Rosie O’Donnell on ‘Teen Mom’: I Watch It with My Teenage Daughter

Kim Kardashian may have had a few, very harsh words for Amber Portwood and all the other teen moms on MTV’s reality show “Teen Mom,” but not everybody feels the same. Rosie O’Donnell certainly doesn’t agree.

Speaking with Us Magazine just recently, Rosie revealed that, contrary to what Kardashian said, the show actually has a positive influence on teen girls because it shows them what may happen if they’re not careful.

In fact, O’Donnell is so convinced that the show is good that she’s always watching it with her teen daughter, she says. It has taught her that precaution must always come first.

“I have to say it’s interesting. My daughter is 13. I watch it with her,” Rosie said of Chelsea, the daughter she adopted with ex partner Kelly Carpenter.

“I think the fantasy for adopted children is to have a baby of their own, and then keeping it, which their mother did not do,” she added.

“The rate of teenage pregnancy is up, so when my daughter saw that [Teen Mom 2] was on the air, I said ‘Let’s watch it’,” she explained.

So she and Chelsea sat down to watch the show – and they both learned that, regardless of what tabloids or some celebrities say, at the end of the day, its message is more of a warning than an encouragement to get pregnant so early in life.

“At the end of almost every episode the mothers say they wish they used protection or waited, ‘My whole life is over,’ or ‘I can’t live the life of a teenager.’ I think it sends out a positive message,” Rosie pointed out.

As for reports that some girls may be trying to get pregnant only to land a spot on the much mediated show from MTV, Rosie said such a thing verges on the “tragic.”

“I do feel sad that all these girls are getting pregnant in an effort to get on a TV show. That’s a little tragic,” she said.