Congratulations are reportedly in order for Amber Portwood.
According to Us Weekly, the polarizing MTV personality is engaged to her boyfriend, someone named Gary, who recently made her debut as a teenage mother.
This media outlet wrote a few days ago that the proposal happened “over the last two weeks,” adding that Portwood’s engagement ring was made from “a family stone that was turned into a new ring.”
Simplifying?
“She is very, very happy,” the tabloid claims of Portwood.
Amber hasn’t said much in public about Gary, who, just to be clear, is NOT the father of her oldest child, Gary Shirley. This is a different guy named Gary.
The engaged couple met about nine months ago on a dating app.
All we really know about this new Gary is that he’s almost 30… has no kids… never watched Teen Mom… and lives near Amber’s hometown of Indianapolis.
Us Weekly insider reports:
“They go to couples therapy and talk about everything. They are being very proactive in their relationship and are doing the work to prevent problems before they start.”
That’s good to know — because Amber has had her share of problems.
She allegedly threatened ex-boyfriend Andrew Glennon with a machete in 2019.
In response to this incident and other violent incidents involving the MTV personality, Glennon previously filed a motion to prevent Portwood from seeing the ex-couple’s son.
Portwood’s personal life has been chronicled on reality television since she first appeared on 16 and Pregnant in 2009.
She later became a cast member on Teen Mom and Teen Mom OG from 2009 to 2021.
The mother of two returned to the franchise in 2022’s Teen Mom: Family Reunion and 2023’s Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.
Portwood shares daughter Leah with Shirley, to whom she has been engaged on two occasions; as well as her son James with Glennon, whom she dated from 2017 to 2019.
Portwood was engaged in 2015 to Matt Baier.
As noted above, Gary made his Teen Mom: The Next Chapter debut during the June 6 episode, with Amber formally introducing him to her castmates as her “boyfriend” during a group Zoom call.
“We are now officially a couple,” she added.
Why can this relationship last?
“All the guys Amber dated before she met on social media were fans of the show,” Us Weekly explained late last week.
“This new man in her life has never seen the teen mom, so she feels like she can finally date the way she always wanted.”