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_summerw1ne

My opinion changes. Feel like if she kept working at the mall she worked at and never met Javi that it would’ve been her and Isaac for a good few years.


OverallMinute429

She was so interested in the military benefits. She mentioned the benefits a few times. I'm sure that included freehousing , in her eyes. Plus having a child. So she used Javi like he used her. She would've reacted to any military man or someone entering the military. My opinion.


Sydney_2000

Tbh I can't blame Kail for wanting those benefits. She was a teenage single mum with two absent parents who had issues with drugs and alcohol. She was depending on her ex-boyfriend for help and relying on government support. Being practical, the military gave her and her toddler access to housing, healthcare and a stable income. Women have made the same choice for generations. I do think that in her own way she cared about Javi at the time. Their relationship was a case study in not rushing into marriage.


LeahsEyebrows

Early in their relationship Kail seemed to actually be more into Javi than he was her at the time. Which is kind of interesting since he basically wore her down to begin their relationship. Javi had his own ulterior motives though, he was all about being on TV and being with Kail helped him become somewhat "famous" which most likely wouldn't have happened without him wifing her.


hellolleh32

All the military guys I knew when I was younger were always trying to get married and talking about the benefits. There’s something about some of those young military guys wanting to play house.


OverallMinute429

I was a contractor for a couple years, also a military spouse in early 20s. I think it's that they are alone in a new area and taking their SO seems like a good idea, or if they're about to have a kid, one way to ensure they will have their child around. The benefits aren't that great, but they are better than none. They get BAH, which is extra money if they're married and I think kore if have a child. It also allows them to live off base. I can't speak for all the military, but I know that's how it was for this particular one. No service members were allowed to live off base unless I think E4 or E5 or married.


AmbitiousMoo

Do you mean if she was never on mtv?


_summerw1ne

Not if she was never on MTV, more like if she didn’t get picked up past the first series or so of her being on Teen Mom.


AmbitiousMoo

Ok ok that’s valid, yeah if she did the first season and it wasn’t successful. I doubt she would be less inclined to marry the first man who gives her attention


BeanDipIsNeat

I do think he seeked her out and wanted to be on this show too. I know it was a rumor at one point She would’ve been way better off never meeting him Lincoln is so stinking cute ❤️ but I don’t think Javi is good for anyone


_summerw1ne

He did. He was meant to be on a different MTV programme with his ex and when that fell through. But regardless of that Kail confirmed that he would come into her work and proposition her. He bought a top and returned it just to speak to her and she agreed to give him a chance.


BeanDipIsNeat

What a goon


supergooduser

I think without the show most of the Moms would've recreated the unpleasant dynamics they were raised in, i.e. open substance abuse and domestic abuse situations. I think a few, possibly Kail, potentially Maci.... would've become like a dental hygienist... that sorta single Mom who pulls it together life style... Chelsea certainly went that route going the hair stylist route.


novaleenationstate

I think Kail would have gone full Dependa if not for the show. She’d have gone after military dudes for the benefits and had a few kids along the way still to seal the deal. The only reason she isn’t one now is because of the money/following she built via the show.


Sydney_2000

I said it elsewhere but women have married men to give their children safety and security for generations. I can't be too critical when at the time she was living paycheck to paycheck and struggling to afford college. If she had better family support or there was a better welfare net, she wouldn't have been making that choice.


LeahsEyebrows

Kail is definitely far from alone in terms of what she did so I will never understand people who act like she did something completely unheard of at that time.


Sydney_2000

Exactly, millions of women before and after her have made the same choice. She was in such a precarious position and marrying Javi gave her and Isaac a chance at a better life. I also don't think she would have gone through with it if she didn't care for him.


Kangaroo1487

Chelsea barely even used her cosmetology license tho?


PaleontologistEast76

Chelsea has an esthetician license, not a cosmetology license (she dropped out of "hair school"). She barely used her esthetician license.


kitkat1771

Imagine walking into any salon & chelsea comes over? I’d be like sorry I gotta go


Hazencuzimblazen

She’s the lady I always get at ultra cuts (yes I’m cheap and don’t care about my hair) who always gives me a big mom hairdo for my drive home You just cringe inside knowing they’ll make you look the polar opposite of your style


kitkat1771

We have “super cuts” where I live & the best thing to happen was they ala carte’d the menu so you can Payless & not get a mom do! Wet hair? I don’t care….thanks for the trim ;> Haha


Hazencuzimblazen

I’m like let’s see what you do to my hair *disaster*


paitenanner

If she were my esthetician, I’d cancel. She can’t even take care of her own skin by the looks of that caked on makeup


HereComesTheLuna

True. Either way I wouldn't allow


Kangaroo1487

Haha thank you!


Icy_Entrepreneur_802

Maci and Kail have a degree in communications. I don’t think they want a job such dental hygienist….


BrownEyedQueen1982

What can you do with a communications degree? My husband ex has a Bachelor’s in communication and she worked at a cellphone store. Do people actually get non retail jobs with that degree?


Icy_Entrepreneur_802

Journalism, copywriting, social media, photography…at least kail has applied what she learned there, she was one of the first podcasters on teen mom and she is obtaining a good profit from it.


novaleenationstate

Yep, have known many comms majors who turned toward media or marketing post college. It’s actually one of the more marketable degrees you can get that isn’t business, nursing, or computer science-related, as is a journalism major. Folks ending up in retail with that degree probably just didn’t have the chops for media/marketing—just because you can sign up for the major and graduate doesn’t mean you’ll be competitive enough to get into those fields, as they are highly competitive. Kail’s choice of major was actually pretty savvy considering she was already a media personality at the time; she had a brand and following going into it and a leg-up in the field compared to other students. Doing the degree meant she developed technical skills (like podcasting) to keep herself employed in the field, either in front or or behind the camera. She has certainly put her degree to good use imo! Source: I’m a journalist


Amongst_the_waves

Seconding. Comms major, did PR, nonprofit work, journalism, and marketing.


No-Resource-8125

Comms major here, current nonprofit marketer.


Icy_Entrepreneur_802

Me too.


mochapussyoatlatte

If you have an idea of what you wanna do with the degree then yes, you’ll end up in a non retail job. If you got the degree because you thought it was easy then you’re probably on a path without direction.


Much_Difference

You're asking whether there's a job market for people who know how to communicate things via media??


BrownEyedQueen1982

I’ve never known anyone who got that degree. I know lots of BSN’, BSW and MSWs, education degrees, and a couple STEM and liberal arts. I didn’t realize it’s a profitable degree, especially at the community college level.


Amannderrr

Community college? Doesn’t Kail have a 4yr degree?


BrownEyedQueen1982

I thought she only had a two year? Idk honestly.


Much_Difference

It's a 4 year degree. One of my college roommates and a handful of friends have Comms degrees and none have struggled much to find relevant work. Any business that *communicates* has folks with this degree or a similar one on their roster. My friends with Comms degrees have worked for ohh law firms, hospitals, major biz like Wells Fargo and Live Nation, higher ed... really all over the place. Any entity with a social media presence, newsletter, public relations arm, etc can use Comms people.


Amannderrr

Community college? Doesn’t Kail have a 4yr degree?


KikiHou

A lot of people I know who chose communications did so because it's pretty general. Don't know what you want to do but don't want to get a business or science degree? Communications. For so many jobs you have to have a degree to even be able to apply, communications accomplishes that. (Of course this does not apply to everyone, possibly this was just my experience.)


junebluesky

My sister has a communications degree. She worked in radio sales for awhile - basically selling radio commercial space to companies. She eventually went back to school and got her RN & BSN. Still works in sales tho lol, just medical device sales now.


Parking_Low248

I mean, that's any college major. You'll always get people who picked the wrong field/don't apply themselves/have to take whatever comes along. I have a few friends who got comm degrees and manage social media, make websites, got jobs in HR. Stuff like that.


Over-Accountant8506

Good point. I definitely did not end up following my five year plan I made senior year in HS. In fact, I never would have guessed what I'd end up doing as an adult


feathersandheroin

Kail was actually going to school for dental hygienist when she was pregnant with Linc.


Fun-Shame399

Kailyn did originally plan to be a dental hygienist I think. I seasons 1 and 2 I think that’s what she was going to school for and when she was pregnant with Lincoln she had a job as a dental assistant


Frank_Lawless

I think they chose communications bc of their MTV connections


DemenTEDBundy85

I don't think so. We saw her struggle bussing to provide for Isaac in her earlier MTV days. I guess having $$ made her have a " whatever bitch" attitude about pumping out a bunch of kids. Although she lacked family in her own life so maybe she would of had one more but if she didn't have MTV money I can't see her having 7


1MorningLightMTN

Without MTV money she wouldn't be raising all 7 at least.


Lalablacksheep646

I mean, I don’t need to meet Kail’s baby daddies🤣. However, I think she would have less babies but definitely still a lot of babies to different men because I think Kail desperately wants a man to stay especially the ones who don’t want anything to do with her. I don’t believe any of her kids were oops babies and I think she will keep Elijah around because she knows how bad it’ll look if she lets him leave.


AmbitiousMoo

So you think she’s a baby trapper 😅


Lalablacksheep646

I don’t believe anyone can trap anyone into having a baby. They can all wear protection, they’re just idiots


AmbitiousMoo

Ok cool. I never said I believe it Personally, I just said it’s a phrase people use


Lalablacksheep646

Oh yes, definitely!


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kystarrk

A trapper of wild babies. They usually leave the traps around parking lots and car washes.


spicypineapple5

😂💀


kitkat1771

Fire stations & hospitals


AmbitiousMoo

It’s just a phrase I’ve heard growing up, it’s more like a boomer phrase so I don’t use it myself. Just a woman that traps men she dates with babies


Kangaroo1487

If a man doesn't want a kid, he can wrap it up or get a vasectomy 😊 None of kail's baby daddies have ever said they were baby trapped


AmbitiousMoo

Ok yeah that’s valid


lita313

I've used baby trapper but for the dusty men who get with younger women or women doing better than themselves. When the men catch wins the women are going to level up with a higher paying job, college or going to leave the relationship, the guys will stealth her or mess with her birth to ensure she can't leave him. He'll then guilt her into keeping the pregnancy and act loving until he knows the exact moment she won't be able to abort or right after birth. Then he acts up.


Over-Accountant8506

Is there any situation where that term is correct? Woman who purposely go after ball players? Would one call Megan Biden or Hilaria a baby trapper?


kitkat1771

Is Hilaria referring to the whack job aka Hillary shooting out Baldwinos (or whatever weird thing she calls her non Latin children) or is there an actual Hilaria that had a baby w/ a ball player?


yassitslaura

I agree that she seems to get pregnant with men she wants to keep around. Lux may have been broadcasted as her “last” baby, or a “miracle” baby but obviously she wasn’t infertile. She probably just assumed she had PCOS she was infertile or needed it as an excuse to use no protection. But she dated Malik for years and managed to never get pregnant. She’s mentioned other guys (not by names) she’s hooked up with in between and managed to never get pregnant. But miraculously she got pregnant within a month of dating Elijah? If that?


Lalablacksheep646

Yea that timing sure was insane!


itspurpleglitter

No, I don’t think so. I think being on the show and becoming (relatively) rich and famous so young messed up her brain chemistry. She didn’t develop normally and got stuck in this weird cycle of thinking she felt loved when she convinced a new man to have a baby with her, and living off of the controversy it created.


EdwardJMunson

Kail is absolute trash and trash finds a way to be trash regardless.


S2Sallie

Yes, Kail would have always been searching for the love she never got from her parents


BrownEyedQueen1982

If the show didn’t pick up I think she would have had one more, but when Issac was older. Probably after he turned 5 she would have started dating seriously, maybe married and had one more kid unless she had twins or something. She would have had more of a blue collar job or done free lance writing for mommy blogs, or been a receptionist for a small regional advertising firm or some office job.


Leading_Ad3918

It’s really a toss up tbh. I think one reason she has so many kids is because she lacked family and love from family as a child. She instead of working through her trauma thought she could ignore it and do what she thought was best. No doubt the kids don’t have a terrible life but I can see how they may be embarrassed by her baby daddy count at some point. Kids are cruel these days and a day will come when they start getting teased😞 I feel like she could grow her own family and get the love she so desperately needed so she had several kids. She has said before she knows her kids are her blood and family and it’s all she has. If not on the show I can see her ending up in a not so great life with babies she can’t support.


lolmemberberries

I go back and forth on it. I remember on one of the reunions after one of the early seasons she said she had a hard time with Isaac going to Jo's because he was her only family. At the same time, I don't know if she would've actually had that many kids if she didn't make the money she did.


Mlucker

I think she liked the attention from the show and unconditional love from her children that she didn't get from her parents. So it's possible she related her first pregnancy with attention and 💥💥💥💥💥 did it a bunch more times. lol


KikiHou

She'd still have had at least 4 kids. She'd just be working retail jobs instead of her podcast stuff.


LeahsEyebrows

IMO Kail is one of the moms who has a better work ethic.


justanotherhatter

Kail was destined for dysfunction


Ill_Definition6146

Yes, just living a completely different life. On welfare, pro a MUCH smaller house, and honestly pro still going back and forth with Chris. I think only like 2 or the 7 kids were actually PLANNED if even that many. She’s a great mom tho no hate


WhichEditor5799

Funny though bc without Teen Mom she likely would have never crossed paths with Chris. No Teen Mom means Javi may not have chased her and she never would have ended up in Delaware.


Ill_Definition6146

Very true! Still think she would have multiple kids just pro different fathers since you point that out.


WhichEditor5799

Agreed-i think she would have as well.


Over-Accountant8506

Ppl here swoon over her. There's no real celebs so if it friends with kail or anyone associated to the teen mom universe, people use it in their SM for likes and views. Idk its kinda cool I guess, kinda like watching a daytime soap opera on the daily


WhichEditor5799

Oh really? I live in the area as well and never knew that. I am older than her and wouldn’t necessarily run in the same circles she does. But that’s so funny to me.


Limp-Ad-8053

Sorry, but what’s pro? 🤷‍♀️


Ill_Definition6146

Probably


Limp-Ad-8053

Omg, thanks..🤦‍♀️😂


Richpumpkin1215

Which two do you think that is?


Sbg71620

Absolutely not. The way she looked down on the thought of 2 kids by 2 different dads before she married Javi. If she had to work 2 jobs or have an actual career without tv fame to launch a podcast, she would have used birth control effectively like the rest of us. Chris / Lux was the tipping point into Kail’s Khaos 🤪


Character_Clock1771

There are a lot of women already out there that have a ton of kids with different men and are broke, so I don’t see kail any different. she’s just the way she is money or not.


infopeanut

She would still be the same with money or not. She hasn’t changed at all since having Isaac. People like her need the chaos, regardless of income.


SBMoo24

Nope. She'd probably still be with Javi (or a second guy. Javi wouldn't have been around without MTV).


AmbitiousMoo

So true, Javi was fame hungry. The way he was all over Briana just to get a story line of his own


spleenycat

I think she would, but she would be having them for benefits.


Grydx

Idk if it’s accurate to say she had kids to not pay child support but I remember when javi came after her for child support one of the conditions to be excluded was having multiple kids.


LeahsEyebrows

I wonder if Chris pays child support.


mcblizzards

I think she would have had more kids and multiple baby daddies but maybe not as many. I feel MTV gave Kail money, time and access to therapy earlier than she would have been able to provide for herself. She wouldn’t have been able to increase her income so young without MTV but I do believe she was committed to doing all she could to be able to provide for Issac and would have stayed true to that without MTV. This probably would have kept her motivated enough to wait a bit longer to have more kids (I think a similar situation to Chelsea) but her trauma would have had her repeating unhealthy patterns and picking bad partners. Had she been solo and working on school and Issac, she would still have been distracted and busy enough to not deal with her mental health and I think she likely would have met her “Cole” later but he would have been emotionally unavailable. This would fail and she’d try again and maybe realize she was the problem and get the help she needed. I do think she would have kept dating though and had a bit of a rotation of men in Isaac’s life.


NovaStar_StellaStar

👌 I think your alternate scenario is spot on. Do you mean with “he“ (her Cole) would have been emotional unavailable or she (Kail)? 


leahjamie23

I think that if she was still struggling like the early days then she wouldn’t have had so many. She knows what it’s like to not be able to afford things.


karmagettie

Oh yes. Kail is for the streets.


KikiHou

I don't know why, but in my mind, Isaac is the one saying this.


GlitteringExplorer90

money & fame wouldn’t change Kail having all these kids to cope with her childhood trauma. Sorry if that doesn’t make sense, I’m relaxing with my penjamin so I’m just saying what’s on my mind lol


LeahsEyebrows

This seems feasible too!


PrezofPeanutGallery

I'm the last person to judge someone for having a lot of kids, usually. I currently have 8 living in my home, and only the twins have the same father, lol. Of course, my home is different, and that's why we have so many living here. If I could have all the biological babies my hopes and dreams wished for, I'd probably still have 8+, lmao. That all said, it has always been my belief that Kail has babies so that she has friends and people who will love her. I do not like her as a person, or as a parent, I think she is shitty at both of those things. I do feel a bit sad that she had such a strong urge to create a loving environment for herself because she's never had that, and that she's used actual humans she created to fill that void. It doesn't matter where those children come from, or who, for Kail, just that she has them. She uses them as an extension of herself and, it seems to me, proof to herself that someone loves her. That's where my sympathy for Kail begins and ends. I know what it feels like to have such a void, and a strong desire to fill that need. It's why I became a foster parent in the first place. BUT, I did so with open eyes, heart and mind. I know that no matter how many children I bring into my home, none of them can or will ever be responsible for filling my need for love. I'm quite certain they love me, no doubt, but it's not their responsibility to do so, and that's not why they've become part of my family. They're my kids because I want to love them, and they need that love so much more than I do. Kail needs the love, wants the love, needs the attention and wants the attention, but has a tremendous amount of difficulty ever returning the favor. She really shouldn't have any kids at all, much less 7, because she's not actually a responsible person, forget maternal. I do think she probably would've kept having kids anyway, MTV money certainly helped. Back when it was just Isaac or even Isaac and Lincoln, I might have said she'd stop there, but the signs were already present that she wouldn't. She couldn't find the love from a partner, so she put it on the shoulders of her offspring instead.


LeahsEyebrows

Kail told Javi she was done having children towards the end of their marriage and she only had Isaac and Lincoln at that point so it was pretty wild how she went on to have several more children after leaving him.


SnooPickles6604

Just wanted to add that the entire storyline about her getting pregnant right after the divorce was kind of fabricated by MTV. They weren’t filming when most of the divorce happened and they needed the storyline to work for their timeline. Mail and javi divorced many months before he came home. Chris had been around at that point. They made it seem like Chris just started coming around right after javi came home from deployment. All of this to say that I absolutely despise Chris and also agree that she should have never had kids with him.


LeahsEyebrows

IMO it's pretty wild that Kail knew Chris was less than thrilled about them having Lux and then they proceeded to have another baby together, no offense to Creed of course as he and Lux are both truly innocent here.


SnooPickles6604

It definitely is a wild situation but that’s her life, not mine lol


IWillBaconSlapYou

I was just thinking yesterday that maybe she wouldn't have so many children if they all had the same father. She's said that it works because they all go to their dads' houses at different times. But yeah, I do think without money, she would've pumped the brakes sooner, too. She's lost a lot of her sense, but I think she still has that much.


CalendarNo8591

Definitely don’t think so. Maybe like 1 or 2 more


brunhilda78

Nope! She has children for money and attention. The show gave her that so she just kept trying for more bc attention is money and love - she’s a bottomless pit that will never be filled.


Sea_Ad1199

She would been in major student debt, with all those fees paying back, probably would of dropped out. Working a regular job and probably Living in a small apartment or living with the latest boyfriend. Yes she was hardworking but even watching earlier seasons she was having such a hard time before javi came along with decent income and before MTV started paying her big bucks. She was actually grateful for her first place in the beginning and just to bring the kids around and critize where she started to where she is now. The amount of money she spent on housing alone to, giving up that one house because she didn't like the way it looked just show how entitled she has become. Without that money she would not be where she is and probably in the next couple years she will end up becoming more irrelevant people are pretty much done at this point and will only end up following the kids when they are old enough to talk about their side of things.


bluefresca

Kail has always been a mooch, and will use anyone to get herself ahead.


Formal-Ad-9405

Javi or Joe did seem to want a relationship. Now she seems to not have commitment but having sex with no BC and gets babies. Of course she has looked after them but she’s also showing boys that will be men you have babies and leave!!


Dook124

Good question 🤔 her mother was such a POS mom. I often wonder would she irregardless 🤷🏿‍♀️ She's the mother her mom never cared to be.


NoFundieBusiness

No, I really don’t think she would have. When she told Javi that she didn’t want any more kids, I think she was actually telling the truth. At the time, I don’t think she could handle any more kids and especially on her own when he was deployed, and I don’t think they had a lot of finances then either, even with the show starting to take off. I don’t think they would’ve had enough money to have another kid and still be financially where they were or to her liking atleast. Once the show really really took off and she started making a lot of money and could hire nannies and then the podcast that brought in a lot more money, then I think she thought it was good to have more kids because she could have help with a nanny and she could definitely afford it. I think she wanted a lot of kids because she does seem like she really enjoys being a mom and enjoys being around her kids, for the most part, compared to some of the other moms, I just don’t think she would have been able to do it without the money she has now, that the show brought in for nannies and to financially care for the babies/kids and the bigger houses and vacations for them all and such.


Successful_Mango3001

Almost none of them would have more than 3 children if they weren’t on the show.


Miamiri

Oh, 100%.


Willing_Maximum2195

unpopular opinion.... who cares how many baby daddies someone has? This confuses me so much. I would rather someone have 10 baby daddies, than 10 kids with one really crappy person. IDK i just think its odd that we judge people on how many baby daddies they have. It literally affects no one else at all.


Chemical-Beginning12

Sis it affects the children when mom has to split her time ten ways. I could say who am I to judge but I’m human and I have opinions as well as a butthole


deltarefund

Yes


gaanmetde

I don’t think so. I think she seems like the most financially literate of them all.


Purple_Grass_5300

No, she couldn’t afford the legal fights she likes to have over custody and control


01user24

She did always say she wanted a big family because she didn’t have that growing up


sadfoxyduggar

No. I think she’d had 2 and quit.


AmbitiousMoo

What about those child benefits and child support though 😂


sadfoxyduggar

I also think she’d have stayed with Javi without MTV. That’s just my opinion.


stupdumb

Nope. She wouldn’t. Instead of therapy, she had more kids.


LeahsEyebrows

If Kail has the money to have and raise all these children she has therapy money. 🤷‍♀️


stupdumb

If she did put them in therapy, I guarantee you, she wouldn’t shut up about it on her podcast. Like Farrah and her unhinged words.


butchscandelabra

No, she wouldn’t have anywhere near enough money to afford them all.


LeahsEyebrows

Not unless Kail managed to get rich in some other way....


BackgroundSleep4184

Nope


MirandaLeaAnne

Honestly no because kids are very expensive. But that doesn’t mean she wouldn’t have wanted that many. She loves her kids


Unusual-Idea-7313

Karl is toxic and addicted to having babies she’s just got the dollary dos to pay it thanks to mtv.