'Teen Mom' Stars Slam Body-Shaming: See Their Best Comebacks

When it comes to handling hate, the Teen Mom stars are pretty much professionals, especially when it comes to body-shaming. Teen Mom OG star Mackenzie Edwards and Teen Mom 2’s Kailyn Lowry regularly respond to Instagram trolls with both snark and sincerity, and they’re not alone.

Over the years, plenty of the MTV mamas have dealt with uninvited and unwelcome feedback about their bodies. Former Teen Mom star Jenelle Evans previously became a target after debuting her new, curvy figure on social media. After joining TikTok in January, she started sharing videos of herself dancing in bikinis and sports bras. While she was clearly having a blast, some of her followers only focused on her weight.

No matter how confident you are, it’s not easy to be inundated with those kinds of comments. In a March interview on the “Dumb Blonde” podcast, she opened up about just how much the criticism can hurt. “Sometimes it gets to you really bad,” Jenelle admitted. “You have to ignore all of it. You literally have to put down your phone and focus on something else.”

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Despite that, she’s working on not letting anyone’s opinions get to her. While chatting with In Touch in April, she revealed, “The haters’ opinions do not matter to me. … People can be so mean sometimes, but I really have no one to please but [husband David Eason].” She gushed that her man accepts her “no matter what her weight is.”

That said, it does help when she gets positive comments about how she’s inspired fans to embrace their own curves and love their bodies. “I don’t try to read any comments after I make a post, but if I do look at the replies, [I find] I have a lot of supporters that stick up for me,” she said. “It makes me feel better. … I have two fans that reached out to me asking how to gain weight because they’ve been trying to [for] their entire [lives]!”

She does have one message for her haters, though: “You can’t stop me!” Check out the gallery below to see all the times the Teen Mom stars stood up for themselves.

Filler Feud

When a troll told Farrah Abraham to “lay off the lip fillers.” The starlet responded, “Wow, the woman haters are on fleek today! Look, it’s a filter! Which are everywhere!” she wrote in the comments on Instagram, before adding this mic drop-worthy concluder: “Lay off the ignorant comments.”

Bikini Babe

Though the hate kept her from sharing any pregnancy pictures while she was expecting daughter Stella Rhea, the mom proudly posted photos of her post-baby body in June. When a fan accused her of doing drugs in order to get her “flat tummy,” Mackenzie shot back, “I’m not ‘on’ anything. I eat right and work out. It’s not rocket science, and there’s no quick fix. I take supplements to SUPPLEMENT my diet, but nothing is a miracle fix.”

Setting an Example

Teen Mom 2’s Leah Messer wasn’t about to put up with it when fans trolled her bikini body, telling her she needs “some meat on her bones” in July 2016. In a statement shared with Refinery29, she said, “First and foremost, there is much more to women than our bodies. … Yet many women seem to continually judge others, not by their character, but by their bodies. There are many more important issues going on in the world today than whether or not I had enough to eat for breakfast. (Side note: I had plenty.) … We should be focused on spreading love and kindness instead of mean-spirited bullying. Thankfully, I am in a beautiful place in my life raising three wonderful, kind, loving and confident little girls. The last thing I would want for them is to feel that they, too, could be ridiculed for their bodies. So let’s stop with the shaming, start supporting one another and focus on what really matters.”

Petty Betty

Young and Pregnant star Ashley Jones came under fire in March when one fan decided to let her know that a photo she shared on Instagram was “not a good pic.” The quick-witted star started to respond, “But your profile pi …” before cutting herself off. Deciding to rise above the hate, she finished, “Nevermind.”

Feeling Herself

“This is not a flattering picture of yourself, let’s just be honest,” another commenter wrote on the same photo. “You will not think that [because] you are all caught up in yourself,” they continued. “You are not all you think you are, [just saying].”

But Ashley remained unbothered. She insisted she “sure did” think it was flattering, and she wasn’t about to let anyone change her mind.

It’s All Love

The moms aren’t the only ones dealing with body-shaming. Young and Pregnant star Lexi Tatman stood up for boyfriend Kyler Lopez when fans wouldn’t stop mentioning his weight.

“Seriously guys. Kyler’s body shouldn’t matter to anyone but him. I didn’t realize his body was such a [sic] ‘issue.’ Come on. He’s perfect in every sort of way to ME,” she wrote in October 2018. “I’ve made multiple posts about this because it’s reoccurring. Bodies aren’t always something we can control. Making fun, pointing out, or telling someone to diet, exercise, eat more or anything like that is seriously rude. We should all feel good in our own bodies and if we feel good being larger, skinnier, with plastic surgery, anything at all, whatever makes you feel good about YOUR body, is what matters.”