Teen Mom Cast: Where Is Everyone Now? OG & Teen Mom 2, Full 2026 Update
17 Years.
11 Cast Members.
One Wild Group Chat.
Catelynn's adoption story. Farrah's accidental city council campaign. Mackenzie's surprise IVF twins. Jenelle's finalized divorce and return to the cast. Kailyn's quiet cameo. This is every original Teen Mom OG and Teen Mom 2 star, what's actually happening with them right now, and where the franchise itself stands as of June 2026 — including who MTV didn't ask back, and why.
Seventeen years ago, MTV put cameras in front of a group of pregnant teenagers and asked them to document the hardest year of their lives. The resulting franchise — 16 and Pregnant, then Teen Mom, then Teen Mom OG and Teen Mom 2 running in parallel, then both folding into Teen Mom: The Next Chapter — has now run long enough that the original teenagers are raising teenagers of their own. Most of the cast is in their thirties. Several have had five, six, even seven children. Nearly everyone has been through multiple divorces or breakups. And as of June 2026, the franchise itself is in a strange holding pattern: The Next Chapter's second season wrapped over a year ago, MTV hasn't confirmed a third, and the cast has been quietly shuffling in and out in the meantime.
This is the full picture — not just "where are they now" in the vague sense, but what's actually happening with each of these eleven people this month, who's currently filming, who got fired and never came back, who came back after getting fired, and who is currently running for a city council seat she didn't initially realize existed.
Who's Actually Filming Right Now
The part every other "where are they now" piece skipsBefore getting into individual updates, here's the thing that's actually changed the most since this franchise became Teen Mom: The Next Chapter in 2022: the cast list is not the cast list anymore. Several of the biggest names from both original shows were not invited back when the spinoff launched — and a couple of them have since talked their way back in. This table is the part most coverage glosses over entirely.
Two things jump out from that table. First: the franchise has been quietly absorbing its "fired" cast members back in — both Jenelle and Mackenzie were left off the original 2022 lineup and both are back as of Season 2. Second: as of this writing, Teen Mom: The Next Chapter Season 2 ended over a year ago (May 2025) and MTV has been notably quiet about a Season 3. Whether that's a scheduling gap or something more permanent is genuinely unclear — and we'll update this page the moment that changes.
Teen Mom OG
The original four. 16 and Pregnant picked Maci Bookout, Catelynn Lowell, Amber Portwood, and Farrah Abraham for its first season, and when MTV greenlit a follow-up, those four became the cast of Teen Mom. By Season 5, it rebranded as Teen Mom OG to distinguish itself from the growing list of spinoffs. Cheyenne Floyd and Mackenzie McKee joined later.
Filming Next Chapter
Maci has, relative to nearly everyone else on this list, the most stable storyline — though "stable" in Teen Mom terms still means a decade-plus of on-and-off drama with her son Bentley's father, Ryan Edwards. Bentley was born in 2008 to Maci and Ryan, who never married; Ryan's struggles with addiction became one of the franchise's longest-running arcs, including multiple stints in rehab and, more recently, arrests and jail time tied to harassment charges filed by his ex-wife Mackenzie Edwards. Maci, meanwhile, found stability with Texan Taylor McKinney, whom she married in 2016. The couple have two children together — daughter Jayde (b. 2015) and son Maverick (b. 2016) — making Maci a mother of three. She and Taylor co-run a clothing brand, TTM (Things That Matter), and Maci has published two memoirs about her experience on the show.
Filming Next Chapter
Catelynn and her high school boyfriend Tyler Baltierra placing their first daughter, Carly, for adoption during Season 1 became one of the franchise's most enduring storylines — and the two of them are, remarkably, the only couple from either show's original Season 1 lineup still together. They married in 2015 and have since had three more daughters: Novalee (2015), Vaeda (2019), and Rya (2021). The relationship with Carly's adoptive parents, Brandon and Teresa Davis, has remained a recurring on-camera thread — including tension over the adoptive parents' involvement as Carly has gotten older, which Catelynn discussed during a visit from former castmate Kailyn Lowry in Season 2 footage.
Separately, Tyler Baltierra has been documented removing the tattoo of Carly he got years ago — a decision tied up in his own reflection on that chapter of his life. We covered the full story here →
Filming Next Chapter (inconsistent)
Amber's arc has been the franchise's most documented and most difficult: a 2010 domestic violence arrest involving Gary Shirley (father of daughter Leah), prison time, and a years-long custody battle over son James with ex Andrew Glennon that ended in 2022 with Glennon receiving sole legal and physical custody. As of May 2026, Amber resurfaced after months offline with a TikTok Live announcing a new YouTube show from an unnamed "huge production company" — the latest in a recurring pattern of "comeback" announcements that we broke down in full, including the custody timeline and her widely-reported roughly $10,000 net worth despite 15+ years on MTV.
Not on Next Chapter
Farrah is, by a wide margin, the single most-searched name to ever come out of this franchise — and also the only original cast member with zero current MTV affiliation. She had daughter Sophia in 2009, two months after Sophia's father was killed in a car accident, and was fired from the franchise in October 2017 following a confrontation with executive producer Morgan J. Freeman. She sued Viacom for $5 million alleging the firing was tied to her adult film career; the suit was settled privately. The genuinely wild update for 2026: in January, Farrah announced a campaign for Mayor of Austin — and during a live TMZ interview, was informed on-air that Austin's next mayoral election isn't until 2028, not 2026. She subsequently clarified she's actually running for an Austin City Council District 5 seat, which is on the ballot in November 2026, against incumbent Ryan Alter. As of early June 2026, separate TMZ reporting also addressed — and shot down — rumors she'd gotten engaged after she was photographed wearing a large ring.
A former Teen Mom cast member is on the ballot in Texas this November — running for Austin City Council District 5, on a platform covering housing, public safety, and support for first responders. Whatever else is true about Farrah Abraham's media history, this part is a real, filed campaign finance report with the City of Austin.
Filming Next Chapter
Cheyenne joined the OG cast partway through Season 7, replacing the departing Farrah Abraham, after first appearing on MTV's Are You The One?. She has a daughter, Ryder, with NBA player Cory Wharton, and a son, Ace, with husband Zach Davis, whom she married in 2023. Cheyenne is also notable for being the cast member at the center of the 2026 roster shakeup mentioned above: her on-camera reconciliation with Mackenzie McKee during Teen Mom: Family Reunion directly preceded Mackenzie's addition to The Next Chapter's Season 2 cast — meaning Cheyenne's storyline effectively brought a former castmate back into the franchise.
Returned to Next Chapter S2
Mackenzie's update is genuinely one of the biggest on this entire list and gets the least coverage. She originally starred on the short-lived Teen Mom 3 before joining OG as a guest in 2019. She divorced first husband Josh McKee in 2022 after years of public relationship struggles — and her mother, Angie Douthit, died of lung cancer in late 2019, a loss that shaped much of her recent storyline. In May 2024, Mackenzie got engaged to Jamaican professional soccer player Khesanio Hall. In March 2025 the couple announced they were expecting twins via IVF — and on June 2, 2025, their twin daughters were born, bringing Mackenzie's total to five children. She returned to The Next Chapter for Season 2 (having not been part of the original 2022 cast) after her on-camera reconciliation with longtime castmate Cheyenne Floyd.
Mackenzie McKee had IVF twins in June 2025 with her fiancé, a professional soccer player — and is now engaged with five kids total. For someone with a 3,900/month search volume on her name alone, this is a remarkably under-covered story.
Teen Mom 2
Teen Mom 2 launched in January 2011 — fifteen years ago this year — with four moms from the second season of 16 and Pregnant: Jenelle Evans, Chelsea Houska, Leah Messer, and Kailyn Lowry. The show ran eleven seasons before ending in May 2022, with its cast folding into Teen Mom: The Next Chapter alongside the OG cast — though, as the roster table above shows, that merger was far from total.
Returned to Next Chapter S2
Jenelle's storyline has run through three significant relationships: a brief marriage to Courtland Rogers, an engagement to Nathan Griffith (son Kaiser, b. 2014), and a marriage to David Eason starting in 2017 (daughter Ensley). Jenelle was fired from Teen Mom 2 in 2019 after David Eason shot and killed the family dog, which also led to a temporary loss of custody of her children. When The Next Chapter launched in 2022, MTV and Jenelle's team failed to reach a contract agreement and she was left off the cast — her manager confirmed at the time she was "officially NOT returning." Jenelle and David separated in March 2024; she obtained a domestic violence protective order against him, and their divorce was finalized in July 2025. She has since returned to the franchise as part of Season 2. Separately, ex Nathan Griffith was arrested again in 2025 on a domestic battery by strangulation charge involving another woman — Jenelle has spoken publicly about the situation.
Not on Next Chapter (one cameo)
Kailyn has the largest family of anyone on this list — seven children with four different fathers — and left the franchise during Season 11 in 2022, later explaining she'd gotten pregnant with her fifth son, Rio, and didn't want to film that pregnancy under her existing MTV contract. She's made one notable exception since: a brief, unscripted cameo in Season 2 footage visiting former castmates Catelynn and Tyler Baltierra and Maci Bookout — not as paid cast, more a "what are you doing here?" reunion moment. The much bigger 2026 story, though, is personal: in late 2025, Kailyn told her Coffee Convos podcast co-host that having seven kids with four men had been weighing on her — "I created four broken homes." She's since started a new relationship with Isaac "Ike" Knighton following a 2025 split from fiancé Elijah Scott. We covered the full roster of all seven kids, the four fathers, and her reported net worth collapse from roughly $4 million in 2018 to around $25,000 today, in detail.
Filming Next Chapter
Leah's original storyline followed her teenage marriage to Corey Simms, with whom she had twin daughters Aliannah and Aleeah in 2009 — they divorced just six months after their 2010 wedding, after Leah admitted to infidelity. One of the twins, Aleeah, was diagnosed with a form of muscular dystrophy as a child, a storyline that became a significant and sensitively-handled part of the show for years; Aleeah started high school in 2024. Leah remarried — to Jeremy Calvert in 2012, welcoming daughter Adalynn before that marriage also ended in divorce in 2015. After a later engagement to Jaylan Mobley ended in 2022, Leah moved over to The Next Chapter as part of its original 2022 cast and has continued as a single mother of three. Separately, reporting has noted Leah faces reported financial debts — a storyline that's come up periodically without a full public accounting.
Not on Next Chapter
Chelsea's original storyline centered on her relationship with Adam Lind, with whom she had daughter Aubree in 2009 — a relationship marked by Adam's frequent absences, one of TM2's earliest recurring themes. Chelsea later married Cole DeBoer in 2016, taking the surname DeBoer, and the couple have three more children together. Chelsea voluntarily left Teen Mom 2 after Season 10 in 2020, framing it as a personal choice to step back from filming — and, notably, she's one of only two cast members on this entire list (alongside Farrah) who did not transition into The Next Chapter at all. Unlike Farrah, who was fired, Chelsea's exit was entirely her own call, and she has remained out of the franchise since, with Houska and DeBoer reportedly building their own separate media ventures since departing.
Filming Next Chapter
Briana originally appeared on the short-lived Teen Mom 3 before joining Teen Mom 2 in 2017. She has two daughters — Nova, with ex Devoin Austin, and Stella, with ex Luis Hernandez — and became a recurring source of franchise drama after dating Javi Marroquin, the ex-husband of fellow cast member Kailyn Lowry. Moving into The Next Chapter as part of the original 2022 cast, one of Briana's most significant recent storylines has involved her mother's longtime undisclosed drug addiction becoming public — a difficult arc she and her sister Brittany have navigated on-camera together. Briana remains a main cast member.
Filming Next Chapter
Jade joined Teen Mom 2 in 2019, moving over from Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant, replacing the departing Jenelle Evans. She has one daughter, Kloie, with longtime on-and-off partner Sean Austin — a relationship that's been through repeated breakups and reconciliations on camera, with renewed engagement-related updates surfacing in 2026. Jade is also notable for running a hair care business, Made & Marble Hair Studios, alongside her television work. Despite joining the franchise relatively recently compared to the original cast, "Jade Cline" pulls a striking 7,300 monthly searches at essentially zero competition — among the highest of the entire Teen Mom 2 cast, and a sign that her storyline resonates with a real, engaged audience even without the tenure of the original four.
Of eleven cast members across two franchises, exactly one is still with the person they started the show with.
— Catelynn & Tyler Baltierra · Married since 2015 · Brewtiful LivingIt would be easy to read eleven divorces, custody battles, and a net worth collapse or two as just chaos for chaos's sake — and a lot of it has, genuinely, been messy in ways that affected real children who didn't sign up for any of it. But it's worth saying plainly: most of these women were 16, 17, 18 years old when cameras first showed up. Whatever you think of any individual decision on this list, almost all of it was made in public, by teenagers, who then had to keep being those teenagers — in front of an audience — for the next seventeen years.
Catelynn and Tyler being the one couple still standing isn't really the headline. The headline is that ten other people have built entirely new lives — some multiple times over, several with brand-new kids as recently as 2025 — while a camera crew watched on and off the whole time. That's the actual story here.
Two franchises, eleven cast members, seventeen years, and — by our count — at least fourteen marriages or long-term engagements between them, of which exactly one (Catelynn & Tyler) is still intact. Three cast members (Amber, Jenelle, Kailyn) have had custody or divorce proceedings end up in court within the last 18 months. Two (Farrah, Chelsea) are entirely outside the current franchise — one running for actual elected office, the other building a media career independently. Two more (Jenelle, Mackenzie) weren't even supposed to be back, and are. And the franchise itself, as of June 2026, hasn't aired a new episode in over a year and hasn't said why. Somewhere in Austin, a campaign poster is being printed for an election a Teen Mom alum is mildly confused about but is, somehow, also genuinely on the ballot for. Whatever Season 3 — if it happens — looks like, this is the roster it would be drawing from. We'll update this page the moment anything changes. As ever.
