Former Teen Mom star Jenelle Evans says that she and her mom Barbara Evans are getting along these days. In fact, the relationship between Babs and Jenelle has improved so much that Barb even took to social media this week to do a bit of trolling for her daughter!
Jenelle sat down with Us Weekly earlier this week to give an update on her life, including the status of her relationship with mom. The former Lady of The Land revealed that things are currently “good” with Barb and that the two even “talk from time to time”— a surprising update, given that the two weren’t on speaking terms for most of 2023 and 2024.
Barb and Jenelle have seemingly found a few areas of common ground— one of those apparently being hating on Jenelle’s ex-husband David Eason!
On Thursday, Barbara surfed onto her former son-in-law’s Facebook page to offer her comments on his relationship with his 11-years-younger girlfriend, Kenleigh Heatwole. (As The Ashley has reported, Jenelle is none-too-fond of Kenleigh and the two have sparred on social media numerous times since Kenleigh and David got together last year.)
Using her personal Facebook page, Barbara left a comment on a photo David posted of him and Kenleigh kissing. When one person wrote that they think Kenleigh looks enough like David to be his sister, Babs added her two cents.
“She’s 25. Like kissing his daughter. SICK,” Barb wrote. (The comment has since been deleted, though.)
Despite Barbara hopping on Jenelle’s Troll Train, the fired ‘Teen Mom’ star didn’t have great things to say about her mom during her press tour leading up to her disastrous “Divorce Party” on Thursday.
Jenelle stated that— although they are getting along now— she doesn’t communicate with her mom frequently because Barbara is just too much to handle.
“ … [We talk] but, like, not every day,” Jenelle said, claiming that it’s good for there to be some distance between her and her mother.
“ … I can only handle her in doses, you know what I’m saying?”
Last week, Jenelle told Access Hollywood that her and her mom have been “catching up during the week” and are on “civil terms” right now.
Still, Barbara and Jenelle’s relationship has come a long way in just one year. As The Ashley reported in May 2024, Jenelle was feuding with her mom and even took to social media to demand that people stop asking her about Barb.
“Listen, everyone needs to stop bringing up my mom,” Jenelle wrote at the time. “She has caused so much damage within the past year, I need to heal before she’s ever brought back into my life again.”
Although Jenelle and Babs had been fighting on and off for years, the mother/daughter pair had been enjoying a decent relationship (for them, anyway) up until about June 2023 when they became estranged again. Things between the mother and daughter got even more tense after Jenelle’s son Jace (whom Barb raised for the majority of his life) ran away from Jenelle’s home several times. In August 2023, Barb offered her thoughts on the Jace situation during an interview with TMZ, which set Jenelle off even more.
In September 2023, The Ashley broke the news that Jenelle had attempted to file a restraining order against Barb, claiming that she and her children were in danger of “serious and immediate injury” at the hands of Babs. Jenelle also stated in the court documents that she was unhappy that Barbara had continued to talk to ‘Teen Mom’ producers about her.
In court documents exclusively obtained by The Ashley, Jenelle demanded a judge forbid Barb from speaking to— or about— her or her children; to keep Barb from buying or owning weapons and— most giggle-inducing— to keep Babs from “name-calling” her in their texts, all of which Jenelle claims is causing her “emotional distress.” Her request for the restraining order was eventually denied by a judge.
