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Bristol competed on Dancing with the Stars in 2010. She finished in third place and received an invitation back to the 2012 Dancing with the Stars all-stars competition.
She does have something in common with the other moms: a memoir of her teen mom journey!
Bristol released Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far in 2011. Bristol is used to filming her daily life; she starred in a 2012 Lifetime series, Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp .
Though her mother announced her engagement to Tripp’s father Levi Johnston, they ended their engagement shortly after Tripp’s birth. During custody negotiations in 2010, they rekindled their relationship and became engaged again before it fell through a second time.
She married her husband, Dakota Meyer in 2016. Dakota is an outspoken veteran and the youngest person to ever be awarded the Medal of Honor. He is the father of her two daughters.
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He filed for divorce in February, noting on the papers it was due to “discord or conflict of personalities.” The couple has since been all over social media with lovey-dovey posts. Teen Mom fans are used to on-again, off-again couples. Maybe they can double date with Leah Messer and Jeremy Calvert!
In 2009, Bristol drew criticism for stating that abstinence is “not realistic at all” in a Fox News interview. Evidently, she was speaking from experience. She announced her second pregnancy in 2015 after her wedding to Dakota was called off. In a depressing post on her blog she lamented, “Honestly, I’ve been trying my hardest to keep my chin up on this one…When life gets tough, there is no other option but to get tougher.” She added, “I know this has been, and will be, a huge disappointment to my family, to my close friends, and to many of you.