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They’re shown living with their parents on the show, working part time jobs and struggling to pay for basic necessities, but the stars of MTV’s Teen Mom are not broke. Life & Style reports that they earn over $60,000 a year, which actually sounds pretty cheap of MTV considering how popular the show is. After so many of you suggested it, I’ve watched the first five episodes of the second season and I definitely get why so many of you watch this show. It’s kind of fascinating and you feel for these girls and their babies. Now that I know how much money they make I understand how Farrah affords that nice apartment despite complaining constantly about money. It also explains how these kids are able to go out to dinner all the time. Amber and Gary especially seem broke, but it sounds like they’re doing just fine.
Life & Style has learned that the stars of MTV’s hit show Teen Mom are raking in the dough!
“The Teen Mom stars earn $60,000 to $65,000 per season,” a series insider tells Life & Style. It’s enough to provide on-again, off-again couple Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley with comfortable lives — but neither one seems to be a good saver. “Gary says he’s broke,” Gary’s best friend, Jordan Sanchez, tells Life & Style. “The money is the only reason he’s willing to do the show. You can’t walk away from money like that.”
It’s true–in fact, Jordan tells Life & Style that Amber and Gary have already started filming the next season of Teen Mom in Tennessee. Lately, they’ve talked about moving to Florida, where Amber’s uncle owns a business.
[From Life & Style]
Like I said I’ve only seen a few episodes of this show, but this really makes me question how “real” it is. They present it like a kind of documentary and the kids are constantly worried about money and cutting corners to make ends meet. It just seems so false to me if they’re paid so well. Sure $60,000 isn’t a huge amount of money, but it’s good pay and it’s not like they’re living hand to mouth.
It’s easy to imagine Amber and Gary wasting their money because they’re just so trashy. Amber is so damn cruel and nasty and she can be hard to watch. Catelynn and Tyler, who gave up their baby for adoption, are good kids and are probably giving the money to their families. Jezebel is soliciting donations for a college fund for them and on the show it seems like they really need it. Their families look very poor. Maci comes from an upper middle class family and is very responsible, so I can see her managing her money well and continuing to work for her son’s sake. Farrah is somewhat of a dimwit and was shown getting victimized by an online scam in which someone wrote her a bad check and then had her wire them money in exchange for selling her car. (Her mom is a manipulative, abusive bitch though and she’s dealing with a lot.) Farrah’s bank told her that her account was overdrawn for nearly the full amount she wired, so what happened to her MTV paycheck? Does MTV make the stars save that money separately?
It’s good that MTV is paying these kids but then how do they justify showing them barely getting by? Are they putting the money in trust and making them live on whatever they make? I doubt it. Do only the women make $60,000 or do their partners pull in that money too? Producers have some explaining to do.
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Catelynn and Tyler
They’re shown living with their parents on the show, working part time jobs and struggling to pay for basic necessities, but the stars of MTV’s Teen Mom are not broke. Life & Style reports that they earn over $60,000 a year, which actually sounds pretty cheap of MTV considering how popular the show is. After so many of you suggested it, I’ve watched the first five episodes of the second season and I definitely get why so many of you watch this show. It’s kind of fascinating and you feel for these girls and their babies. Now that I know how much money they make I understand how Farrah affords that nice apartment despite complaining constantly about money. It also explains how these kids are able to go out to dinner all the time. Amber and Gary especially seem broke, but it sounds like they’re doing just fine.
Life & Style has learned that the stars of MTV’s hit show Teen Mom are raking in the dough!
“The Teen Mom stars earn $60,000 to $65,000 per season,” a series insider tells Life & Style. It’s enough to provide on-again, off-again couple Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley with comfortable lives — but neither one seems to be a good saver. “Gary says he’s broke,” Gary’s best friend, Jordan Sanchez, tells Life & Style. “The money is the only reason he’s willing to do the show. You can’t walk away from money like that.”
It’s true–in fact, Jordan tells Life & Style that Amber and Gary have already started filming the next season of Teen Mom in Tennessee. Lately, they’ve talked about moving to Florida, where Amber’s uncle owns a business.
[From Life & Style]
Like I said I’ve only seen a few episodes of this show, but this really makes me question how “real” it is. They present it like a kind of documentary and the kids are constantly worried about money and cutting corners to make ends meet. It just seems so false to me if they’re paid so well. Sure $60,000 isn’t a huge amount of money, but it’s good pay and it’s not like they’re living hand to mouth.
It’s easy to imagine Amber and Gary wasting their money because they’re just so trashy. Amber is so damn cruel and nasty and she can be hard to watch. Catelynn and Tyler, who gave up their baby for adoption, are good kids and are probably giving the money to their families. Jezebel is soliciting donations for a college fund for them and on the show it seems like they really need it. Their families look very poor. Maci comes from an upper middle class family and is very responsible, so I can see her managing her money well and continuing to work for her son’s sake. Farrah is somewhat of a dimwit and was shown getting victimized by an online scam in which someone wrote her a bad check and then had her wire them money in exchange for selling her car. (Her mom is a manipulative, abusive bitch though and she’s dealing with a lot.) Farrah’s bank told her that her account was overdrawn for nearly the full amount she wired, so what happened to her MTV paycheck? Does MTV make the stars save that money separately?
It’s good that MTV is paying these kids but then how do they justify showing them barely getting by? Are they putting the money in trust and making them live on whatever they make? I doubt it. Do only the women make $60,000 or do their partners pull in that money too? Producers have some explaining to do.
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Farrah
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Catelynn and Tyler
They’re shown living with their parents on the show, working part time jobs and struggling to pay for basic necessities, but the stars of MTV’s Teen Mom are not broke. Life & Style reports that they earn over $60,000 a year, which actually sounds pretty cheap of MTV considering how popular the show is. After so many of you suggested it, I’ve watched the first five episodes of the second season and I definitely get why so many of you watch this show. It’s kind of fascinating and you feel for these girls and their babies. Now that I know how much money they make I understand how Farrah affords that nice apartment despite complaining constantly about money. It also explains how these kids are able to go out to dinner all the time. Amber and Gary especially seem broke, but it sounds like they’re doing just fine.
Life & Style has learned that the stars of MTV’s hit show Teen Mom are raking in the dough!
“The Teen Mom stars earn $60,000 to $65,000 per season,” a series insider tells Life & Style. It’s enough to provide on-again, off-again couple Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley with comfortable lives — but neither one seems to be a good saver. “Gary says he’s broke,” Gary’s best friend, Jordan Sanchez, tells Life & Style. “The money is the only reason he’s willing to do the show. You can’t walk away from money like that.”
It’s true–in fact, Jordan tells Life & Style that Amber and Gary have already started filming the next season of Teen Mom in Tennessee. Lately, they’ve talked about moving to Florida, where Amber’s uncle owns a business.
[From Life & Style]
Like I said I’ve only seen a few episodes of this show, but this really makes me question how “real” it is. They present it like a kind of documentary and the kids are constantly worried about money and cutting corners to make ends meet. It just seems so false to me if they’re paid so well. Sure $60,000 isn’t a huge amount of money, but it’s good pay and it’s not like they’re living hand to mouth.
It’s easy to imagine Amber and Gary wasting their money because they’re just so trashy. Amber is so damn cruel and nasty and she can be hard to watch. Catelynn and Tyler, who gave up their baby for adoption, are good kids and are probably giving the money to their families. Jezebel is soliciting donations for a college fund for them and on the show it seems like they really need it. Their families look very poor. Maci comes from an upper middle class family and is very responsible, so I can see her managing her money well and continuing to work for her son’s sake. Farrah is somewhat of a dimwit and was shown getting victimized by an online scam in which someone wrote her a bad check and then had her wire them money in exchange for selling her car. (Her mom is a manipulative, abusive bitch though and she’s dealing with a lot.) Farrah’s bank told her that her account was overdrawn for nearly the full amount she wired, so what happened to her MTV paycheck? Does MTV make the stars save that money separately?
It’s good that MTV is paying these kids but then how do they justify showing them barely getting by? Are they putting the money in trust and making them live on whatever they make? I doubt it. Do only the women make $60,000 or do their partners pull in that money too? Producers have some explaining to do.
Maci
Gary and Amber
Farrah
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There is a mythical state of being that everyone strives for, but that seems impossible to achieve...financial security. The point where you know that you will have your food, housing, and other bills paid for the rest of your life and medical emergencies don't have to be disastrous to the bank book is a thing of fairy tales to the majority of the population. Just for rich people, huh? I always wonder who actually considers themselves rich...no matter who you are, unless you're raking in seven figures a year there's just no way you're ever going to have the money for everything you want or need (and maybe not even then, but for someone like me, where even six figures is only existent in my wildest dreams, its only a guess) so where do things like investing and planning for retirement come in? There are so many financial pitfalls that so many people don't even know about before they've experienced them that by the time you figure out you're in serious trouble it looks almost impossible to get out of it.
Author Suze Orman addresses some of these most common of pitfalls directly to that class of people that tend to have the most trouble with finances...women. If you're not a woman, Orman does have some more general finance books available, but in this one she relies on many years of experience as a financial adviser for Merrill Lynch to address financial problems specific to what women often have problems with.
Have you ever felt like there was no way you'd ever get past all the credit card bills, demands for new clothes from your kids or pleas for aid from relatives? Ever find yourself using off the savings account until there's nothing left and making excuses for not making your monthly IRA contributions? Then you're ready for Women and Money. No matter where you're sitting financially, Orman has easy-to-read suggestions that are very useful for anyone from the high-powered career woman to the stay-at-home mom.
First, the author begins by requesting a five-month commitment from her readers with a different task each month. She begins with taking control of the bank balance and making sure every penny is accounted for, then move along to an easy strategy for paying off all your credit cards (though it's expected that it'll take quite a bit longer than a month for substantial debt, it's just forming a good habit for repayment), then progresses along to IRAs and 401K accounts with information on the different types of accounts available.
I found the second half of the book to be the most useful, your mileage may vary depending on where you currently sit in your financial situation, but the second half of the book is devoted mainly to information on setting up trusts, writing wills, what sort of life insurance is available and which is likely the best for you as well as how much coverage is recommended for your situation.
The strategies Orman suggests for budgeting and figuring out how to keep money in a savings account once you manage to put it in as well as making regular contributions to your IRA (and good reasons why you should open an IRA account if you don't already have one). I, for one, am a stay-at-home mom with a full-time writing job that pulls in around $1,500 a month, yet I've been able to redo my budget so I'm well on my way to my $9,000 goal in my emergency savings account and have managed to put at least an extra $50 each into my higher-risk investments and my IRA. Seems impossible, huh? All it's taken is sacrificing one "dining out" time a month and watching the "it's just..." spending a little closer (such as "well it's just $10, might as well") and there's even been a little bit of frivolous spending money for all the hard work.
What makes this book specifically for women is that Orman focuses on the mindset that gets many women in trouble with their money as well as the tendency of many to back down from financial responsibility and who are happy enough to allow the men to handle it. I suppose I'm lucky in this respect, because I know I've been better educated on money management than most so I've made sure to keep a handle on the financial managing and decisions, but there were still quite a few holes in my basic knowledge of finances...some I was aware of and some not.
My Granny sent me this book after seeing it featured on Oprah, and if there's one thing Granny knows it's good books. I have yet to be disappointed by anything she sends me and this book was no exception. The advice given is all pretty basic but the reader is alerted to this fact in the very beginning of the book, it's meant to give basic outlines of the subjects deemed important for those first steps toward financial security in a way that's easy to understand. The author has a very fun and personal way of writing that makes it so easy to keep going from one chapter to the next and encourages the everyday reader to take the steps the author speaks of.
Finally, the book finishes up with a statement to all women who tend to undervalue themselves and their work as well as those who prefer to lurk in the shadows laboring for their family's good without any personal recognition. Confidence is the first step to taking control of all aspects of one's life and in today's world finances are often the most important of these. Overall this is definitely a very worthwhile book to read and I recommend it to any woman who does not feel confident in their financial knowledge.
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