Maci Bookout: I THINK Bentley Likes Being on TV, However He Would possibly Hate It!

At this level, the OG stars of the Teen Mother franchise have been actuality stars for therefore lengthy that they most likely can’t keep in mind every other lifestyle.

Most are of their thirties now, and MTV got here calling after they have been nonetheless in highschool, which means they’ve by no means actually supported themselves with any sort of work.

However for as a lot because the lifetime of semi-stardom has been normalized for the mothers, it’s much more mundane for his or her youngsters, a number of of whom at the moment are of their teenagers.

Take Maci’s son Bentley, for instance.

A 13, the boy is now sufficiently old to grasp how completely different his life is from the lives of his classmates.

However regardless that the digicam crews have been round since he was a child, Bentley should have moments the place he needs the entire world didn’t learn about his household drama … proper?

Nicely, not in accordance with Maci.

Bookout sat down with TooFab this week for probably the most revealing interviews of her profession.

She revealed that she hasn’t spoken with Ryan Edwards in years, and he or she additionally spoke candidly about her son with Ryan.

Sadly, it appears Bentley doesn’t have a lot of a relationship along with his father as of late, however on the intense facet, evidently the boy has no qualms about residing his life in entrance of a digicam.

“I’ll say I believe it at all times stays the identical, in a way that since he was born on TV and been on TV his complete life and even the crew, digicam operators, they’re simply household now,” Maci instructed the outlet.

“I believe it should at all times maintain that normalcy for him,” she added.

“However I additionally suppose that, I’m shocked by this and I might be flawed, a 12 months from now I might be like, you completely learn that flawed, however I believe in right now’s world with social media and influencers, I really feel like he’s truly turning into extra appreciative of the platform and the work that it takes to make a TV present and the braveness it takes for somebody like me to place my life on the market and the braveness for him, as a result of he’s shared quite a lot of issues on the present.”

Maci went on to confess that she might be flawed in her evaluation of the boy’s emotions, saying:

“Like I stated, a 12 months from now I might be like, yep, I used to be flawed, he truly hates it and we’re finished, however of all of the conversations and issues we discuss and issues I discover, I believe he’s coming to understand it as a lot as he can.

“It’s nonetheless annoying for him typically, however he is aware of he doesn’t must movie or put on a microphone if he doesn’t wish to and that’s at all times been the case and manufacturing’s at all times finished a extremely good job of letting the children — irrespective of how large or small, outdated, younger — in the event that they don’t wish to movie, they’re not filming and that’s it and it’s okay.”

It’s good that Maci is retaining her eyes peeled for indicators that her son might need grown dissatisfied with such a public life.

Hopefully, she’s doing the identical for all of her youngsters.

And hopefully, she’ll step away if the present ever places an excessive amount of of a pressure on any one among them.