TEEN Mom Jenelle Evans explained that she graduated college from the medical assistant program but "fans might not know. As she recovers from an invasive spinal procedure , Jenelle decided to talk to her fans on Instagram stories about some fun facts. I went into the medical assistant program. I had a lot of fun, I enjoyed it.

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The young stars of Teen Mom have been accused of everything from glamorizing pregnancy to being a bad influence on school kids, now three of the stars of the controversial MTV show are defending their behavior to Anderson Cooper and RadarOnline. Farrah, the most famous young mom in the trio, argued that they are actually preventing girls from getting in the same predicament as them. By no means is waking up at 2 a. When the cameras stop rolling I'm still Kailyn, like I'm still the girl that has to take care of my son, go to school, work and do all of these things. I think it's hard for other girls to understand that.

I n , six pregnant teens allowed MTV to film their pregnancies in the hopes that youngsters watching the resultant show — 16 and Pregnant — would learn from their mistakes and wait to start families. They were also hoping for good ratings, of course. Births to teen moms have been steadily dropping since , down 44 percent in nine years, according to the CDC.