Teen Mom stars Tyler Baltierra and Catelynn Lowell have hit back at critics who claimed they’re “bashing” daughter Carly’s adoptive parents.
Lowell, 32, shared an Instagram Story on Tuesday, February 4, originally posted by Baltierra, 33, that defended the pair’s decision to speak openly about the child’s adoptive parents, Brandon and Teresa Davis, in recent months. (Baltierra and Lowell placed Carly, now 17, up for adoption as a newborn in 2009, as documented in MTV’s 16 and Pregnant.)
“Dear everyone who equates us sharing our adoption story as “bashing” Carly’s parents,” Baltierra and Lowell’s post began. “If a person expresses factual truth & that truth is perceived as “bashing, cruel, slander, negative, etc.” then is the person who delivers that truth wrong/cruel? Or are the facts of that truth wrong/cruel?”
The Teen Mom couple noted that, “If people are so uncomfortable with the facts regarding that truth, then they should re-evaluate the morality of that truth, instead of condemning & pointing fingers at the ones who just so happen to be delivering that truth. If you possess critical thinking skills, this should make sense to you.”
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Baltierra and Lowell’s clap-back arrived on the back of Lowell exclusively telling Us Weekly that she has no current communication with Carly. “The last time I saw Carly was, like, two years ago,” Lowell shared just prior to the season 2B premiere of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter on January 30. “It’s very hard. At the end of the day, I really just want whatever she wants and whatever that looks like for Carly, that’s all that I want.”
The pair’s decision to place Carly up for adoption in July 2009 was made on the grounds that the arrangement would be “open,” meaning that the Davis’ could send photos and allow Baltierra and Lowell to see Carly in person once a year.
Lowell, who also shares Nova, 10, Vaeda, 5, and Rya, 3, with her now-husband, Baltierra, took to Instagram in September 2024 to share screenshots of a series of texts sent to the Davis’ that failed to garner replies.
Of late, Lowell has limited the comments section of several Instagram posts.
According to Lowell, Carly’s adoption arrangement began to change as the teenager got older. “They basically have closed the adoption on us,” Lowell claimed while speaking to Us. “That’s hard. I’ve kind of just jumped into this new place with my adoption to where now I’m speaking to lots of adoptees and I am learning what would’ve helped them, what would’ve benefited them. Now I’m doing a lot of education about that and teaching other people about the statistics of adoptees and if you’re going to make this decision ever in your life, be knowledgeable about what you’re making.”
Lowell added that she wants Carly to know she is loved by her birth mother. “I want Carly to know that if she’s the one that still wants contact and it’s not happening, I will fight for that til the day I die or until she tells me it’s too hard for me to have contact,” Lowell shared with Us. “But until that day, I want her to know that I am always here and always willing to do whatever I can.”
