Teen Mom Alums Taylor Selfridge, Cory Wharton's 3-Year-Old Daughter Hospitalized
MTV star Cory Wharton has played with literal fire and even ran a grueling final with a torn ACL. But no, uh, Challenge has compared to watching his 3-year-old daughter Maya endure yet another lengthy hospital stay.
"It was a nightmare," The Challenge regular recounted in an exclusive interview with E! News. Though Maya has logged a number of days in a hospital bed—her rare congenital heart defect requiring multiple open-heart surgeries—"We didn't see this coming," Wharton explained. "This was out of the blue."
In fact, while Taylor Selfridge, also mom to their 6-year-old daughter Mila, was with the girls, "I was actually filming a project out in Thailand," Wharton shared. "And it took me 32 hours just to fly to see her. The first time seeing her in five weeks, she was on a ventilator. So it was just surreal."
A month after their three-week stay in a Dallas hospital, "There's still a lot of questions on why she formed plastic bronchitis," noted Wharton, who shares Ryder, 9, with Teen Mom star Cheyenne Floyd, "and how these casts were growing in her lungs. And it's scary because there's not a definite answer right now."
What they do know for sure, he said, is "we have all her numbers stable. She's looking good. The pressures in her heart are great."
And as they try to determine how exactly she developed the casts on her lungs that blocked her airways, shared Wharton, safe to say all eyes will be on their soon-to-be 4-year-old.
"It's so scary because they're like, 'Well, is she turning purple? Is she about to pass out?'" he recounted of the advice they received from doctors. "I'm like, I don't want to have to stare at my child, to wait for her to turn purple in order to figure out what's going on."
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Still, they've all been breathing a bit easier since Maya was discharged.
"The minute we left the hospital, she instantly, like, started improving at a rapid rate," Wharton recounted. Up until that point, she had barely said a word during the entire stay, he continued, "You've kind of been scaring us. But then the minute we leave, she's being her goofy self and saying the words she normally would say."
Since then they've definitely adopted a one-day-at-a-time approach. But, he shared, "She's at home right now living her best life."
And she's not the only one.
"Trauma bonding—it is a real thing," Wharton, 35, acknowledged. Though he and Selfridge hadn't been in the best place as a couple leading up to the hospital stay, he said that changed after "three weeks of being together, nonstop, going through that situation, just knowing that we both want what's best for Maya and just dealing with that."
With Maya on a ventilator for five days, "the whole time, you're just kind of keeping her asleep, almost like a seduced coma," he explained. "Me and Taylor, we got to have talks that we normally wouldn't have."
The gist of their conversations, he continued, "was like, 'OK, the little things that we used to worry about, all that stuff, let's push that to the side. We know what we want. We want this family to work. We want to be there for our girls."
While it'd be hard to find the silver lining in every parent's worst nightmare, noted Wharton, "If there was ever, like, a little diamond in the rough or blessing in disguise, it would be that, that me and Taylor did reconnect, and we did decide that, okay, we both have to put time into each other as well."
Because, yes, the terrifying experience did serve as a reminder of just how short life can be.
"It changed my perspective on a lot of things," Wharton acknowledged. "Those little things that you tend to stress about in life kind of went away. It was like, those things don’t matter in the grand scheme, right?"
What does is getting to spend some time in the happiest place on Earth.
"I want to make sure that my girls get to live the best life that they can," Wharton stressed. "Like, 'Let's go outside. Let's go to the park, let's be active.'"
And let's definitely not cancel a planned trip to Disneyland for Mila's April birthday. Checking with Maya's doctor to ensure she'd be up for it, "He was like, 'Take her to Disney, bring her on the rides,'" shared Wharton. "What are we going to do, keep her in a bubble?"
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Wharton has been making some magic for himself as well, also saying yes to an opportunity to train with the United States' men's and women's rugby teams.
Invited by the team at Quest Nutrition to join the scrum in San Diego earlier this month, "I respect those athletes so much that it was an opportunity I just didn't want to pass," Wharton explained. And though he's the type to go hard in training—"If I'm not the person that's sweating the most in the gym, I feel like I'm failing"—learning how to kick a rugby ball was humbling, admitted the former college football player. "But it was a good time to get out there and run around and meet the Olympians."
He also got to stock up on the brand's new releases for his girls. In addition to their layered Stacks Bars, "They have this new protein shake that I'm definitely gonna try to mix that into a smoothie or something for them," he detailed of their Salted Caramel Protein Shake. "The only way to get my kids some fruit or vegetables is to hide it in a smoothie."
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He plans to sneak a little fun into their summer as well.
In addition to an outing to Los Angeles' Catalina Island and a return trip to Disneyland for Maya's 4th birthday June 1, "I'm trying to book a summer trip for all my girls to go somewhere," shared Wharton. "Taylor already told me we're not going anywhere far. I was like, dang, I want to go somewhere far."
On his maybe someday bucket list, "I want to go to Africa, do the safaris, and go to Egypt," he shared. Enduring—and surviving—his worst case scenario, "kind of kickstarted me," added Wharton of making all the plans. "Definitely just take it every day and not taking it for granted and just living our best life."
Of course, he's not alone in that. Check out how other Teen Mom stars have fared with their romantic relationships.
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Viewers watched Catelynn Lowell and now-husband Tyler Baltierra make the difficult choice to place their first daughter, Carly, for adoption, in 2009 on the inaugural season of 16 and Pregnant. After 13 years together, the fan-favorite couple wed in August 2015 and have since had three more daughters: Novalee, Vaeda and Rya.
While the absence of Carly—who lives with her adoptive parents, Brandon and Teresa Davis—still aches, the couple keep fighting for a future.
Their hope is their bond "is whatever she wants," Catelynn told E! News in January 2025. "Whether she just wants a relationship with her biological siblings, if she wants to have a relationship with us, awesome. If she doesn't, totally understand. Whatever that looks like for her. Because it needs to be adoptee-centered."
Together less than six months when she got pregnant, viewers saw Maci Bookout struggle with an irresponsible Ryan Edwards on 16 and Pregnant. Though they got engaged, the high school sweethearts split less than a year after their son Bentley was born in 2008.
These days they're focused on building a co-parenting relationship. "We're in a good place," Maci revealed to E! News in 2023, adding that Ryan is showing up "more consistently now than maybe he ever has before."
Maci Bookout & Taylor McKinney
Maci found her forever teammate in Texan Taylor McKinney in 2012 and the pair soon began building up their squad. They welcomed daughter Jayde in May 2015 and son Maverick a year later, then wed in Florida that October.
Partners in parenting, life and their TTM Lifestyle fashion brand, "He's just my person," she told E! News in 2023. "Even when we've had a rough year together, I think at the end of the day, I still choose him. I like him. And even if I want to punch him in the face sometimes, I'd rather argue with him or have a rough patch with him than never have a rough patch with anybody else."
Despite moving on with new significant others, the MTV stars, who connected while filming The Challenge, continue to co-parent their daughter Ryder together.
"Our biggest thing since day one of Cory coming into Ryder's life was what kind of dad he wanted to be and what kind of parent he wanted to be," Cheyenne explained to E! News in March 2020. "I wasn't going to allow him to be a Disneyland dad or an Instagram dad or just in the moment. He had to be 100 percent. I think from the beginning, he saw my mindset and appreciated it so that's why we co-parent so well."
After their romance ended in 2018, the pair decided to give their relationship a second chance. While celebrating her 28th birthday, Cheyenne confirmed on Instagram that she was back with Zach. In May 2021, the couple welcomed their first child together, son Ace, and got married in September 2022.
"We spent the past two years knocking things off our list," Cheyenne told E! News in 2024. "We wanted to have a baby, we had Ace. We wanted to get married, we had our wedding. We wanted to buy a house, we bought our house."
And now, she continued, "I don't want to do anything. I don't want to set a goal. I want to sit down. I want to be really still. My goal is to be still and just to be happy with where we're at. And just to like each other. That's it. I want nothing else."
Well...maybe a little something. Cheyenne announced she was expecting her third child on a May 2025 episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.
"We definitely kind of teetered back and forth on wanting a baby," Zach told Us Weekly ahead of welcoming son Saint in December 2025. "I wanted one, and then she went through the phase of wanting one, and I wasn’t on the same page as her, but then we kind of came to the same chapter, and we tried to make it work."
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Cory Wharton & Taylor Selfridge
Connecting while filming Ex on the Beach may not sound like the start of a love story, but several years and two kids—daughters Mila and Maya—later, Cory and Are You the One? alum Taylor Selfridge are still making waves.
"We just bought a house," he shared with E! News in 2023, before bringing up that, yes, he's aware that people want to know when they're getting married. "It's definitely being talked about. We have everything but the ring and me just letting her know. Taylor deserves that and it's something that I want and she wants. Right now we're just taking steps to get there."
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Testing the limits of for-better-or-for-worse, Ryan checked into rehab not long after he married Mackenzie Standifer in May 2017, with her giving birth to their first son Jagger in 2018 while Ryan was still in treatment.
Though the pair would welcome daughter Stella in January 2020, Mackenzie filed for divorce three years later.
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Ryan Edwards & Amanda Conner
Following his breakup with Mackenzie, Ryan started dating Amanda in 2023. He popped the question the following year during a family vacation.
The pair welcomed daughter Presley in February 2025, seven months before announcing their marriage.
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Amber Portwood & Gary Shirley
While their very contentious romance came to an end for good in 2013, the couple managed to co-parent their now-teenage daughter Leah for years.
"We have fun together but at a distance," Amber told E! News in January 2022. "But our relationship is good. It's a family now so we treat it as a family more than anything else."
Though, of course, sometimes families fight. In recent years, Amber has taken to social media with enough claims about Gary to suggest they're no longer the friendliest of exes and her growing rift with Leah has been showcased on Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.
After several years together, a proposal and one unsuccessful stint on Marriage Boot Camp, Amber and Boston transplant Matt Baier called off their engagement in 2017.
"Honestly, you just get to a point when you're done hearing things and you just start to not care in a relationship and I think that's what started happening to me and him," Amber revealed on Dr. Drew Pinsky's podcast later that year. "I started not to care anymore about the relationship like you should. I put a wall up so I wouldn't get hurt again pretty much."
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Amber did find love while filming Marriage Boot Camp—connecting with crew member Andrew Glennon while on set. The pair made their debut as a couple at the 2017 MTV Movie Awards and in May 2018, Amber gave birth to the couple's son, James.
But the couple separated not long after Amber was arrested for domestic battery in July 2019. And after a contentious court battle, California native Andrew was awarded sole legal and primary physical custody of their son in 2022.
"I've worked so hard to better myself and improve my relationships with my children," the Teen Mom star told E! News at the time. "While I've always been candid about my past substance abuse and struggles with mental illness, a person should have the chance to redeem themselves and not be tethered to their problems from the past."
Determined not to give up, she added, "If your road has not been perfect, but you've worked hard to become a better, more stable and caring person today, keep moving forward as I will. I'll never stop fighting for my children who I love more than anything."
Amber Portwood & Dimitri Garcia
After meeting Amber on the Internet, Dimitri Garcia made his Teen Mom OG debut in April 2020. "Dimitri is from Belgium. He's 39 so he's 10 years older than me. But he's a very handsome man," Amber shared on the show. "I started opening up to him and we decided we should meet since we like each other."
In April 2021, Amber revealed on the Teen Mom OG reunion special that she was still dating Dimitri. "We've known each other now for 18 months," she explained. "But I haven't seen him in a year though." Though the pair never officially announced a split, Amber introduced new flame Gary Wayt during a June 2024 episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.
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Amber Portwood & Gary Wayt
After Amber connected with Gary 2.0 on a dating app in the fall of 2023, he zoomed into the picture when the Teen Mom vet introduced him to her castmates during a virtual chat.
Though he proposed in May 2024, their betrothal was short-lived. While in North Carolina for her brother's wedding that June, Gary ran off after the pair had a fight, leading Amber to report him as missing.
And while Gary was soon located, the duo's engagment wasn't the only thing left broken.
"I've had to deal with thinking my fiancé was dead for three to four days," Amber said on Teen Mom: The Next Chapter. "I had to deal with literally grieving and trying to make sense of why the f--k would somebody do this to me. I am going through something right now."
"This man broke me," she continued. "I was stable. Right now, this is the first time in years in my life I am not f--king right because a man put a ring on my finger."
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Months after Gary and now-wife Kristina Anderson welcomed daughter Emilee in April 2015, they wed in a sweet beach ceremony.
"You are one of the most beautiful souls I know," Gary wrote in a 2022 Instagram post. "I don’t know how I would do this without you."
The father of Farrah Abraham's daughter Sophia died in an accident two months prior to her birth in December 2008.
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For her first serious relationship since the death of her high school boyfriend, Farrah dated real estate agent Simon Saran on and off for over two years.
Though their 2017 split got ugly (as in cease-and-desist ugly), the two gave a stab at trying to remain friends. Sorta.
"I have no hard feelings against Farrah," Simon told E! News at the time. "We are just from two different worlds. She likes the fake life, I want what's real. I wish the best for her and much success in all of her future endeavors."
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Jenelle Evans and Andrew Lewis, parents to now-teenage Jace, split not long after his 2009 birth, with the model having little involvement in his son's life.
“I do feel bad because that’s Jace's dad," Jenelle reflected on a 2019 episode of Teen Mom 2. "But I know how he is, and I don’t want him to disappoint my son. I don’t want [him] to pop back in and then pop back out."
After a one-year marriage to Courtland Rogers, and having her second child, Kaiser, with ex-fiancé Nathan Griffin in 2014, Jenelle wed David Eason on their North Carolina property in September 2017, eight months after they welcomed their daughter Ensley.
After a particularly rocky stretch saw David charged with a child abuse misdemeanor involving Jace (at the time, Jenelle likened it to a "smear campaign"), Jenelle revealed they had separated.
"I would've skipped straight to divorce but I couldn't because in the state of North Carolina, you have to be legally separated for a year," she explained on social media, "and you have to prove you have two separate addresses."
Their divorce was finalized in July 2025.
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Remember the charmer who asked then-girlfriend Chelsea Houska when he could "sign the papers over for that mistake"?
Completely in the rearview.
Against all odds, the Teen Mom star-turned-HGTV personality has a somewhat copacetic relationship with her high school ex Adam Lind, mom to her eldest daughter Aubree. “There’s no bad vibes and it’s just a very open relationship," she told Us Weekly. "There’s no bad feelings. We see him sometimes and it’s totally fine."
What began as a meet-cute at a gas station in 2014 became forever when Chelsea and Cole DeBoer wed in October 2016. After welcoming son Watson in 2017 and daughters Layne and Walker in 2018 and 2021, respectively, the pair launched a new joint project: Their HGTV series Down Home Fab.
"If we were going to come back to TV, I wanted it to be something lighthearted, feel good and be able to show our authentic selves," Chelsea explained to E! News, sharing why this move felt "so right." As she put it, "This was just such a cool opportunity to do that."
As for whether they're planning any more additions, "I have so many friends who are like, 'We are done,' and they just have that feeling," Chelsea told E! in June 2025. "And I don't know if I'll ever have that feeling."
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Leah Messer & Corey Simms
Though then-high schooler Leah Messer and Corey Simms fought to turn their friendship into a forever family, the parents to now-teenage twins Aleeah and Aliannah filed for divorce six months after their October 2010 wedding.
Corey has been married to Miranda Patterson since 2013.
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Leah went on to wed pipeliner Jeremy Calvert in 2012, the couple welcoming daughter Adalynn the next year.
Though they split in 2015, they have made an effort to co-parent their daughter with sometimes mixed results.
"I'm looking at a complete, better version of myself," Leah told E! News of her girls. "And seeing everything that they love and enjoy doing, and being able to support them in their lives and be a part of it is magical. I love it. I love being a mom, especially a girl mama."
Leah Messer & Jaylan Mobley
By the time Leah went Instagram official with Jaylan Mobley in 2021, the United States Army officer had already charmed her and her daughters.
The couple announced their engagement in August 2022, but broke up that October.
"I needed that breakup," the Teen Mom star confessed to E! News a year later. "I've learned a lot from my last breakup and, moving forward, I do feel like my life is just beginning."
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Kailyn Lowry was just 17 when she and high school boyfriend Jo Rivera welcomed their eldest son, Isaac, in 2010.
And though they split a year later, they've since settled into a comfortable co-parenting arrangement, Kailyn even hosting her now-canceled Baby Mamas No Drama podcast with Jo's wife Vee Torres for years. "We’ve come a long way since we were 18," Kailyn wrote on X after attending Jo and Vee's 2018 wedding. "I couldn’t ask for a better stepmom for isaac."
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Kailyn's second son Lincoln joined the squad in November 2013, roughly a year after the then-star of Teen Mom 2 wed his father Javi Marroquin.
Splitting in late 2016, the former spouses have had an, at times, rocky relationship as they've each moved on.
While Kail moved on to Elijah Scott, Javi wed Lauren Comeau at an intimate ceremony on Florida's Vero Beach in April 2025. "Only my dad, our kids & pastor were there," Lauren wrote on Instagram Stories of son Eli and daughter Maizee. "We have a reception planned for this summer with family and friends. They were fully supportive of this & Jav's mom has got to experience his firsts already so there was no issues. We wanted it to be something special for the boys, and something intimate for our family, and for my dad to walk me down the aisle."
Months after their June 2025 beach bash, the newlyweds announced they were expecting their third child together. "The best honeymoon souvenir," Javi wrote on Instagram in August 2025. "So grateful to be doing this again with you momma! You’re the strongest woman I know and we are beyond lucky."
Though Kailyn welcomed sons Lux and Creed with Chris during their on-and-off romance, they eventually called it quits for good.
"Right now, we don't communicate at all," she revealed to E! News in 2020. "I'm hoping that it will get better with time but I don't have a big vision. I don't have anything negative to say. I hope for our kids that everything works itself out in whatever direction that may be."
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Kailyn Lowry & Elijah Scott
With construction worker Elijah, Kailyn felt she had finally built that strong foundation. "It's been very different from my other partners and my kids' other dads," she told People of Elijah, dad to her son Rio and twins Verse and Valley. "He pours concrete, he gets down and dirty at work. But he's also just a real family man. He's very, very much connected with his own family, with our family, and so he's been a really good partner to me, and I feel like it's a really good match."
A strong enough one that she finally said yes to one of his many proposals, in fact.
"He asked me to marry him several times and I never said no," Kailyn insisted to E! News in September 2024 of her neighbor-turned-life partner. "I was just like, 'Yes, but not right now.'"
Ultimately, though, the timing wasn't right, Kailyn revealing in July 2025 that they had split.
"I get a lot of s--t for leaving my kids' dads,” she detailed on the Give them Lala podcast. "I left all of them because I, to some degree, take no s--t."
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Kailyn Lowry & Isaac "Ike" Knighton
Despit having know Ike "since pretty much high school," Kailyn said things didn't turn romantic until 2025 following her breakup with Elijah.
“I don’t think I expected to have a full-blown relationship," she shared in a January 2026 Patreon video, "but after the first time we hung out, both of us just knew what it was."
Ike moved in with Kailyn soon after, a decision she admitted can seem "selfish" to her kids at first.
"You cannot deny chemistry and attraction when it’s there,” she argued. "If I’m not happy as a woman first, I cannot be a good mom. And I’m not saying I’m relying on men for happiness because—if we are being honest and you look at my track record—they have all made me miserable."
Though Indiana-based Jade Cline and Sean Austin had more than their share of ups and down since welcoming daughter Kloie in 2017, in January 2022 Jade teased to fans that they were on the rise.
"There were some major, major things that happened with our lives and major improvements that happen with Sean's life as well and with his future," she told E! News. "I'm really proud of him and where we are today." Eight months later, the pair announced their engagement, marrying in October 2023.
"I know for sure my relationship isn't always perfect," Jade told E! News in 2024. "But we love each other and we make it work."
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California natives Ashley Jones and Bar Smith privately wed in 2021—four years after they welcomed daughter Holly.
But after calling off their romance several times, Ashley officially filed for divorce in 2024.
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