Amber Portwood started from the bottom, found a new bottom, and now she’s here.
She’s basically Drake, if Drake had gone to prison for drug possession instead of starring on a Canadian soap opera.
It’s been a twisty path to success for Amber but new revelations about her Teen Mom: OG salary remind us that she’s doing just fine these days.
It seems the reason that Amber had no difficulty posting $ 5,000 bail for her 2011 arrest is that she’s freakin’ loaded thanks to her deal with MTV.
A report from the Today show’s website (Hey, even the legit news media needs a break from talking about Donald Trump’s presidency) reveals that Amber was paid over $ 280,000 that year.
The exact salaries of the TMOG girls is unknown, but sources say their salaries were doubled for returning to the network that made them famous.
So even if that’s an exaggeration, it’s safe to say Ms. Portwood is making in the neighborhood if half a million dollars a year just from appearing on the show.
On top of that, she likely earns another six figures from social media promotions.
If you watch Teen Mom online, you know that the big bucks earned by the ladies has somewhat lessened the drama, as their financial struggles used to be at the heart of the show.
But based on the ratings, fans don’t seem to mind.
The current season showed Amber buying a new house in an upscale neighborhood with fiance Matt Baier.
Yes, Amber is still planning to marry Matt Baier, the alleged deadbeat dad of nine by six different women.
So if you sometimes find yourself longing for the old days, when the ladies of Teen Mom struggled to pay rent, you may be in luck.
Amber continues to make bad decisions, and the choice to anchor herself to a broke-ass opportunist could cost her everything.
Obviously, we would never wish anything like that for her, but it could make for some to-notch television when the whole thing blows up in her face.
Don’t worry, with the kind of scratch Amber is earning, she’ll recover in no time.