Exclusive Sample
We love the fact that these Teen Mom stars keep writing tell-all books. I can't imagine what it's like to have your entire life unfold on screen. These girls have been in the public eye since they were 16. I'm sure sometimes they wish they had never signed away their privacy.
Headlines are always coming in with rumors about these girls and the relationships they have. The only way they know how to combat the rumors is through tell-all books. Now, the boys are on board too. Amber Portwood's fiancé Matt Baier reveals some shocking news in his book. Check out the exclusive sample.
The Naked Truth
Amber Portwood's fiancé Matt Baier is releasing his tell-all book titled, You Have No F**king Idea: The Naked Truth About My Life. The book is a collaborative effort between Matt Baier and Matt Richards, of The Real Mr. Housewife.
In an exclusive sample from the book, Matt reveals what it's like to live with the media constantly smearing your name. He also reveals how it has affected Amber. Check out the juicy sample up next!
Slimy, Sleazy Fiancé
It begins:
“Everybody had a story. Everybody had a picture. Everybody had a wild tale to tell and the media ate it up.
Hell, they still do. There was a story recently about my past drug use that referred to me as the ‘slimy, sleazy fiancé of Amber Portwood.’
The fact of the matter is that I have not done the majority of what’s been written about me. I have no criminal record. I barely have a background. The press has invented sins based on the word of people looking to get paid and be famous..."
Amber Blackmailed?!
"One of those very people texted Amber and I and said, ‘Pay me, or I’m going to keep selling stories to the press.’
Now, one might wonder how tabloids and gossip magazines and websites get away with printing salacious garbage. It’s not much of a secret, but it involves a few tricks. One is to use scare quotes in headlines such as ‘Teen Mom’ Star Matt Baier’s ‘Troubling’ Past—the words with single, scare-quotes around them mean nothing other than someone used the word at some point."
Tricks of the Trade
It continues:
"Another trick is to use the word ‘allegedly’ before any accusation. Another is to simply say 'a source said' and then accuse someone in the text. Another headline trick is to pretend you’re asking a question. These are all dirty little ruses to avoid lawsuits—which isn’t to say media outlets don’t get sued all the time. They do."
Why are you doing this to me?
"A tabloid reporter went off-record with me one day. Someone amongst the many who had been ripping me up. I asked them, over the phone, ‘Why are you doing this to me?’
The answer was that people click on my name and it was simply a job for this particular reporter. It was business. Nothing personal. More clicks meant more money for that company and, maybe, that reporter.
So why do people click on those stories about me?"
45 or 100?
"I think it’s because they can’t get over the age difference between Amber and I. It’s shocking to them. Some of it, I’m sure, has to do with the demographic of Teen Mom viewers, who are generally younger. They’re wonderful, but they don’t understand.
If you’re nineteen, and you’re watching this show, your father might be younger than me. I just turned forty-five. Amber and I got together when I was forty-two. To the kids watching this show, I might as well be 100."
Three Years
"That’s another thing to point out. Amber and I have been in a relationship for three years. This isn’t some new thing where Amber learns secrets about my life via supermarket tabloids and gossip websites. Really, who do you think knows me more, the person I’ve spent twenty-four hours a day with for the last three years, or somebody I met in a bar fifteen years ago, and never even got their last name?"
Truth doesn't get clicks
"The people who now have stories to sell are the people who wanted to have nothing to do with me back in the day. Today, they claim they had hot and heavy crazy relationships with me. When all this was going on, and new stories were popping up daily, one of my exes—who I actually did have a relationship with, and you’ll meet her later—stepped up. She reached out to the press and told them she was with me during those times and none of this stuff was true. Know what the reporters did?
They hung up on her.
Because the truth wasn’t what they wanted. They didn’t think the truth got clicks. They didn’t think the truth sold magazines."
It's my turn
"Well, now it’s my turn.
After reading this book, my only hope is that, for once, you won’t think you know, but rather, you actually will. Thank you in advance for giving me a chance to, once and for all, have my say and tell my side of things.
Let’s get started at the real beginning of my real story: World, meet Matt Baier.”
Just the Start
This is just the start of Matt's juicy tell-all. From the sound of it, we think this is going to be juicy.
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Source: The Dirty