She just can't decide!
Along her Teen Mom journey, Kailyn Lowry has made her fair share of controversial decisions. But the one thing fans can always count on her to do is put her three sons, Lux, Lincoln, and Isaac first. Her sons may not have the same fathers, but they do have each other and their adoring mom. But that doesn’t mean her parenting doesn’t fall under scrutiny sometimes!
Now, Kailyn is getting lots of questions from fans after yet another name change for one of her sons. What’s his name now?!
Drama, Baby
When Kailyn Lowry revealed that she was pregnant by her third baby daddy, it made a huge splash in the Teen Mom fanbase. Fans were shocked that she was pregnant, and more shocked that she managed to keep her baby daddy’s identity a secret for so long! Kailyn and Chris Lopez tried to keep his identity away from fans for as long as possible, but everything comes out eventually one way or another.
Now, Kailyn’s son Lux is nine months old and he’s getting cuter and cuter every day. That doesn’t mean fans have forgotten all of the drama surrounding his birth!
Lux Russell
Even once Kailyn gave birth to Lux, the drama wasn’t over. Fans expected Kailyn to reveal Lux’s name the day he was born, but she fessed up: she still hadn’t decided on a name for her son! She dished to Radar Online, “We don’t have a baby name and we don’t have any ideas either. Everything we thought we liked doesn’t fit him.” Kailyn explained on Twitter that she was “Still trying to pick one… I think I’m over thinking it.”
In fact, it wasn’t until October that Kailyn finally named her two-month-old baby! She joked, “It only took us 7 weeks to decide a name and 8 weeks to make it official.”
Kail’s fans had a hunch she would stick with an L name, since she had called her son “Baby Lo” during her pregnancy. They were right! By taking a snap of her son on a blanket patterned with his name, she revealed her son’s name was “Lux Russell.”
Another Change?!
“It’s not a family name or anything like that,” she told Radar Online. “It’s something I stumbled across over the years and it kind of always was in the back of my mind.”
Soon after Kailyn’s reveal, a surprising update came out: she was changing her son’s name once again. Apparently she wasn’t content with Lux’s last name being Lopez, and she had his name changed to Lux Lowry-Lopez. Now is Lux having yet another name change?!
Lux Who?!
Kailyn recently shared this snap of her second son Lincoln cuddling with Lux. But it’s clear she’s not calling him Lux! “Russell, can you say mama?” Kailyn asks. Lincoln says, “Russell say mama!” It seems clear that Kailyn is now using Lux’s middle name for her son!
Kailyn soon confirmed it on Twitter. “Does Lincoln still call baby lux baby lo?” Twitter user @themommy_22 wrote in. “I was [just] watching your snaps and i started thinking about that lol.” Kailyn responded, “He calls him Russell.”
Fans know that this isn’t the only one of Kailyn’s sons who goes by his middle name. Lincoln is commonly called Marshall by his family!
Kail may not have realized that this would bring up more discussions of her controversial name game.
Controversial Choice
“This👏🏻is👏🏻why👏🏻you👏🏻shouldnt👏🏻try👏🏻so👏🏻hard👏🏻giving👏🏻your👏🏻kids👏🏻unique👏🏻names👏🏻,” wrote reddit user retroverted_uterus. User constantreader55 agreed, “Seriously. Lux is a ridiculous name. Isaac and lincoln are fine, they're normal, russell and marshall are pretty normal too (none of the names are my taste except Isaac), and ‘lux’ just came out of nowhere.” User PygmyFists wrote, “I definitely favor Russell over Lux but jeez, it took you collectively a whole d*mn year to name this child and you're STILL not set?”
But many pointed out that it might not be a permanent change. User yesnoic wrote, ”We call our girls by both of their first and middle names interchangeably - Kail could be doing the same.” Either way, many just want Kail to make up her mind! “So f*cking stupid with all the name ‘changes,’” wrote user leafmealonebae. User heathensam wrote, “I totally agree. First she couldn't come up with a name. Then she changed the last name. Now he's Russel[l]. He's gonna have an identity crisis by the time he's 4.”
Missing Dad
Ironically, the only other person whose opinion matters hasn’t chimed in much. That would be Lux’s father, Chris Lopez! But soon after Lux was born, Chris didn’t have much to do with him at all.
“My guess is he won’t acknowledge paternity so she can’t file for child support,” an insider told Radar Online. “They give a form in the hospital, but he didn’t sign it.”
They added, “Her lawyer drew something up and they are going through the court because he doesn’t have any rights to Lux without signing. He’s not seeing the baby right now for those reasons.”
Of course, Chris has since seen his son, and seems to be co-parenting with Kailyn. But now it seems there may be a reason why Kailyn kept her baby daddy away: was Chris abusing Kailyn while they were together? It’s Briana DeJesus who’s spreading these rumors!
No Winning
“Did y’all like #teenmom2 tonight?” Briana wrote on Instagram. One fan wrote in, “I wish a b*tch would talk sh*t about me in front of my kids. I would mop the floor with her a** period!” Briana responded by blowing up a dark rumor.
“Too bad she didn’t and would never lol,” Briana wrote. “And I wasn’t talking sh*t and shut the f*ck up cause she gets beat the f*ck up by chris in front of her kids. Goodbye.”
It didn’t take long before Briana received backlash for her rumor spreading. “There’s no winning with her saying that,” pointed out reddit user MaybeTennessee. “She’s either put Kail’s business out there or she’s making sh*t up. Even if she did hear it from Javi, it’s still not her place, especially when she lasted 2.6 seconds as his girl.” User clevelandcray wrote, “Brianna is unlikable as it is. Does she not realize she’s not helping herself by doing sh*t like this? She’s so cringeworthy.” User Mrs_stepford wrote, “This is none of Brianna’s d*mn business. Kail isnt her boyfriend ex wife anymore. Shut the f*ck up.”
Fans expected Kailyn to be furious about this, but her response was surprisingly small. She simply tweeted, “Some people aren’t even worth the time and energy. I’ve worked too hard on my books & degree to throw it away on someone who runs their mouth for a living.”
Even Chris got in on the discussion, apparently having heard the rumors. He tweeted, “Let’s just keep my name out the teen mom drama ok? Ok,” he wrote. He added, “1 more thing lol I NEVER beat my [baby mama].”
Violent Ways
But the truth is, Briana isn’t the beginning of this rumor. Soon after Lux’s birth, an insider spilled the rumor to The Ashley’s Reality Roundup.
“I don’t want to keep Lux from Chris. That’s not the goal,” Kailyn explained. “The goal is to take some time right now to figure out what works for us. I’ve obviously been through this before and I do want Lux to eventually have a relationship with his dad. Right now the circumstances aren’t right for that, though.”
But when The Ashley did some digging, they found someone close to Kailyn who alleged that Chris was violent with her.
“She’s trying her best to keep the real reason off the show,” a “production source” told The Ashley. “So far, the drama with Chris hasn’t really been covered for the show, but that’s only because it is hard to do when Chris won’t sign on to appear or have his name on ‘Teen Mom 2.’” But another source had more to say.
“Chris was violent with Kail multiple times, once while she was holding [Lux],” the source said. The source claimed that Chris “tried to break into Kail’s house at least once to see the baby and left damage on her door frame and window,” The Ashley reports.
The source added that “Some of the film crew noticed a hole was punched in Kail’s garage door, and she confided in someone on the crew that Chris did it. Nothing was filmed about it, though.” They added, “Kail is really trying to keep this off the show because of how bad she got ripped by fans last time when she was dealing with Javi.”
Kailyn isn’t the only one facing off with abuse rumors. Fans were shocked to catch sight of a hole in the wall at Jenelle’s home during the Teen Mom 2 premiere!
Writing on the Wall
“That’s a nice hole in the wall in a brand new house,” wrote reddit user GoodGodDude on this image from the season premiere of Teen Mom 2. In the image, there is clearly a significant hole in one of the walls of Jenelle and David’s home when one of the producers walks through. Many immediately assumed that David had put a hole in the wall.
“All I can picture is Jenelle trying to get away from David and locking herself in the bedroom while he punches the door 😩” wrote reddit user ifyouseekamy_ “I can’t imagine what terrifying fights the kids have heard.” User Copcardramatics wrote, “Why TF wouldn’t you patch this before having the film crew over? I guess there’s no point in fixing it if [David] is just going to put his fist through it again though.” User GirlsesPillses wrote, “If those walls could talk…”
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