ASHLEY Jones has a sassy and stern response to rumors that she and husband Bar Smith are close to divorcing.
The Teen Mom shared a selfie of the two of them cuddling on vacation while celebrating Bar’s 25th birthday.
“Next time you ask why he isn’t on my insta , remember it’s cause he’s in my …… heart,” Ashley, 24, captioned the photo.
Beneath it, Bar added his own comment: “I love you baby, thank you for the trip. I had a dope ass birthday.”
Ashley and Bar tied the knot just before appearing on Teen Mom Family Reunion.
But rumors of a troubled relationship started almost immediately after, especially once Ashley opened up to Leah Messer on the MTV show about the status of her strained marriage.
The pair were chatting about Leah’s new romance when the West Virginia native asked: “So what are you and Bar gonna do after this?”
Ashley responded uncertain: “I don’t know. Obviously we’re gonna go back to the same house, but you know I think maybe, like, therapy.”
She elaborated in a confessional, saying: “Right now, my relationship with Bar is just at a space where it needs some TLC and if it doesn’t get that, it could fall apart.”
Ashley went on to tell Leah: “I don’t want to be like Kim Kardashian and be like ‘I feel like a loser’, like, I got married and divorced in 72 f**king hours.
“Not really, I’ve been married a month, but I don’t want to be married and divorced in the same year.”
Ashley said in an interview: “I really want Bar and I to sit down with Coach B because I just want us to work on our communication.
“I don’t want to jump to divorce and make it final when I feel like there’s still hope.”
Ashley revealed the unconventional nature of her relationship with Bar in an early episode of the show.
Co-stars were quick to notice a ring on Ashley’s ring finger after the she arrived on set.
Cheyenne Floyd sat down with her to get to the bottom of it, asking: “Let me look at your hand.
Ashley responds: “It’s what the f**k ever,” which seemed to confuse Cheyenne who asked, “You guys came together. Are you not together?”
Ashley reveals: “We’re married,” which further shocked Cheyenne.
She went on to explain: “We’re married but not together,” adding that she “decided this.”
“I have a lot of anger built up with Bar. I speak one language, he speaks another and we don’t hear each other,” Ashley said on the show, which flashed to an old Teen Mom episode featuring a blowup between them.
Although Ashley claimed to be broken up with her husband, she said in a confessional that she’s hopeful they can “get some tools to be able to speak to each other in the same language.”
She recounted some of Bar’s struggles, telling Cheyenne: “He had an ankle monitor and that put him on the straight and narrow. He was on that for, like, a year and some change.
“During that time, I saw so many positive things that’s when we got married. Now that it’s off, it’s just complacent.”
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