Maci Bookout is reportedly excited for her ex and baby daddy Ryan Edwards to become a dad for the fourth time.
As The Ashley told you earlier this week, Ryan–- who shares 15-year-old son Bentley with Maci, and five-year-old Jagger and four-year-old Stella with estranged wife, Mackenzie Edwards–- will soon be a father of four, as he and girlfriend Amanda Conner are currently expecting a baby girl.
Ryan told Us Weekly on Wednesday that before announcing the news publicly, he and Amanda first shared they were expecting with family and friends, including Maci.
“She’s been very supportive and she was excited,” Ryan revealed.
On Thursday, Maci even jumped into the comment section of Amanda and Ryan’s Instagram pregnancy announcement to volunteer her child care services to the couple.
“I call dibs on babysitting 🙋🏼♀️,” Maci wrote, with Amanda responding, “😂😂😂 I love this!!”
Maci’s excitement over her son gaining another sibling probably doesn’t come as a surprise to Teen Mom: The Next Chapter fans, who watched last season as she and Amanda continued building a friendship with each other. Amanda– who has a son from a previous relationship that she does not currently have custody of– told Us Weekly that she credits her and Maci’s friendship to the two of them being able to put the kids first.
“It comes down to coparenting and being there for Bentley and being there for the kids,” Amanda told the magazine. “I just feel like she really respects that. I don’t give her a hard time. I want her to see Ryan be a dad, and I want to see him coparent with Maci.”
Amanda– who met Ryan while they were both in rehab last year– went on to say that she and Maci “get along” and even do things as a family, which makes things “a lot easier.”
While Maci is presumably already vying for the title of Baby Edwards No. 4’s godmother, Ryan claims his parents, Jen and Larry Edwards, are also looking forward to the new addition coming to the Edwards family.
“[They] were a little shocked at first, but they’re very excited,” Ryan said.
In the comment section of her Instagram post “announcing” her pregnancy, Amanda told a follower that Ryan is a devoted dad-to-be, stating that he “wouldn’t miss one” of her ultrasounds, “unless he has to work.
“He is very much hands-on with doctor visits as well as everything else,” Amanda wrote.
As The Ashley told you earlier this week, Ryan and Amanda are also seemingly hoping that MTV will be excited about their pregnancy news, as Amanda is ready to share their pregnancy journey on ‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.’
“If they continue filming, yes we are up for it,” Amanda said. “I hope they do continue. At this point, we don’t really know, but yes, if they come and ask us, we will be more than happy to share it. Fingers crossed.”
Amanda told Us Weekly that everything is going well for her and Ryan at the moment.
“We are in a healthy, happy place,” she said. “I feel like we’re doing better than ever, better than we ever have. We’re just growing our future, growing our family, and that’s where we’re at. We’re happy to be where we are. We’re happy to start a family. We’re happy to be sober. We’re happy to have a blended family. Everything’s just coming along. Life is good.”
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(Photos: Instagram; MTV)
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Is the 1st picture from when her and Ryan just started dating? Amanda has track marks all over her right arm.
I can’t believe Macy is back to enabling this corrupt bs.
Ryan will not be doing the work it takes to work on being a parent and partner.. how’s his kids with Mackenzie btw
“Hey mom, what’s that tattoo on your arm?”
Ryan as your dad and this skeeze as your mom? That poor baby, having to grow up around all these famewhoring douchebags is gonna suck.
All those years and all those drugs, I’m just amazed his sperm isn’t swimming backwards…
You win 😭💀
Ryan has 3 (maybe 4) kids that he never took care of, and Amanda has 1. They’ll be devoted to this one until the novelty wears off.
Maci also doesnt hold her bad mom friends accountable…cough, cough AMBER. Idk if she supports these two deadbeat parents during their “second chance” to be parents or not.
i meant idc not idk.
Oooh I didn’t even consider it from this perspective. Definitely makes me think of it in a different light!!
I still don’t understand why she was so hateful to Mackenzie. Did she want Ryan back back then? And I ESPECIALLY don’t understand why she’s supporting this deadbeat and his equally deadbeat mother girlfriend while not acknowledging what Ryan did to his former wife?! Maci makes no sense. I bet Beer Taylor wasn’t so thrilled by these news.
I come here to read these articles when I feel like my own life is especially messy, only to then realize it’s actually not
Maci will say just about anything for money, including throwing her own child under the bus and being fake as hell. It’s pathetic at this point.
And what blended family is Amanda talking about when they don’t have custody of any of the existing kids?
This poor baby. Having these two losers for parents…smh
Also, Maci, you’re gross. You’re a hypocrite. You’re transparent.
These slime-ball losers will do anything for attention and money, except what is right. I really hope they don’t get a story line. Plus this show is so far into the ground, please MTV, cancel it. All of them.
Am I the only one disturbed and disgusted by her “fingers crossed mtv wants to film us”. Can her priorities be any clearer. It’s not about Ryan, it’s not about the kid, it’s about mtv, the “fame” (they think it’s fame to be a teen mom), and the easy money. It is clearly not about this new child and she is basically admitting the pregnancy is for the cameras and a storyline. So disgusting and disturbing. I can’t believe someone who even say fingers crossed mtv wants to film our pregnancy. That is not normal thought and is the thoughts of a fame whore who will do anything/everything to be “famous”
And she’s nice to Maci cuz she wants the mtv fame. She saw how it went down for Mac not bowing to Maci and losing the show. This new chick learned from that and is kissing Maci’s ass so they can be on mtv. I’m so disgusted by these two but especially her as she isn’t even trying to hide her goals.
Hey Mac, is that you, hiding behind a fake name??
You very clearly have not being paying attention, if these are the conclusions you’ve come to.
She’s known Maci since high school, and even appeared on Maci’s 16 & Pregnant episode.
Mac was nothing short of AWFUL to Maci and blamed her for Ryan’s issues. MacTruck was the one who was only in it to get fame and money … even said at one point that she was a teen mom and wanted to be on the show … you know, before she basically dragged Ryan down the isle higher than a freaking kite, just to make she didn’t lose that opportunity to be on the show.
So unless you know them all personally, your opinion is nothing more than a load of jealous bs you created in your own damn head.
It’s nice to see they’re all getting along. Hopefully it lasts.
Yeah, he has all the time in the world to be a “devoted dad-to-be”, because he isn’t raising his other kids, someone else is.
He likes the babies when they are in the womb, it’s when he actually needs to be a parent he bounces.
Also, neither of these expecting parents has custody of their living children, two deadbeats having more children, so their parents can spend their golden years working and raising their kids.
All of them (Ryan, Amanda, Maci) will do WHATEVER it takes to keep MTV money coming
Would you include Gary, Barbara, Butch, Tori, ect……as well? Don’t forget the secondary characters.
THAT PART! These people continue to put their children in harms way for a fat check.
Maci is the fakest snake on earth. Do we not recall the years of televised stress Ryan put her through? His drug use? Neglect? Lack of care for their child??? The restraining orders Maci put from her kids to Ryan??? And now she is all jolly? Doesn’t make sense. Never in any mother’s life could you convince them a person they once requested retraining orders against, is now a trustworthy bestie.
She is only doing this, posting pics of them all together etc because Mackenzie is on the other end now trying to get custody of their kids etc and Maci is so fake she would rather side with RYAN, who mind you she has said she’s scared of and cried her eyes out thousands of times on tv about, just to further rub salt into Mackenzie’s wounds.
Maci is not a girls girl. She is fake and we saw it when Mackenzie read her that letter at the reunion many years ago. Sure Ryan isn’t macis fault or problem, but if Maci knew Ryan was on drugs and in this much trouble and she said/did NOTHING to even acknowledge, help, reach out, she is not respectable. Not macis problem, but as a human.. try to help another human.
Mackenzie was in a relationship with a drug addict which is a complex and heartbreaking situation. For Maci to completely laugh at Mackenzie and tell her she’s full of shit.. Maci was wrong for that and no one saw it.
Acknowledge that someone else is in pain and trying to pick up the pieces of their relationship with an addict. If you’ve been through it you will understand.
While I don’t disagree about Maxi being fake, in this case, supporting Ryan and what’s her name is smart. By making a (probable) insincere comment about being a potential babysitter, it allows Bently to continue to spend time with his father without having to listen to what’s her name badmouthing her in front of Bently. Ryan’s 2nd mare is on the sh*t list because she poses more of a threat to what’s her name.
Maci might be an insincere alcoholic with questionable values, but she loves her kids and she clearly isnt stupid. Not one person here would refuse the money she (and the other moms) gets from the show. While most wouldn’t trade their lack of money eh for the invasion of privacy, that’s Maci’s choice. Maybe, to her, getting bashed by strangers is worth reading about while she sits back in her favorite chair in her mansion.
lol it’s funny that you all think everyone is a hater like you and hate Maci and the other girls.
Everybody is always talking about “cancel the show” but you’re talking about it and that’s really all that matters. Duh.
While Maci’s support for Amanda is pretty hypocritical and fake af. I don’t have much sympathy for Mackenzie. I’m glad she finally got out of the situation and did right by her kids; but she enabled his drug use for the majority of their relationship. He was actively addicted and she knew it before they were married, Maci didn’t have to tell her, the audio from when he drove high to their trashy courthouse wedding proved that. She chose to bring her young child into that situation too. So she’s no saint, and I don’t think the person she badmouthed and blamed for everything necessarily needs to support her. Maci had her own difficult situation to deal with and Mackenzie was no help to her either.
Macy is a fu**ing joke. Her and her hubby BOTH HATE RYAN’S GUTS. They were all told by production the show was on it’s last leg due to really low viewers. She has no skills and no way wants to get a real job, good grief, look what she did for a story line to poor Bentley, she is a real POS. She needs to follow a few others into rehab because she is a severe alcoholic. That is just another reason her complexion is so bad.
Not to mention all those tax liens they need to pay off
“devoted dad-to-be” unfortunately not a devoted dad to the kids he has
Jen cries in every episode. 😳
Folks, soon we will be seeing these teen moms enter perimenopause. Let that sink in.
Lmao what? They’re in their early 30s.
Which is exactly why the “teen mom” show should end.
Nowadays due to our diets it’s way more likely. If a woman has chronic health problems the odds are higher. The hormones and hot flashes with the TM cast would probably be top tier trash tv.
Are you unfamiliar with what perimenopause actually is? It’s not menopause, it’s the transitional period before you get there. For most women, it begins in their 30s, as that’s when the hormones themselves start to fluctuate more. A lot of women never really notice when it first begins (chalking it up to all sorts of things that can also affect hormones), but it does start in your mid 30s. It doesn’t usually start to affect your period until around 40, which is when most actually notice it-and contributes pretty heavily to why some women don’t get pregnant until after 40. For most of the girls mid-30s is approaching in the next couple of years. They’re much, much closer to perimenopause than they are being “teen moms”.
43 and perimenopausal myself but it indeed begins in the 30s as the egg supply plummets and the brain works extra hard to crank out those hormones for ovulation.
You obviously need some education in the women’s health department.
Ofc Maci is supportive!!!
Such joy! Such happiness! Such togetherness!
Let’s forget all about that mean ol Mackenzie and those kids of hers! Boooo! Booooooo!
Anything not to get a real job. Smh.
I recall Maci getting a nicer house and car every couple of seasons. She will do anything to keep the MTV gravy train rolling. MTV, how about sending Maci to detox for her increasing alcohol problem?! At least, that would be a interesting story line. Hard, drug abuse is the expressway to hell. Alcoholism is a much slower and insidious ride to hell. How ironic, if Ryan manages to stay sober and Maci is the one doing the rehab shuffle.
I think they need to send Jenelle to rehab along with her!! LOL!! Except Jenelle would be all “Dude, I don’t have a drinking OR drug problem!!! I never have! Just when my kids were, ya know, like driving me crazy dude!!”