16 and Pregnant

Mackenzie Douthit and Alexandria Sekella have earned promotions from 16 & Pregnant. They will reportedly be among the cast of MTV's new Teen Mom 3!

According to Radar, anyway, so who knows. Mackenzie, an Oklahoma native, is mom to son Gannon, and she’s engaged to her baby's father Josh McKee.

The cheerleader got attention ever since this season’s 16 & Pregnant trailer (below), posing in her cheerleading uniform and lamenting her weight gain.

16 and Pregnant Trailer

Douthit was an easy choice for MTV. “She comes from a stable family; seems to have her life in order,” a source says. “They wanted someone like that.”

Alexandria Sekella, meanwhile, lives in Pennsylvania (the same state as Teen Mom 2 star Kailyn Lowry and Jo Rivera), and is mom to daughter Arabella.

On Alex’s emotional episode she gut-wrenchingly considered giving her baby up for adoption, much like original Teen Mom star Catelynn Lowell has.

Her ex-boyfriend and former fiancee, Matt McCann, entered rehab in December for a drug addiction, something Teen Mom 2's Jenelle Evans knows well.

“Both of them are excited to be on Teen Mom 3,” the source claims. “It’ll be quite a journey for them. Viewers loved them and can’t wait to see more.”

It's barely been six months since Child Protective Services took away their daughter, but 16 & Pregnant's Ebony and Josh Rendon are totally pregnant again.

Ebony is currently 10 weeks preggers with the couple's second child.

According to Josh Rendon and Ebony Jackson (her maiden name), the pregnancy was NOT planned, but he adds, "We are extremely excited for the baby."

Incredibly, CPS took away Josh and Ebony's toddler last year because of the AWFUL living conditions in their home, and they were arrested for child endangerment.

We are talking a house full of flies and maggots and dog and human feces present in EVERY ROOM INSIDE THE RESIDENCE on the walls and floor. Apparently.

More incredibly, their girl is STILL with CPS, and Josh and Ebony only get supervised visitation. The case is still pending ... but won't apply to baby #2!

Josh tells TMZ that he and Ebony have learned from their mistakes, completed parenting classes, and now keep their home in "immaculate" condition.

That said, they're 100 percent ready for another kid and currently fighting to regain full custody of their first daughter. That's ... good to hear? Maybe?

MTV returned with a fourth season of 16 and Pregnant last night.

In the first of back-to-back episodes, viewers were introduced to cheerleader Mackenzie and BF Josh, who has dreams of making it big on the rodeo circuit.

He's already had a few too many concussions, though, and his most recent injury, to the neck, was actually sustained a car wreck. Doesn't bode well.

The highlight, if you can call it that, was Mackenzie donning a full cheerleading outfit, thinking she can still cheer with the best of them at 36 weeks.

16 and Pregnant Trailer

Clearly, Mackenzie and Josh are in denial, and the second episode featuring Katie and Joey showed another twosome almost equally as overwhelmed.

Katie gave up her dreams of college, while both of them wound up living with his parents during and after the pregnancy. Their ambitions are all on hold.

Despite the new 16 and Pregnant cast, the broad point remains the same: This is not a glamorous life, but one girls and guys should think very hard about.

Raising a baby upends lives permanently, and is not something many can handle at a young age. This should be a deterrent, or at least a cautionary tale.

Of course, these are basically unofficial audition tapes for Teen Mom, which will pick the most interesting 16 & Pregnant stars for its mega-hit spinoff.

Whitney Purvis of 16 & pregnant was arrested in Georgia yesterday for bogarting a home pregnancy test at her local Walmart ... and using it in the store.

According to police, the 20-year-old "Never Nervous" Purvis stashed a First Response pregnancy test inside her hooded jacket and sneaked off to the john.

Whitney then "took it to the restroom with her and used one."

Purvis allegedly tried to sneak out of the store through a side door but was busted by store security, who put her under citizens arrest and called police.

Yes, she used a pregnancy test AT Walmart - retail price $15.98, like $4.00 less than CVS! - and got popped by Walmart rent-a-cops. All in a day's work.

Purvis was hauled to a nearby station where she was booked for misdemeanor theft by shoplifting and joined THG's exclusive celebrity mug shots page.

Purvis was featured on the MTV show in 2009. Her mom was busted for meth in Georgia last year. She recently dumped her slacker baby daddy too.

We've already posted MTV's 16 and Pregnant trailer for Season 4. Now we have your first look at the cast of the new season, premiering Tuesday, March 27.

The U.S. teen birth rate has reportedly declined by nearly 10 percent in the last few years, helping douse criticism that the show is glamorizing teen pregnancy.

However, there are still plenty of cute teen moms for casting directors to choose from, and these 12 high schoolers from across the nation made the cut.

Spoiler alert: There are more cheerleaders than ever!

1. Lindsey Harrison (above). The model and cage fighter complains that she "cannot do anything I normally would do" after she becomes pregnant. Now 17, she gave birth to daughter Aniyah in October and is still seeing her baby daddy.

2. Myranda Trevino. Almost the high school track star lives in Texas with baby daughter Kaylee Michelle (born in September) and is dating baby daddy Eric.

3. Katie Yeager. Now 17, Katie gave birth to her daughter Molly last August. She lives in Wyoming and appears to be on good terms with baby daddy Joey Maes.   

4. Mackenzie Douthit (above). The Oklahoma cheerleader's has a son, Gannon, with her boyfriend, Josh, who has a rodeo accident during her pregnancy.

The first 16 and Pregnant Season 4 trailer has been released by MTV, and gives fans a first look at 12 new struggling, knocked up kids / Teen Mom stars to be.

Debuting March 27, the new season features stars ranging from a former model and cage fighter to a teen mom deciding whether to put her newborn up for adoption.

"I'm pregnant," one of the soon-to-be moms says, "Like, what fun is that?"

Seriously. What a drag. Not that she's alone. Another mom playfully screams along with her baby during bath time. "I know," she says. "I feel the same way."

Watch the trailer for the new season of 16 and Pregnant below:

16 and Pregnant Trailer

These youngsters have their work cut out for them. If last night's Teen Mom 2 reunion show is any indication, things aren't about to get any easier soon.

Whitney Purvis of 16 and Pregnant fame had enough of her baby daddy's slacker, lazy lifestyle, so she kicked his ass to the curb and peaced out with their child.

That'll send a message alright.

Now 18, Whitney "Never Nervous" Purvis was living with her boyfriend and their son in an apartment in Georgia up until a couple of weeks ago. Then she bailed.

According to Whitney, Weston Gosa "was gone all the time. He wouldn’t come home until 3 in the morning ... I was home with the baby and he was nowhere to be found.”

But Whitney doesn't believe Weston was cheating. She says:

"You definitely know when someone is cheating on you. He was just out with his friends all the time getting all messed up ... I don’t want that around my kid.”

Whitney claims that the pair was fighting constantly and she just couldn't take it anymore, so she moved back in with her parents - and her son came with.

Weston has yet to comment, but he is giving Josh Rendon and Ebony Jackson a run for their unfit parenting money. Good thing Whitney stepped up.

Josh and Ebony Rendon, the 16 & Pregnant duo whose daughter was taken away after officials found their home covered in human waste, were reunited with her at last.

The Department of Human Services in Arkansas took away 2-year-old daughter Jocelyn. Police then arrested them for child endangerment ... as well as drug possession.

Here are the mug shots of Josh Rendon and Ebony Jackson ...

The couple has since cleaned up their act ... and the squalor they lived in.

DHS has awarded them visitation twice a week - for two hours at a time, with supervision. Hey, that's better than no visits and/or ones featuring human waste.

Sources close to the married couple say that despite what happened, they are dead set on regaining full custody of their girl, and "will prove they mean business."

Josh and Ebony have already enrolled in parenting classes and therapy sessions. Let this be a lesson to you, Jordan Ward and Kianna Randall. Or maybe not.

A November 10 court date has been set to see if they'll get their kid back.

Maybe Jordan Ward and Kianna Randall of 16 & Pregnant fame are angling their own MTV spinoff called 18 & Pregnant ... because they both are, according to reports.

"Jordan's baby girl is due in November," a friend confirms.

She's already the mother of 18-month-old Noah. As we reported earlier this year, Jordan Ward's pregnancy was announced via Facebook as an eff-you to the haters.

The also-pregnant Kianna, meanwhile, already has an 11-month-old son, Kay'den (yep, that apostrophe is correct). It's unclear when she's due with her second one.

Jordan Ward is married at least. Kianna Randall? We're not sure.

Being knocked up while facing felony charges for allegedly attempting to break into a home in Tarrant County, Tex., poses some new complications for her, though.

Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised by any of this.

"One out of four teen moms will have a repeat birth within two years," said 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom "therapist" Dr. Drew Pinsky on the show's recent reunion.

There you go. We would've bet on Jenelle Evans, though. Even if she knows what control is, it's unlikely she'd remember to use it in a blacked-out drunken haze.

Josh Rendon of 16 and Pregnant is currently under investigation by the U.S. military for his conduct leading up to his arrest early this week on charges of endangering the welfare of a child (and various drug charges to boot).

As we reported yesterday, Josh Rendon and Ebony Jackson were both busted ON the Little Rock Air Force Base Rendon for putting their kid at risk (and doing drugs).

He could be court-martialed in addition to his legal woes.

On Tuesday, police raided Rendon and Ebony's home, after someone complained about living conditions in the house. Police found the place covered in feces.

Yes, actual fecal waste.

The couple's 2-year-old daughter was taken away by the Department of Human Services. If he gets kicked out of the military, Rendon and his wife will undoubtedly lose their home, because they live on the Air Force base.

Not a good situation. Maybe hire a housekeeper.