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Teen Mom star Catelynn Lowell called out social media users for body-shaming her 16-year-old daughter, Carly
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Lowell called the comments “disgusting” and “horrible”
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She explained that her kids have a “fast metabolism,” like their father, who is also “skinny”
Teen Mom star Catelynn Lowell is calling out social media users for body-shaming her daughter Carly online.
“So I saw recently that a certain page — pages — are stealing Carly’s pictures from prom,” she said in a Wednesday, May 6 TikTok video about her 16-year-old daughter, whom Lowell and husband Tyler Baltierra placed for adoption in 2009.
“First of all, I don’t agree with it. I think it’s ridiculous. Second of all, why do grown adults feel the need to comment on children’s and minors’ bodies?”
“First of all, saying that she looks like a skeleton, or she needs to eat cheeseburgers, or she’s too skinny. [My daughter] Nova gets the same crap. It’s disgusting, aren’t we grown here?” she continued. “Do you guys not realize that people can be skinny-shamed? It’s not just, like, a fat thing. Skinny people can be shamed too, and it’s horrible. Knock it off.”
Tyler Baltierra and Catelynn Lowell attend The 2015 MTV Movie Awards
Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Lowell, who shares Carly, and her three younger kids, Novalee, 11, Vaeda, 7, and Rya, 4, with Baltierra, explained that her kids have “very fast metabolisms.” She also pointed out Baltierra’s appearance and said he’s also “skinny.”
“Keep your opinions to yourself. When it comes about children, it’s disgusting, and it needs to stop,” she said.
Lowell and Baltierra have been together since middle school. On MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, they documented Carly’s birth and her adoption process. Though they stayed in contact with Carly through the years, their relationship has since changed.
In interviews, Baltierra and Lowell have been candid about missed visits, being blocked by Carly’s parents and experiencing “adoption PTSD.” In 2025, the couple revealed they have not had a visit with Carly in two years.
“As far as our relationship goes, we don’t really have one,” Baltierra said during an April 2026 episode of the Cake For Dinner podcast.
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He explained, “I set up an email for her that me and Cate will write to and that’s pretty much the only way we’re maintaining any kind of communication.”
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