TEEN Mom Kailyn Lowry has fought back tears while describing her eldest son Isaac's broken relationship with his former stepdad, Javi Marroquin.
The MTV alum opened up about how her 13-year-old has been coping with her divorce on Monday's bonus episode of her Coffee Convos podcast.
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Kailyn, 31 - who split from her ex-husband in 2016 after three years of marriage - shared that her son is still struggling with the breakup.
"Truthfully, and I've said it before, and I'll say it again, nothing has hurt Isaac more in his life than my divorce with Javi…nothing has affected him the way that my divorce did…to this day I see the emotional turmoil that my divorce created in Isaac," the Teen Mom 2 alum confessed to her co-host, Lindsie Chrisley, 33.
Kailyn went on to explain that although Isaac's father, Jo Rivera, 31, is very much a part of his life, the now-teenager treated Javi, 30, as a father figure since he saw him more.
She admitted that the divorce also affected Isaac's relationship with his nine-year-old brother, Lincoln, whom his mother shares with Javi.
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"So when we split, Isaac was really struggling with his relationship with Lincoln and with Javi because at the end of the day, even though he looked to Javi as a dad, that wasn't his dad, but Lincoln still got to go do all that stuff, and got to go be with Javi and got to spend that real quality time," the reality star said.
The conversation then got emotional for Kailyn, who said her heart breaks for Isaac that he never mended his relationship with her ex.
"Now, where Isaac is, he doesn't even want to see Javi because I think it brings up so much - I'm going to cry…I just didn't expect this," the mom of four said while choking back tears.
"Isaac doesn't want to see Javi now because I think it still brings up unresolved…it could be abandonment, I don't know because it wasn't like there was a decision made where Isaac's never going to go with Javi again. It's just the way things worked out, you know, Javi had a new family…"
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Javi moved on with his ex-fiancee, Lauren Comeau, 31, who is the mother of his four-year-old son, Eli.
The couple rekindled their romance in the fall of 2022 after Javi was caught in a cheating scandal that involved Kailyn two years earlier.
Kailyn added: "It's really hard to see that Isaac is still struggling with it...I can never take this trauma away from Isaac. That's something he'll have to live with forever."
I DON'T
The Marriage Boot Camp alum reflected on her marriage to Javi on Thursday's episode of the podcast.
She admitted that her divorce made her not want to tie the knot again, despite her boyfriend, Elijah Scott, 24, wanting to take that next step.
"I'm having a hard time now because Elijah wants to get married like yesterday, right? But I'm like, I already made my vows to somebody, and I didn't even follow through with them," Kailyn shared.
"We had this big f***ing wedding, we wrote our own vows...and didn't even follow them, so what the f**k do I look like remarrying and saying all these vows - I didn't even follow through with what I was supposed to do the first time."
Later in the episode, the former Teen Mom star brought up the topic again and called herself a "hypocrite" if she were to get married a second time.
"I don't know if it's just because of this place that I'm in in my life right now. I just feel like I'm a hypocrite if I get married again, and I have no f***ing grounds to get married again or [have any] business getting married again because I didn't [follow through on my vows]."
BABY RUMORS
Meanwhile, chatter has been swirling that Kailyn and Elijah welcomed their first child together and that she's now pregnant with twins.
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A source revealed to the U.S. Sun in February that Kailyn gave birth to her fifth child in November 2022, but the TV star has yet to confirm the news.
In addition to Isaac and Lincoln, she is a mom to sons Lux, six, and Creed, three, with her ex, Chris Lopez, 29.
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