Teen Mom OG Reunites Original Stars—Find Out How 2 Felt About Returning and Who Almost Quit!

The new season of Teen Mom, starring Maci Bookout, Amber Portwood, Farrah Abraham and Catelynn Lowell, premieres on March 23

By Corinne Heller Feb 27, 2015 5:58 PMTags
Watch: "Teen Mom OG" Cast on Why They Returned

Teen Mom alumni Maci BookoutAmber PortwoodFarrah Abraham and Catelynn Lowell reunite on-screen after three years in the upcoming series Teen Mom OG but for a couple of them, the reunion was far from harmonious.

A recently released trailer for the show, which serves as the flagship program's fifth season and whose acronym stands for "Original Girls," shows Bookout saying, "You guys can leave now. This is over." Some drama involving Abraham almost spurred her and another cast member to quit the show.

"Well, I think, for Maci and us, we were kind of like, ‘We're not gonna let her ruin our, you know, our opportunity to share our story, Lowell told E! News. "But at first, yeah, we were like, ‘We don't know if we want to be involved with this."

Abraham has not commented. The four recently reunited again this week, for a photo shoot in New York for MTV, ahead of next month's season premiere.

Bookout told E! News that she is "anxious" about returning to the show and is "excited for people to see how different we all are now and the different parts of our lives and how grown up we've become."

Lowell and boyfriend Tyler Baltierra last month welcomed their second child, a baby girl named Novalee. The engaged couple put their first child, daughter Carly, up for adoption in 2009. The emotional journey was documented on MTV's 16 and Pregnant, the show that made all four original Teen Mom stars famous.

"Catelynn and Tyler find out that they're expecting a baby of their own as they struggle to mend a strained relationship with the adoptive parents of their daughter, Carly," MTV said in a statement.

Bookout, who has a son, Bentley, from a previous relationship, is currently pregnant with her second child and first with boyfriend Taylor McKinney. She debuted her baby bump earlier this month.

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"Maci finds love with her new boyfriend, Taylor, who recently moved to Tennessee to be with her," MTV said. "Soon after his arrival, the couple finds themselves dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. Meanwhile, she continues attempting to co-parent Bentley with Ryan who makes everything extremely challenging."

Teen Mom's fourth season concluded in 2012. Portwood, who shares a daughter, Leah, with ex-boyfriend Gary, spent much of the show's hiatus behind bars. In June of that year, she began what was to be a  five-year sentence for drug possession charges and had previously spent multiple stints in jail  after getting booked on contempt-of-court charges for violating her probation and failing to appear for a hearing. She was freed after about 16 months.

"Newly released from prison, Amber is trying to raise her daughter Leah with her ex, Gary, who is expecting a baby with his new girlfriend," MTV said. "Meanwhile, she is attempting to navigate a life of sobriety while diving back into the world of dating.  The decision to accept an engagement proposal from someone she hasn't known very long could change her world entirely."

During the Teen Mom hiatus, Abraham, mother to daughter Sophie, released music, published a memoir, appeared by herself on the reality show Couples Therapy,  spent time in rehab for alcohol abuseworked at a strip club, put out a sex tape and recently, got a botched lip injection.

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"Farrah continues to juggle parenting Sophia while trying to mend relations with her own mother, Debra," MTV said in its statement. "When Farrah finds love in a long distance relationship for the first time since the death of Sophia's dad, will she finally be able to find happiness while balancing motherhood, her new love and her career?"

The original Teen Mom produced two spinoffs, Teen Mom 2 and Teen Mom 3, with different cast members.

Teen Mom OG premieres on March 23.