‘Teen Mom’ Alum Kailyn Lowry Fears Friends Will Sell Her Out ‘To Make a Quick Buck’

Teen Mom alum Kailyn Lowry has become more of a private person over the years, and she has a valid reason for it. The 32-year-old formerTeen Mom 2 star opened up to People in an exclusive interview in September 2024 about keeping her business “in the house” and making her circle small in order to set boundaries. “I try to keep as much of my problems within our four walls of this house or within therapy as I can,” she said. Over the years, she’s learned to keep her problems off of the internet and away from her personal friends.

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She's not concerned about outside validation.

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“Because I just don’t think that I need the outside validation of the internet and the podcast for every little thing,” the mother of seven explained in the interview. “And so I really do pick and choose what I share with people, whether it be friends on a personal level or the podcast or anything like that.”

Kailyn isn't sure if her support system will change.

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Continuing, Kailyn said, “I want to keep things kind of private and deal with it in our household and in therapy and go from there because at the end of the day, I don’t know what the support system will look like tomorrow. I don’t know if people are going to sell me out to make a quick buck. I truly don’t know.” She’s glad that her family now “tries to handle it a little better than we have in the past by airing everything out in public.”

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She doesn't want to make the same mistakes from her past.

When it came to venting to her friends in the past, that didn’t always work well for Kailyn. “I feel like sometimes, when I was younger, I’d tell all my closest friends every single detail,” she explained. “That didn’t work, so I don’t want to keep making that mistake. So we handle it in our house, and we handle it in therapy.”

She's experienced past betrayals.

Kailyn has experienced being betrayed in the past, something she admits made it “very hard” for her to move forward. When she began her relationship with her fiancé Elijah Scott, she wasn’t very trusting initially. “I will admit that it was very hard for me at first to even get into this relationship and then also share about it because I’ve always maintained my independence, I feel like, since I left Joe back in 2010.”

Kailyn has tried to stay independent.

“So I’ve really just wanted to keep my independence. Knowing that Elijah is an equal partner and he’s not taking anything away from me, but moreso adding to it, has been a really hard thing for me to come to terms with,” the podcast host told People. “I absolutely love him and he is so helpful, but I don’t know why I was struggling with that independence piece so much.”

She loves the relationships her fiancé has with all of her children as well. “It’s been really cool to watch the relationship evolve and him evolve as a father, not just as a father, but truly as a stepparent, too. Because when he came in, we didn’t have kids together and then we did very quickly.” Elijah and Kailyn share her three youngest children, while he’s a stepdad to her four older ones.