- Kailyn Lowry appears again at her episode of 16 & Pregnant, which aired 15 years in the past on April 20, 2010
- Regardless of her plans for welcoming her first child, every thing modified when she went into labor sooner than anticipated
- Lowry tells PEOPLE what needed to occur behind the scenes to movie her giving delivery
Welcoming your first child into the world at 17 will be an already overwhelming expertise. Not solely did Kailyn Lowry do it, however with cameras watching.
Talking with PEOPLE in a glance again on her 15 years within the public eye, the podcaster mother of seven, 33, explains that she was a 16 & Pregnant viewer earlier than signing as much as be on the present.
“I keep in mind seeing 16 and Pregnant season one — Maci, Catelynn, Amber. I keep in mind watching their tales play out in actual time, after which I used to be already pregnant,” Lowry tells PEOPLE.
“I went on MTV.com and it mentioned, ‘now casting.’ So I simply shortly despatched in slightly synopsis of my story, after which the remainder was historical past.”
Getting the decision that she was going to be solid on the present’s second season was surreal, but it surely was removed from the one uncommon factor occurring in Lowry’s life on the time. By the point she heard again from MTV and agreed to let cameras doc her being pregnant, “My whole story had already modified.”
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“My state of affairs on the time modified in a short time from the time that I submitted my authentic synopsis to the time that I began filming. I used to be now not even dwelling with my mother. I used to be already dwelling with Jo and his dad and mom,” she says.
Settling into the brand new state of affairs, with cameras following her in her day-to-day life was “actually bizarre.”
“Particularly as a result of I used to be already the brand new woman at my highschool, so I type of already had eyes on me. And so I keep in mind strolling out of my highschool doorways on one of many days that we began filming and folks had been like, ‘What’s going on?’ ” she shares.
“And I did not even know what was occurring. I did not know what I signed up for.”
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The expectant younger mother did her greatest to get collectively a delivery plan, however when she went into labor along with her child boy weeks forward of her due date, the plans modified shortly.
“I keep in mind not delivering on the hospital that I used to be scheduled to ship at,” she says.
“We needed to mislead the hospital and say that the producers had been my cousins to ensure that them to be allowed to movie it,” she laughs.
“And I keep in mind folks coming out and in of my room. And I believe the day that I gave delivery, I imply, there have been 10 or 12 folks within the room at the moment, so it was pure chaos.”
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Lowry was slightly irritated by the truth that when her episode aired, a number of the particulars had been incorrect.
“Isaac’s title was spelled flawed, and once they put the decrease thirds up and it mentioned the timeframe, they had been slightly bit off. I keep in mind being annoyed by that. Like, ‘I simply gave up my complete story. I filmed my whole being pregnant and a number of the particulars had been flawed,’ ” she recollects.
“However it was form of additionally good to have a number of the stuff documented, so I had one thing to look again on. And I nonetheless keep in mind once we watched it, when it aired. Isaac was born in January of 2010, after which the episode did not air till 4 months later. And I keep in mind being like, ‘Wow, is that me on TV? Is that this nationwide?’ I do not suppose that it absolutely had sunk in but.”
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Right now, Lowry is pleased with the younger man that Isaac, now 15, is turning into. The mother of seven continues to share her story and has created roots for her household {and professional} success for herself and different predominantly feminine podcasters throughout podcasts on her KILLR podcast network. Not solely does her communications diploma turn out to be useful, however so does her time on actuality TV.
“It is fascinating how many individuals have mentioned to me like, ‘Oh, I wasn’t your largest fan,’ or they’ve mentioned to me, ‘I’ve rewatched Teen Mother as an grownup, and I see you from a totally completely different perspective now,’ ” she says.
Nonetheless, Lowry is humble about her affect and authority. “I would not say that individuals worth my opinion. They may take it into consideration simply because I’ve had each type of state of affairs there may be, like a co-parent that I do not get together with, a co-parent that I do get together with, marriage, divorce, all of it.”
“So whereas some will say it’s hypocritical of me to offer any type of recommendation, I’ve lived by way of virtually each single perspective there may very well be. Who higher than somebody who’s really performed it and lived by way of it?”
