Though each cast member - Kailyn Lowry, Chelsea Houska, Leah Messer and Jenelle Evans - all lived in separate areas of the country and had different experiences with their children’s fathers, the foursome’s struggle was the same when it came to the difficulties of being a parent at such a young age.

The original iteration of the show took MTV viewers behind the scenes of becoming a teenage parent. When the show premiered in 2011 - following the lives of four girls from 16 and Pregnant season 2 - no one, least of all the cast, could predict that their children would be growing up on television for more than a decade.
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The franchise may be called Teen Mom - but nearly all of the original Teen Mom 2 cast members are now parents of teenagers themselves.