Maci Bookout Says Old Teen Mom Episodes Serve As GREAT Sex Ed For Her Teenage Son! HA!
29.09.2022 - 03:15
/ perezhilton.com
Maci Bookout is looking back at her long career on reality TV — and admiring it for what it may teach her children now.
The Teen Mom veteran spoke to the media this week about what it was like filming the earliest episodes of what would become the hit MTV show. Plus, with 13-year-old son Bentley at home, she is thinking about what his teenage years will be like, and explaining how the show has given him some perspective about life.
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On Tuesday afternoon, the 31-year-old spoke to Page Six about her experience with the reality venture. Being candid about just how raw and real it was filming those early-seasons scenes about her surprise pregnancy, the Chattanooga native explained:
It makes sense! After all, the Tennessee beauty was one of six girls who starred in that inaugural season of 16 and Pregnant way back in 2009 before anyone knew what that should would become. Not long after, Maci, Farrah Abraham, Amber Portwood, and Catelynn Lowell came together for what would transition into Teen Mom — and it’s all history from there!
The issue of teen pregnancy proved to be at the forefront of the show’s effect on American culture. Five years after it debuted, the National Bureau of Economic Research published a study crediting Teen Mom in part for the decline in teen pregnancies and underage conceptions across America.
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The issue hit close to home for Maci, too. She explained to the news outlet this week about how she believes watching back early episodes of her story may impact Bentley as he grows into his teenage years:
Amen!
And even though Maci — who also shares