More than a year after her breakup from David Eason, Teen Mom‘s Jenelle Evans is ready to sign divorce docs. As for her kids Jace, Kaiser and Ensley? Here’s how they feel about her finally moving on.

Spring is here, the sky is blue, whoa. Birds all sing as if they knew. Today’s the day Jenelle Evans will say she doesn’t and she’ll never be unhappy anymore. 

Because now that the Teen Mom alum has officially filed to end her nearly eight-year marriage to David Eason, she’s ready to celebrate. 

“I’m moving on to a new chapter in my life,” the 33-year-old explained in an exclusive interview with E! News, “and moving on from negative energy and just trying to find myself again and learn to be alone and have this time to myself and my kids.”

In other words, the mom of three is goin’ to the chapel and she’s gonna get divorced. And by chapel, she means New York City strip club Spearmint Rhino where she’ll celebrate her soon-to-be-legally-binding split from the dad to her 8-year-old daughter Ensley with a June 12 bash at 10 p.m. 

Having waited out the yearlong separation period required in North Carolina, “I filed for absolute divorce,” Jenelle noted. “So, fingers crossed, just waiting on paperwork to be signed, and then I’ll have my last name back.”

And while she’s ready to re-embrace the Jenelle Evans she was before marrying David on their wooded 10-acre property, her sons Jace, 15 (with ex Andrew Lewis) and Kaiser, 10 (with former fiancé Nathan Griffith) are also pretty psyched for her next chapter. 

As she admitted, “My boys were kind of like, ‘Thank, God!’”

As for Ensley—who Jenelle currently has sole physical and legal custody of, though she and David are still going to court—”She was just like, ‘Whatever,’” said Jenelle, noting her kids “didn’t take it badly, and they didn’t take it good. I would just say they handled it very well.”

Admittedly, it felt like a bit of a gamble when she left her life on the East Coast behind for a fresh start in Las Vegas. 

By her account, the union with David wasn’t a winning one, with Jenelle previously detailing on Teen Mom: The Next Chapter that David was “emotionally abusive, saying, ‘Jenelle, go kill yourself, your mother doesn’t even love you. Cry yourself to sleep, b—h.’”

And yet she had reservations about leaving that toxicity behind. 

“For the longest time I was just so nervous,” Jenelle told E! of her fears, “like, ‘Can I do this on my own? Can I take care of these three kids by myself? Will they listen to me without a male figure around?’”

But in the nearly 16 months since she announced her separation from David, she’s grown to love parenting by herself without anyone else’s input to influence her. Said Jenelle, “Everything’s been pretty smooth.”

And, truthfully, she’d been bracing for a rocky transition. 

“Leading up to that point, it was very fearful, and a lot of anxiety, and I knew I had to overcome that fear and anxiety if I was going to leave him,” she revealed. “And when I finally did, it was kind of like a light switch went off in my head. I think just everything building up to it, I was just done. I just kind of exploded.”

Among the issues that set her off, she detailed, was when they fell behind on the mortgage in 2019 for their rural home.

“And I’m the one that got us out of that hole,” Jenelle recounted. “He did not step up for his family.” Add in the fact that she felt “so disrespected by him,” she continued, “and it turned into a situation where we were like roommates, and I feel like there was no coming back from that.”

Especially considering David wasn’t even a particularly hospitable housemate. 

“Just the arguing—it was bad energy,” Jenelle detailed. “So, I was just finally ready to give that all up. And now everything’s been very peaceful, calm. Everyone’s anxiety has been down.”

Knowing that she “tried everything” to work out their marriage has left Jenelle feeling at peace with her decision. 

And now her family is adjusting nicely to life in Sin City.

Though the desert heat has taken some getting used to, “I feel free here,” said Jenelle. “It’s a fresh start for all the kids. They’re in a lot of different activities around town.”

While she hasn’t necessarily been partaking in the legendary nightlife—”I think I’ve been on two dates in the past year”—she’s ready to roll the dice on her future. 

“I feel like I wasted so much time trying to fix that relationship that I could have done a lot more with my life and my time,” Jenelle said. So, now she’s ready to play her cards right, eyeing various TV projects that put her behind the camera and making plans to launch her own cannabis line.

More than anything, though, she’s eager to blaze her own trail. Said Jenelle, “I am super ready for this.”

And while she’s still on the hunt for her next costar, plenty of her former castmates have won the jackpot when it comes to love. See which Teen Mom stars are holding tight to their partners and who has realized it’s time to fold.  

Viewers watched Catelynn Lowell and now-husband Tyler Baltierra make the difficult choice to place their first daughter, Carly, for adoption, in 2009 on the inaugural season of 16 and Pregnant. After 13 years together, the fan-favorite couple wed in August 2015 and have since had three more daughters: Novalee, Vaeda and Rya.

While the absence of Carly—who lives with her adoptive parents, Brandon and Teresa Davis—still aches, the couple keep fighting for a future. 

Together less than six months when she got pregnant, viewers saw Maci Bookout struggle with an irresponsible Ryan Edwards on 16 and Pregnant. Though they got engaged, the high school sweethearts split less than a year after their son Bentley was born in 2008.

These days they’re focused on building a co-parenting relationship. “We’re in a good place,” Maci revealed to E! News in 2023, adding that Ryan is showing up “more consistently now than maybe he ever has before.”

Maci Bookout & Taylor McKinney

Maci found her forever teammate in Texan Taylor McKinney in 2012 and the pair soon began building up their squad. They welcomed daughter Jayde in May 2015 and son Maverick a year later, then wed in Florida that October. 

Partners in parenting, life and their TTM Lifestyle fashion brand, “He’s just my person,” she told E! News in 2023. “Even when we’ve had a rough year together, I think at the end of the day, I still choose him. I like him. And even if I want to punch him in the face sometimes, I’d rather argue with him or have a rough patch with him than never have a rough patch with anybody else.” 

Despite moving on with new significant others, the MTV stars, who connected while filming The Challenge, continue to co-parent their daughter Ryder together.

“Our biggest thing since day one of Cory coming into Ryder’s life was what kind of dad he wanted to be and what kind of parent he wanted to be,” Cheyenne explained to E! News in March 2020. “I wasn’t going to allow him to be a Disneyland dad or an Instagram dad or just in the moment. He had to be 100 percent. I think from the beginning, he saw my mindset and appreciated it so that’s why we co-parent so well.”

After their romance ended in 2018, the pair decided to give their relationship a second chance. While celebrating her 28th birthday, Cheyenne confirmed on Instagram that she was back with Zach. In May 2021, the couple welcomed their first child together, son Ace, and got married in September 2022. 

“We spent the past two years knocking things off our list,” Cheyenne told E! News in 2024. “We wanted to have a baby, we had Ace. We wanted to get married, we had our wedding. We wanted to buy a house, we bought our house.”

And now, she continued, “I don’t want to do anything. I don’t want to set a goal. I want to sit down. I want to be really still. My goal is to be still and just to be happy with where we’re at. And just to like each other. That’s it. I want nothing else.”

Well…maybe a little something. Cheyenne announced she was expecting her third child on a May 2025 episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter. 

“We definitely kind of teetered back and forth on wanting a baby,” Zach told Us Weekly. “I wanted one, and then she went through the phase of wanting one, and I wasn’t on the same page as her, but then we kind of came to the same chapter, and we tried to make it work.”

Cory Wharton & Taylor Selfridge

Connecting while filming Ex on the Beach may not sound like the start of a love story, but several years and two kids—daughters Mila and Maya—later, Cory and Are You the One? alum Taylor Selfridge are still making waves. 

“We just bought a house,” he shared with E! News in 2023, before bringing up that, yes, he’s aware that people want to know when they’re getting married. “It’s definitely being talked about. We have everything but the ring and me just letting her know. Taylor deserves that and it’s something that I want and she wants. Right now we’re just taking steps to get there.”

Testing the limits of for-better-or-for-worse, Ryan checked into rehab not long after he married Mackenzie Standifer in May 2017, with her giving birth to their first son Jagger in 2018 while Ryan was still in treatment.

Though the pair would welcome daughter Stella in January 2020, Mackenzie filed for divorce three years later.

Ryan is now engaged to Amanda Conner, with the pair welcoming their first child, daughter Presley, in February 2025. 

Amber Portwood & Gary Shirley

While their very contentious romance came to an end for good in 2013, the couple managed to co-parent their now-teenage daughter Leah for years. 

“We have fun together but at a distance,” Amber told E! News in January 2022. “But our relationship is good. It’s a family now so we treat it as a family more than anything else.” 

Though, of course, sometimes families fight. In recent years, Amber has taken to social media with enough claims about Gary to suggest they’re no longer the friendliest of exes and her growing rift with Leah has been showcased on Teen Mom: The Next Chapter. 

After several years together, a proposal and one unsuccessful stint on Marriage Boot Camp, Amber and Boston transplant Matt Baier called off their engagement in 2017. 

“Honestly, you just get to a point when you’re done hearing things and you just start to not care in a relationship and I think that’s what started happening to me and him,” Amber revealed on Dr. Drew Pinsky‘s podcast later that year. “I started not to care anymore about the relationship like you should. I put a wall up so I wouldn’t get hurt again pretty much.”

Amber did find love while filming Marriage Boot Camp—connecting with crew member Andrew Glennon while on set. The pair made their debut as a couple at the 2017 MTV Movie Awards and in May 2018, Amber gave birth to the couple’s first child, James.

But the couple separated not long after Amber was arrested for domestic battery in July 2019. And after a contentious court battle, California native Andrew was awarded sole legal and primary physical custody of their son in 2022. 

“I’ve worked so hard to better myself and improve my relationships with my children,” the Teen Mom star told E! News at the time. “While I’ve always been candid about my past substance abuse and struggles with mental illness, a person should have the chance to redeem themselves and not be tethered to their problems from the past.”

Determined not to give up, she added, “If your road has not been perfect, but you’ve worked hard to become a better, more stable and caring person today, keep moving forward as I will. I’ll never stop fighting for my children who I love more than anything.”

Amber Portwood & Dimitri Garcia

After meeting Amber on the Internet, Dimitri Garcia made his Teen Mom OG debut in April 2020. “Dimitri is from Belgium. He’s 39 so he’s 10 years older than me. But he’s a very handsome man,” Amber shared on the show. “I started opening up to him and we decided we should meet since we like each other.”

In April 2021, Amber revealed on the Teen Mom OG reunion special that she was still dating Dimitri. “We’ve known each other now for 18 months,” she explained. “But I haven’t seen him in a year though.” Though the pair never officially announced a split, Amber introduced new flame Gary Wayt during a June 2024 episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.

Amber Portwood & Gary Wayt

After Amber connected with Gary 2.0 on a dating app in the fall of 2023, he zoomed into the picture when the Teen Mom vet introduced him to her castmates during a virtual chat. 

Though he proposed in May 2024, their betrothal was short-lived. While in North Carolina for her brother’s wedding that June, Gary ran off after the pair had a fight, leading Amber to report him as missing. 

And while Gary was soon located, the duo’s engagment wasn’t the only thing left broken. 

“I’ve had to deal with thinking my fiancé was dead for three to four days,” Amber said on Teen Mom: The Next Chapter. “I had to deal with literally grieving and trying to make sense of why the f–k would somebody do this to me. I am going through something right now.”

“This man broke me,” she continued. “I was stable. Right now, this is the first time in years in my life I am not f–king right because a man put a ring on my finger.” 

Months after Gary and now-wife Kristina Anderson welcomed daughter Emilee in April 2015, they wed in a sweet beach ceremony. 

“You are one of the most beautiful souls I know,” Gary wrote in a 2022 Instagram post. “I don’t know how I would do this without you.”

The father of Farrah Abraham‘s daughter Sophia died in an accident two months prior to her birth in December 2008.

For her first serious relationship since the death of her high school boyfriend, Farrah dated real estate agent Simon Saran on and off for over two years.

Though their 2017 split got ugly (as in cease-and-desist ugly), the two gave a stab at trying to remain friends. Sorta.

“I have no hard feelings against Farrah,” Simon told E! News at the time. “We are just from two different worlds. She likes the fake life, I want what’s real. I wish the best for her and much success in all of her future endeavors.”

Jenelle Evans and Andrew Lewis, parents to now-teenage Jace, split not long after his 2009 birth, with the model having little involvement in his son’s life. 

“I do feel bad because that’s Jace’s dad,” Jenelle reflected on a 2019 episode of Teen Mom 2. “But I know how he is, and I don’t want him to disappoint my son. I don’t want [him] to pop back in and then pop back out.”

After a one-year marriage to Courtland Rogers, and having her second child, Kaiser, with ex-fiancé Nathan Griffin in 2014, Jenelle wed David Eason on their North Carolina property in September 2017, eight months after they welcomed their daughter Ensley.

After a particularly rocky stretch saw David charged with a child abuse misdemeanor involving Jace (at the time, Jenelle likened it to a “smear campaign”), Jenelle revealed they had separated.

“I would’ve skipped straight to divorce but I couldn’t because in the state of North Carolina, you have to be legally separated for a year,” she explained on social media, “and you have to prove you have two separate addresses.”

Remember the charmer who asked then-girlfriend Chelsea Houska when he could “sign the papers over for that mistake”?

Completely in the rearview. 

Against all odds, the Teen Mom star-turned-HGTV personality has a somewhat copacetic relationship with her high school ex Adam Lind, mom to her eldest daughter Aubree. “There’s no bad vibes and it’s just a very open relationship,” she told Us Weekly. “There’s no bad feelings. We see him sometimes and it’s totally fine.”

What began as a meet-cute at a gas station in 2014 became forever when Chelsea and Cole DeBoer wed in October 2016. After welcoming son Watson in 2017 and daughters Layne and Walker in 2018 and 2021, respectively, the pair launched a new joint project: Their HGTV series Down Home Fab. 

“If we were going to come back to TV, I wanted it to be something lighthearted, feel good and be able to show our authentic selves,” Chelsea explained to E! News, sharing why this move felt “so right.” As she put it, “This was just such a cool opportunity to do that.”

Leah Messer & Corey Simms

Though then-high schooler Leah Messer and Corey Simms fought to turn their friendship into a forever family, the parents to now-teenage twins Aleeah and Aliannah filed for divorce six months after their October 2010 wedding. 

Corey has been married to Miranda Patterson since 2013.

Leah went on to wed pipeliner Jeremy Calvert in 2012, the couple welcoming daughter Adalynn the next year.

Though they split in 2015, they have made an effort to co-parent their daughter with sometimes mixed results.

“I’m looking at a complete, better version of myself,” Leah told E! News of her girls. “And seeing everything that they love and enjoy doing, and being able to support them in their lives and be a part of it is magical. I love it. I love being a mom, especially a girl mama.”

Leah Messer & Jaylan Mobley

By the time Leah went Instagram official with Jaylan Mobley in 2021, the United States Army officer had already charmed her and her daughters. 

The couple announced their engagement in August 2022, but broke up that October. 

“I needed that breakup,” the Teen Mom star confessed to E! News a year later. “I’ve learned a lot from my last breakup and, moving forward, I do feel like my life is just beginning.” 

Kailyn Lowry was just 17 when she and high school boyfriend Jo Rivera welcomed their eldest son, Isaac, in 2010.

And though they split a year later, they’ve since settled into a comfortable co-parenting arrangement, Kailyn even hosting her now-canceled Baby Mamas No Drama podcast with Jo’s wife Vee Torres for years. “We’ve come a long way since we were 18,” Kailyn wrote on X after attending Jo and Vee’s 2018 wedding. “I couldn’t ask for a better stepmom for isaac.” 

Kailyn’s second son Lincoln joined the squad in November 2013, roughly a year after the then-star of Teen Mom 2 wed his father Javi Marroquin. 

Splitting in late 2016, the former spouses have had an, at times, rocky relationship as they’ve each moved on.

While Kail is engaged to Elijah Scott, Javi wed Lauren Comeau at an intimate ceremony on Florida’s Vero Beach in April 2025. “Only my dad, our kids & pastor were there,” Lauren wrote on Instagram Stories of son Eli and daughter Maizee. “We have a reception planned for this summer with family and friends. They were fully supportive of this & Jav’s mom has got to experience his firsts already so there was no issues. We wanted it to be something special for the boys, and something intimate for our family, and for my dad to walk me down the aisle.”

Though Kailyn welcomed sons Lux and Creed with boyfriend Chris Lopez during their on-and-off romance, they eventually called it quits for good. 

“Right now, we don’t communicate at all,” she revealed to E! News in 2020. “I’m hoping that it will get better with time but I don’t have a big vision. I don’t have anything negative to say. I hope for our kids that everything works itself out in whatever direction that may be.” 

Kailyn Lowry & Elijah Scott

A strong enough one that she finally said yes to one of his many proposals, in fact. 

“He asked me to marry him several times and I never said no,” Kailyn insisted to E! News in September 2024 of her neighbor-turned-life partner. “I was just like, ‘Yes, but not right now.’” 

And though she acknowledged that the construction worker “definitely changed my stance on marriage,” she’s not exactly rushing out to buy a white dress. Joked Kailyn, “How soon we get married depends on the day that you ask me now.” 

Though Indiana-based Jade Cline and Sean Austin had more than their share of ups and down since welcoming daughter Kloie in 2017, in January 2022 Jade teased to fans that they were on the rise. 

“There were some major, major things that happened with our lives and major improvements that happen with Sean’s life as well and with his future,” she told E! News. “I’m really proud of him and where we are today.” Eight months later, the pair announced their engagement, marrying in October 2023. 

“I know for sure my relationship isn’t always perfect,” Jade told E! News in 2024. “But we love each other and we make it work.”

Ashley Jones & Bar Smith

California natives Ashley Jones and Bar Smith privately wed in 2021—four years after they welcomed daughter Holly.

But after calling off their romance several times, Ashley officially filed for divorce in 2024. 

Years after 16 and Pregnant star Briana DeJesus and Devoin Austin II welcomed their daughter Nova in 2011, they flirted with giving their romance another shot. 

These days, however, Briana told E! News in 2024, “I want a man man, I don’t want a little boy that I’ve been so used to dating back in the past.”

Briana DeJesus & Luis Miguel

After starring on the single season of Teen Mom 3, Briana joined the cast of Teen Mom 2 in its eighth season, and gave birth to her second daughter, Stella, with ex-boyfriend Luis Miguel, on July 2017.

Since then, Luis’ involvement has been spotty at best. “I think he wants a family with me,” Briana explained to Dr. Drew in a December 2019 Teen Mom 2 episode, “and since I’m not giving that to him, he just wants to stay away completely.”

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