Kailyn Lowry Tried to Return to Reality TV but Was Turned Down by Producers

Getty "Teen Mom" star Kailyn Lowry wanted to go on "Marriage Boot Camp" again.

Former “Teen Mom” star Kailyn Lowry might be done with MTV, but that doesn’t mean she’s ready to give up on her reality TV career. Lowry attempted to reprise her role on WEtv’s “Marriage Boot Camp,” but producers rejected her bid, she said on the February 10 episode of her podcast, “Barely Famous.”

The mother-of-four was chatting with Dr. Ish Major, one of the hosts of “Marriage Boot Camp.” Lowry first appeared on the reality show in 2016 with her then-husband, Javi Marroquin. By the time the series aired in September 2017, however, they were already divorced. The courts finalized their split in December 2016, per Radar Online.

Lowry, 30, wanted to give “Marriage Boot Camp” a second chance, this time with her current boyfriend, 25-year-old Elijah Scott. But the producers weren’t interested, she said.

Lowry said she had been pleased to find out WEtv’s series was filming season 19 in June.

“I didn’t know ‘Marriage Boot Camp’ was still going,” she said. “I wanted to be on it again.”

She said her agent contacted the show with the proposal. “They said no. They were like, ‘We don’t bring people back,’ but I’m like, why not?”

“It’s a new partner,” she added. “It’s a new situation. It could be a first.” 

Major said it wasn’t “entirely true” that “Marriage Boot Camp” didn’t bring people back. He said they could do it on a “different iteration” of the show, like a “family version.”

He told Lowry it could be possible to come back “in that context” and to “put a pin” in that idea.

It’s not the first time Lowry said she’d be interested in returning to reality TV. While interviewing Perez Hitlon for “Barely Famous” in April 2022, she said she was interested in having her own spinoff.

“I personally feel like I have enough going on to do my own show,” she told Hilton, whose real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. “I want to tell my story with the whole picture painted.”

Lowry said it was important to tell her story with “full transparency.”

“I don’t want parts of it to air so people can fill in their blanks,” she said on “Barely Famous” in 2022. “That’s how I feel. We’ll see as time goes on what that looks like but, for now, I just love podcasting.”

Kailyn Lowry Says She’s the Female ‘Nick Cannon’

Lowry compared herself to Nick Cannon, who has welcomed 12 children with six women since 2011, per People.

Lowry thinks that could be a way to get back on reality TV, considering she has four children with three men. “I’m the girl version of Nick Cannon with all my baby daddies,” she said. “Maybe we just have our own show too.”

Her first child, 13-year-old Isaac, is from her relationship with her high school boyfriend, Jo Rivera; her second child, 8-year-old Lincoln, is from her marriage to Marroquin; and her youngest children — 5-year-old Lux and 2-year-old Creed — are from her relationship with Chris Lopez.

Marroquin and Lowry are currently struggling in their relationship, she said.

“Haven’t really been able to nail it down since ‘Marriage Boot Camp.’ Javi and I aren’t even on speaking terms,” she admitted to Major. “So things got a little crazy. … But we’re strictly co-parenting now. Communicate via email only.”

Lowry then took it back to 2016, telling Major she found out their divorce was finalized the day they got back from “Marriage Boot Camp.”

She admitted to struggling with the decision to go through with the divorce. “He wasn’t ready,” Lowry said about splitting from Marroquin. “I don’t think I necessarily was either.”

In a September 2022 episode of her “Coffee Convos” podcast, Lowry read a text from Marroquin where he accused her of making a “fake narrative.”

“You have a boyfriend. Keep me and my family out of your podcast, out of your life period,” he said in the text, according to Lowry.

Kail Lowry Quit ‘Teen Mom’ in 2022

Lowry quit “Teen Mom” in May 2022 after nearly 13 years with the series.

“I think I need to move on,” she said at the season 11 reunion, per People. “I think I need to do my own thing. I think this needs to be my farewell. I think I’m ready.”

The podcast host had new goals that didn’t align with the show anymore, she said. “I want to focus on my self-growth and my kids,” she told E!’s Daily Pop. “I decided it was time for me to move on.”

Lowry told People she got into podcasting so she could be “recognized” for something other than “Teen Mom.” She hosts three podcasts: “Coffee Convos” with Lindsie Chrisley; “Baby Mamas No Drama” with Vee Rivera; and “Barely Famous.”

“I really wanted to focus on making a name for myself outside of TV,” Lowry told People. “So, people really did have a hard time accepting me for anything other than being a teen mom. I think that was one of the bigger challenges for me.”

In October 2022, “Baby Mamas No Drama” won two People’s Choice Podcast Awards.