From getting married to getting sympathy on The Interwebs over a bad marriage, it’s been another busy week for the stars/former stars of the “Teen Mom” franchise! In an effort to bring you up-to-date on the latest “Teen Mom” news, The Ashley brings you the Teen Mom News Pile.
Here are some of the major (and minor but interesting) ‘Teen Mom’-related things that happened over the last week or so…
Ryan Edwards’ Ex-Wife Mackenzie Standifer Announces Engagement
Wedding bells will soon be ringing (again) for Mackenzie!
The former wife of Ryan Edwards announced this week that she is engaged to be married. Mackenzie posted fall family photos to her private social media accounts in which she prominently displays the engagement ring given to her by her boyfriend, Patrick Jade Luckhart. (He apparently goes by “Jade,” by the way.)
In another one of the photos, Mack appears to look surprised as Jade proposes, indicating that he proposed during the photo session.
Mack’s engagement comes just over a year after her divorce from Ryan was (finally) finalized. (Despite being divorced, Mackenzie and Ryan are still “battling” over their kids, with Mack recently being granted temporary full custody of Jagger and Stella.)
Anyway, Mackenzie and Jade’s relationship has been met with some controversy since they began dating about a year ago.
On July 4, 2025, Jade’s then-wife Amber posted a pic of Mack in the car with Jade, seemingly calling Mack out for getting with Jade while he was still married. (Family members later stated on social media that Jade and Amber were separated when he got with Mack but still legally married.)
Anyway, now that Jade and Mackenzie are both divorced, Jade decided to put a ring on it. It is unknown at this time if Mack will move to Alabama, where Jade lives. Since she currently has full custody of Jagger and Stella, so could legally take the kids to Alabama. If she moves to the town where Jade lives in Alabama, that would put the kids about an hour away from where Ryan’s parents live. As The Ashley previously told you, Ryan is forbidden from driving the kids anywhere, so that could cause some trouble when it comes to transporting the kids.
This will be the second marriage for Jade and the third marriage for Mackenzie. Before her marriage to Ryan, Mack got hitched in 2013 to Zack Stephens, who is the father of her oldest son Hudson. (At the time of her marriage, Mackenzie was 16 and pregnant with Hudson.) That marriage lasted just under three years, with Mack filing for divorce in 2016.
Ryan has yet to publicly comment on Mackenzie’s engagement.
Amanda Conner Lets Fans Know She’s Going Through Hard Times with Ryan
While the former Mrs. Ryan Edwards is moving forward, the current one seems to be riding the struggle bus hard these days. Amanda recently posted several telling posts to social media in which she made it clear that things are not going well in her relationship with the ‘Teen Mom’ star.
In the most-recent post made to her Life with Ryan & Amanda Facebook page, Amanda lip syncs to “Who Needs the Devil With a Lover Like You?” by Citycreed.
The lyrics are about someone being put through hell by their significant other. (“Who needs the devil with a lover like you/Who needs hell with what you put me through/Don’t know what I went and got myself into/Already lost my soul there’s nothing left to lose).
In another recent post, Amanda used the song “Therapy Sessions” by Kevin Gates, highlighting the lyrics, “They say hurt people hurt people/ Bitch, I’m destroyed on the inside…”
In a post on Tuesday, Amanda highlighted the verse “A dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness,” seemingly indicating that she regrets returning to Ryan after seeing some of his, um, “foolish” ways.
As The Ashley previously reported, Amanda took to social media last month to accuse Ryan of cheating on her throughout their entire marriage. She very quickly walked back on the allegations and it was soon revealed that Ryan had been leaving angry comments on her posts about him. Since then, Amanda has not revealed if she and Ryan are still together (apart from some posting cryptic TikToks, natch).
As of press time, neither Amanda nor Ryan has filed for divorce.
Kail Lowry Reveals What Type of Wedding She Wants If/When She Marries Ike Knighton
Kail’s latest live-in lover has yet to propose (or at least publicly confirm that he has), but the ‘Teen Mom’ star seems to already know what type of wedding they’re going to have.
During a recent episode of her Karma & Chaos podcast, Kail told her co-host Becky Hayter that she may want a “micro wedding,” given that she already had a over-the-top affair when she married Javi Marroquin. (As fans may remember, Kail and Javi had a quickie ceremony to get legally married and followed it up with a big wedding and reception at a New Jersey aquarium…while Kail was eight months pregnant with their son Lincoln. It was filmed for ‘Teen Mom 2.’)
“I feel like I’ve already done the, like, ‘look at me wedding,'” Kail said. “I’ve already done the ‘this is my marriage’ all over the Internet and it failed. So like, why am I going make the same mistake twice?” she said.
“When I get married again, I want it to be super-intimate, super-personal and close. I don’t want to do the big wedding.”
Kail said that she wants to split her nuptials into two separate days and won’t be expecting her guests to bring her and Ike whoever she marries any gifts.
“[I want] a super-intimate ceremony and then have a party,” she said. “Obviously, I wouldn’t have a party the same day, but like later on, maybe we have like a reception party…
“You don’t have to bring a monetary gift if you don’t want to, right?” Kail said.
“Like it’s just you come for the vibes, we party, we celebrate, but no plated dinner, no gifts, no nothing, just like a celebration,” she said. “I feel like that’s what we would want to do.”
“We got married at the courthouse in 2012, got married in a venue in 2013, and it was so expensive,” she said. “And then people don’t have wedding etiquette, and people also can’t pay their bills right now… if I get married again, I don’t want to have a wedding because for what?”
“I want to be a wife one day,” she said. “I let him know pretty early on that I’m not interested in, you know, five-plus years and no movement on our relationship. I think it was like, ‘This is my timeline. I would like to invest two years. And if it’s not gonna go anywhere beyond this two years and we’re still dating, it’s fine. Not everyone is on my timeline. But this is what I want.
“I want to have a husband,” she added. “I want my kids to have a stepfather. I want to build with someone and actually have this life together.”
Catelynn Lowell Highlights Her Mom April’s Role in Her Bad Childhood
Catelynn’s feud with her mom April rages on, with Cate taking to TikTok this week to discuss the loss she feels about never having a good relationship with her mom.
“I don’t think I will ever get over the fact of wishing my mother was different,” Cate wrote in the caption of a post featuring a voiceover about feeling loss over having a mom like April was.
“…or feeling a little jealous when I see daughters with their mothers. Just thankful my girls will never feel this from me!”
In another recent post, Cate compared the childhood her three daughters have with the one she had herself.
She posted a photo of herself as a little girl, writing, “A bad day for me: Mom passed out at the table. Music so loud I can’t sleep. Taking care of younger siblings. Getting in front of men to protect mom.” The video then switched to a photo of Cate’s daughter Nova, Rya and Vaeda, and reads, “A bad day for them: No more Minecraft, no more Oreos, bathtime, bedtime.”
“We definitely broke curses I would walk through over & over for them!” Cate wrote of her and her husband Tyler Baltierra (who had an equally rotten childhood).
Over the past several months, Catelynn has become more outspoken about how hard her childhood was, mostly in part due to April’s behavior. In late October, Cate’s little brother Nick defended April, stating that Catelynn is wrong about how April was as a mother.
“My mom has always been super-supportive, super-great, always got us whatever we needed,” Nick said. “[She] always took care of us. I literally had the best mom… the things that MTV and my sister have portrayed [about April], I’m just like, ‘That’s just not my mom.’”
April has not yet responded to Cate’s latest videos.
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Is it just me or does Mackenzie’s fiancé look like her twin brother?