It’s been five weeks since Kailyn Lowry confirmed that she’s pregnant with her third child.
During that time, the already-intense public scrutiny of Lowry’s private life has ramped up considerably with one major question looming large in the minds of Teen Mom 2 fans:
Just who is Kailyn’s baby daddy?
We knew from the start that Kailyn did not get pregnant by Jo Rivera or Javi Marroquin, but she seems to be in no rush to reveal who did knock her up.
Three candidates have emerged as the most likely fathers, and convincing arguments have been made in favor of each:
Many fans believe Kailyn was knocked up by Tyler Hill – a man with whom Kailyn allegedly cheated on Javi while he was overseas with the US Air Force.
Others insist that Kailyn is expecting J.C. Cueva‘s baby.
J.C. is a Teen Mom 2 producer with whom Kailyn appears to have established an off-camera friendship.
It’s not hard to see why fans of the show believe that there might be something going on between Kailyn and Cueva, but they both insist their relationship is purely platonic.
That leaves the third and most likely candidate: Chris Lopez.
The case for Lopez was strong to begin with and new evidence seems to emerge every day.
For starters, sources close to Kailyn have identified the baby daddy as “a friend Kail was briefly dating.”
That eliminates both Hill and Cueva, as Kailyn had a fling with the former and seems to have never been more than platonic friends with the latter.
Even those who insist that Kailyn hooked up with Hill or Cueva never described their dalliances as anything that would qualify as “dating.”
But obviously that’s not enough to point to Lopez as the father.
For that, we turn to a few key pieces of evidence that emerged over the past three months.
For starters, there’s this tweet, posted by Lopez back in January:
“To my miracle child, I’m so sorry.”
It may not seem too significant on it’s own, but it was posted around the time that Kailyn would’ve realized she’s knocked up.
The only person to like the tweet (which has since been deleted)?
You guessed it – Kailyn Lowry.
On its own, that would hardly be enough to jump to the conclusion that Lopez is the father, but a more conclusive piece of evidence emerged just last week.
During an Instagram live stream, Kailyn joked with a friend about possible baby names.
Her friend suggested Holden if the baby is a boy, to which Kailyn replied:
“Chris would say, ‘I’m Holden the baby!’”
Shortly thereafter, she cut the stream short amidst comments from fans speculating that she had just inadvertently revealed Chris is the father.
Interestingly, she’s been mum on the topic of her baby daddy’s identity ever since.
We wouldn’t say that’s definitive evidence that Lopez is the baby’s father, but it may be the closest we’ll ever get.
Sadly, it’s looking more and more as though fans will never receive the “Maury moment” they’ve been awaiting so long.
Sources close to Kailyn say she may never reveal her baby daddy’s identity to the public.
Obviously, that’s her decision to make, but we can’t help but feel that reality star may have been the wrong career choice for someone who values her privacy as much as Kailyn does.