Teen Mom alum Chelsea DeBoer (née Houska) recently launched her own lifestyle brand, Aubree Says, in honor of her daughter Aubree and she couldn’t help but gush about the teen.
“She has such a unique sense of style. She’s so into makeup, which maybe is taking after me a little bit, I like to say. It’s just really crazy,” Chelsea, 33, told Us Weekly in an interview published on Thursday, March 20. “Everyone always says, ‘Aubree’s 15? That makes me feel so old.’ I know! Imagine how I feel. I feel so old, but she’s just so cool and confident, and I love that so much about her.”
She continued, “I’m so proud of her. Just thinking back to how I was when I was her age, I just remember being like, I always wanted to follow the crowd, or I wanted to be someone I wasn’t. She’s just so sure of herself and confident in her sense of style and who she is. I think that is just so cool about her.”
As Aubree has gotten older, Chelsea has become more conscious about what she shares about her daughter’s life.
“I try to lean my content more away from the kids in general,” the reality star, who is also the mom to kids Watson, Layne and Walker with husband Cole DeBoer, said. “If I’m gonna post anything about Aubree, I will ask her if that’s OK with her. I’m like, ‘Do you approve of this photo, or do you approve of this video?’ And if she says no, then do not post that!”
While Chelsea has moved on from her MTV days after exiting the Teen Mom 2 series in 2020, that doesn’t mean she’s stepped away from being in front of the camera entirely. She and Cole, 36, landed their own home renovation show, Down Home Fab, on HGTV in 2023.
“It’s so funny because I like to tell people I totally like slid into HGTV’s DMs,” the South Dakota native exclusively told In Touch in January 2023. “That’s literally how it happened.”
Chelsea and Cole came up with the idea for Down Home Fab as they were in the middle of building their own home in 2020.
“We were building our house and documenting that process, and we were just having so much fun. I was like, wouldn’t it be so cool to be on like HGTV,” she explained. “I just one night – which is so not like me – I just like sent them a message. I was like, ‘It’d be so cool to document this process or whatever.’ I deleted it right away ’cause I was so embarrassed that I wouldn’t ever say that. But they wrote me back, and then it just went up the ladder.”
After they completed their house, Chelsea said that she and Cole were “kind of sad” that the process had come to an end because they had “enjoyed it so much.”
“We want this to be our forever home, so [we were] kind of sad that we don’t get to continue doing this,” Chelsea added, explaining what led the couple to begin renovating homes for other people in South Dakota. “That’s just how the idea came about. We knew that we really enjoyed it and we just wanted to continue.”
