Mackenzie McKee is speaking out after enduring weeks of harsh comments from fans regarding her appearance. On Saturday, the Teen Mom: The Next Chapter star opened up about how the negative comments written about her on social media recently have affected her self-esteem. She also used the opportunity to address rumors that have been circulating about her stating that she is on drugs.
In a series of Instagram Stories, Mack confessed that seeing so many mean comments about how “old” she looks has made her very insecure about her appearance.
“The face of a girl full of nerves with a lot of information thrown at her!” Mackenzie captioned a screenshot of her face from a recent ‘Next Chapter’ scene that showed her and her fiancé Khesanio Hall learning their fertility options.
“I’m so happy to be sharing my life and my IVF journey,” Mackenzie– who will turn 30 in October— wrote. “But I’ve read 100s of comments that ‘I look like I’m over 50’ and ‘It is facts that I’m on meth.’”
Mackenzie revealed that the criticism of her appearance has made her begin to search for a solution to help her look younger.
“The last 48 hour[s] I’ve been Googling skincare to ‘make me look younger’ and avoiding mirrors,” she wrote.
Mackenzie — who fans first met at the age of 16 when she appeared on 16 and Pregnant— explained that she is an “extremely animated person” who wears her emotions on her face and frequently tightens her facial muscles when she gets nervous. She went on to declare that she has “had no plastic surgery.” (This is, of course, a rarity in ‘Teen Mom’ Land, where most of the girls have had at least one surgery, and many have been stuffed, sucked and plumped on the plastic surgeon’s operating table numerous times.)
Mackenzie also denied fans’ accusations that she’s on meth (or other drugs.)
“[I] do not use drugs of any sort. (Just insulin),” Mack– a Type 1 diabetic— wrote.
Mackenzie stated that she usually has a thick skin for negative comments and can often “laugh stuff off”; however, the recent attacks on her appearance have left her feeling “super overwhelmed.”
“I pray my daughter never feels this low with how she looks,” Mackenzie wrote. “And, therefore I will teach her what NOT to say about others. And that she is beautiful inside and out!”
Mack went on to tell her fans that she was unaware how people viewed her appearance.
“I can’t help but to feel stupid that I didn’t know I looked old and ‘ran through,’” she wrote. “The Internet can be so beautiful but also it sucks.”
Mackenzie also took the time to respond to some of the mean comments about her left on a recent post to the official ‘Teen Mom’ Instagram account.
“Do you have skin care recommendations?” Mackenzie replied to someone who commented that she looks old. “I eat healthy, don’t do drugs, and just mind my damn business honestly. But since I’m so hideous maybe you can make a suggestion.”
“She has always looked like she would stink to me,” another person wrote, to which Mack replied, “I smell like coconut oil right now!”
“She is aging fast and something is off,” someone else commented. Mackenzie replied, “Literally just living.”
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Other women in the comment section jumped in to defend Mackenzie.
“She’s been through a lot, from losing a parent which is one of the hardest things a child will go through,” one person wrote. “(I lost my dad and looked unhealthy at one point so I get it), left a toxic relationship, and so much change but also growth over the last several years. How about supporting the fact she’s grown, overcome difficult challenges while raising 3 kids solo, and being happy that she found her person who she wants to grow a family with!?”
