Bella Vaughn and her mom Falen are reflecting back on their decision to appear on the most-recent season of ‘Unexpected,’ revealing that they actually had to move following their controversial appearance on the TLC show.
During a Q&A session posted to TikTok on Sunday, Bella—who appeared on the show with her then-13-year-old baby daddy/boyfriend Hunter Johnson— stated that the backlash she and her family received because of what aired on ‘Unexpected’ was enough to chase them out of town.
“It’s hard, especially going through a situation like I did with the show and everything,” Bella said. “Y’all know the reason we left [our town]? We moved because the town we were in was horrible and toxic and those people are absolutely disgusting. After all that went down [on the show], I literally had no friends. They were all fake.”
Falen— whose actions on the show certainly didn’t help the family’s reputation— stated that anyone who did befriend Bella had ulterior motives.
“They would want something from her,” Falen said. “They would want to hang out with her for followers, or hang out with her for attention. It was never anything just to be there to be nice.”
Bella admitted that she did meet a lot of “amazing people” because she was on ‘Unexpected.’ However, she said that “sometimes I very deeply regret [being on the show].”
“It was horrible,” she said. “I wouldn’t recommend it, actually.”
As ‘Unexpected’ fans know, Bella is one of the most-controversial girls to ever appear on the show. In addition to getting pregnant at 14 by her then- 12-year-old boyfriend, Bella (and Falen) openly talked about some eyebrow-raising topics on-camera, including Hunter’s desire to have “butt sex” with Bella to prevent future pregnancies, and Falen allowing Bella and Hunter to shower together in her home, to name just a few.
According to Falen, many of the more-controversial scenes were “exaggerated” for ratings.
“We just never expected the stuff to come out that actually came out from the show,” Falen said. “So many of the lies and [them] exaggerating a lot of the stuff. We just never expected that.”
Bella agreed, insisting that the producers weren’t truthful when they told them how things would be presented on the show.
“I had never seen the show,” she said. “I had never watched it. I had only ever watched our season.”
While TLC is casting for Season 8, Falen made it clear that they have no intention of going back on the show if they are asked.
“One season and done was plenty for Bella,” Falen said, adding that appearing on ‘Unexpected’ “did open some doors” for Bella.
“It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity and when you get it, you don’t think it’s real,” Bella said. “When people talk to me and are like, ‘This is so cool. You’re, like, famous’ I’m like, ‘I’m not, though.'”
“We don’t see it as that; we see it as we’re normal people,” Falen said. “We still see people out in public and they recognize us and stuff like that and they take pictures.”
“Not all encounters are good,” Bella added. “I’ve had bad ones too.”
Falen stated that the people who don’t like them only know them from what was put on the show.
“You know us from what has been put out and what videos have been made to paint a picture of something that it’s not,” she said. “That’s what the ones that don’t like us know and it’s sad that they went that route and believed it.”
“We don’t put our whole lives on the Internet,” Bella said. We went on a TV show but that’s not us. That’s not our lives. Y’all don’t know a lot of the stuff that goes on, which is how it should be.”
“You guys only seen about 10 percent of what actually happened,” Falen added. “…it would have been a lot better if you had actually seen the fun things [Bella and Hunter] did and not just all about drama and just trying to stir the pot. There’s so much good stuff that you guys didn’t get to see.”
This is not the first time Bella has criticized her ‘Unexpected’ show experience. Back in May, Bella slammed those working behind the scenes of the show for allegedly not offering “very much help” when she and other cast members began to receive hate from fans online.
“They just kind of threw us out there,” Bella said.
You can watch Falen and Bella’s latest video below!
@kris.n.falen answering questions based off of the poll from moms board! #makeup #15andpregnant💙 #teenmom #tlcunexpected #dating @bella | boy mama💌💙 ♬ original sound – KrisNFalen
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(Photos: TLC; Instagram)
yall who don’t know falon forced bella to get pregnant with hunter so they could get on TV and stuff. Bella never wanted this. I go to school with her.
Felon would go back in a heartbeat. Either they weren’t asked back, or Bella put her foot down about not returning.
Wait, weren’t they on lives either prior to the show airing or just shortly thereafter basically daring the haters to come at them? Because they were gonna be getting rich off of all the negativity? I could swear Felon and What’s His Face were being antagonistic to viewers. Y’all encouraged that shit, thinking all the engagement would turn into dolla dolla bills. Now they wanna whine that they had to move bc people were mean? It’s always such entertainment to watch people backpedal and act like they didn’t put that shit on Karma’s internet.
No felon, you are not famous.
And your family is far far from
Normal, your family is the one that’s toxic.
I can’t believe you thought getting pregnant by a 12 year old child wouldn’t have some push back. Omg these children’s parents can’t actually be that irresponsible.
Why would a parent want there child to go though that. She is 14 and he was 12 neither one of are old enough to make those kind of decisions.
That’s when parents step in, but these parents saw dollar signs.
This is a far cry from what they had to say before the show aired. I guess they didn’t end up with the fame they expected. 😂
Anyone want to raise me $5.00 on my bet that Falen’s search for a new home read as follows:
“Where is a trailer/home I can rent that is closest to my dearest Hunter without violating the maximum amount of feet a restraining order his family can take out on me?”
I’m sure it had nothing to do with anything she said, or how weird her mother was with her 13 year old boyfriend/baby daddy, not to mention the attacking the police incident at the baby daddy’s- Daddy’s house. But the money was going to be great and veeryone was jealous, right?!
Maybe her parents could take some responsibility, for raising her the way they did then letting her go on tv. Though the show should gave passed the on the whole getting knocked up by a 12 yo dad point imo. Getting close to abuse territory, its always been off.
well falen, it looks like ragebaiting the viewers for more fame didn’t work out so well for you now did it? 😂