As I mentioned earlier, Maci has not been shy about her love for alcohol, and I got some mixed feedback from it so I wanted to clear up some things.
Before I begin, I’m not against drinking. 21 year olds drink, that’s what they do, that’s what I did, that’s what everyone not named Mitt Romney does (joke there). That’s why the typical reaction I got has been “Well, she’s just doing what any 21 year old does”, which is true, but there is a problem with that logic. Maci is not any 21 year old, she is the most popular girl from a show that was supposed to create awareness about teen pregnancy. She has also taken on the role of “Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy Prevention Advocate” as she boasts on twitter, and tours schools to talk about teenage pregnancy.
Not only did Maci assume a ‘role model’ position by on the original 16 & Pregnant, but her work after Teen Mom continues to keep her in the spotlight. She has 1.1 million followers on twitter which is more than 2x Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas (ie, a more positive role model). If the demographics on my facebook page are any indication, I’m going to assume a massive amount of that 1.1 million are girls between the ages of 16-24.
Why does it matter? Well, not to sound preachy, but one of the leading causes of teenage pregnancy is underage drinking. Some 16 year old girl who happens to idolize Maci (for some reason) watching her twitter feed will see image after image of Maci’s latest round of drinks. That girl is not going to think to herself “Wow, I can’t wait until I’m of legal age to be cool like Maci and go out drinking!”
Ugh, re-reading this makes me sound so old, conservative and uptight. I’m not. Like I said above, I fully expect college kids who have no real responsibilities to be partying away. While it’s a bit concerning how much Maci pounds them back considering she’s a parent, that’s also not my major issue. My issue is the fact that for one reason or another, Maci has been put into a role model position, and she’s doing an absolute shit job at it.
While some may also question why I am dumping on Maci while other Teen Moms are also bad. Don’t worry, I call them out when they do or say stupid stuff as well. Amber and Jenelle are horrific role models and I hope no young girl looks up to either, Chelsea looks pathetic chasing after a guy who basically mentally abuses her, and Kailyn.. well, Kailyn has her issues but she’s not too bad. The only real positive role models to come out of the show is the couple that are not even raising a child of their own, Catelynn and Tyler.
This would be more of a positive message than anything Maci or many other Teen Moms have tweeted about recently…
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Lmao at the responsible drinking photo! Hilarious!
The only negative feedback you got was from delusional maci fans who try to explain away her ridiculous behavior, because they themselves are probably dumping their kids off somewhere while they go out and get trashy faced. All the things that mtv hyped up to make her appear to be a good role model were total bullshit. Has she completed ONE class yet??
There were more via FB, twitter and my friend who posted a similar story had a bunch. Though to be fair, her readers aren’t as cool as mine!
Did you know Bentley has a twitter account? WTH?
ITA with you Jeremy! I think for the most part, the internet TM fanbase is enlightened on Maci’s severe alcoholism. There’s a few remaining that don’t but they’ll realize soon
I dont understand how any of these girls can have “fans” there not in movies or a rock band, their teen moms.
I’ve said this before on this website, but I am a 21 year old sorority girl at a SEC school and I drink and party less than Maci does. I’m by no means saying I’m an angel, I mean football is like a religion down here and there are plenty of weekends that from Friday at 3pm-Sunday at 3am everyone is on a 36 hour alcohol bender. The difference is that I don’t have a child, and even during those weekends I can proudly say there’s never been a single picture posted online I would be embarrassed to show my grandmother or my future children. At least none that I’m aware of.
I think that’s part of the problem, though. I think Maci’s mother enables it. Last year on the fourth of July Maci was drinking the entire time and was visibly drunk in the photos by the end of the night. It was at her PARENT’S cookout. What if something happens to Bentley? What if he starts just asking for mommy, but she’s too drunk to properly tend to him? Her mom wants to be the cool mom instead of the parent which was probably why Maci at 16 was having sex with her 21 year old boyfriend in the first place. It’s just so selfish and trashy to be so obnoxious about drinking. In 5 years nobody will care about teen mom, but all the pictures will still be there when Bentley googles her. Whenever he goes to school and the other parents don’t want to send their kid over to Bentley’s house because his mom or her trashy friends might come over and start drinking. She just has to start thinking less about how her life affects her and how it could negatively affect Bentley 5 or 10 years from now. When Bentley gets caught trashed at the age of 16 Maci can’t even say anything because she did it too and all B will have to do is google her to prove it. And then 9 months later, what do you know, she’s a grandma at 36. It’s just disturbing about how nonchalant she is about the image she’s creating for herself.
GAH! CaliDream, this wasn’t supposed to be a reply to you. It was just supposed to be it’s own individual post. For the record, I agree with you about being confused as to why these girls are even considered “role models”, though.
Well said.
There is nothing wrong with young people (of age) having a few drinks (or even more than a few drinks). Even underage drinking is not the end of the world, but when a mother of a small child gets sloppy drunk, there are few things that show less class. All of this really comes down to the person’s level of class. I never saw my mother drunk, and I am really glad that I didn’t and that she had the class to raise us that way. My mother would have been worried that there might be some emergency (even if we were being sitted by someone) where she would have to deal with doctors or others. She would never stand for that, but even a small problem would have been embarassing for her to be seen dealing with her children’s problems while under the influence. Maci obviously does not have that small modicum of class and responsibility that other people with an inborn sense of dignity and responsibility for their children are born with. Maci juist has less class than others who do things the right way. It may not be illegal to do things Maci’s way, but it is just tacky and classless.
Could not agree more. I have seen my own Mother tipsy (not even full on drunk) once in my 30 years on this planet. It was New Years Eve, I was 22, and she was mortified that she was intoxicated in front of her child. She still feels utter embarrassment from it when we joke about it at Thanksgiving.
Now that I am a parent, I conduct myself the same way. Haven’t had more than a glass of wine on holidays since I had our child. Do I miss all night parties, with wicked hangovers that kept me in bed the next day till it was time to go out and do it all over again? Nope. Got that all out of my system in my late teens and early twenties. When I wasn’t a wife or a mother. In my opinion Maci gave that up when she decided to become a parent so young.
And before the Maci support group flames me, I am not saying she should be at home every single night. She is an adult (at least age wise) and she is entitled to a night out with her friends. It just shouldn’t be every night, and her center of focus shouldn’t be getting as drunk as possible, and plastering it all over social media.
I see some parallels with this and the whole “Leah slept with 7 guys, is she a whore?” debate. Just as many people said it wasn’t Leah’s number but how she slept around that bothers so many, the same can be said about Maci. I don’t care that she drinks. Being a mom does not condemn you to house arrest. However, it is the WAY Maci shoves it in everyone’s face. It is the fact that every penny she has was earned by being a supposed role model and yet she has more pictures on her twitter of alcoholic beverages than she does the kid that made her famous. She is a joke, as is Leah…and all the rest of them.
And stevebeans…how old are you? I agree with everything you said and I am 25…am I old too?
Hi! I don’t really write for this site anymore, but I still admin it. Anyway…
25? You’re just a youngin’!
Stevebeans and I are both older than you. In fact, our daughter will be a teen herself next year. Sigh.
My kid will be a teen while I’m still in my 20′s. But what can I say, I loooooved to drink as a teen.
soooo what? you had your kid at 12? hahahahah wow. loser.
At least you were not being paid to speak as a role model for children. It probably was not the wisest move in hindsight, but you seem to be a bit more intelligent than the girls on the show, so I am sure you were smarter about it.
And I am guessing that you did not do this to the extent that Maci is doing it.
You don’t sound old. Mercy, I hate that everyone in this society today wants to dismiss everything because it’s “old” or “old fashioned.” There are some good values in things that make people sound “old,” so I respect and agree with what you posted.
Yeah, Maci is not just any 21 year old. She’s a mother, and a role model. Most 21 year olds, are not those things in this way. Besides, sure a lot of people drink ( I don’t) so it’s normal, but it does not negate the facts that alcohol is dangerous, powerful, stuff that is destructive and caustic when used to much. It’s a stereotype of young people to think that they are invincible. People that don’t take the long-term (health) and short term (drunkenness and all that brings about) effects of excess alcohol on your brain, your body, your liver, etc. seriously, are trippin.’
I love everything you say in your comments, I feel like we’re on the same page about a lot of things. I agree with everything you said.
You know whati wonder….where is she getting all this money?! Assuming she got paid about 100 grand/season….she had about 400,000 dollars. That sounds like a lot…but it’s really not much. I don’t understand how she has the money to travel every weekend(flights, hotels, etc) now that teen mom is over.
Am I missing something? Where is all this money coming from?
It’s probably the same money from MTV. A few hundred thousand can totally give you a few years of flying around and drinking your ass off without having to work. Just a few years though. She’s clearly not budgeting or thinking about how to make this money last in the long term. She’s just being immature and financially irresponsible. She sees six figures in her bank account and thinks she can live like p. diddy to no end. but it will end, soon.
In one of the “Unseen Moments” specials her parents were talking to her about her finances… “Maci maybe you should be more responsible with the way you’re spending your savings right now, it’s not going to last forever”. Of course “savings” was code for “giant mtv paycheck” just like “our neighbours called the cops on us” was code for “random people across America saw Amber hit me on television and called CPS”.
Yeah I guess….idk I just don’t understand her thinking. With that money, she could have bought(!!) a nice little home for her and Bentley with cash, gotten a nice little suv, and gone to school full time while putting Bentley in a great daycare, and lived off maybe 40k for four years while she completed her degree. She could have lived off those savings to go to school, bought a house and a car cash, and still have money left over at the end of it! It’s just mind boggling to me, she had such an amazing opportunity, one most single teen moms would be so appreciative to have, and she’s just wasting it. I’m not one to tell people how to spend their money, but I guess it really infuriates me because I would be sooooo thankful for an opportunity like that and she’s just wasting it! Ugh pisses me off.
It’s entirely possible that she did invest her money in a house and a car and perhaps something like a rental property which would pay her money every month. There are a boatload of ways to invest the money she got from MTV which could potentially pay her to party for the rest of her life. I doubt she does those appearances to talk with her peers for free, and hell, even some of the booze companies may be paying her to endorse their brand, hence the photos of her getting sloshed.
Eh doubtful. Last I checked she was renting a house with some of her party friends. Probably paying most of the rent too. And the main point of that post was that she could afford to go to school full time(4 days a week) and not work. That means she could easily spend 3 full days with Bentley! That’s a dream for most single parents in college…
I’m sorry that you are struggling and she is living it up through no real accomplishments of her own or hard work, like the rest of us. Life really isn’t fair sometimes. Let’s hope the personal satisfaction we get from doing right will be enough to make us smile in the end.
Do you really think a booze company would choose the face oftheir company to be some drunk girl who rose to fame because of the fact that she got impregnated in high school? Why don’t they go ahead and sign Casey Anthony while they are looking for spokespeople? Also, since most of her fanbase is underaged girls, I am sure that an alcoholic beverage company would not catch any resistance from parents’s groups or educators.
I think that alcohol companies, rightly or wrongly, try to portray their product as a something with class, status or prestige. Sicne Maci is on the wrong side of these types of values, I can’t see them clamoring to have her as a spokesperson to endorse their products. If they wanted to go in that direction, I am sure that they could camp outside a strip bar, prostitute stroll or unemployment office to get someone with Maci’s credentials.
Do you really think that alcohol companies have morals and wouldn’t?? I’m sure Absolut isn’t going to be giving her a magazine ad or similar but I highly doubt they are above paying her a grand to post a photo of herself on facebook with a bottle in her hand.
I’m sure she is just as much of a drunk that she appears to be but I also think it’s a little bit naive to assume she isn’t getting something out of all of this.
Candace- Let’s hope you are not right, but I admit that you could be. Cheers.
Are we toasting with apple juice? I’m not much of a drinker. Got a kid to watch you know.
I have no kids and I love absolute. If you mix it with freshly squeezed oranges and ice, it is out of this world.
* absolut *
sorry
Don’t forget those child support checks that come out of Ryan’s unemployment! Just think, if you have a job then YOU have helped finance Maci’s plane tickets. Isn’t that just a great feeling!!
What I find so sad is that, watching back 16 and pregnant and the first series of teen mom, Maci was such a good mother. She seemed to actually have a natural ability, even at such a young age, to be an amazing parent, and her bond with Bentley was so strong. Edited or not I believe she had so much potential, and yeah it’s edited but Ryan still said and did things that made it clear he was an idiot. I remember thinking it was actually nice the very occasional time we saw her go out, because she deserved to have some fun! I recently saw an old episode in which she was like ‘If I was leaving my son to go out drinking like Ryan does, my friends would call me out on it’ and she was telling Ryan that when Bentley gets older he’ll notice his Dad’s always out and not there for him. Uuurghhhh please Maci watch those back, stop and think! You’re wasting so much time and money drinking with people who are nowhere near as important as your son. You could still be a good mother if you just stop now and forget about this past year or so.
Maci WAS a great parent at first and totally responsible for her age! You’re so right. Her situation was so different back then. She didn’t have the money or custody situation that allowed her the freedom to behave the way she is now. Her and Ryan were living together and trying to make their relationship work. She had taken on the caregiving so strongly and that allowed Ryan the “freedom” to go out and do his thing, so the childcare all fell back on her.
That was a few years ago, now she and Ryan are split up and have a custody plan worked out. Pretty much half the time Bentley isn’t even in her care, as per their agreement. When this started, so did her big paychecks and travel/”work” opportunities. She started using the days she had without Bentley to party and live freely like a teenager when she could. She probably felt like she missed out on this type of fun from being a parent and really wanted to live it up on the days she could. That is totally understandable and honestly quite fair. The thing is, she didn’t just stop there… she took it to another level. She’s been living it up TOO MUCH. She isn’t just going out when Bentley is in Ryan’s care (or his mothers… lol) anymore. She’s pawning Bentley off on Ryan’s family on days that are hers so she can party and/or travel. She’s pawning Bentley off with her own parents for the same reasons. That’s irresponsible but the silver lining is hey at LEAST she makes sure her son is in the care of sober, responsible adults before she goes off and does the opposite, Right? Well SHE DOESN’T EVEN DO THAT ANYMORE!!! She drinks while Bentley is in her care and at home with her. She takes him to parties a other peoples houses to drink too. What the FUCK?!?!
If her goal was to spend the past few years going from a great mother to an irresponsible and selfish mess… she’s achieved it.
She took Bentley to a Superbowl party where the guests were playing drinking games (beer pong). She then got indignant and said that it was wrong to judge her for having a child at a small gathering to watch a football game with friends. She made it like everyone was persecuting her for having a few leisurely drinks with friends and told everybody to butt out of her business.
The problem with her righteous attitude about teh party is that it was not just a gathering where a few beers were incidentally served. They were playing drinking games. Drinking games take a party way beyond a small “gathering with friends”. People play drinking games to get hammered. Drinking games are not just a little socialization. No respectable parent should ever expose a toddler to drinking games or take the small child to a party where this is going on. That is just trashy and very harmful to a child. There is no problem with a kid see someone calmly enjoying a beer in a gathering of friends, but there is a huge problem with having a kid be around drinking games. This sends entirely the wrong messages to kids, and Maci is obviously trash for not being able to see that.
Don’t worry, I don’t think Bentley was exposed to the drinking games and that party environment all too much. He was left alone in a room to play video games and entertain himself while mommy was busy.
That is just the thing – he is still being visited by intoxicated people coming in and out of the room. Just being in the vicinity of a party like that is a shining example of poor parenting. There are plenty of Maci apologists looking for any way to hang their hat on an excuse for her behavior, so this is the main one that they have grabbed for that incident.
The best parents don’t need to excuse or explain their actions to anyone. They never get close to doing anything inappropriate.
There are thousands of young girls out there who worship the ground taht Maci walks on, but the really sickening ones are from her cadre of personal acquaintences. It is funny to watch the show when Maci takes them all out to lunch and they all fall all over themselves to be the first one to agree with her anytime she says anything. Maci is too dumb to see that all of these “friends” are just using her. Maci acts like she is surrounded by dozens of BFFs, but it will be funny to see how many of these people are anywhere near her when the money train gets stalled on teh tracks. It is easy to find a posse of people who tell you how great you are when you are buying them all-expenses paid trips to party spots around the country (and world). Maci seems to need to be surrounded by these leeches, yet she is too stupid to see what is really going on. These “friends” are all college aged young women – how many of them do you really think can afford to take all of these trips? Without Maci, they are stuck at the saturday night hoedown at the local skank watering hole. Of course they are going to fill her head with notions of her own grandiosity.
I can hear Maci’s line at the group meeting on Celebrity Rehab – “you really find out who your friends are when you no longer have any money”. Watching her paid friends fall all overthemselves to kiss her ass were my favorite parts of TM1. As they would sit there, eating the food paid for my either Maci or MTV, the looks on their faces were great – it was like they were forcing themselves to look more compassionate/understanding than the next one, hoping to make the cut for the next big trip. It was laughable to see them all agree with maci about how it was the greatest idea to follow Ryan to the beach and share the vacaton with Ryan’s family. Although this was obviously the creepiest and stupid idea that maybe any human being has ever had, they all forced a smile on their faces and tell her how brilliant she was. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, would think that this was a good idea, but these girls were all getting a free vacation and had to pretend like it was pure genius to go with them to the beach.
Uh, you don’t sound old at all. I’m 24 and I think Maci’s behavior is appalling. Sorry fangirls, but how is this chick a role model?
I remember the early days of Teen Mom and rooting for Maci. I thought she was a wonderful mother to Bentley and had herself together. Fast forward to now, when I have a Netflix subscription. I recently watched all of the seasons in quick succession and Maci started going downhill as early as Season 2, when she moved her son to Nashville for a guy she’d only been dating for a little while. She also showed early signs of being on this years-long track to get her (useless) Associate’s degree.
Yet, despite all the evidence to the contrary, Maci gets picked as the Teen Mom Idol and is revered for her parenting skills. Meanwhile, her Twitter feed is filled with trash with the occasional Bentley photo to keep up appearances. Well, I certainly don’t buy it and I certainly don’t understand her “friends” who encourage this behavior knowing she has a very young child who needs her. This has gone beyond “oh, she works hard and she deserves to go out on occasion”. She’s drinking every…flipping…day.
She’s a damn fool.
*Side-note: I’m not smack-talking Associate Degrees. There are many that are plenty useful. I’m downing the Associate’s Degree for Journalism, because it ain’t gonna cut it in that field.
Yeah I started seeing through her good edit in Season 3 and thought she was very selfish and hypocritical. After I realized that, I looked back at some earlier seasons and saw that it was nothing new. Particularly with the same thing you mentioned, moving to Nashville. Ryan said “I don’t see how you can take Bentley far away from his whole family so you can live with your boyfriend and not call that selfish” and he was so right, all Maci said in response was “I don’t give a damn”. Wow.
Also another funny moment to look back on… Maci in season 1 or 2 (can’t remember) complaining to Ryan about how she dropped her classes cause she was so busy being a mom she couldn’t focus on school and Ryan was like “lol please, you’re just lazy”. I remember at the time I was like “oh HELL no you did NOT just say that!!! jerk!!!!!!1!!!!1″ but when I watched it again I was like “lol Ryan you speak the truth”. I mean Ryan is no saint or star parent either, but at least he’s real about it and doesn’t choose to be a hypocrite like Maci does.
I love stevebeans. That is all.
Carry on.
Are you making a Children’s Hospital reference? If so, I salute you.
Maci Bookout is the biggest hypocrite in America, and maybe even the world!
Man. I really love reading your blog. I am obsessed with your excellent sense of humor. How anyone could complain about this blog completely blows my mind. I love watching teen mom – because it’s an entertaining train wreck. I don’t understand how a single person could consider any one of these girls a role model. I get made fun of for liking teen mom, reading gossip blogs and following all of them on social media but I remind everyone that it’s simply to mock and laugh my ass of while watching it. I mean, the conversation Chelsea was having with her friend about her ring or whatever the hell it is falling out and having unprotected sex pretty much had me in stitches. I had to pause and replay about five times and once after that so my husband could see the real reason I watch it. I feel bad for Chelsea but she has to be borderline brain dead…anyway. When I read your blog I feel refreshed by your sharp wit. Keep it up, please!
Entertaining train wreck? Perfect! I’ve been trying for quite a while to put into words why I watch this show and you finally did it for me. Awesome.
3 words…GET OVER IT!
You spelled Maci wrong…
Maci was probably too wasted to spell her own name correctly. Her writing style is very identifiable. All you have to do is look to see what her favorite people are writing and then copy their sayings and clieches. I saw an article where Wacka Flocka (who is terrible, but I read it just to see what brain damaged thoughts his followers might have). Wacka constantly kept repeating teh clieche “stay in your own lane”. A few days later, I saw something from Maci, adn she kept overusing “stay in your own lane”. I think that we give these teen moms (especially Maci) too much credit for having any thoughts of their own. Maci’s MO is that she just finds someone who says something and then copies their style of speech. she may even take one of these cliches and have it tattooed onto her body, so that we will be able to look at her body and be reminded of the trite cliches that were in use in 2012 and 2013. Maci does not have one original bone in her own body. She is a laughable disgrace for a human being. The more she opens her mouth to defend herself with teh words of others, the more of a laughing stock she makes of herself. I hope that it takes a few years before she goes through all her money and winds up in rehab, because it is funny to read her pathetic excuses for her dumbed-down behavior.
Sorry for my typos. I was typing to fast and misspelled “cliche”.
And then I was typing too fast to type “too” instead of “to”. . . Sorry again. I hate when people confuse these two words, so I will expect abuse from all of the readers. Please accept my apologies (or in the case of Chelsea and all Black Hills Beauty School entrance exam takers, please “except” all of my apologies).
shhh leave her alone. Typing is hard when you’re drunk.
Yea, Maci is a hot little whore who can probably suck a golf ball through a garden hose, but pretty soon she’s going to have two guys giving her money – baby daddy and boyfriend. Guys…even if you’re not the baby daddy, if you spend enough time with mommy and especially baby, the court can order you to start paying child support. DON’T BE STUPID!
But she was better looking before the boob job. She now looks like a clown figure. When will people realize that girls are natuarlly beautiful. To destroy that natural beauty should be a crime. Maci looked good with her natural hair color and without all of teh makeup and stupid hari work. The more she messes with her natural looks, the more she looks like some platic freak . . .
Ah, my first negative vote. Probably a single mommy who doesn’t want the word to get out about some dumb guy’s liability just for looking her way.
You don’t think she looked better before the boob job and whacked-out makeup/hair?
If you are old for this post, I must be old too because I think the same way about people in general. It irritates me out here in Japan when all of us foreigners get together, there MUST be alcohol involved in SOME way. And I KNOW the people requesting that after we volunteer at an orphanage we go to the nearest bar probably are drinking during the week, so I don’t think they are just wanting their weekly drink. What I am getting at is WHY does alcohol have to make any social event fun? Sitting back with popcorn and movie isn’t fun? Beating ass at games (board or video or card) isn’t fun? What is wrong with just sitting back with soda? Now, some people will only drink so much and still be totally coherent, and that doesn’t bother me, but when people start getting tipsy and drunk… it ruins things. I feel there is a fine line between social drinking and needing a drink to be social. I socialize just fine without a drink. I’m probably one of few who didn’t get shitfaced on my 21st. I enjoy having functioning brain and liver cells and remembering fun times. And not barfing. And not having headaches. Who enjoys that?
Could not agree more with this post. Maci seemed like a promising young woman…at first. I am very disappointed in her actions. I would never want my daughter to look at her as a role model!
yeah that’s not an “old” mindset at all, it’s just a mature mindset. Mature doesn’t mean old! Maturity is not even linear with age.
The best thing that ever happened to Maci was the good girl edit by MTV. She has fooled a million fans into thinking that she is somebody that she’s not. She has always been a huge partier (even back in season 1 and 2) but she has gotten worse over like the past year and a half. Now she travels at least once a week to get shitfaced in cities across the nation and when she is home in Chattanooga she sure as hell isn’t with her son. She is out partying leaving her son with her parents or she is partying with Bentley present! (There has been more than one incident where this has proved to be the case). She is so irresponsible. Her life revolves around partying and drinking.
I personally DO have a problem with how much she drinks. Look, i attended the #1 party school in the nation for my first year. I get that partying is fun and at a certain age your friends really only want to party and that’s what youre expected to do when you hang out. But Maci can’t do that. Her friends are fine because they don’t have a child and they can go out every night and waste money on drinks. But even when i was a freshman in college at the #1 party school, i didn’t see people party like her. People did not go out every night and they did not drink all hours of the day. This girl drinks ALL hours of the day, constantly posting about beer with breakfast and shots with lunch, etc. And she goes out on all nights like Sunday. She even went out on Holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve..it’s ridiculous! The fact that she parties more than some that party A LOT says a lot about her and she is a mother, while all of the major partiers i know are not parents.
Also, I’ve noticed that when Maci got really close to Katie and Raj is when she really started to party more and more. Her other friends party, but not as much as she does and most of them go to college a few hours away so she didn’t party as frequently. When she became super close with the other two she started going downhill and it’s been a shitshow ever since. They are the one’s that go out every night with her and they are the one’s that travels with her everywhere. Mci has spent all of 2012 and 2013 so far drinking every.single.day. She is asking to be an alcoholic, if she is not one already. Bless her liver.
You’re so right about the edit…. editing does wonders. MTV could make Jenelle look like a supermom too if they edited right.The girls only get about 10 minutes of screentime each episode… they could just show the 10 minutes per week she plays with Jace. leave out the drugs and the fighting and BAM she looks like a doting and dedicated parent.
that’s of course assuming twitter doesn’t exist cause that would ruin the cover for her lolol
Stevebeans you are not old, because if you are, that means I on my way to a senior’s residence…lol. You are wise though and they say wisdom comes with age!
I have one thing to share regarding excessive drinking. This is aimed at parents of any age. I am a pediatric nurse and I want to share a patient story, that is still stuck in my mind. A very young child was severely injured while in the care of a babysitter. It was not the caregiver’s fault, it was a very serious car accident. Life-saving decisions needed to be made quickly. The parents arrived fast which was a relief because we/their child needed them. Our relief did not last. The dad had been drinking, he was not plastered, but it was anyone’s guess how much he understood about the situation. The mom was plastered. She was completely incapable of making a decision for her child’s care. We ended up making decisions for them. All I could think about while driving home, was how badly those parents were going to feel when they sobered up. Even if the dad was sober, how would that mom feel when she realized the cost of her selfishness? She was not even allowed to hold her child because she was unsteady. She was completely inappropriate throughout the child’s surgery. I really don’t think I could ever forgive myself if that was me.
Parents can go out and have fun, dance at clubs, celebrate with a drink. However in my opinion, when you have a child, especially a young child, you lose the right to get wasted. When you decide to get wasted, you are giving up your parental rights, until you sober up. What if during that time, your child needs you more than they ever have? Is the chance of this happening rare? Maybe, but it does happen. People will argue about my point of view, but I will not be swayed because of what I witnessed. Just so you know, I hold myself and my husband to the same standard. I wish Maci could have been there that awful night, to witness the consequences of getting smashed when you are a parent.
‘…when you have a child, especially a young child, you lose the right to get wasted.’
Once again Anne says it the best. Nothing wrong with having a drink and a little ‘me time’ but shame on the parents who take it to excess.
My fiancé’s daughter sadly passed away do to her mom’s excessive drinking while in her care. My fiancé was here in the states and they(his daughter and her mother) were in Mexico at the time. Until this day we don’t know exactly what happened just that her mother was drinking with her boyfriend after she put her to sleep. But early in the morning she found her daughter lifeless. Her death was ruled as SIDS which we find it hard to believe since his daughter was 3yrs old. He felt guilty for not being there for her and that is why I think he is the way he is with our son. Now his family that lives in Mexico tells him how the mother of his daughter went crazy and just roams the streets. I lost my mother and now being a mother myself I think I would go crazy to if something happened to my son and I couldn’t help or prevent it because I was to drunk. And I too am a mother who didnt even go out on my 21st birthday lol I rather spent it at home with my son and family
Anne, I always look forward to your comments. You have such a unique perspective on parenting because of your job. I am always excited to read your comments and don’t just skim them like some of the others. I feel the same way about getting wasted while being a parent and that scenario you used is always the one I use when I have to explain to people why I don’t drink! It’s so scary to think of not being there for your child if they needed you…I could never forgiv myself…
Also, take one look at her twitter and instagram and it’s ALL about partying and alcohol! SO trashy! I have noticed a lot of fans calling her out about how much partying she does and how she goes out every night, something she harped on Ryan for during the show numerous times. But i HATE that her super fans are blinded by her drinking and defend her like she is a freakin God. Maci is, in my opinion, the 3rd worst mother in the Teen Mom franchise only behind Jenelle and Amber. It pisses me off that she got the good girl edit and that people think she is a super mom because she is a piece of shit drunk mother.
And i love Kyle King for tweeting that she is a fake ass super mom. Hallelujah Kyle, hallelujah.
Kyle King is probably the ONLY person who I actually like from the entire Teen Mom cast.
I said this on another site, but it bears repeating:
Maci is a loser. While it is fine for people her age to drink and do stupid stuff, when you have a child that reflects poorly on your ability to properly parent. Sorry – you gave up your life as a party girl (or should have) when you decided to have a baby at 16. Bently should be embarassed when he comes across these photos when he is a little older, but by then he will probably be conditioned to think it is cool to drink to excess. He is in a bad position and every time his ridiculous mother posts another “party” photo, he loses just a little more of his chance to break the cycle of teen parenthood.
His mother is not setting any kind of example for him to be responsible and get an education. When Bentley wants to start “partying” as a teenager and begins to ignore his studies, what position will his mom be in to tell him to be more responsible. I can hear the arguments now – “but how come it was okay for you to do it, mom?”
“His mother is not setting any kind of example for him to be responsible and get an education. When Bentley wants to start “partying” as a teenager and begins to ignore his studies, what position will his mom be in to tell him to be more responsible. I can hear the arguments now – “but how come it was okay for you to do it, mom?””
There won’t be any arguments. Maci is going to be the one buying Bentley and all of his underage friends alcohol and she’ll be the one allowing him to throw parties in high school. I can almost guarantee that.
Yeehaw3-
You are probably right. Maci’s own mom provided her with alcohol when Maci was a minor. She received a case of booze with a wink and a nod on the doorstep of teh house she moved into with her party friends – you know the ones . . . the ones that Maci bailed out of jail for assault on one drunken night.
Although Maci is a horrible person, she obvously has not had responsible parents to provide her with guidance. Nobody seemed to step in and put their foot down when Maci wanted to move herself and bently into a party house with her drunk friends. Maci got backhanded approval for her underage drinking from her own mother. I am not someone who is completely aghast at underage drinking, but what person in their right mind would supply large quantities of liquor an underaged girl with a small child, especially when that child is staying at the house where the liquor was delivered. Although Maci has definitely failed Bentley in the role model department, Maci (to her credit) has had no good role models in her family.
Pretty girls who drink and party are often emulated whether or not they take on “role model” roles. Folks need to wise up. A big problem is the high schools. You’re in there and it looks like the way to “succeed” is to party to be cool and then cheat to get the grades you need for that all important college. If teenagers mingled more with the rest of society they might naturally run across more hard working people with the right values. Maybe they’d waste less time in early adulthood blowing off steam and screwing around and instead have some direction in life. Our tax dollars at work.
guuuuuuuuuuys
it’s national margarita day!!!
I want one now
It shouldn’t matter if she shoves it in everyones face or not. The mother of a young child should not be drinking frequently no matter if she’s 21 or 31. If you have babies young wait til they grow up to go party all the time. Then you can have them pick you up from the bar like my husbands mom does.
Oh crap I made her seem like a lush lol. She’s only needed a ride home from the bar a couple of times! My mommy in law is not an alcoholic!