Catelynn recently posted a video of her daughter Nova on Instagram and fans were shocked! As a mother, she should know better! How could she do this to her child?
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Since the days of 16 and Pregnant, Catelynn Lowell has stood out from the other moms. She was the only "teen mom" to choose adoption and she is now the only cast member who is still together with her high school sweetheart.
That does not mean, however, that the couple has been free from public criticism. Viewers have offered their opinions through every difficult decision that the two have faced.
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Recently, when Catelynn posted a shocking video of her daughter, fans went wild wondering if she finally crossed a line!
Together, she and Tyler Baltierra have gone through serious emotional struggles since they were in high school picking adoptive parents for baby Carly. As teenagers, they processed the aftermath of their choice on camera for MTV.
Once the couple felt mature enough for their own child, Catelynn gave birth to another beautiful baby girl, Novalee Reign. Catelynn suffered from severe postpartum depression and entered an in-patient treatment facility in Arizona in 2016. She re-entered treatment in November after tweeting, “Well today I thought of every way to kill myself.. so I’m going to treatment.”
As episodes from Teen Mom OG aired, it became clear why Catelynn sought counseling again. Viewers watched with joy as she gave Tyler the good news that she was pregnant again.
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Then, they mourned with the couple as Catelynn suffered a miscarriage during her third pregnancy.
In an episode from the most recent season, Tyler confided in a Teen Mom OG producer on the troubles that Catelynn has had when it comes to her pregnancies: “Unfortunately for Cate, every single pregnancy she’s had has had some sort of trauma with it,” he spilled. “Letting go for Carly, with Nova postpartum. That miscarriage was one of the most traumatic things she's ever dealt with.”
It is no surprise that Catelynn needed time to heal after suffering her miscarriage. Now that she’s back from treatment, fans are hoping that these two can continue to heal as a couple and raise baby Nova together.
Given the pain of their recent experiences, no one expected them to try to get pregnant any time soon. But Catelynn has never been one to stop fighting.
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She and Tyler have made it clear that they will soon be trying for another baby.
Following in the steps of their co-stars, Catelynn and Tyler headed over to Kailyn Lowry’s podcast, Coffee Convos, to discuss behind-the-scenes gossip of their life as a family. There they talked about mental health, healing, and the future of Teen Mom OG. But they also broached a surprising topic: their next pregnancy.
"I feel way better," Catelynn told Kailyn, sharing that she is on a new regimen of medication for her mental health. "I did genetic testing and found out that the medication I was on for five years doesn't even work for me. So they put me on different medications and they seem to be working really well."
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Catelynn expressed the importance of public awareness in mental health. She emphasized, “That stigma needs to go away because people need to talk about it. It’s out there and it’s real and it affects people, even normal people, people on reality TV, moms, etc.”
Tyler agreed, adding, “A lot of people will comment on social media and they’ll just say the nastiest things and it’s all through ignorance because they don’t really understand the disease or understand the illness. They keep thinking, ‘Oh, you’re depressed. Just get up and get a hobby and fix it,’ and it all comes out of pure ignorance. The more we talk about it, the more educated people become about it and will lesson that stigma.”
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This issue has personal importance for Tyler as well as Catelynn. He has publicized his own struggles with mental illness, revealing his diagnosis with Bipolar disorder and sharing some of his darker thoughts in order to normalize the struggle of mental illness.
“Laying in bed next to my peacefully sleeping wife,” Tyler tweeted earlier this spring. “I can hear my daughter snoozing away through the monitor in her room. My dog is cuddled up on the floor next to me…& yet I feel so empty…so alone,” he wrote, adding, “#TheCruelIronyOfLife.”
Catelynn responded, “I am so sorry babe… I will do anything to help you… you are an amazing husband and father and are so caring, funny, and thoughtful… don’t let life bring you down because you are one strong man… I love you so much.”
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Their conversation with Kailyn eventually turned to family life. The Teen Mom 2 star asked if the couple was considering having more children.
"I want more kids," Tyler spilled on the show. "I definitely do."
“We definitely want more kids,” Catelynn agreed. “Especially after the miscarriage and stuff."
But she added that they’re taking it day by day. "We're kind of not rushing into things right now, because we were there, and then I had the miscarriage, and then I just went downhill, so I want to make sure that I'm healthy and happy,” she explained.
Some fans would agree that the couple should wait before having another baby. In fact, many are questioning their ability to parent their daughter, Nova!
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On reddit, stonedandcrazy posted, “Anyone else think that Catelynns Instagram video of Nova where she zooms in on her but in a bathing suit really inappropriate for social media? I just saw it tonight...”
Though this “mommy” judgment is typical in Internet chat rooms, the user makes a case for why this particular post freaked them out! They write, “It's a compilation of videos of Nova playing in water but one part of it she zooms in on her butt while she's buried behind a pillow and it just seems like a pedophile dream come true and wildly inappropriate."
stonedandcrazy explains, "I would never post that on sm [social media] even though I think it would be ok for just memories, it made me feel weird seeing it on Instagram. Feel free to disagree, maybe I'm overreacting but it freaked me out.”
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Metalhead35 responds that this behavior is normal for Catelynn, but also disapproves. They write, “She's terrible about Nova's privacy. She's snapped her completely naked in the shower, shown her pooping on tv, she's constantly half naked on the show.”
They point out, “I mean all of that is probably just whatever for most people, but aside from the obvious issues with creeps and weirdos, she's going to grow up and her boss or kids at school or her potential tinder date can google her and find weird naked pictures or clips of her picking up a turd...which would kind of suck tbh.”
Online fans are not the only ones who think Nova deserves a more private childhood. Concern over their child growing up in the public eye was a major reason why Carly’s adoptive parents began to limit Tyler and Catelynn’s contact with their first daughter.
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User devzim adds that the behavior is also dangerous, writing, “Something I didn’t realize until a few years ago is that people will take your kids pictures from social media and photoshop them into provocative situations. Even a picture of a topless child that has cutesy stickers placed over the nipples can easily be photoshopped to look like it’s a completely nude photograph. A child in a diaper holding a toy can be photoshopped into that child completely nude and holding something...else.”
They emphasize, “Caits following is too large for her to be so reckless with sharing Novas body. Finding out that Novas pictures have been manipulated and sold to child pornography sites would be devastating and just not worth it. Some things just aren’t meant to be shared with the world.”
Evidently Briana DeJesus is on Catelynn’s side. She recently shared a shirtless photo of her daughter Nova at her first birthday.
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Asthmabat argues, “I mean at that point people can just photoshop a child's head onto a nude body and there's really nothing you can do about it…If you're sharing your children's images on social media at all, in any way, shape or fashion, someone might be getting off on it. They might not even have to photoshop at all. Plenty of creep sites collect fully clothed images of children doing completely normal things and get off that way. All of this is true of your images as well, by the way. So now what?...You can limit the potential by locking down your your social media (or by not having social media, which is what I personally do for other reasons).”
Though Ashthmabat concedes, “That's not really an option for people on reality TV because their contracts probably demand they post to SM [social media].”
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This is not the first time that Catelynn has come under fire for oversharing. “My husband is the BEST!!!” Catelynn tweeted shortly after her return home from the treatment center. “Now get home so I can kiss that face of urs!!! … (and maybe other things )”
Many fans thought this was too much information to post online. Apparently Catelynn didn’t agree, because she went on to release even more intimate details about her man.
“#NuffSaid #myman #gethome #sexy @TylerBaltierra,” Catelynn captured this NSFW selfie of Tyler.
Tyler replied, “I think my wife REALLY misses me HAHAHA!” He added, “Better watch out Babe, people are SUPER sensitive these days with their conservative opinions about us flirting on social media lmao! It must be very uncomfortable walking around everyday with that stick up their a**es LOVE YOU!”
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User JenellesSheShed commented online, “Um. Yea. My husband doesn't do much on [social media]...Not even a profile picture. But, if I'm being honest, I'd lose my s**t if he begged for attention, SHIRT-LESS. On the daily. To hundreds of thousands of followers. Especially if I were as insecure as Cate is, or at least has been in the past.”
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