‘Role Model’ Teen Mom Stars: ‘We’re Trying To Get Rid Of Teen Pregnancy’

Feb. 10 2012, Published 6:30 a.m. ET

By Debbie Emery - RadarOnline.com Reporter

The young stars of Teen Mom have been accused of everything from glamorizing pregnancy to being a bad influence on school kids, now three of the stars of the controversial MTV show are defending their behavior to Anderson Cooper and RadarOnline.com has a preview of their explosive interview.

Farrah Abraham, Chelsea Houska and Kailyn Lowry will all be on Monday’s episode of Anderson, where they fight back against his accusation that many people believe that the reality show sends a message to young girls that you can become famous by getting pregnant.

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“But we don't choose to be on the cover of magazines,” claims Kailyn, and her costars agree.

“Usually they don't say good things about us, and it hurts me and its really hard. For me to change, I live a normal life and stuff and when I'm on a magazine and it says something mean I don't like it,” explains Chelsea.

Farrah, the most famous young mom in the trio, argued that they are actually preventing girls from getting in the same predicament as them.

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“I feel like we're here to be doing a social effort to help get rid of teen pregnancy, and yes we are trying to be role models by showing the reality of our hardships. By no means is waking up at 2 a.m. to check a diaper, or our child's peed in the bed or we have to feed them glamorous.

“I don't think that's glamorous,” Farrah says adamantly.

However, the hard-hitting CNN anchor isn’t going to let the girls excuse themselves that easily.

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“You know other teenagers are going to see you on the cover of a magazine and they may not realize you didn't pose in that picture to be on the cover, some magazine put you on the cover, even though they are saying things which aren't nice about you,” says Cooper.

“You're famous, and this day and age a lot of kids just want to be famous.”

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Kailyn is the first to respond candidly: “I can only speak for myself but I don't feel famous. When the cameras stop rolling I'm still Kailyn, like I'm still the girl that has to take care of my son, go to school, work and do all of these things. I think it's hard for other girls to understand that.”