Maci is the mother of Bentley Cadence Edwards. MTV describes her as the classic teenage overachiever who is smart, athletic, and popular.
Season 1: Maci had aspirations to go away to college with her friends after she graduated high school. Her dreams are now on hold as she struggles to take care of Bentley, take online courses at the state college, and to keep her relationship with her fiance, Ryan, alive.[5] She got a tattoo that says "bulletproof" on her right shoulder, as a symbol that she will remain the same person she has always been through adversity.[6] Although a patient mother and fiance, Maci gets fed up with Ryan when he doesn't help her juggle parenthood, school, and work.[4] Yet, they are faced with more challenges, which begins to strain their already rocky relationship. In the Season 1 finale, Ryan and Maci broke up.[6] Maci said the reason she did the show was because she wanted to get a good message across[6] and stated: "I really just wanted to show girls how hard it was to be a teen parent, I wanted girls who might get pregnant to see there are options out there to move forward with your life and still have goals.".[3] She has gone back to college after dropping her online classes, and now is majoring in journalism and hopes to write a book about her experience being sixteen and pregnant. She also speaks at local high schools to talk about teen pregnancy.[6] At the reunion, Maci and Ryan revealed they are still broken up, and Maci says she's focusing on Bentley and school.
Season 2: Maci begins to date and gets into a relationship with a long-time friend named Kyle. At the same time,she also begins to struggle in a custody fight with her ex-fiance Ryan. Afraid of Bentley being taken away from her, she moves to Nashville to be closer to Kyle.
Kyle admits during the show that going out with her and taking care of Bentley at the same time is too much at one time and they break up soon after.
