Karley told listeners that 16 and Pregnant wasn’t staged but that producers of the MTV reality show knew how to elicit emotions. “They pay very good attention to you, they study you,” she said. “They know what sets you off, and so they will have you talk about certain things that they know they’re going to get a reaction out of you. I do know that it always frustrated them [that I was] very even-tempered the entire episode, because I didn’t want to look like a f--king idiot on TV.”

It was a different story with Tony, as Karley explained: “My daughters’ dad, however, they knew exactly what to bring up so that he would give them a reaction. They have f--king views to get … If they didn’t get enough information, or they didn’t get the reaction that they wanted [they’d do the scene] over and over again. It got so annoying!”

Even now, years after her 16 and Pregnant episode aired, Karley still gets recognized. “There’s been a few times that people have recognized me at work,” she said. “Actually, my boss recently just found out I was on the show and he won’t stop calling me a celebrity! I told him that if anyone asks what show I was on, to tell them Law & Order or Grey’s Anatomy or something like that! Don’t throw out Teen Mom!”