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Pregnant in 2008.
    Unfortunately, Ryan, wasn't exactly ready to settle down so quickly. “Back then, I felt like it was just another relationship, nothing really serious,” Ryan revealed during the 2012 Farewell Special.
    Two months had already passed by the time Maci discovered she was pregnant. She had taken a test after throwing up while taking a shower one morning, and it had come back positive. After telling her brother, Matt, Maci then had to decide how to break the news to her mother. She finally decided to tell her in a text message. “I stared at that text message for about 15 minutes before finally hitting send!” she revealed during a 2011 speaking engagement. Sharon and Gene were devastated. “That was the first time I had ever seen my dad cry,” Maci said during the Teen Mom Farewell Special. “The day I told him I was pregnant.”
    Despite apparent strains in their relationship early on, Maci became engaged to Ryan on her 17th birthday. They often talked on camera about tying the knot, although both later revealed that they never believed the wedding would actually take place.

    CATELYNN CARED FOR HER ALCOHOLIC MOTHER

    “Catelynn had a tough childhood, but we did the best we could,” her grandmother, Judith Mitti told Star magazine in 2010. “There was some disfunctionality. I'm not gonna say that there wasn't. But [her mother] had a rough way to go.” Growing up in Marine City, Michigan - 63 miles from Detroit - Catelynn would often assume the role of parent, nursing her booze-loving mom after long nights at the bar. “I would put pillows underneath her head while she was passed out on the table,” the wise-beyond-her-years teen told RadarOnline in 2012. “I pretty much saw my mom drunk almost every day. I had to grow up really fast.”
    The oldest of three children, Catelynn was born to 19-year-old April Lee Stotts and 22-year-old David Lowell on March 12, 1992. David, an auto plant factory worker, began pursuing April when she was just 17 and still in high school. She soon dropped out and the couple moved in together. Within a year, April had followed in Judith's footsteps and become a mom at age 19. As the young couple struggled to make ends meet, April's battle with the bottle began to tear them apart. According to her current husband, Darl “Butch” Baltierra, April started drinking regularly at age 14.
    “Catelynn had a good life when she was a little girl and April and I were still together,” David insisted in an October 2010 interview with Star magazine. “But there was a lot of partying going on back then, and when I reached a point where I'd had enough, April wasn't ready to stop.”
    David said he'd had enough by 1994, and packed his bags when Catelynn was just two years old. “There'd be drunks all over our house, and I was afraid for our daughter,” he said. “I tried to get custody of her but it's near impossible for a father to get custody in Michigan.” So he moved to Florida, remarried and had more children, while April continued to struggle with her addiction. April and Catelynn moved frequently, and during her early years, Catelynn lived in several different states, including Ohio and Texas.
    As Catelynn began grade school, April became pregnant again with her second daughter, Sarah. (She later had a son, Nicholas, with a third man.) Despite their distance, David says he never forgot about his little girl. In 2001, he took April to court, claiming that she was neglecting their daughter, but the court dismissed his claim. Six years later, he arranged for Catelynn to move in with his parents. Her grandmother, Deborah, assumed the role of legal guardian.
    Catelynn thrived in Florida but she eventually moved back to Michigan to be with her mother and attend middle school. Enter Tyler Baltierra: another troubled teen from a broken home, whom she first met in seventh grade music class. Almost instantly, the pair became inseparable. “I have loved her since the moment I saw