{"id":27910,"date":"2026-08-05T00:24:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=27910"},"modified":"2026-08-05T00:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:24:41","slug":"teen-moms-jenelle-evans-celebrates-son-jace-turning-17-gives-update-on-how-hes-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=27910","title":{"rendered":"Teen Mom&#8217;s Jenelle Evans Celebrates Son Jace Turning 17 &#038; Gives Update On How He&#8217;s Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><strong>Jace Evans<\/strong> is 17 years old!<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0Monday, <em>Teen Mom OG<\/em> star <strong>Jenelle Evans<\/strong> shared some sweet snaps of her boy on <strong>Instagram <\/strong>to celebrate his birthday. She wrote in the caption of the carousel of pictures:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI HAVE A 17 YEAR OLD! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"customEmoji lazyload\" style=\"margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; vertical-align: middle; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -moz-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none;\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-emoji-one\/icons\/1F389.png\" height=\"16\"\/>\u00a0Being a teenager can be hard, but you seem to handle it well. You\u2019re so smart, curious about life, and handsome. Hope today is everything you\u2019ve wanted and more! I love you\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/kailyn-lowry-spent-how-much-in-custody-battle-with-tumultuous-ex\/\"><strong>Related: Kailyn Lowry Spent HOW MUCH On Custody Battle With \u2018Tumultuous\u2019 Ex?!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the post (below):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbjO2EcFMOx\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She also offered some insight into how things are going for Jace, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/jenelle-evans-gives-update-son-jace-mental-health-battle-pulling-gun-grandmother-latest\/\">struggled with his mental health and other \u201cups and downs.\u201d<\/a> During a Q&amp;A on her <strong>Stories<\/strong>, someone asked how he was doing and said they\u2019d been praying for him. Jenelle responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s doing good, I\u2019ll let him know <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"customEmoji lazyload\" style=\"margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; vertical-align: middle; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -moz-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none;\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-emoji-one\/icons\/1F495.png\" height=\"16\"\/>\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1250485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1250485\" style=\"width: 1232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1250485 lazyload\" width=\"1232\" src=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/jenelle-jace-update-teen-mom.jpg\" alt=\"Jenelle evans update on jace\" height=\"1244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/jenelle-jace-update-teen-mom.jpg 1232w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/jenelle-jace-update-teen-mom-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/jenelle-jace-update-teen-mom-1014x1024.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/jenelle-jace-update-teen-mom-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/jenelle-jace-update-teen-mom-768x775.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1232px) 100vw, 1232px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1250485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(c) Jenelle Evans\/Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We continue to send love and support to Jace. Happy birthday!<\/p>\n<p class=\"image_cite\"><em>[Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/j_evans1219\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Jenelle Evans\/Instagram<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jace Evans is 17 years old! On\u00a0Monday, Teen Mom OG star Jenelle Evans shared some sweet snaps of her boy on Instagram to celebrate his birthday. She wrote in the caption of the carousel of pictures: \u201cI HAVE A 17 YEAR OLD! \u00a0Being a teenager can be hard, but you seem to handle it well&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/jenelle-evans-celebrates-jace-17-birthday.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-gossip"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}