Mackenzie McKee is pregnant— with twins!
The Teen Mom: The Next Chapter star made the announcement on The Drew Barrymore Show on Monday, revealing to Drew Barrymore that the IVF process she and her fiancé Khesanio Hall have been documenting on and off the show was successful— very successful.
“No one knows I’m pregnant but I am!” Mackenzie gleefully announced, with her co-star Briana DeJesus sitting by her side.
She then revealed that “there’s two in there!”
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Then, joking about her past history of having unplanned “oopsie babies,” the mom of three stated, “It was planned— finally!”
(As ‘Teen Mom’ fans know, Mackenzie shares three kids– Gannon, Jaxie and Broncs— with her ex-husband Josh McKee, although Josh is not very involved in his kids’ lives.)
Mackenzie and Khes– who has no children of his own—went to Brown Fertility Center to discuss their options about having a baby, due to Mack having had her tubes tied after her son Broncs was born. They pursed IVF and documented the process on ‘Next Chapter,’ but had not yet revealed to the public that the procedure had been successful.
“We loved being a part of @mackenziemckee & @khezzii fertility journey! Giving family’s their miracle(s) is so special to us! Congrats to you both and to the many others on their journey to parenthood,” the fertility clinic wrote in the comment section of the post.
After the news broke, Khes took to his Instagram to announce the news himself.
“Say you’re forever blessed without saying you’re forever blessed!” he wrote in the caption of a sonogram photo showing two babies. “2 little soccer stars will be coming soon!! Mom and dad can’t wait to meet you both!”
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On a recent episode of ‘Next Chapter,’ Mackenzie explained that there was a good possibility they could end up having twins, due to the IVF process.
“We are choosing to transfer two [embryos],” Mack said, adding that they transferred two because there will be an 80 percent chance that at least one of them will be successful.
“However, this comes with the risk that there’s a 20 percent chance that both of them stick and you have twins,” she said. “There’s a two percent chance that these both split and now you’ve got four [babies]!”
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While both Mack and Khes agreed that having four babies would be “very bad,” Mackenzie explained that she would rather be told she was pregnant with twins, than not pregnant at all, due to the toll the IVF has taken on her body. (Mack is a Type 1 diabetic who had high-risk pregnancies with her other kids.)
“I don’t think I can go through this again, to be very honest,” she said.
Mackenzie and Khes got engaged in 2024, and Mack has stated how wonderful Khes has been to her children.
“He did not have kids until he met me,” Mackenzie has said of Khes. “Now he’s the best parent I’ve ever met.”
“I’m just really happy and I’ve never had this kind of love,” Mackenzie— who was unhappily married to Josh from 2013 until 2022— said in another interview last year. “I just really, really look up to [Khes] as a person and he just kind of stepped in and raised these kids.”
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Praying for a safe pregnancy and healthy babies. Twin pregnancy is rough, but such a blessing.
Good luck to them. Khess seems like a great guy and Mack seems so much more mature since she moved away from her hick hometown and left Jawsh.
I agree. Her mom really held her back. Since then her business has grown, she left Josh, entered a healthy relationship, and has really blossomed.
Happy for her but that’s high risk on high risk and I hope she stays healthy. Nothing better than when two people love each other and are blessed with a baby or two, happy for them
This is great news for them and hopefully Mack can have a safe pregnancy. Carrying twins as a diabetic is really hard
5 kids, my word!!! Congrats to them both though, and here’s hoping she and the babies stay strong and healthy!
Am I crazy or wasn’t there a late term miscarriage of a baby named Oakley before Gannon? Or was this just a store line for the show? There are articles online but I’ve never heard her speak of this on the shot BUT I don’t watch regular.
I have heard the same thing but never confirmed
@Kristy. You’re not crazy, it’s true: https://www.theashleysrealityroundup.com/2013/02/03/exclusive-teen-mom-3%E2%80%99-star-mackenzie-douthit-reveals-secret-first-pregnancy/
I asked her this on Snapchat once and she blocked me.
That’s not appropriate. I don’t blame her for blocking you. You shouldn’t just go ask a stranger about their pregnancy loss. My mom had two ectopic pregnancies and my friend had a stillbirth. It’s was terrible.
The reason these girls got pregnant as teens never gets addressed. And so they keep having children. Even though they’re not the greatest parents to the kids they already have. And the void still isn’t filled. So they need to be with a man and they need to keep having children. But nothing changes. The cycle continues.
Have you ever thought that maybe she’s happy now? She’s in a loving relationship with a man who wants children of his own. While helping to raise kids who aren’t biologically his. It’s no different than any other 30 year old having kids. She had a rough start. Josh is absolutely worthless, but her mom constantly pushed her to stay with him. No matter how bad he was to her/kids.
You don’t know anything about what goes on between them or their lives.
I don’t judge her for finding true love and having more kids. They are not teens now and if she can afford IVF then I am sure she can take care of ALL her kids. You are 100% correct.
The reason these girls got pregnant as teens has often been addressed. “We didn’t use protection”. “We made a poor choice”. A lot of these girls came from loving, stable homes and had great support systems. They’re individual humans and they’re responsible for their own choices. To be fussy about them growing up and having more kids and growing functional families is genuinely so fkn weird
A little yes, a little no. For some of them, like Jenelle, Kail, and Amber…they’re playing out the same thing with every new relationship and pregnancy…something like “a baby will make this man stay AND give me a baby who HAS TO love me! It will fill the gaping hole in my soul due to some kind of previous abandonment or neglect.”
Then there are some like Leah who just break the cycle of marrying and/or procreating with everyone they date, and are fine with the number of kids they have, regardless of if they’re dating someone or not.
And then there are some like Chelsea and Mackenzie (maybe even Cait?) where they’re not having kids with someone to force a bond and make them stay….the bond is already there, and there’s enough love in the relationship itself to not “need” to birth another baby as someone“who has to love them,” as a substitute for their awful BF/husband/casual dating partner…, They’re choosing (as a couple) to expand the family, because they BOTH want to experience parenthood with each other, and they’re trying to live less like “Teen Moms,” with all the drama and chaos, and more like just “husband and wife, mom and dad.”
I side-eye the fact that Mackenzie and Khesanio went for a very-much-planned pregnancy before marriage, though. If you’re both this committed to raising a family for life, why not just get married first to ensure all of the legal/financial/medical rights and benefits you’d get as a married couple, that you won’t as “just” live-in BF/GF. ESPECIALLY bc this is a very risky pregnancy for her with twins and diabetes. Doesn’t she want the legal protection for her current 3 kids that comes with being married to him if she is incapacitated or dies? Doesn’t she want him to be able to be the first person to make decisions about her healthcare if things go wrong?
I would think at this stage of her life, a massive, expensive, televised second wedding, that takes a year or more to plan shouldn’t be on her “must have” list! And if it’s on his…it’s not like Mackenzie is pushing menopause, there would’ve been time for a wedding first and THEN babies.
And if their potential long-term commitment to each other is based solely on whether or not she can have his children, which is why they’re testing that aspect first….I don’t know how I feel about that.
I hope she remains healthy during this pregnancy but man. Why she would want to take this risk, I have no clue. The whole ‘she wants more children/wants children with her new man’ isn’t a strong argument. I’m trying to understand from her perspective why she’d want to risk her entire life with this, why she’d want to take that chance with kids who need their mother.
That’s lovely news. All the best to them both!
I hope it goes well for them. He seems like a much better parent and partner than Josh is, and Mackenzie isn’t the worst parent in this franchise despite some of her dumber decisions.
What an idiot
Hopefully she takes care of her diabetes. I know it was extremely severe with her other pregnancies and there were several times it was at a dangerous level because she would forget to take her insulin.
My other fear for her is that she has discussed that she had severe post partum depression that made her suicidal. I think Khes is a sweetheart and a supportive partner but in no way equipped to handle that. When they were just discussing getting IVF she told the doctor how bad it was. The doctor glossed over it and said nothing. And Khes said something to the effect of “But you have me now!” It’s nice to have support in that situation but it is a hormonal issue not a if you love me enough I won’t be sad issue.
Yes. PPD was the scariest thing I ever went through. I have struggled with depression since I was a kid, but that? That was a whole ‘nother beast. I was *not* myself, and if my Dr didn’t intervene, I honestly don’t know what I would have done. I wish that upon no woman.
I’m sorry you went through it too. I had PPD with my first and unfortunately my doctor had zero knowledge about it. Very scary because you feel out of control. I’m like you I have dealt with depression all my life but PPD hits different.
I’m sorry both of y’all had to go through that. I watched my sister struggle with it. It’s why she chose only one child because she couldn’t do it a second time. She’s also had depression for most of her life. I’m bipolar and her experience honestly scared me out of having kids. There was a point where she had trouble connecting with her daughter and didn’t even want to hold her. It took two years before she was herself again. But this was also in 1996 when some doctors would just tell her she had the “baby blues” and to suck it up.
For real. I should have been hospitalized. I asked for help multiple times and never got anywhere. It was the worse thing I’ve ever gone through and it lasted 2 years. I also did IVF and had several “good embryos” and always wanted at least 2 kids, but hell no. Not going through that again
I’m sorry you went through that! It seems like some people are so insensitive to it, but a chemical imbalance in your brain combined with hormones is a ticking time bomb. I hate it when doctors gaslight their patients.
Yes it’s a very serious issue. I hope she has the resources now to get help – already acknowledging it is the first step. Also, her mom is no longer here to shame her and tell her she should lose custody of her kids for experiencing PPD (yes, really – Angie was an awful woman).