Bristol Palin and her Playgirl-posing baby daddy Levi Johnston shocked more than just the world when they announced their engagement on the cover of US Weekly. As Kaiser covered yesterday, they admitted in their interview that they hadn’t yet told Bristol’s mom Sarah, who has had a very public war of the words with Levi since his first split with her daughter. (Levi has since issued a vague apology.) In response to the news, Sarah gave a very terse statement that didn’t wish the new couple well or say she was happy or anything. It was downright disapproving. “Bristol at 19 is now a young adult. We obviously want what’s best for our children. Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives.”
An editor from US Weekly was on the Today Show this morning and she had several key details about the upcoming article that were interesting. The couple wants to plan an outdoor wedding within a month to six weeks. Bristol has her heart set on wearing a Carolina Herrera gown like the one she donned for her glamorous Bazaar photoshoot. She’s going to keep it classy, though, and plans on camouflage vests for her infant son and fiance. Bristol and Levi say they’re keen to have more kids but deny that they’re pushing the wedding because Bristol is pregnant. In fact they claim that they’re waiting to have sex (again) until they get married. Are they going to say that their next baby is premature when it arrives seven months after their wedding? Give me a break! Even if that’s true that they’re saving themselves, it’s a terrible reason to get married at 19.
There’s also speculation as to whether Sarah Palin will actually attend the wedding of her oldest daughter to a guy she once called a porn star. She hasn’t yet RSVPed, according to US’ editor, and given how much she dislikes Levi it’s unclear if she’ll show up. Popeater reports that Sarah is “furious“ about the wedding and “wants Levi to disappear.”
US Weekly has a new video (below) of Bristol describing the romantic rose-strewn way that Levi proposed. She looks starry-eyed and goofy as if she has no memory of the way he talked smack about her family to the press. As for Levi’s past indiscretions, Bristol tells US Weekly “I forgive him for what he did. He was young, mad, misguided. We’re moving on.”
Why are these two in such a rush to get married though? Is it because Bristol’s pregnant, because they’re dying to have sex again, or do they love each other and think it’s necessary to be married for Tripp’s sake? It could be for cash, too, considering that US Weekly admits that Bristol and Levi were paid for interview and photo session. I wonder how much their wedding photos will fetch.
That baby’s eyes are looking into my soul…….creepy.
They look really cute.
Wow a great reason to get married. For the possible endless ways of making moola.
Yep, a match made in Reality TV heaven.
I still think she’s pregnant.
When this marriage fails, is she going on another national speaking tour to talk about life as a divorcee?
Dumbasses.
They are epic frikkin’ idiots. They couldn’t even figure out BIRTH CONTROL, now they’re going to get married? Fail in the brains department.
And like they’re not getting it on. B*tch, please. Nobody is buying that line of BS.
Something about these two makes me nauseous. Bristol is just too pat with her answers….and he is creeeeeeeepy. And what’s with the press release?? Who are you two that you need a press release? Something’s not right..
She seems like a giggly little girl planning her dream Hunter Barbie wedding to her first boyfriend. But in reality, there’s a kid involved, and a lot of family members who don’t like each other, and her parents are mad. This is not going to be 100% happy or easy, I just hope they’re thinking it through.
I find it icky to discuss what is or isn’t happening in the bedroom. Not everything needs to be discussed publicly!
And I do agree she’s probably pregnant again, otherwise what’s the rush?
That’s a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted isn’t it??
We’re not involved in their relationship (neither is Sarah). It’s not for anybody but them to decide whether or not they’re making a mistake. I guess they already have a baby, probably are living together for the sake of their baby, so why wait a year to get married? I’m not a fan of their family, but if they’re trying to be good parents and put their kid first, good for them. Even if they get divorced, 50% of marriages end in divorce so what does that say about American in general? Are the critics of Bristol and Levi really any better? Who gets to make those judgment calls?
That child looks nothing, absolutely nothing like either one of them.
It’s a good idea, since they already have a child together.
@Denise – Read Dlisted much??
I agree the child looks NOTHING like either one of them. I found that kind of wierd. But it really dosen’t mean anything. I’m the only person in my family with green eyes, and I have no idea where my brother got his blonde hair.
At any rate. I’m rooting for them. I like them together. Congrats!!
@Icekitty
I saw the pic of the baby yesterday on Dlisted, and thought dang, that kids eyes are creepy. But no, I did’nt read the rest of the article. These people don’t interest me. I think this family has alot of skeletons in their closet.
Uuuuuugggh…good luck to them.
This just strikes me as another way for Levi to extend his fifteen minutes of fame. First he does the Playgirl shoot, then he attacks Sarah Palin, and now that nobody cares about him again, he pops up out of the blue once more, this time engaged. Geez, will he just go away already?
he figured out it’s cheaper to keep her…no child support
That is a straight-up Omen baby…creepy.
I think she’s pregnant again, too. No one in that family knows how to be truthful. Everything is a deception.
What’s with all the nose surgery, Bristol ?? Yuck.
wait…that’s bristol palin? i thought it was shannon doherty with about 20 extra pounds. what did she do to her face?
hey if theyre waiting this time doing things the right way good for them…im half-believing it only cuz shes on an astinence campaign is the reason shes saying this?
What in the Photoshop hell did Us do to Bristol’s pretty face? If she were on the cover alone without Levi and the baby, I wouldn’t have recognized her.
The interview was awkward, but hey, if they want to get married, I wish them the best. Levi showed a lack of discretion and foresight when he trashed publicly the woman who will now become his mother-in-law, but he is not detestible and neither is Bristol.
Shotgun wedding: part Deux
Hate to say it, but if you’re not mature enough to break this news to your parents in person, you’ll probably wind up with a long, drama-ridden road to divorce.
She forgives him because he WAS young when he bashed her family???
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i can see their idiocy from my house
Since, in this family, there are Track, Trig and Trip, if this couple has more offspring is the child going to be named Trim, Trick, or Treat?
I am sure Thanksgiving will be interesting at the Palin’s!
@ Wayne – Don’t forget Trap! Although I think that’s a rather unkind name for a baby, it’s not like those other names are any less so.
BP (wow, unfortunate initials!) is so pregnant again. Yeah, I’m voting for the “full-term-sized preemie” 7 months after the wedding. (My husband’s ex had one of those, because it was either that or Miraculous Conception. She clung to that claim with everyone, including her doctor. Can we say “Delusional?”)
Even so, I don’t wish this couple any ill will. Another commenter said if they’re not mature enough to tell her mom in person, they’re not mature enough to be getting married. True, that. (OH! Another “T” name!)
didn’t his mom do jail time for meth?
I seriously would not have recognized her. (in fact I think I said that on yesterdays story about this)
I think she is preggo again, too. Maybe thats why she looks “off”; maybe she is already starting to gain some bebe weight?
Eh-can anyone explain to me why anyone other than some prolife Palin fanatic would give a shit????
Why is this girl who has NOT practiced abstiencce that apparently is so important to her and her mother become some poster child for young girls?
She has done everything that I would not want my daughter to do including getting knocked up with some moronic boy, not using birth control and then opting to have a baby when its clear that other than her mothers noteriety from which she has benefited there is no way either her or the father could support a child….
@cprincess – well said! I don’t understand why this is being considered news by all the media outlets? I have to wonder if this is all a publicity stunt geared toward the upcoming Palin reality show. So gross.
@ andrea – ROFL!!!!!
They faked the first engagement for the political party how do we know they aren’t doing it this time? I don’t believe a word that comes out of either of their mouths.
Also do both parents have brown eyes? Because that baby had the brightest blue eyes ever. I love eye color combinations.
Don’t know whether she’s pregnant, but I believe that Levi was telling the truth initially about all things Palin. I think he just claimed later to have made some things up to get back in the parents’ good graces. It clearly hasn’t worked with Sarah, but I think her new son-in-law has better judgment than she has.
She strikes me as being very naive and a hopeless romantic, he strikes me as an idiot. Maybe she’s the one Palin called retarded. Now that would make sense. And if she’s a mom and not pissed about this, then I would think she’s crazy. I would be livid. And my daughter, who was also raised well, also offered BC pills, got preggers at 17. On purpose. I think Bristol did, too.
this could be good. after the hoopla dies down from their wedding and the condo payment comes due and they’re short of funds, maybe they’ll go ahead and write a tell-all expose about mama palin and all her dirty little secrets, and papa palin and all his seceding-from-the-union rantings. that’d be a book to read!
I wish I married my first serious boyfriend – but I was told I shouldn’t be ridiculous, was too young, needed to date others, etc. Now – after a baker’s dozen of failed relationships (and several kids too) – my mother has has the nerve to ask me, “What ever happened to __________? He was such a great guy.”
In any event, I wish them the best! They’re just trying to keep it simple from what I can tell. Good on them!
She looks way older than her years. Living with Sarah must do that to a person…
@andrea — that cracked me up 😉
I don’t think it’s right for anyone to make fun of a baby. How pathetic can you get?!? Wow..The baby is cute and just because he has blonde hair and blue eyes does not make him the omen baby.
@ Andrea – I had the LOL’s at your comment – hilarious!
Another carefully orchestrated drama to keep the family in the limelight, $$$ rolling in, and warm fuzzies for all the god-fearing, ultra-right wing conservatives – Palin’s gotta try to get more of them over to her side in time for her 2012 run for President, dontcha know?
This must be her idea of transparency in politics – use the kiddies for publicity and sympathy – then complain about the media for being up-in-their-business. Nothing like shameless PR and hypocrisy to keep the Palin machine churning…
Who else smells another reality show cooking in Wasilla?
Pregnant.
::This is not going to be 100% happy or easy, I just hope they’re thinking it through::
NO marriage is 100% easy or happy. And as for thinking it through, this is Bristol and Levi after all, so I highly doubt that. Just a month ago she was all over the media talking about how she was raising her son alone and badmouthing Levi and now all of a sudden he isn’t just forgiven but they are getting married?! Wow, this girl must really be trying to piss off her mom! Big time. Honestly, it just shows that Sexy Sarah can’t even control what’s going on in her own house, nonetheless anywhere else. I really do hope they write a tell-all, some part of me is secretly thrilled she married the one guy that is trying his darnest to bring her down.
I don’t trust Levi as far as I can throw him.
Somethings up…………
Sahah is livid ’cause Bristol ISN’T sleeping w/ Levi?
AWESOME HEADLINE!
Whatever, they’re both adults at this point. They can make their own decisions.
Hm I thought the little one looked like Bristol. It’s crazy how much Bristol’s voice sounds like her mother, too.
@ Jazz: Ha ha, great analogy!
To be fair, who is 100% in control of 19 year olds? Thats whats so scarey…you can’t and you shouldn’t be. Bristol is making her own decisions and lets see what happens. But I suspect she wants the “respectability” of being married. It must be hard to be the poster girl for single teenage mothers. Lets be a bit kind here.
Oh, this girl is royally stupid. And young. I actually feel a…modicum…of pity for her. She obviously doesn’t know herself (being 19,and all)and doesn’t really have the chance to with her values and actions constantly being unduly influenced by the values and expectations of others.
They are probably dying to f*ck, too, if they aren’t already. Don’t want all those abstinence programs calling her for a refund, after all. Think about it: she’s reconciled with the baby daddy, and there’s no way that they’d be “dating” and NOT bumping uglies. So, what then is one’s next course of action? Marriage – standard issue for the morally-cornered.
I’ll bet the only reason they’re not hitting the sheets together NOW is because they already had another pregnancy scare, hence the reason to get married so soon. And of course they were scared to tell her mom that (they thought) they were pregnant again!
@ Wayne – hahaha, they’ll have twins, the boy will be named Trick and the girl named Treat.
I don’t honestly see the problem. They may be young, but if it doesn’t work out they can just get divorced. People make marriage out to be a big deal but it honestly doesn’t have to be forever. It’s 2010. If it’s a mistake, let them make it then undo it.
To me, marriage is just a piece of paper. It’s the love that counts, and you don’t need paper for that.
And before everyone rages, no, I don’t take marriage that seriously. Deal with it. I take love seriously. That’s the part that matters. Not a piece of paper telling you it’s official to love someone.
TG- i think at lest one of the two have hazel eyes, although it is possible they both have a light brown color.
in my family my husband and i have hazel eyes, and two of my children have blue eyes, one has brown, and one has green/gray. my husband is the only one in his family with hazel eyes-his parents and brother all have blue. eye color is so interesting!
I think the intelligence between the two of them is next to nil but you know what? Good for them!
Let them get married. I agree with something someone else said a few posts up from mine though – because the families can’t stand each other, I see a divorce in the future. Either that, or a very VERY drama-filled marriage.
And guess what? The more the merrier. Because drama like this will decrease Palin’s chances of any political ticket for a very long time. (Thank the lord!)
Keep making mommy Palin mad and creating more drama you two, you’re doing GREAT!! 😀
She still is carrying weight, it might be from the baby, but it could also be from currently being pregnant.
I don’t know, she comes off as being more infatuated then him.
The whole thing is pathetic. And I love how people on here are saying we shouldn’t judge, um, hello, they put themselves on the cover of US. If they don’t want comments then they should stay private.
god she’s ugly. and preggers AGAIN.