The mother of Teen Mom star Ryan Edwards is completely denying the claims that her son fathered a secret child. Jen Edwards is speaking out following the claims from Mackenzie Standifer, Ryan’s estranged wife, that the 36-year-old has another child and the child’s mother was paid off by his parents to keep quiet. Ryan and Mackenzie are currently in the middle of divorce proceedings after she filed the paperwork in February 2023.
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Ryan's current girlfriend appears to be pregnant.
Ryan’s girlfriend, Amanda Conner, is seemingly pregnant. Though neither she nor Ryan has confirmed or denied the news, fans did spot an ultrasound on the fridge in the back of one of her videos.
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Mackenzie made claims that Ryan has a secret child.
Per Monsters & Critics, Mackenzie says that Ryan has a secret child. She claimed that his parents, Jen and Larry Edwards, paid off the child’s mother (a whopping $950 per month in child support) for her to sign an NDA about the baby.
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Jen denies the claims.
According to Jen, the rumors are completely false and she’ll have nothing to do with them. In a statement to The Ashley’s Reality Roundup, she said, âAbsolutely not!â
source, however, told the news outlet that Mackenzie recently found out about her estranged husband possibly having a fourth child, because the topic never came up while they were married.
A friend of the alleged child's mother came forward.
Someone who claimed to be a friend of the alleged secret child’s mother spoke to The Ashley’s Reality Roundup. The insider says that a DNA test was done to prove Ryan is the father. The friend also claims that the monthly child support payments stopped being made in December 2023 for unknown reasons.
MTV may have been aware of the situation.
The Ashley Reality Roundup says it got in contact with a production source from MTV that it has had a long relationship with. “The source simply stated that the news of Ryan possibly having another child is ‘not news to some of us long-timers,’ insinuating that MTV was aware of this situation,” the website reported.
The news outlet clarified that it doesn’t mean the claims are true but that at the time, some people at MTV were aware that someone was claiming to have a child by the reality television star.
