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Teen Mom's Kailyn Lowry Shares How She Came Up With the Names For Her Twins
Kailyn Lowry is probably, maybe, decidedly done having kids.
Though the 32-year-old had her tubes tied aft welcoming 11-month-old twins Verse and Valley—her sixth and seventh kids—she inactive harbors immoderate conflicted feelings erstwhile it comes to expanding her household with fiancé Elijah Scott.
“One time I'm like, ‘Okay, I'm decidedly done.’ Yesterday, 1 of my girlfriends and I were laughing astatine wrestling, talking about, we're decidedly done,” she exclusively shared with E! News. “But if you asked maine 2 days ago, Elijah and I mightiness person been readying to bash IVF oregon something, I don't know.”
The Teen Mom 2 alum called the determination connected whether oregon not to invited much kids into the premix “bittersweet.”
“You deliberation you're done, and past you [have] these past squishy moments,” she nostalgically admitted. “I retrieve going done the twins’ three-month clothing, and I'm like, ‘This is the past clip I'm ever going to bash this. Like, are we definite we're done?’”
The New York Times bestselling writer and podcast host’s main absorption is having capable idiosyncratic clip with each of her kids. In summation to the twins, she’s besides invited son Rio successful November 2022 with Elijah, and is ma to sons Isaac Rivera, 14, with ex Jo Rivera, Lincoln Marshall Marroquin, 10, with ex-husband Javi Marroquin, Lux Lowry, 7, and Creed Lopez, 4, with ex Chris Lopez.
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“I deliberation I bash a truly bully occupation with that now,” the host of the Baby Mamas No Drama (with Vee Rivera), Coffee Convos (with Lindsie Chrisley) and Barely Famous podcasts noted, “but if I added more, I conscionable don't cognize that I would beryllium capable to springiness everybody idiosyncratic time.”
However, the erstwhile world star, who launched her KILLR Podcast Network successful 2021, is grateful to person the assistance of her fiancé.
“I don't cognize however Elijah, conscionable like, seamlessly folded into this chaos,” she said. “And helium handles it truthful well. But we're besides polar opposites. So erstwhile I'm having frantic moments, he's precise cool, calm and collected. And truthful I deliberation it's a truly bully equilibrium there. And my kids perfectly emotion him. So that besides is simply a huge, huge, immense help.”
As for whether the moving ma would see returning to the world TV space, she has near the doorway unfastened to caller opportunities.
“I whitethorn oregon whitethorn not person had a gathering past week with a network,” Kailyn shared. “So, it's decidedly a possibility. I deliberation it would conscionable person to beryllium the close fit.”
For much from Kailyn's beauteous family, work on.
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Isaac
Kailyn Lowry was conscionable 17 erstwhile she and precocious schoolhouse fellow Jo Rivera welcomed their eldest son, Isaac Elliot Rivera, connected Jan. 18, 2010.
And though they divided a twelvemonth later, the exes person settled into a comfy co-parenting arrangement, Kailyn adjacent hosting her Baby Mamas No Drama podcast with Jo's woman Vee Rivera. "We’ve travel a agelong mode since we were 18," Kailyn wrote connected X aft attending Jo and Vee's 2018 wedding. "I couldn’t inquire for a amended stepmom for isaac."
As for her oldest son, "We person virtually grown up together, but successful immoderate ways he’s adjacent much grown than I am," she wrote successful an Instagram tribute connected his 13th birthday. Describing the devoted Olivia Rodrigo fan, instrumentalist and hoops subordinate arsenic "thoughtful, brilliant, comic and astatine times a smartass," the Delaware State grad praised his caring heart.
"I deliberation what truly inspires maine astir him is the mode helium challenges societal norms," she wrote. "Because helium is funny and open-minded, helium tin signifier his ain thoughts and opinions. Isaac besides accepts radical for who they are and ne'er however they’re 'supposed' to be. More radical should beryllium similar him."
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Lincoln
Lincoln Marshall Marroquin joined the squad connected Nov. 16, 2013, astir a twelvemonth aft the then-star of Teen Mom 2 wed his begetter Javi Marroquin.
"Very overmuch into sports," arsenic Kailyn described the tween successful a 2022 occurrence of her Barely Famous podcast, helium spends a important information of his clip bouncing betwixt hoops and shot games. He adjacent had an NBA-themed bash for his 10th birthday, with a motion to his favourite player, Allen Iverson.
No surprise, then, that helium provided an assistance erstwhile it came clip to think up a sanction for his youngest brother. "Verse came from Iverson, which is the sanction that Lincoln recommended," Kailyn revealed successful a February 2024 TikTok. "Obviously, it would beryllium connected his database due to the fact that he's a immense hoops fan."
And an all-star sibling. "To cognize Lincoln is to emotion him," she wrote successful a 2022 birthday tribute. "Dedicated, smart, handsome and the champion member retired there."
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Lux
Football, wrestling, Rubik's Cubes and Michael Jackson—these are a fewer of Lux Russell Lowry's favorite things.
Kailyn's archetypal kid with ex-boyfriend Chris Lopez, Lux was calved connected Aug. 5, 2017. Though she and Chris would proceed their on-and-off romance for respective years, "Right now, we don't pass astatine all," she revealed to E! News successful 2020. "I'm hoping that it volition get amended with clip but I don't person a large vision. I don't person thing antagonistic to say. I anticipation for our kids that everything works itself retired successful immoderate absorption that whitethorn be."
And whichever mode Lux heads, he's getting determination fast. "Lux came into this satellite astatine lightning velocity & has kept america connected our toes each azygous time since," Kailyn wrote portion celebrating his sixth day with a WWE-themed bash. "I emotion this small leo babe truthful much!"
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Creed
Ahead of Creed Romello Lowry-Lopez's July 30, 2020 arrival, Kailyn admitted to wrestling with a immense decision. "I hid the gestation for truthful agelong conscionable due to the fact that I didn't cognize what I was going to do—if I was going to support the babe oregon not," she explained to E! News soon aft his birth. "That was truly dense for maine and I really, truly was struggling during that time."
Though her narration with Creed's dada Chris was notably rocky, 1 glimpse astatine his ultrasound sealed her decision. Much similar his older siblings—"All 3 of them person asked to clasp the babe and they're ace loving connected him," Kailyn told E!—the podcaster was smitten from time one.
"CREED. Romello. Mello. Romey. Rome. Biggie. Bigs," she wrote connected his 3rd birthday, a associated WWE fete with Lux. "No words could accurately picture my emotion for this small firecracker truthful I’ll prevention the sap for existent life!"
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Rio
"I wanted to beryllium capable to archer my ain communicative connected my ain terms," Kailyn explained to People of keeping quality of her 5th lad Rio backstage until good aft his November 2022 birth.
Though she acknowledged helium "had a small spot of a traumatic entranceway into this satellite wherever helium went to the NICU," due to breathing issues and fluid successful his lungs, he's been "the champion babe ever."
First-time dada Elijah Scott deserves immoderate props arsenic well. "It's been precise antithetic from my different partners and my kids' different dads," she said of her boyfriend. "He pours concrete, helium gets down and soiled astatine work. But he's besides conscionable a existent household man. He's very, precise overmuch connected with his ain family, with our family, and truthful he's been a truly bully spouse to me, and I consciousness similar it's a truly bully match."
Which is possibly wherefore her archetypal fewer months with Rio inspired her to support the enactment going. "Honestly, being a ma to 4 was harder than five, but I deliberation that was due to the fact that my fig 4 is truthful spicy,” Kaily revealed. “Number 5 is fantastic. He's the world's top babe like, if each my babies were similar this, I'd person 10 more.”
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Verse and Valley
Kailyn yet entered her miss ma epoch successful precocious October 2023 with the accomplishment of Verse and Valley, her 2nd and 3rd children with fellow Elijah.
Valley (named for Kailyn's puerility increasing up successful Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley), endured a longer NICU enactment than her member arsenic she worked done immoderate feeding issues.
"I had ne'er seen a babe successful my beingness not aftermath up to devour oregon amusement signs of hunger," Kailyn explained connected a January 2024 episode of Barely Famous. "She would conscionable slumber done feedings. She ne'er had immoderate feeding cues and erstwhile I tried to provender her, she wouldn't instrumentality a bottle."
And though Kailyn continues to interest astir the twins' enslaved aft their extended separation ("I'm trying to re-magnetize them to get them backmost to wherever they were") she's thrilled that her household is yet whole.
"I consciousness grateful, thankful, fulfilled, happy, complete," she noted. "We're putting an summation connected our location due to the fact that of this. I consciousness truthful blessed. They are bully babies."
