Maci Bookout

Maci DeShane McKinney (née Bookout; born August 10, 1991) is an American reality television personality, author, and public speaker. Born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, she received public attention after being cast in the reality television series 16 and Pregnant in 2009, which documented the pregnancies and first months of motherhood for several young women. Later that year she was cast in the spin-off series Teen Mom, and appeared in each of its four seasons until its conclusion in 2012. In March 2015, Bookout, along with Catelynn Baltierra, Amber Portwood, and Farrah Abraham, returned to MTV for the fifth season of the show, renamed Teen Mom OG. In September 2016 she released her first book, Bulletproof, and she released her second book, I Wasn't Born Bulletproof: Lessons I've Learned (So You Don't Have To), in June 2017. 2Personal life Maci Deshane Bookout was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on August 10, 1991 to parents Gene and Sharon Bookout; she also has an older brother named Matt. After graduating from Ooltewah High School in 2008, she attended Chattanooga State Community College and graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in Spring 2015. Bookout became pregnant with her first child with then-boyfriend Ryan Edwards, and gave birth to their son, Bentley Cadence Edwards, on October 27, 2008. The two got engaged in 2009 but subsequently ended their relationship in 2010. After the breakup with Edwards, Bookout began dating childhood friend Kyle King. The pair briefly lived together but ended their relationship in 2012 amid rumors of King's infidelity.Bookout began dating Taylor McKinney, a motocross racer from Texas, in 201