sat on log benches decorated with flowers. The couple took their honeymoon in Panama City, Florida.
J.R. married in 2016. The couple has one son, Jett.
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Kayla still lives in Alabama. Just a few months after her wedding, Kayla gave birth to her third child. She revealed the birth when she shared a photo of Dakota holding their new baby boy, Odin, on Instagram with the caption, “I have never seen anyone so in love with someone.”
Evidently, all of the boys are getting along! Kayla posted a picture of Bryce holding a bottle for the newborn captioned, “He doesn’t hate him after all!”
Though viewers have not heard much from Kayla since her Season 2 episode, Starcasm uncovered Kayla’s highly active Formspring website from her teenage years. The site allowed users to answer anonymous questions. Kayla answered over 3,000! She spilled all of the details on going through her first pregnancy with J.R.
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A user asked how she found out she was pregnant and Kayla answered, “Well see I didn’t think I was pregnant! I was having all the symptoms that I was about too start except my b**bs were really swollen! Well I went too Wal Mart too take my test and yes took my test inside the bathroom at wal mart! Lol. Then it said pregnant! J.R. was scared/shocked! But he loved baby Rylan from the start…And my parents didn ‘t say too much. They were short of upset but very supportive.”
She shared that she was 5 weeks along when she found out. When she tried to tell her mom about her pregnancy, she couldn’t get the news out.
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Kayla wrote: “I made my mom guess. Like I told her I had too tell her something, but when it came down too it I couldn’t say it… So she guessed. And my mom broke down crying and told my dad.”
Though Kayla seems happy with her family, she has expressed regret over her carefree teenage behavior. In her MTV follow-up, she said, “Before I had Rylan, I just pictured myself going on to college and moving on my own.” She confessed that even after his birth, “I would love to be this free spirit backpacking Europe,” but she now has responsibilities at home that make it impossible.
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A Formspring user asked, “whats the hardest thing about being a teen mom?”
Kayla divulged, “Umm.. Probably seeing all of my friends going off to college and leaving me behind. I mean because if I was older I would have had that experience and wouldn’t wonder what I was missing out on. I mean it’s sad, but oh well! I have my life here and I’m not complaining. And also me and Jr not having stable jobs and having to depend on our parents.”
Among other things on Formspring, Kayla even shared her favorite 16 and Pregnant moms! From Season 1, it was Maci Bookout and from Season 2,
Chelsea Houska.
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Maci was featured in the pilot episode of 16 and Pregnant. Her episode focused on the issues in her relationship with her baby’s father, Ryan Edwards. Those issues continued throughout her segments on Teen Mom OG. She married her husband, Taylor McKinney in 2016 and the couple has two children together.
Ryan has also married and had another child. However, he primarily draws attention for his substance abuse, specifically when he drove to his own wedding high!
Chelsea’s initial 16 and Pregnant episode focused on her shaky relationship with her first baby daddy, Adam Lind. How things change! Now, she is happily married to Cole DeBoer and expecting her third child.
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Formspring revealed that Kayla has something in common with a 16 and Pregnant co-star. A user asked Kayla, “What do you think about tyler asking for catelynn’s phone records? Would you ever agree to that?”
In an unexpected response, Kayla wrote, “Well I can’t judge them because I’ve recently asked for records myself,” and went on to share that she asked JR for his phone records because “he had been calling a girl, but he said he hadn’t been.”
Unlike Kayla and J.R., Tyler Baltierra and Catelynn Lowell were able to get past their trust issues and make things work. The couple is now married. Though they gave their first daughter, Carly, up for adoption on 16 and Pregnant, they now have a daughter, Nova. Their third pregnancy tragically ended in a miscarriage, but the couple is currently trying to have another baby!
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