'Teen Mom' Maci Bookout Talks Struggles and Family in New Tell-All Book!

Teen Mom star Maci Bookout had a rough season on the hit MTV reality series with her feud with castmate Farrah Abraham taking center stage. The reality star has been busy promoting her new book Bulletproof and recently talked about the struggles she has faced as a "Teen Mom."

"I felt like I was constantly hearing people say, 'You make it look so easy' and 'You are always so put together' but I always keep my emotions very internal and I think that came across as me making it look easy," Maci told The Ashley Reality Roundup. "I want people to know that I was struggling and there were times where I had breakdowns and things were really difficult for me. People can really understand what I was going through, even though I may not have said it or put it out there on the show."

The Tennessee native credits her family for her ability to take care of her first child Bentley with baby daddy Ryan Edwards. Maci and Ryan started out on 16 & Pregnant and needed a lot of support since they were so young taking care of a child.

'When people say I'm a favorite 'Teen Mom,' sometimes people don't put into perspective that I'm one of few girls, if not the only girl, who grew up in a very stable household," she told the reality gossip site. "When I had Bentley I had my parents' full support and Ryan's parents' full support and all of my friends. That made it much easier for me to have that behind me. I don't know if any of the girls, except for maybe a couple, had an army behind them like I did. I don't know where I would be or how I would be if I didn't have the support that I did. It's pretty rare to have the support that I had and still have today."

As MStars News reported, the mother of two shocked fans when she wrote in her book about not getting the salary they think she gets for being on television.

"Reality TV can make you very famous, but you basically get the sh*t end of the deal: Everyone knows your name and talks about you, but there's no red-carpet prestige or glamorous piles of money," Maci wrote, via Radar Online. "Once you become a so-called reality TV star, people immediately think you're a high-end celebrity and you travel the world and have a mansion and so much money and all these other things they associate with having your face on television."