‘Teen Mom 2′: Leah miscarries

Leah, who has twin girls, had recently found out she was pregnant for a second time but unfortunately miscarried. Image courtesy of MTV.

Teen Mom Leah Messer has been in and out of the news for various reasons in her young life, but lately she’s been featured in the tabloids for getting pregnant so quickly after giving birth to her twin girls, Aleeah and Aliannah, who are now 2.With the new year, though, came tragic news for the 19-year-old reality star when she miscarried Jan. 13

Both OK! and In Touch magazines reported Leah’s pregnancy early on, but they are currently running slightly different versions of her story. In Touch reports she was two months along in her pregnancy and had originally been pregnant with twins, but a week before the miscarriage, during a routine ultrasound, the technician discovered only one heartbeat, signifying the other twin had died in utero. Leah was devastated, said a friend, but was still excited to be having a baby.  OK! reported that there was only ever one baby. Both magazines reported that in the days leading up to the miscarriage, Leah was suffering from a great deal of pain and then began losing a lot of blood. She then knew she was losing the pregnancy.

While her fiancé, Jeremy Calvert, who proposed over Christmas, was initially supportive, some friends say he’s lost interest in Leah and is being heartless during her time of loss. According to In Touch, her friends said he made her trade in her SUV for a Ford Fusion and he is constantly being pushy with her about finances. The pair have only been dating since August 2010. One friend said she was irritated that Calvert complained of a stomach ache while Leah was recovering from her ordeal. According to her In Touch, her friends say he’s been incredibly insensitive.

Calvert himself tells a different story.

“It’s a devastating experience, but all I can do is support Leah and take things day by day,” he told OK! in an interview. “It’s hard, but we will get through it.”

As many as 10 to 25 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage, according to The American Pregnancy Organization, and most of those occur because of chromosomal abnormalities that wouldn’t allow the baby to live outside the mother’s womb. It’s essentially the body’s way of keeping the mother from experiencing the death of a child later on in its gestational life.

As Leah heals from losing the pregnancy, her friends say they’re sure she’ll think about another baby at some point, but her head’s not in the right place right now to think about it. She needs time to recover from her experience.

The 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom franchises have been criticized by many as glorifying teen pregnancy, but those involved say it does anything but. With Teen Mom Leah going through a divorce and miscarriage in less than a year it certainly looks less than glamorous for her. Other teen moms have experienced similar difficult situations, like Amber Portman, who has been in and out of rehab and jail, and Jenelle Evans, who has been arrested several times since 2010 and has been featured on the show getting into intense physical brawls with her ex-boyfriend, Keiffer Delp.

For now, Leah’s friends are reporting that she is becoming one of the Teen Moms who didn’t get her fairy tale because of her arguments with her fiancé, the loss of the baby and Ali’s continued health problems.

“Everyone told her to slow down the relationship with Jeremy, but she didn’t listen,” a friend of Leah’s told In Touch. “They knew she could get hurt, but no one ever thought she would be living her worst nightmare.”