Maci Bookout is currently starring Teen Mom: The Next Chapteralong with her husband Taylor McKinney and three children. Their eldest son, Bentley, is back on the show once again, and Maci spoke to him recently TooFab to reveal how the teenager feels about continuing with the franchise.
Maci also provided an update on the current status of her relationship with Bentley’s father. Ryan Edwardsand his parents.
The Ashley pulled out some of the most interesting parts of Maci’s interview below!
How Bentley feels about being part of The Next Chapter:
Fans have slammed Maci in recent seasons of Teen Mom OG, accusing her of using her son Bentley’s therapy and his issues with his father Ryan for a storyline. When asked how Bentley – who turns 14 next month – feels about continuing to film his life for Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, Maci insists he’s okay with it.
“Ever since he was born on TV and been on TV his whole life; Even the crew… they’re just family now. So I think it’s always going to keep that normality for him,” Maci said. “But I’m surprised by this, and I could be wrong — a year from now I could be like, ‘Yeah, I totally misread that’ … I feel like he actually needs the platform and the work that it requires more appreciate doing a tv show and the courage it takes for someone like me to show my whole life and courage for him because he shared a lot of things on the show.
“But in all the conversations and things we talk about … he’s learning to appreciate it as much as he can.”
Maci admitted, however, that Bentley doesn’t always enjoy filming.
“Sometimes it’s still annoying for him,” she said. “He knows he doesn’t have to film or even carry a microphone if he doesn’t want to.”
“It’s always been like that and the production has always been very good at letting the kids – no matter how big, small, old, young – if they don’t want to film, they don’t film, and that’s it, and it’s in.” Order .”
Where she and Ryan are right now:
Maci said the situation between her and Bentley’s father Ryan hasn’t changed since we last saw her on Teen Mom OG.
“Ryan and I haven’t been in a relationship at all for years, probably four years. For example, I don’t have his phone number. I doubt he has mine,” Maci said. “We don’t see each other, we don’t talk to each other.”
As The Ashley told you, Maci was instrumental in getting Ryan and his family kicked out of Teen Mom OG last year. she said Too fabulous that she didn’t enjoy talking about Ryan on the show when she wasn’t talking to him in “real life.”
“As we were shooting the last few seasons, it just got to a point where I was uncomfortable talking about someone I’m not talking to,” Maci said. “And it stays that way; We don’t have a relationship.”
Whether or not she gets along with Ryan’s parents Jen and Larry:
The Ashley broke the news in February 2021 that Maci’s husband Taylor and Larry nearly got into a physical fight onstage during taping of the reunion episode. (In April 2021, fans got to watch things unfold as the episode aired.) After that, Maci’s once-close relationship with Bentley’s grandparents was severed. However, she told TooFab that things between her and Jen and Larry have improved since then.
“The relationship with Jen and Larry is definitely not what it was the past few years, but definitely not… anywhere near how we left the reunion,” she said. “It’s heartfelt in a real way. It’s not fake, ‘Hey, nice to see you… oh my god I hate you.’ It’s a real — we can have small talk.
“I feel like we’re all comfortable with where it is right now,” she continued. “It’s not forced; it’s not bullshit. It is pleasant. It’s not like, ‘Oh my god, I have to see her.’ I have a feeling it’s in a good place. I feel like it’s in a comfortable space and I think we’re all fine with where it’s at right now.”
About Jenelle making a cameo in ‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter’:
In the final episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, former Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans appeared in scenes filmed at Briana DeJesus’ trial party. While some of the ‘Next Chapter’ girls have expressed that they’re glad they weren’t part of the scenes with Jenelle, Maci seemed indifferent.
“I’m not trying to be rude, really, but I’m fine with not being a part of [those scenes]too, but not for any particular reason,” Maci said before clarifying that she has nothing to do with Jenelle.
“Jenelle and I, I think we’ve only met a few times. So it’s not like we were friends and something happened or even worked together because we were in different line-ups all the time.
“I don’t know, I just feel like I don’t even have a dog in this race,” Maci added.
“I mean, I’m fine,” Maci said of Jenelle’s return. “I don’t care. It doesn’t change my life in any way.”
You can watch Maci’s full interview with Too fabulous under!
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