When Farrah Abraham was introduced to MTV audiences in 2009, she was a 17-year-old high school cheerleader from Council Bluffs, Iowa, navigating a high-risk pregnancy under tragic circumstances. Her high school boyfriend and the father of her unborn child, Derek Underwood, had died in a car crash just months before their daughter, Sophia, was born.

Yet, as audiences quickly discovered on 16 and Pregnant and its long-running spin-off Teen Mom OG, the tragedy of lost love was only one side of Farrah’s story. The other was an explosive, highly turbulent relationship with her mother, Debra Danielsen. Over fifteen years of television cameras, public family therapy, legal arrests, and musical rebrands, the pair transformed from an overbearing parent-teen dynamic into one of pop culture’s most famously fractured family bonds.

Farrah on Debra

Farrah has recently stated that her mother acts like a sociopath.

“Just having the education and the words now, to know, like, ‘Hey, if you’re acting like a sociopath, then that is what you are.”

Adding that, “Go find your own identity outside of your daughters’ and people hating your daughter and joining in that”.