Bristol Palin was a literal teen mom about 10 years ago.
But the daughter of ex-Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is now a Teen Mom is the more figurative and professional sense, making a living as one of two new cast members on Teen Mom OG.
For Bristol, meanwhile, it was pretty darn weird to walk right onto a show that had been airing for seven seasons already — and on which everyone was pretty close and familiar.
“I was like, this is their job, they’ve been doing this for so long,” Palin said on Monday’s Teen Mom OG premiere aftershow.. “I hope they like me.”
She may have also had this fear because, let’s face it, plenty of people out there do not like Bristol or her famous mother.
Bristol and Chyenne Floyd were both added to Teen Mom OG in the wake of Farrah Abraham being let go by MTV.
After plenty of back and forth with the controversial star, executives decided in February that it could no longer be associated with someone who did amateur pornography, basically.
“We didn’t want to step on toes, I think,” Floyd said of how she and Palin felt upon meeting the other OGs and starting to film by their side.
Catelynn Lowell, who also appeared on the after-show, thought back to the first time she met the new cast members, saying on air:
“We were doing a promo shoot. I think the production and everything made it was more awkward.”
Bristol agreed, chiming in as follows:
“So awkward!”
And Floyd also agreed!
“We hugged, and it was probably the most awkward hug ever. It was so awkward,” she said of meeting Palin.
Also awkward for Floyd? Some of the backlash she has received for not actually being a teen mom.
Not now. Not ever.
(Floyd shares one-year-old daughter Ryder with Cory Wharton; they welcomed their daughter whe Chyenne was 23 years old.)
“I think that a lot of people are stuck on the word and at the end of the day I’m still young mom. I still have the same struggles and I’m still learning just like everyone else.
I don’t think 23 is the ideal age to have a baby. She 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.”
For a look at how the veteran OGs feel about these newbies, click below:
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But we were starting to think we were maybe done with your senseless, misguided, cruel and self-serving bashing of Meghan Markle and we’d therefore never need to write about you ever again.
Alas, our excitement over being done with you forever was apparently short-lived.
Because now you’ve simply gone ahead and switched the target of your wrath from Meghan to her mother, Doria Ragland.
Responding to praise for Ragland and Thomas Markle (Meghan and Samantha’s biological father) from some random Twitter user, Samantha went off on the woman her dad once married.
“The world does not know that our dad raised her most of the time without the input of her mother especially from age 12 through high school and he gave her everything she had and is,” wrote this evil member of the Markle family.
She added of Meghan:
“She was never raised as an only child. Truth kids! He is amazing and successful and mags lie.”
Meghan and her dad, of course, have been engaged in their own feud ever since the latter did not attend his daughter’s wedding.
Samantha has taken many opportunities to defend him.
But she’s typically left Ragland out of her ridiculous rants.
Yes, she wrote something back in May about Ragland talking to Oprah at the Royal Wedding, impyling that she was merely using Meghan for her major connections.
However, this Twitter barrage was her most pointed attack against Doria by far.
“Everything that you think you know from tabloids is a lie. Dad pretty much raised her most of her life on his own and Doria was not around very much,” added Samantha, alleging that Doria “ghosted” Markle for “30 years.”
From there, however, Samantha made it clear that she still very much hates Meghan.
Referring to the health ailment that befell Thomas literal days before The Royal Wedding, Samantha Tweeted to a fellow Internet user:
“You have no idea what is going on behind the scenes. She ignored my father through a heart attack. There is no excuse for it.
“You would be mentally ill to think that is OK. Maybe you were the one who needs the counseling.”
While this ugly family rivalry that continues to play out in public, Samantha isn’t shy about sharing her theories into why things are estranged.
For the record, she claims, Meghan isn’t ignoring her because she has said all this horrible stuff.
Instead…
“She did not ignore everyone because they spoke out. Everyone spoke out because she started ignoring them. I apologized for my wisecracks. But not for pointing out that she is in the wrong.”
Also:
“[Meghan] has ghosted both sides of the family. She needs to earn our trust. It is the other way around. You don’t crap on an entire family and then run around crying that you cannot trust everyone.”
That’s one way of looking at it, sure.
Another way of looking at it is that Meghan hasn’t been going around crying at all.
