Teen Mom dad Ryan Edwards’ wife Mackenzie scores new marketing job & launches fitness company after firing from show
TEEN Mom dad Ryan Edwards’ wife Mackenzie has scored a new marketing job and has launched her own fitness company after their firing from the MTV show.
Ryan, 34, Mackenzie, 25, and his parents, Jen and Larry, were fired from Teen Mom OG in 2021 after their ongoing feud with Maci Bookout.
The Sun can exclusively reveal Mackenzie has secured a job in marketing and has started her own fitness business after life on reality TV.
According to her LinkedIn, Mackenzie began working for Keller Williams Realty as a Marketing Manager in February 2022.
Mackenzie also filed a business license for Grail Fitness on April 4, 2021, The Sun confirmed with the Tennessee Secretary of State.
The address listed for the business is a suite located in a building in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Earlier this month, Mackenzie posted a photo working out, as she showed off her new slimmed-down and toned figure.
As for Ryan, he fabricates buggies.
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SHOW FIRING
The new business ventures come after the couple’s firing from the MTV show.
The Sun broke the Edwards family was let go following a blowout fight between Ryan’s dad Larry and Maci's husband Taylor during the reunion special, where the two men stood up to each other and almost got into a physical fight.
Ryan blamed , who he shares son Bentley, 13, with, for the firing, saying it was “retaliation” for the reunion show fight.
He told The Sun at the time: “Maci is in fear that my mom and dad will start telling the truth. She will always fight to have us off the show.”
Ryan also revealed a fight he got into with MTV producers just before he was terminated from the hit series.
He told The Sun in August: “What got me is when they took my flag down off the porch. They laid it on the ground and when I went down to pick it up they told me it was in their shot.
“I got real angry because it was an American flag and they said it was in their way. I said ‘Either put it back on the post or leave’ and that was the last time they ever came back, I guess.”
Ryan added that he and Mackenzie were contemplating leaving the show before the firing.
He explained: “MTV just stands for a lot of things that my wife and I don’t support, politics and respecting people’s rights, that kind of stuff.
“I just don’t agree with them on a lot of stuff and I didn’t want to work for some place that was like that anymore, they were just way too far out there for me.
“Mackenzie and I were discussing, ‘Do we really want to do this anymore?’ and then I guess they made the decision for us, which was a good decision.
“And then Maci didn’t want us on the show anymore either.”
BATTLE OVER BENTLEY
The former MTV star also admitted that he has been unable to see son Bentley for over a month and believes that Maci has "poisoned" the tween against him.
He said: “I haven’t seen him, my mom and dad haven’t seen him, nobody has seen him.
“I did go to therapy with Bentley but Maci has kind of put a halt on everything after my dad and Taylor had that argument.”
BABY MAMAS AT WAR
Mackenzie also feuded with Maci, as she branded her a “hypocrite” and suggested she has “skeletons in her closet.”
She previously fired to The Sun: “Maci is all about Maci and anybody that gets in Maci’s way or doesn’t do what Maci wants gets cut out.
“Nobody is saying that Ryan hasn’t made mistakes, nobody is saying that I haven’t made mistakes. We own that, we’ve made mistakes but we’ve also learned from them.
“We’re allowed to grow as people and to change but Maci doesn’t allow for anybody to change in her mind.
“It’s all about Maci and Maci making money and portraying on television that they’re one big happy family when they have skeletons in their closet that they don’t want out there either.
“They are very hypocritical.”
The feud started when Maci refused to allow Ryan to see Bentley until he agreed to go to therapy with him.
Ryan has been in and out of rehab and jail in recent years, though he insisted he is sober today.
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Ryan and Mackenzie share son Jagger and daughter Stella.
Ryan is dad to son Bentley with Maci, while Mackenzie is mom to son Hudson from a previous marriage.
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