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MTV’s most iconic duo! Jenelle Evans is popping over a brand new leaf together with her mother, Barbara Evans, since gaining custody of her 13-year-old son, Jace, earlier this yr.
“It’s good after we can all get alongside 💐❤️ #HappyMothersDay,” the Teen Mother 2 alum, 31, wrote by way of Instagram on Monday, Could 15, alongside a sequence of images from her household’s Mom’s Day get-together.
The primary snap included the vast majority of Jenelle and husband David Eason’s blended household: Eason’s daughter Maryssa, 15, whom he shares with ex-wife Whitney Johnson, Jace, whom Jenelle shared with ex Andrew Lewis, son Kaiser, 8, whom Jenelle shares with ex Nathan Griffith, and Jenelle and Eason’s daughter Ensley, 6. (Eason can be father to son Kaden, 9, with ex Olivia Leedham.) Barbara, for her half, stood in entrance of Jace, who put his arm round his grandmother. The group all smiled for the digicam as they posed in entrance of a waterway.
The second image featured simply Jenelle, Eason and their youngsters, whereas the third had the previous MTV persona posing together with her three little ones. Jenelle additionally shared solo photographs of herself whereas out to eat together with her household, in addition to one image of her and her eldest, whom she regained custody of earlier this yr, Us Weekly completely revealed on the time. (Barbara had been Jace’s main guardian since he was a child.)
All through her time on 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mother 2, Jenelle and her mother have had their justifiable share of drama through the years, notably when it involved custody of Jace. In March, nevertheless, the Learn Between the Strains writer completely instructed Us that she and Barbara labored issues out and transferred custody to Jenelle.
“My mother and I made a decision collectively to grant full custody again to me as a result of we wish to construct our relationship again as mom and daughter,” Jenelle completely instructed Us in an announcement on the time. “Additionally, my mom agrees it’s time for Jace to be again together with his siblings and dwelling with a mom and father.”
Whereas Barbara had been caring for her grandson his whole life, her daughter instructed Us that her mother had given her blessing for {the teenager} to dwell with Jenelle and her husband, 34.
“She additionally thinks it’s essential for Jace to be round a father determine to be taught ‘boy issues’ and have ‘males speak.’ She has seen the way in which David mother and father my youngsters and she or he is aware of we’re capable of deal with it,” the North Carolina native defined of the choice. “We wish to all get alongside for the sake of the kids and like I stated earlier than, constructing again our relationship as mom and daughter. We’ve got formally signed the papers on Thursday, March sixteenth on the courthouse, it’s a completed deal!”
Along with strengthening her bond with Jace, Jenelle confessed to E! Information that whereas she and her mother have additionally been engaged on bettering their dynamic, it’s nonetheless troublesome typically.
“My relationship with my mom has [gotten] slightly higher, however honestly she continues to be slightly controlling,” she instructed the outlet in late March. “I believe it’s going to take time for her to get used to this variation.”
