Kailyn Lowry Recalls Spending ‘Almost a Million Dollars’ on Custody Battle With ‘Tumultuous’ Ex

Former Teen Mom star Kailyn Lowry got real about why coparenting with some exes is easier than others.

“It depends on the day,” Lowry, 34, said during her Monday, June 22, appearance on Gia Giudice’s “Casual Chaos” podcast. “One of the dads, we’re email-only. So we don’t do phone calls unless we schedule it. We don’t communicate via text or anything like that. It’s just strictly email.”

Without sharing names, Lowry said things are “super tumultuous” with another one of her exes.

“I’ve spent almost a million dollars on that child custody case,” she said. “It’s been a wild ride.”

Lowry is a mother of seven kids with four different dads.

She welcomed first son Isaac Elliott, 16, with high school boyfriend Jo Rivera. Her pregnancy was chronicled during MTV’s 16 and Pregnant in 2010. Lowry and ex Javi Marroquin share son Lincoln, 12. She also welcomed sons Lux, 8, and Creed, 5, with Chris Lopez. Lowry’s three youngest kids — Rio, 3, and twins Verse and Valley, 2 — are shared with ex-fiancé Elijah Scott.

Lowry explained that social media “tea pages” make it “really hard” when it comes to parenting.

“That’s challenging because they’re watching what I do, what the kids’ dads do, and then they have these opinions. The kids see that,” she explained. “If it wasn’t for that, I feel like it would be so much more simple.”

Even though Lowry and Scott split in July 2025, they’re still neighbors — which makes things easier.

“We share a driveway. … It’s convenient,” she said during Monday’s podcast episode. “We have not needed to go to court. We don’t have child support orders.”

She continued, “If anyone was to ask me what my perfect scenario is for coparenting, it’s that one, because it is so easy. It really is. I mean, the neighbor is crazy.”

Lowry joked that her current boyfriend, Isaac “Ike” Knighton, “loves it” and laughed off the entire situation.

“I’m sure he loves it. I’m sure. I’m sure the ex loves it too,” she said. “It’s truly grounds for a reality show, but I digress.”

Lowry offered a separate coparenting update on the “LadyGang” podcast late last month.

“Truly, who you parent with will make or break the entire experience,” she said on the May 27 podcast episode. “It’s already hard enough with the most supportive partner in the world.”

She added, “When you have a partner or don’t have a partner and you kind of go into it blindly. … When you’re in the trenches of parenthood and motherhood and you thought you were going to raise a child with someone, it kind of puts you into, like, a fight or flight situation.”