Amber Portwood Shares Her Relationship With Ex Gary Shirley

Amber Portwood is savoring a precise peculiar gift.

During the Sept. 6 play premiere of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, viewers watched the MTV world prima people girl Leah's 13th day by attending her celebratory dinner. 

In the drama-free event, Amber delivered a contiguous to her estranged girl earlier receiving a hug astatine the extremity of the night.

"We're moving connected our narration and I'm being patient," Amber told MTV cameras. "Last year, my girl asked for abstraction and I'm doing my champion to beryllium contiguous for her portion respecting her boundaries."

Later connected successful the show, Leah spoke to her dada Gary Shirley and said she enjoyed having her ma successful attendance. "I privation america to beryllium affable unneurotic and not person immoderate issues oregon anything," she said. "I don't privation to person immoderate hostility oregon for it to beryllium awkward with her."

"I consciousness similar we're taking a large step," Leah added. "It is inactive awkward due to the fact that I don't cognize what to accidental astir of the time, but we're taking a large measurement into having something."

"It seems similar we're moving beauteous adjacent to wherever we request to get too," said Amber, who is besides ma to James, 4, with ex Andrew Glennon. "We're moving astatine least. We are conscionable trying still. We're trying to truly find wherever we're astatine and wherever we privation to beryllium at."

Fans archetypal met Amber backmost successful 2009 erstwhile she welcomed her girl connected 16 and Pregnant. While past legal struggles person constricted Amber's relationships with her 2 kids, she has continued to explicit her emotion for them. 

"I truly person large kids and I'm blessed due to the fact that my kids are f--king amazing," she said connected Teen Mom. "I'm going to support warring for them."