Highs and lows. Amber Portwood’s fraught relationship with daughter Leah has been documented on Teen Mother OG over time.
The Indiana native gave start to her child lady in 2008 with then-boyfriend Gary Shirley. The previous couple cut up three years later, and the police officer went on to wed Kristina Anderson in 2015 in Michigan. They share daughter Emilee.
As for Portwood, the By no means Too Late creator can also be the mom of son James with Andrew Glennon. The exes have been coparenting their child boy since her July 2019 home battery arrest and their subsequent breakup. The California native has major bodily custody, sharing joint authorized custody with Portwood.
The 16 and Pregnant alum completely advised Us Weekly in March 2020 that she noticed James “pretty rather a lot,” saying, “I’m making an attempt to coparent one of the best ways that I can. I get lots of people inform[ing] me after my days with him: ‘I can inform that you simply noticed James at present since you simply have that smile in your face.’ After I hear that, I’m like, ‘Yeah. It’s simply the reality.’ Simply one thing in my coronary heart advised me, ‘Amber, you’re going to be again along with your son someday. And it doesn’t matter if it’s someday per week, two days per week, three days per week, 4 days per week. It was onerous work to start with … I simply stored making an attempt to deal with myself and my son and my household and I bought him again as a lot as I can proper now.”
Whereas Portwood felt “nice” about her relationship along with her youngest youngster on the time, she and Leah struggled extra.
“I really feel like I’m by no means going to win,” the Ceaselessly Haute creator mentioned throughout a September 2021 episode of the MTV present, explaining that the preteen was “performing bizarre” and had “turned” on her. “I wished us to have an ideal coparenting household that I assumed we had till it turned bizarre.”
Portwood added on the time: “This isn’t [Leah]. She doesn’t ignore me like this. Even when I take accountability for each single wrongdoing I’ve ever executed, it simply feels prefer it’s by no means sufficient.”
Maintain scrolling to see the MTV persona’s evolving relationship with Leah over time, from a birthday celebration in November 2019 to an “awkward” go to in October 2021.
