Live Blog: Teen Mom 2 Episode 11 Review.

This popular MTV reality television show is back with a bang for a new series of a new set of pregger teens with boy drama, family drama and just drama from every aspect. Includes snotty kids (and teenagers), nappies (or diapers) and bad attitudes from the kids and the mothers.

(And note: its mom not mum so if you don't like the American accent, this really is not your kind of show with whiny teenagers and bimbos included)

Episode 11

Previously on Teen Mom 2...

*cue the name in the corner of the mom that we are focusing on*

Kailyn

The bimbo blonde haired mother who now has a messy relationship with her baby daddy shows the recent drama which has unfolded and blown up in her face. She began living in his house when she gave birth and everything was great until they broke up and she began dating a new guy called Jordan and lied to the family about it as she didn't want to get kicked out. Basically- selfish. Now it shows her ex- Jo carrying her stuff in plastic bags asking for $600 that she owes him for school fees and she can't have her stuff until she does. Standing there trying to get the sympathy vote while he screams bitch in her face really doesn't work if you watch the show regularly. Her mother then gets involved stating how she could get custody papers drawn up to agree who gets to look after their son.

Lets be honest here, her mother has no moral high ground as she kicked her daughter out in the first place and wouldn't let her move back in or look after her grandson. Surely she shouldn't be giving advice on parenting?

Next is Leah

Her history: had twins with her “red neck boyfriend” as she calls him- Corey, cheated on him, lost him. Wanted him back, got him back. Got engaged (on a fishing trip, classsssy), all happy. However, one of her twins has a growth problem and has to see many different doctors. They are now planning their wedding and she has cold feet and waiting for a second opinion on their baby..

Cue- Chelsea

She has the most amazing support from her father who pays for her rent, her car and her baby. However, she has the biggest douchelord of a boyfriend I have seen. He doesn't pay child supports, picks her up and leaves her whenever he pleases and lived with her when he had no where else to go and played happy families for a really short while. My favourite mom of them all..however, she seems to need a brain transplant when it comes to Adam, the douchelord. Lets just say when they spilt a few days after she gave birth he text her calling her "a bag of stretch marks" and their baby "a mistake"...reaaaal nice guy. NAAAT

Last but not least, Jenelle

Now I do not have one nice thing to write about this "mom" if you can even call her that. She never see's her child, her mom currently has sole custody as all she cares about is smoking weed with her waste of space boyfriend Keifer who just takes money off of her. Recently, she drove to New Jersey for him to see his family and stole her moms credit cards as she has no money, no job and neither does he. Great pair.

Now your up to date...let the drama and nappies unfold..

Leah

Leah sits down with Corey to discuss the wedding plans. With his accent already annoying me, he basically says "once we get married everything will be fine" - Good advice! Everyone should take that advice then there would be no divorce in the world...right? With Leah discussing her babies illness, she agrees to marry him.

Jenelle

Great, my favourite. She's teaching Keifer how to drive and is now swearing and shouting- she's such a good example. With a badass attitude and clearly deluded, she questions whether her mom will forgive her over stealing her credit cars…I’m gonna guess- no. After trying to make everyone feel bad for her, she is a clear waste of space.

Kailyn

Going to pick up Issac from Jo, she stands in the doorway with an attitude then removes him from his original car seat to be spiteful towards her ex for no reason. Wow, so mature. Would you have guessed that she's a mother?

Chelsea

Going to lunch with her dad, it’s clear how much he adores her. Trying to convince her to finish school, she keeps coming up with excuses. You can't depend on him your whole life! Grow up! Asking about her single life, she blames herself for the spilt with Adam- OPEN YOUR EYES. He is seriously a joke of a man. He seems to have money for his cars and himself but not his baby? He picks and chooses when to be a dad. You on the other hand don’t have a choice. Fair? Don’t think sooo.

Jenelle

The shot opens with Jace (her son) pulling a table that falls on himand she starts to laugh watching him do it. Mother of the year award? I think so! America’s Katie Price. Jenelle starts talking to her mom about money and how she is finding it difficult even though she doesn’t pay anything for her child or feed her baby. Her mom does. Her mom asks when she’s going to pay her back and she replies that she wont all at once and starts screaming with an attitude for no reason. Its not even your money and your mom cant afford to pay her bills. So so selfish.This girl really makes me want to punch her in face. Also, she's wearing stripy pajama trousers as normal trousers. That’s a reason alone enough to punch her in the face. 

Leah

Picking their wedding cake, Corey picks out a cake shaped as a swamp island. Are you kidding me? With their twins being looked after by his dad, they go ice skating and it really shows how they are still teenagers joking around and acting their age. Reality check! Scary...

Kailyn

Showing how difficult it actually is, it shows Kailyn trying to study and revise for her exams whileIssac is making noise, crying and doing things he shouldn't be. Clearly impossible. Another reality check for girls who think that being a teenage mother is easy

Chelsea

To scare viewers again, Chelsea is shown trying to revise in a coffee shop and puts Aubree with toys, in the childhood play area but as soon as she turns her back she just tends to run away- clearly not easy either. Cue douchelord, Adam calls and asks to see his daughter tomorrow but when she says no because she has plans, he decides to be the big man and start swearing and insulting her. Chelsea is then shown at home with her friends facebook stalking him and finds out that he has a new girlfriend, Chelsea simply says "whatever tickles your pickle, dude"- So classy.

Jenelle

Trying to get her financial aid check as she needs to pay her mom back, the worlds best mother calls her boss to see if she still has her job even though she missed 2 days with no reason and lying on the phone when asked why, this girl just gets more and more influential.

Chelsea

Focusing on douchelord, it shows Adam and his new girlfriend at her house. His girlfriend- the definition of class by the way, bad mouths Chelsea stating how its "f***ed up" and says "at least your happy now"- the reason your on this program is because of her. Seems like a match made in heaven. Douchelord and douchebag.

Leah

On a more serious note, it shows Leah taking her baby to the doctor to get a second opinion with different doctors and x-rays. Guess the hassles of having a baby aren't always shown on these types of programmes.

Kailyn

Showing the pressures again of having a baby, she has to drop a class in school in order to pass as she has to put her baby first. Stating how shes so overwhelmed and dropping the one class that determines her future, she has to re-think her whole career path.

Jenelle

It shows her mom going to her lawyer asking for advice about her credit card situation as she can't pay it off herself and lets be honest, why should she? The charges are based on her boyfriends hunger and petrol money.

As she calls to check on her daughter, Jenelle is sleeping in her car because her boyfriend is away. Out of the kindness of her heart and after 50 million mistakes, she tells her daughter to come home and sleep. Bets anyone on how long it will take for her to mess up again? I'm gonna say next 10 minutes.

Kailyn

Going into the court, she files custody papers and posts them to Jo. Seems to be over within 2 seconds, pretty quick for the care of a child.

Chelsea

Still not comfortable having her baby around Adam's new girlfriend- pretty standard. She calls to ask about child support and states how she isn't happy. Yet again, he starts to shout and swear and state how "she needs her daddy, she's ours"- where has he been? He doesn't even act like a dad; he wasn't there at 2 or 3 in the morning, he didn’t feed her or clothe her. Over him.Over it. New boy pleasee!!

"teen pregnancy is 100% preventable. To find out what you can do to prevent pregnancy go to: itsyoursexlife.org " Advert in-between just to inform the viewers that they have a choice to not get pregnant. Kind of funny if you think about it, in a way this reality TV program is showing girls how great it is to have kids...contradictory? I think so.

Jenelle

As she wakes up the next day, her mom asks about what she will do with the credit card charges. Her mom says how she’s trying to save her neck again and to try and call the credit card company to make a deal. Jenelle with her usual bratty attitude snaps back saying OK, she really needs to get off your high horse. Her mom then says how she’s worried about her relationship with Keifer and how he is making her do these things to which the brat shouts back- “IM NOT LEAVING HIM ANYTIME SOON. IT WAS MY DECISION” She's then told to grow up. Everyone who is watching this show, I’m sure completely agrees.

Next time on Teen Mom 2- The Wedding. New Boys. Jail Time. Courtroom Drama.

Just your typical day to day activities.

The Real Housewives of The Palm

Every time I go to visit my parents in Dubai, it’s like visiting a reality TV show. They live in an apartment on the Palm Jumeriah Island, which definitely is not the most interesting part of the story. The characters you meet day to day are almost indescribable.

I like to refer to the drama and gossip that unfolds as either- PalmEnders or The Real Housewives of the Palm. 

Every week there is a new story about who had botox, who has cheated on who and the guessing the age game. Oh so bitchy but oh so much fun.

There are certain housewives, which have made an impact on me who could easily have their own reality television show with plenty of drama, diamonds and d-cups.

Meet Natalia, the Italian housewife who recently had a baby girl and looks like a supermodel. Absolutely stunning and heart pure of gold, Natalia is married to an English businessman David who clearly adores her and to be honest, who doesn’t?

For David’s birthday they rented out a yacht and invited close friends to go around the coast with views of nighttime Dubai to drink champagne. Pretty normal? Of course.

To surprise her- for his birthday- David bought her a new outfit- Oscar De La Renta dress that cost easily over £1500 and Christian Louboutin shoes which cost easily over £700. Standard night out.

Joanna is an ex airhostess who has the fairytale story. She fell in love with a pilot and now has two small children who are 5 and 8. From England, I assumed her morals would be similar to mine however, after a glass of ‘only pinot darling’ she blurts out how she managed to get her two boys into the best school in Dubai. This is the school, which is owned by the King, which has a waiting list of over 300 children, normal drink conversations of course.

Next is Danielle. Best way to describe her is pampered. Married to an older rich man, Danielle never looks like there’s a pin out of place, nails always done, eye lash extensions and eyebrows always just in place. Her husband Mark resembles the tan-tastic girls in England. He is the strangest colour of orange that you only go after using it out of a bottle due to sitting on the beach and doing nothing all day but wheeling and dealing. No one knows quite what he does and no one wants to ask either.

Finally out of the real housewives of the palm is Adriana. She is the most colourful, shall we say? And that’s putting it nicely. Adriana has two children, a boy and a girl from two different fathers (one of which is a the general manager of one of the seven star hotels in Dubai). Now in today’s day and age, that is not a problem or seen as abnormal. However, leaving your children for 6 months to go on holiday with your body builder toy boy and leaving them behind IS. As she casually sits at the pool bar, she tells everyone about her travels and how amazing her holiday was when all I wanted to do was throw my drink on her and ask where her children were when this was all happening. With her boyfriend sat next to her, it is clear she is infatuated by his looks as he is by hers. When I first met her I thought she was 26, don’t get me wrong, she is stunning but also clueless.

One character that has to be included is Stephan, the gay real estate agent who everyone happens to LOVE. Walking around the pool in his tight pink shorts, his sexuality is obvious to everyone by the way he walks, talks and carries himself. Every time he answers his phone to show someone around a house he always says after it “oh he sounded nice, maybe I’ll get a date out of this one” and in Dubai, finding the right man for a man is not the easiest thing in the world.

Finally, the last character that has to be spoken about is- The Model. We don’t give him a name because he told me three times and I didn’t understand him so asking again is just impolite, right?

But he is- B-E-A-UTIFUL. He walks out to the pool side after the gym with no top on and its literally a repeat of the old Diet Coke Advert, all the women no matter what they are doing peak around their magazines, pull their sunglasses down and watch him walk down to the beach. One thing I think all of them have in common.

Apart from that, the gossip is what interlinks them all together.

Of course, half the time, the gossip is about each other and starts with “You didn’t hear it from me” with a reply “Oh no darling, definitely not, you can trust me”

“Did you know Maggie has slept with her assistant?”

“Have you seen Stephanie’s boobs, they have definitely gone up a cup size”

“See that bump, yeah..well the baby isn’t her’s. You didn’t hear it from me”

And I thought I left high school...Until Next time.

Gossip Girl, xoxo.

Teenage Experiences

After having some experience of living in the Middle East as a teenager, I thought there would be some people out there who would want to know what I went through and perhaps maybe even what to expect.

Truth is…there is no way to predict what you’ll experience. Everyday is an adventure.

I moved to Saudi Arabia when I was 9 but I was a child so didn’t get to experience the teenage life until I moved to Bahrain 3 years later.

Bahrain is a small island just off of Saudi, which still owns a piece of my heart today.

Piece of advice, when you move to a different country, ALWAYS go with an open mind. Never go with ideas of how you think it will look like or how you think people will be. 99% of the time, you’ll be wrong.

Obviously the main reason we moved to Bahrain was because of my dad’s job however, I still to this day believe it was so my parents could drink legally and we could finally buy ham and pork in the supermarkets…no matter how much they deny it.

When not allowed for so long: Walkers smoky bacon crisps= Heaven.

I thought being in a Muslim country would mean that as a teenager, I wouldn’t experience the ‘real teenage life’ such as going to a field and getting rat arsed, sneaking out of the house to meet in a park for no reason and walking around town aimlessly just because I could. However, like I said before, I was wrong.

Its true, I didn’t meet in a park, walk around town or go to field because lets be honest here, they don’t really have any of those things in Bahrain.  So we had to compromise.

When living in the Middle East, you either live in your own private house/villa or in a compound. A compound consists of several villas in one gated area with usually a community swimming pool, tennis courts and a small play park for very small children. 

In these certain areas, you can walk around and some compounds can be quite big however, friends always seem to live in a different one to you, which is never a small walk away.

Another tip: In a majority of the Middle East, you can’t just walk around the streets- it is definitely not like England. Most of the roads are made simply on sand waste grounds and if you need to get to somewhere, you have to get a lift- everywhere. Hence my mum jokingly calling herself a taxi (which she kind of was).

So, back to what I was saying before without all the rambling,

We had to compromise where our ‘teenage experiences’ took place. A large group of us all wanted to try alcohol and get drunk just because it was the cool thing to do and word got around school that a Thai restaurant in Saar would serve anyone as long as they had money. So instead of a park or field, we had a Thai restaurant with all foreign waiters serving us vodka, gin, wine- whatever we wanted.

Now at the age of 15, we all thought we were badass. Going out on the weekends drinking and smoking indoors- sounds pretty familiar to the life in the UK.

In Bahrain, there was only one main mall- Seef Mall that everyone went to. A place where you were guaranteed to bump into people you knew.  Seef Mall was where all the kids used to go to walk around aimlessly for hours and go to cinema (rarely) and use the arcade games. A majority of the time, it consisted of me and my friends walking in circles with much older guys dressed like the rapper Nelly with a plaster on their faces giving us their numbers. None of which we ever called and definitely not healthy that I think of it now.

Teenage life consisted of school, going out to sheesha cafes, drinking, shopping and chilling by the pool.

I remember my first time going to my now best friends house. My mum dropped me off and the house was HUGE. Private house with gates, a swimming pool, massive garden right next to the beach. I sat there thinking I was poor.

Next thing I knew a women walked up to me and asked if I wanted a drink, I politely said “yes, please” and got a drink- pretty standard really. Next thing I knew, people were ordering her around to do things and I couldn’t understand why. Then it clicked. MAID? Who actually has maids? I asked my best friend who casually replied “yeah, but only one”

ONLY?

Next thing she casually says, “we have a driver too, its not a big deal” I nearly fainted. Driver? Is that even normal? Apparently it is very normal for people to have a driver. I went home so pleased that if it was normal then it meant I could have one, I asked my parents who looked at me laughed and turned around.

Take that as a no then?

I heard it was pretty standard in Bahrain.