Maci Bookout connected Returning to Teen Mom: Family Reunion
Maci Bookout McKinney is putting her past drama with Ryan Edwards speech for the involvement of their son.
The Teen Mom star is moving connected co-parenting Bentley, 14, with her ex pursuing years of conflict. And her travel is documented connected the upcoming 2nd play of Teen Mom Family Reunion.
Maci present hopes to "play a amended role, a much affirmative role, a much supportive relation successful the narration that Ryan and Bentley privation to have, moving forward," she told E! News exclusively, adding, "For a agelong time, I didn't truly recognize however I played a portion successful it."
She continued, "It's like, Bentley has a phone. If he's not calling oregon texting Bentley, what does that person to bash with me? But connected a overmuch bigger scale, I bash play a ample relation successful it."
E! News has reached retired to Ryan for remark and has not heard back.
In a uncommon quality on the Dec. 20 reunion episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, Bentley shared that helium does not spot his father precise much. And erstwhile asked if Ryan was successful his son's life, Maci's husband Taylor McKinney noted that the teen's dada "comes implicit sometimes to Jen and Larry's," referring to his parents.
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Maci, who besides shares girl Jayde, 7, and lad Maverick, 6, with Taylor, enlisted the help of life manager Dr. Cheyenne Bryant to amended her narration with Ryan, with whom she divided successful 2010.
"I conscionable wanted to enactment connected myself and I yet got to a spot wherever I felt assured and comfy successful moving guardant successful the effort to effort to amended co-parent oregon beryllium much supportive of their relationship," the world star said. "Me and Coach B, we conscionable went to enactment connected that."
Maci continued, "I'm truly arrogant of myself due to the fact that it was not easy. We're inactive taking steps successful the close direction, but I deliberation conscionable maintaining the earthy progression and not forcing things is the mode to go, and that's what we're doing close now."
The TV personality added she spent overmuch clip and enactment connected "figuring retired what needs to beryllium worked done and what's not worthy spending clip and vigor on."
"Also, conscionable figuring out, however tin I support my boundaries, enactment Bentley's boundaries," she continued, "while not conscionable shutting down completely, emotionally?"
Teen Mom Family Reunion play two premieres Jan. 3. connected MTV.
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