TEEN Mom Mackenzie McKee has admitted she never thought she’d be a “single mom” as she celebrates the holidays without her ex-husband.
The Teen Mom OG alum announced that she and her husband Josh McKee, 29, had split in July of this year.
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Mackenzie, 28, took to her Instagram Stories to open up to her followers about the new struggles that come with parenting alone.
The former Teen Mom posted a photo of her completing a coloring page taken from a Kraft Mac and Cheese box that one could assume she to be working on with her children.
The reality TV star shares three children, Gannon, 11, Jaxie, eight, and Broncs, six, with her ex-husband.
Text over the snapshot read: “Never thought I’d be doing this single mom thing.”
She continued: “Never thought my holidays would look the way they do. But I’m okay with this, just these kiddos and me.”
Mackenzie then added: “No one here to break my heart.”
Last week, Mackenzie gave fans a glimpse of her first Thanksgiving since her split from Josh.
On Thursday, the ex-MTV star kept her one million followers up-to-date with how she was celebrating the annual holiday.
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In the morning she showed off a video of her new “monster” treadmill at home.
“I’m gonna try and get a 5k in under 30 minutes today and then it’s time for Thanksgiving and I can eat more! Let’s go!” the 28-year-old said.
She later shared a video of her treadmill screen and confirmed she had run 5k in 20 minutes at her “average pace”.
“Happy Thanksgiving! I need to get faster!” Mackenzie said, before later admitting that she’d got her numbers mixed up.
As she stood in her bathroom dressed in a brown crop top and blue jeans, she explained: “So I just realized that I didn’t run a 5k this morning, I ran 3.02 miles and I was supposed to run… I was thinking 0.1, I was supposed to run 3.1 so I didn’t run a full 5k, I need another stretch.”
“But I still was gonna do it under 30 minutes, so Happy Thanksgiving from us!” the MTV alum added as she panned the camera towards her eight-year-old daughter Jaxie.
“Jaxie is so gorgeous!” Mackenzie announced as her daughter asked: “Mom, can we go now?”
They then headed to their friends Mike and Betsy’s house where Mackenzie filmed a man named Drew carving the turkey.
“Drew, you’re doing such a good job for someone who’s never done that, you’re doing amazing!” Mackenzie told him.
Mackenzie clearly enjoyed the feast as she later posted a video of herself laying down with a bloated stomach.
“Oh my gosh, do you guys see this? Like I thought wearing a crop top on Thanksgiving was genuinely a good idea!” she laughed as she filmed her tummy.
All this comes after Mackenzie announced she and her baby daddy Josh had parted ways back in July, and he has since started a new relationship with a woman named Halie.
JOSH’S NEW ROMANCE
Meanwhile, Josh appeared to spend the day with Halie as she took to Instagram and shared a video of him playing an acoustic guitar.
The blonde, who looks very similar to Mackenzie, captioned the video: “Thankful for you.”
Josh has clearly gotten very comfortable with his new girlfriend rather quickly, based on a sexy snap he shared on Instagram.
Earlier this month, the father-of-three posted a pic of Halie straddling him at a bar.
Josh wrapped his arms around the blonde beauty, who was sporting tight blue jeans and a black leather jacket.
She smiled with one arm raised in the air, and the other draped around his neck.
The former TV personality pressed his lips to her breasts, hiding behind her jacket and his baseball cap.
‘FOUGHT HARD’
As previously mentioned, Mackenzie broke her silence on her split from Josh back in July when she confirmed that “it’s over” and admitted she “fought hard.”
Mackenzie posted the message to her Instagram alongside two photos with her former man.
One of them on a beach, another a couples’ selfie – she wrote, “With all the messages I’m receiving and articles coming out, I wanted you guys to hear what’s going on from me alone.
“Sometimes things work and sometimes, no matter how hard you fight, it just doesn’t work out.
“I am breaking my silence about Josh and I being done.”
The Teen Mom 2 alum continued on the split, “I will always respect him as the father of my children but it’s time for me to find my happy.”
She then asked her followers to go to her bio for “my full statement.” with a broken heart emoji.
There she linked to a news story that confirmed the first definitive words from her on Tuesday.
The outlet CeleBuzz had written, “After ups and downs in her relationship with Josh, she’s exclusively confirming that her marriage is over.”
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