Kailyn Lowry has made some mistakes in the past, but does this one take the cake? Fans are abuzz after she shared this picture of her one-year-old son with a beer!
Everyone has a different viewpoint when it comes to the best ways to raise a child, but Kailyn Lowry has been around the block quite a few times. Now, she’s raising her third son, Lux, so it’s impossible to claim she’s inexperienced. But did she go too far when she shared this picture of him with a beer?
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During a Teen Mom reunion filming that aired on the show, Kailyn Lowry shared a confession about her relationship with her fans. She spilled that she thinks she is the “most hated” Teen Mom star. Although the truth is that she might have to fight out Farrah Abraham for the title, she’s not wrong about getting a massive amount of hate from the fanbase. Just check out the comments section on any of her many Instagram posts and you’ll see a number of viewers sharing negative thoughts, criticisms, and complaints about the mother of three.
But even though she feels the burn from fans, Kailyn also has a huge amount of supporters. Viewers and fans are constantly praising her for her actions, the love she has for her children, and her no-nonsense attitude when it comes to what she believes in.
Kailyn may be used to the criticism, but that doesn’t mean she’s always perfect. Lately, she’s been caught up in a number of scandals involving her relationships and her children. Recently, she was blasted for potentially “confusing” her sons!
Kailyn took her time naming her third son, Lux. In fact, he was two months old before 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.”
“It’s not a family name or anything like that,” she told Radar Online at the time. “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.
But that wasn’t the end of Lux’s name game. Soon after, it appeared that Kailyn was changing his name yet again!
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.
“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.”
Recently, Kailyn tweeted using this name again and got some direct backlash from fans. “Russell’s birthday invites done & gift ordered. Cannot believe he’s about to be one,” Kailyn tweeted.
“Omg just pick a name to call him already!!! It’s confusing to the kid! SMH,” wrote Twitter user @GaughanLeslie.
Kailyn responded, “Awe, thank for your concerns guys,” with an eye-rolling emoji. “But my kids respond to their first & middle names… even Isaac. Nobody’s confused. Have a nice day!”
Kailyn obviously has the skill of clapping back to haters to an art, but can she’ll have her hands full defending a recent picture she shared of her son.
“Ma young boy,” Kailyn captioned this shot of her son Lux enjoying a day at the beach. In the picture, Lux is as adorable as ever, with his hair pulled back in an adorable tiny ponytail. But what’s less cute is what he’s holding: a bottle of Corona beer.
“I know it’s unopened but why do people think it’s cute to make babies/children pose with alcohol like this? I don’t get it,” wrote user sarah5736 on reddit. “This is in poor taste. Maybe Kail’s baby daddy’s have been the glue that keeps her parenting shit together this entire time,” wrote Infactinfarctinfart. User SadFeminist even pointed out, “Am I the only one more concerned with that baby cutting up his gums if he tries to gnaw on that bottle cap than the fact that it’s beer?”
But not everyone was quite so upset about the image. “Kail is such a bad mom! She didn’t even open the beer for him. Sooooooo selfish lol,” joked emeraldoceanmt. User TieDyeRehabHoodie wrote, “I'm surprised by all the pearl-clutching. It's just a goofy candid pic. Considering how substance abuse doesn't seem to be an issue with Lux's parents, I don't see what the big deal is?”
Being a reality star means that Kailyn has to be extra careful with what she shares with fans if she wants to avoid backlash. But recently, she’s opened up about adding another major surgery to her repertoire. Her other surgeries came from a desire to improve her self image and the way she appeared in the public eye.
In fact, Kailyn has opened up with her complicated relationship with her self image before. As she revealed in her book, Hustle and Heart, she struggled with eating disorders while she was younger.
“For a long time I had very low self esteem,” Kailyn penned. “For a variety of reasons, I struggled to believe in the possibility that I might actually be worth the love of others… I was constantly nitpicking everything about myself.”
“For years I struggled with eating disorders, and I was extremely self-conscious about my weight,” she revealed. “As anyone who’s been in this situation knows, this is rarely something you ever completely get over. It’s nice to think that the ultimate goal would be to feel totally at peace with my body, whatever it looks like.. But in reality, that’s something that has to be maintained continuously.”
Luckily, Kailyn soon turned to healthier weight loss techniques. “I took up Crossfit with the hope of putting an end to my constant weight fluctuations and the turmoil that came with them,” she said. “It was a great decision.” But she added, “Still, after fourteen months, I wasn’t getting the specific results I was hoping for. I’d committed so thoroughly to working out and maintaining a healthy diet, but it was clear there was only so much I could do to change the shape of my body.”
That’s when Kailyn turned to surgery to get the look she wanted, even if it was a controversial decision.
“So, I made a choice,” Kailyn revealed. “A choice that isn’t right for everyone, but was right for me. After much thought and research, I decided to get plastic surgery.”
She revealed that it was controversial even then. “When the news about my plastic surgery broke, social media erupted with people from all over the world spouting off their opinions about my decision. As you can imagine, most people only had negative things to say.” But Kailyn didn’t let it get to her.
“As you can imagine, I didn’t really care. The choice to undergo plastic surgery was mine and mine alone. Haters to the left!” She added, “Guess what? I was doing me... I was just doing me, and if your mission is to love yourself, I would encourage you to do you.”
She added, “I’m human. I care how I look. I knew that being satisfied with my outer appearance would give me the confidence I needed to face he world head on.” But she also spoke to inner beauty, penning, “Don’t get it twisted, though. Loving yourself has very little to do with outer beauty at all."
She went on, "It’s more about recognizing value in yourself and giving yourself as much credit as you give to the people you care about… Accepting who you are as a person, including your flaws, is a necessary component when it comes to gaining the super power that is self love… It’s important to remember that the relationship you have with yourself comes first, and no one should make you feel bad about that.”
Although Kailyn has put her disordered ways behind her, she’s now opening up about the next plastic surgery she’d like to have.
“My fingers are crossed that I’m going to get this breast reduction surgery next month,” Kailyn spilled on her podcast, Coffee Convos.“They’re massive! It weighs me down. I have already bad posture, and then my boobs add to it, so I’m like, ‘Please let me get cleared for this.”
“When your chest is really really big, it just makes you look so much bigger… because your shirts stick out,” her co-host Lindsie Chrisley chimed in.
“When the trainer came here the other day, he took all my measurements to do the weight loss stuff…. And I wear a 36DDD.” She reveals, “When he took my measurements, it was 44 inches! So I don’t think I’m even wearing the right size bra.”
She added, “I’m super nervous and hopeful that I can get this surgery, but we’ll see. I’ll keep you guys posted.”
Luckily for Kailyn, fans are more than supportive of her idea. “I can imagine the back pain and aggravation huge breasts would cause. It’ll make her feel better, so nothing negative to say on this from me. I think it can increase activity levels as well. Running and exercise would be a little easier,” wrote user KellyBees on reddit. “Everyone I know who has gotten it has LOVED it and instantly felt better with less pressure on their back and shoulders,” wrote StasRutt.
“She’s gonna look loads better. She has a great body for being a bigger girl, but the big boobs make her look super top heavy, making her look bigger than she actually is,” wrote htxcountrymuffin. User uknowhowchoicesbe wrote, “Her back will thank her.”
It seems that Kailyn has a lot on her mind right now, but that might be for the best. She could be grateful for any opportunity to be distracted from her ex, Javi Marroquin, who has recently announced his girlfriend is pregnant with his child!
Even though they only got back together a few months ago, they clearly didn’t waste any time. Javi has just confirmed to Radar that his girlfriend Lauren is pregnant (yes, with his child).
“Blessings on top of blessings,” Javi wrote on a picture of him cradling Lauren’s baby bump on his private Facebook page. Lauren wrote, “Sometimes life’s biggest blessings come in the smallest packages. Baby Marroquin coming soon!”
He took to Instagram to write: "Been kinda quiet lately for many reasons. I was sad I couldn’t share the good news because I was afraid of what people would say. The amount of love I’ve received is so overwhelming and so appreciated. I realized No negative comment will take this moment away from us."
He went on, "A baby is a blessing and I am ecstatic for the future. Lincoln is happy, I’m happy, and Lauren is happy. Gonna go on a little hiatus from social media to take all this in and enjoy it with my family and loved ones. For those sending love, thank you! We appreciate it. And to you @lauren3elizabeth thank you for blessing me with another child. We are gonna be amazing parents together."
4-year-old Lincoln was also in the announcement. He held four sonograms and wore a shirt that read “Super Big Bro.”
As for Kailyn, her response was short: “I knew,” she told Radar. “I wish them the best.”
But fans weren’t able to keep it so concise.
Reddit user clevelandcray was quick to break down all the issues. “All I can think about is trying to coordinate holidays and birthdays when there are so many different families involved. It makes my head spin,” they wrote. “If it's Kail's time with Lincoln does he miss this child's birthday? What if it's Isaac's' graduation? Does Lincoln have to choose between this brother's event and another siblings event? What about Lux? He's got two brothers who have other half siblings? Someone help me understand how the f*ck everyone feels connected and loved and not torn in too many different directions!”
“Call me old fashioned but I find it so wrong to have babies so early in a relationship,” wrote user mereltjec. “They will undoubtedly break up eventually and that'll be another kid with parents who aren't together. I hate that so many of these people have babies like it's nothing.” User madame_ joked, “Soon it may be worth it for Kail, her baby daddies, their new baby mamas, etc, to start a commune or something and collectively raise all the babies.”
Many were also quick to point out that in an alternate timeline, it could have been Briana’s baby announcement making a splash. “This could have been Bri. He tried making it be Bri. He tried making it be Kail. How does new girl not see that?” wrote spookyookydoo.
Because she hasn’t appeared on the show, fans don’t know too much about Javi’s baby mama Lauren Comeau. That hasn’t stopped them from trying to piece together what she’s like based on her social media presence, though.
She recently shared some ponderings on Facebook, sharing an image of pizza-themed baby swaddles. “Totally unisex,” she captioned the picture. “Considering Linc wants to name his baby sibling ‘pizza face,’ I’ll take 20!”
Well, that certainly is one possible name… but something tells us it won’t be the one that the couple settles on.
In the meantime, fans are also dying to know the gender of Javi’s baby. Luckily, it seems that we won’t have to wait too much longer. Javi recently tweeted, “So I need some help! We are planning a soccer gender reveal.. And need someone who can make custom soccer jerseys/soccer goodies… @ then or dm! Thank you!”
Lauren and Javi are passing some serious milestones together — and now fans think they may have gotten married!
“Welp…” Lauren wrote on this shot of her TV stand. “The TVs are gone on day 1 of selling furniture. No more excuses for not being productive I guess..” But it wasn’t Lauren’s words that caught fans’ eyes.
Many noticed that among her pictures and mementos, Lauren has two letters on her stand: L and M. Could it possibly stand for Lauren Marroquin?!
Luckily for Kailyn, she’s not the only one who are less than impressed with how quickly Javi and Lauren’s relationship is moving. When Javi and Lauren shared a picture of them posing in the mirror, fans went off.
“Javi loves Javi so much he is staring at his image on the phone and not into the mirror,” wrote phishDudeAbides. “Anyone think this is gonna last?” asked Powneduare, and no one was optimistic.
“Depends on how desperate and insecure she is,” wrote HeilMegsy. User ChristiniaCBasicB*tch theorized, “Because of the baby I think yes they will last she’ll give him the family he wants and probably allow MTV along for the ride.” User Powneduare wrote, “I give it a year,” but TragicalKingdom replied, “That long? You’re generous.”
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