Teen Mom’s Tyler Baltierra is “beyond heartbroken” to see photos of daughter Carly being leaked online.
“To say I’m disappointed is an understatement. It’s literally heartbreaking & sad that people are still continuing to share pictures & now videos of Carly,” Baltierra, 33, wrote via his Instagram Story on Saturday, April 5. “The same people & pages who brutalize me & Cate with daily cruelty/hate for just speaking about our adoption story publicly are now participating in sharing her actual picture & video publicly. We haven’t shown her face in over 11 years because that’s what her parents wanted & now all of you are just doing it without a care in the world & it’s truly devastating.”
In July 2009, Baltierra and his wife Catelynn Lowell documented their decision to place Carly for adoption on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant.
While the open adoption was successful for many years with MTV documenting various reunions on the Teen Mom franchise, things have gradually taken a turn with Carly’s adoptive parents Brandon and Teresa Davis taking steps to make it a closed adoption. (In January 2025, Lowell, 33, told Us she hasn’t seen Carly in two years.)
Catelynn Lowell is giving an update about her relationship with her 15-year-old daughter Carly’s adoptive parents. “Adoption is crazy. I’m blocked all because of me sending updates and pictures of her sisters,” the Teen Mom: The Next Chapter star, 32, claimed via her Instagram Story on Monday, September 9. “How is that fair to Carly […]
Baltierra said there were no winners when photos of Carly — singing in a church choir — surfaced online.
“I’m beyond heartbroken for Carly & her parents (if this is something they really didn’t want),” Baltierra wrote via social media. “Every Sunday, I would watch that morning worship, hoping & wishing I’d see her beautiful face & voice that day. I would watch in silence, through tears & feel so much joy in my heart, & I made sure I kept it private to myself.”
According to Baltierra, “those precious few minutes every Sunday” seeing his daughter were very special. Now, those opportunities “could be gone now too” because of the content some people have chosen to share online.
“I’m beyond heartbroken,” he said. “I know everyone will blame me & Cate for this, but just remember…we’re not the ones who have posted her. We’re not the ones who’ve leaked her photos or videos, you all have & that is the sad irony here.”
Lowell and Baltierra — who are also parents to Nova, 10, Vaeda, 5, and Rya, 3 — continue to share their experience with adoption on both Teen Mom: The Next Chapter and PodcastOne’s “Cate & Ty Break It Down” podcast.
Lowell has previously stated that part of the reason they share their story publicly is to let Carly know they have not forgotten about her.
“I want Carly to know that if she’s the one that still wants contact and it’s not happening, I will fight for that ‘til the day I die or until she tells me it’s too hard for me to have contact,” Lowell exclusively shared with Us Weekly in January. “But until that day, I want her to know that I am always here and always willing to do whatever I can.”
Teen Mom stars Tyler Baltierra and Catelynn Lowell have hit back at critics who claimed they’re “bashing” daughter Carly’s adoptive parents. Lowell, 32, shared an Instagram Story on Tuesday, February 4, originally posted by Baltierra, 33, that defended the pair’s decision to speak openly about the child’s adoptive parents, Brandon and Teresa Davis, in recent […]
Until then, Baltierra hopes his critics will rethink their actions online as he waits for the day to be reunited with Carly.
“You all should be ashamed of yourself just as much as you claim to be ashamed of us (for whatever reasons you decide),” he wrote on Saturday. “You’re all adding to so much unnecessary heartbreak & I don’t understand why.”
Teen Mom: The Next Chapter airs on MTV Thursdays at 8 p.m. E.T.
