'16 and Pregnant': Meet the 6 young moms and their baby daddies set to feature in MTV's reimagined docuseries
'16 and Pregnant' was revived by MTV last month after staying off the air since 2015. The network revealed the news after the astounding success of '16 and Recovering'. '16 and Pregnant' was one such show that drastically brought down teenage pregnancies by 5.7 percent within 18 months after its premiere.
The last season from the series aired in 2014 and the network recently announced that they will be reviving it as a "newly reimagined series" and will comprise 6 episodes. The show will begin airing in an hour from now and here's a look at the new teenage mothers and their partners.
Rachelle Perez
20-year-old Rachelle Perez is a resident of Los Angeles who will be appearing on the show along with Chase Keough, her boyfriend, and the father of her daughter Boston Sofia. The Ashley reported that Perez has been with the 23-year-old Keough for the last year and a half and the two got the news that they're expecting a baby shortly after getting together. Chase graduated from high school in 2015 and is a former football player and a personal trainer presently.
Camryn Fields
Camryn is a high school student from Newport, Michigan. She and her boyfriend Cameron who is also the father of her baby daughter Sadie Paige, have been together since 2018. Camryn was a cheerleader before giving birth to Paige. Her mother also will be appearing in the series and in the trailer, she can be heard saying, “Seeing you go through this, it’s been really emotional for me.”
Kasmonyae Harris
Kasmonyae has very recently graduated from high school. The Avondale, Arizona resident gave birth to daughter Nova Marie but details pertaining to her current relationship status with the father of her child are unknown.
Kali Collette
Kali is a La Porte, Indiana resident. She began dating Auston Brant in 2018, at age 13 and became pregnant at 15. She had a very tough labor and her son Bohdi Oliver was born on June 6, 2020. Kali shares a very close relationship with her parents and works at their nutrition store. MTV made all six teenage mothers clear their social media last week but before they did, The Ashley managed to learn that Kali always knew she would become pregnant by Auston, via a video that she had uploaded on her page. “I kind of figured it would happen at some point..not at 15,” she had said in the deleted video.
Madisen Beith
17-year-old Madisen from Heber Spring, Arkansas met her boyfriend Christian Wilson when she was 13. They've dated on and off since May 2017. She got pregnant when she 16 while still on birth control and their daughter Camille Victoria was born on March 10, 2020. Madisen's father has been supportive of her throughout. “I know it’s not going to be easy for her but I’m going to be here to help," he says in the trailer. As per The Ashley, Madisen did a Q&A on her Instagram page, right after it was announced that she'd be on the recent season of '16 and Pregnant' and one of the questions she answered was whether she thinks the show glamorizes teen pregnancies. “I mean, I guess it depends on how you look at it,” she wrote while also adding, “I’m not telling other girls to go and get pregnant. But I’m also not going to tell them it ruins their life.”
Madison Everheart
Madison, 19, from San Antonio, Texas, is currently engaged to Korey Wiseman. Wiseman graduated high school back in 2017 and since then has had a couple of run-ins with the law, as per The Ashley. He and Maddie got engaged in December 2019 while they were yet to welcome their daughter. Together they are parents to a daughter named Kaezleigh Ka'mya who was born in February this year.
Watch the trailer for '16 and Pregnant' here
'16 and Pregnant' airs Wednesdays at 9 pm ET on MTV.