For years, Teen Mom fans have pointed out that Cheyenne Floyd was an odd casting choice when she was added to Teen Mom OG in 2018, given that she was 24 years old when she gave birth to her first child, Ryder. Cheyenne recently addressed the comments she’s received since then about not fitting in with the cast, who all gave birth to their kids as teens.
In a video recently posted to Snapchat, Cheyenne discussed how she and Ryder’s dad, Cory Wharton, got their spots on ‘Teen Mom’—despite neither of them ever having been teen parents.
“I never said I was a teen mom,” Cheyenne— who is currently pregnant with her third child— said on Snapchat.
She went on to remind fans that she had appeared on two other MTV reality shows before getting the ‘Teen Mom’ gig. (Cheyenne starred on Are You The One? and The Challenge before scoring a place on ‘Teen Mom.’)
She also reminded fans that there was a period of time where she kept it a secret who Ryder’s father was. It was that mystery that helped get her the job on ‘Teen Mom OG.’
When Cheyenne finally came forward with the news that Cory was Ryder’s dad, the reveal video she made piqued the interest of MTV execs.
“That video got passed around Viacom in the office,” Cheyenne said.
As The Ashley told you back in 2017 when she broke the news that Chey had been cast, the execs were looking for a girl to add to the cast of ‘Teen Mom OG’ after Farrah Abraham was booted. The Ashley’s sources told her in 2017 that the execs were “desperately looking to add some diversity to the show’s cast” and were intrigued by Cheyenne and Cory’s surprise pregnancy and mystery paternity situation.
In her new video, Cheyenne claimed that, surprisingly, she and Cory were not given all the details of the gig before they agreed to appear.
“At the time, I don’t think we really knew what we were signing up for,” she said. “Even Cory has said in the past, ‘I really thought it was a Cheyenne show.’ [He thought] ‘It was pertaining to her and doesn’t have anything to do with me.'”
“I don’t think we realized how much [the show] would intertwine us and how much it would show our families and how it would involve everybody,” Cheyenne said of her and Cory. “Everybody in our families would become, like, these characters almost. So, there was a lot that I feel like I was really naive that I didn’t think about. I just jumped into it. In hindsight, I would have thought about it.”
When it was announced that Cheyenne would be joining ‘Teen Mom’, many fans expressed their opinion that MTV was wrong in casting her because she was in her mid-twenties when she became a mom.
“I think that a lot of people are stuck on the word [‘teen’] and at the end of the day I’m still a young mom. I still have the same struggles and I’m still learning just like everyone else,” she told Us Weekly shortly after the news was announced. “I don’t think 23 is the ideal age to have a baby. [Ryder] was unplanned, so in other ways, other than me not being a teen, I have different things that you can relate. So instead of me screaming all day long that I’m not a teen mom, I’d rather just talk about things that I am.”
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What Teen Mom was doing was trying to desperately save the show, because the ratings were dropping. I didn’t like how they added people from other shows, I didn’t care to watch after that.
Imagine, really thinking you know what it is to be even a young struggling mom… “I think that a lot of people are stuck on the word [‘teen’] and at the end of the day I’m still a young mom. I still have the same struggles” like this Cheyenne’s spoiled, rich ass has EVER known what it is to struggle. In addition to coming from money and parents that gave/give her anything she wants, she also made money from the show. SMH
People said the same thing about Chelsea Houska from TM2. The show wasn’t really about the financial struggle for most of them once the MTV checks started to roll in anyway
I recall that. What Cheyenne failed to understand was that Chelsea and the other girls were still teenagers living with their parents or guardians, trying to manage high school or dropping out to pursue their GED. Cheyenne didn’t experience any of that. The pressure of being in high school, becoming pregnant, and dealing with the emotions of being 16 (or nearly that) along with pregnancy hormones. They were trying to maintain relationships with the fathers of their babies, adhering to their parents’ rules while living at home, especially since they got pregnant under their roofs, working hard to earn money and still attending high school or studying for a GED. Being 24 and having a baby is young but it’s considered mature in comparison to being 16 and pregnant.
It’s because she isn’t white. Truth100%
definitely agree because no one’s all outraged with jade for being on the show when she was 21 when she had khloie
Meant that’s why she’s on the show
Not exactly- It’s because Cheyenne comes from a completely financially well off and somewhat normal family that doesn’t have the chaos of a drug addicted mother and father AND baby daddy for that matter. But okay- say it’s because she’s not white (eyeroll). And I don’t think many of us think either should have been on a show called “16 and pregnant” when neither was, in fact, 16 and pregnant. LOL. But Cheyenne comes from a completely different world than Jade does…
Disagree. People hate on Chey because she never went through the struggles of being a teen parent, and in fact, has never gone through any struggles at all.
i would say her childs health battles are a struggle!
I can’t speak for everyone, but I know I didn’t like her because it was completely unrelatable. She didn’t struggle as a young, single mom like the other girls did. Even Jade, being 21, still struggled to make an income and deal with her shitty family, it was relatable.
It also seems like the company enjoyed the “trashy black mom who didn’t know who her baby daddy was” figure, which is also NOT Cheyenne.
she was defo an MTV diversity hire!
I recall an episode where Cheyenne is screaming at her sister and mother a few times. It’s like the whole family has to walk on egg shells around Cheyenne. It’s hilarious and, not surprising, how Cheyenne’s husband and Jade’s husband (Sean) are friends. They both are allergic to an honest day’s work. Cheyenne doesn’t need MTV money like the others but she does need MTV to fuel her narcissism.
i never understood why people were more mad at cheyenne than viacom for hiring a 24 year old new mom on a show about teen moms but cheyenne definitely didn’t do herself any favors with this one
UmmmChey??it’s still called teen mom, not young mom🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
If I remember correctly, she didn’t know who Ryder’s father was—at least one other man took a DNA test before Corey found out he was the father.
Chey goes from being a snooze fest to a delusional imbecile in the blink of an eye. She has no idea what it’s like to truly struggle, and she never will.
Well first of all, everyone cares about the teen part of the title i like her, but she was no. Teen, mom, she should not have been cast for the show.
And all she ever does is whines.
And she has a whole team of family members and such that help her with her children. She doesn’t know the struggles
She was a spoiled brat from a millionaire family that exhibited trash behavior by getting knocked up by a guy that wasn’t even her boyfriend and didn’t inform said guy that he had a child until she was 6 months old. That’s how she landed that spot. They weren’t looking for a new teen mom, they were looking for a trainwreck
Cheyenne: What did you guys get for your 16th birthday?
Cheyenne: My parents sent me and all of my friends to Hawaii!!
See I fit in!
Umm. No…you don’t have the same struggles as a young mom. I doubt seriously that Chey was ever rolling penny’s to get groceries. Taking her kids to an all you can eat buffet and purposely not eating anything. Walking around in the one pair of jeans you own so your kids can have nice clothes. Trying to figure out how you are going to pay the rent and the bills when you truly are a single mom with no support. No TV show. No MTV fame. A deadbeat dad who doesn’t give a shit whether your kids have a roof over their head, clothes on their backs and food in their stomach. It’s insulting. It’s insulting that she has made millions of dollars, lives in a 2.1 million dollar house with a pool and wants to pretend she ever had a ticket to the single mom struggle bus. Stop it.
Well said