TEEN Mom Leah Messer admitted that ‘we can’t do things alone’ in a quote on her Instagram Stories after she said she ‘doesn’t feel pressured to settle down.’
The MTV star shared the conflicting message following Tuesday night’s episode of Teen Mom 2 where she revealed that she’s enjoying being single.
The quote read: “Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is admit that we can’t do it alone.”
On the contrary, Leah, 29, told cameras that she is comfortable with her single status.
In the episode, the reality star chatted with her daughters about her love life.
The mom-of-three set up an at home nail salon and takes on nail technician duties for her girls, Ali and Aleeah, 11, and Addie, eight.
They are in one of the girl’s bedrooms for “girls time” as the topic about dating comes up ahead of an upcoming doctor’s appointment about a tumor on her breast.
She declared herself a “girl mom” before Addie corrects her to say she’s a “woman, not a girl.”
Leah then pressed Aleeah about her “crush” and asked if the tween is “missing your crush.”
Aleeah turned the tables on her mom and asks “what about your crushes?”
“Are you trying to tell me to date Aleeah,” the Teen Mom asked.
Aleeah responded: “You do need to go on a date soon, you need to actually find someone nice.”
When Leah asked her daughter: “What would be the benefit of me dating?”
Aleeah said she would have someone help her “take out the trash.”
“Is that all the guys are good for?” Leah laughed.
But then Addie correctly pointed out that her and her mom successfully took out the trash every week without a man’s help.
Leah explains she only wants to bring a “positive role model” into their lives and even if she starts dating, the girls might not meet the guy until they got serious.
“I’m Ok with being alone too, I’ve got you guys,” she added.
The clip then cuts away to Leah speaking to camera saying she does not “feel pressure to date.”
“I want to be physically, mentally 100% before I add anyone else to me life,” she explained.
She said she hopes she show them an “example of a healthy relationship” so they “can hopefully to do it differently to what I did.”
Leah was previously married to her twins Ali and Aleeah’s father, Corey Simms, 31, and her youngest child Addie’s father, Jeremy Calvert, 32.
Last month, the TV personality ruled out ever getting back together with either of her ex-husbands but remains committed to co-parenting with them.
During a Q&A on her Instagram stories, fans asked her about dating and marriage – which she vowed never to do again.
One fan asked if she would ever consider getting back together with Jeremy and Leah was very adamant in her response.
“This will NEVER happen!” Leah replied, before adding, “Jeremy is Adalynn’s dad, just as Corey is the twins’ dad.
“We all get along very well and put our daughter’s best interest first. I prefer to keep it that way.
“I will always wish them the best in life.”
The Teen Mom 2 star then told a fan she would “probably not” get married again.
She told another fan: “I’m open to dating, but I don’t think I’ll ever really get married ‘again.’
“I think it’s a lot of pressure on a relationship – for what? But who knows.
“I don’t really think this far into it. I just hope to find someone someday to be weird and old with.”
