2015 was a crazy year for Bristol Palin. After a whirlwind courtship, she got engaged to a dude named Dakota Meyer. Then, just days before the wedding, she backed out of the whole thing and went on a girls’ trip through Alaska on what would have been her wedding weekend. A short time later, Bristol announced her second pregnancy. She claimed it was Dakota’s child and that it was “planned.” No one believed her, on either count. Dakota and Bristol had drama throughout her pregnancy and after she gave birth to a girl – named Sailor Grace Palin – in December 2015, there were some reports that Dakota demanded a paternity test on the newborn immediately. The claim was that the paternity test revealed that Sailor is Dakota’s daughter (which I still don’t believe 100%) and less than six months after that (June 2016), Dakota and Bristol reunited and got married.
Eleven months after their surprise marriage, she gave birth to her third child (her second with Dakota), another little girl they named Atlee Bay Meyer. Atlee was actually the first child Bristol gave birth to as a married woman, because the GOP is the family-values party of “do as I say, not as I do.” I’d actually forgotten about Bristol, and I guess I thought her relative silence meant that whatever had gone on had settled into a life of domesticity and grifting. I guess Bristol got bored though, because they couldn’t even make it two whole years, you guys.
Bristol Palin and husband Dakota Meyer have called it quits … TMZ has learned. Sources close to the pair — who married in 2016 and have two daughters together — tell us the two no longer live under the same roof. We’ve done some checking and there’s no evidence either of them have filed for divorce.
Meyer and Palin no longer follow each other on Instagram — a platform they both use regularly. Meyer was the last to post a family pic in early January. Even more significant … the pics they’ve posted recently have something missing … wedding rings. It’s unclear what arrangements they’ve made — if any — for temporary custody, but Dakota posted video Monday of him with the kids. We reached out to a rep for Bristol but they had no comment.
I actually feel like reserving judgment on the idea that Bristol possibly just got bored and went looking for some random or whatever. I’m reserving judgment because… well, I’ve always half-way understood her decision to run the f–k away from Dakota. When I spend two minutes on his Instagram, I’m just left feeling… unsettled. He’s a veteran who is into guns, which isn’t an issue in itself, but there’s a very unsettling kind of militancy to him. I don’t know how to explain it. I mean, there are thousands of veterans who love to unwind by going to the shooting range or whatever, and they come across as just normal people. With Dakota, it feels like he’s in some kind of End of Days cult. Of course, we should also keep in mind that Bristol has always been an a–hole too, but I’ve always wondered if she ran away from him in the first place because he did something that justifiably freaked her out. Whatever: no one thought this couple would make it and surprise, they didn’t make it.
Photos courtesy of Instagram.
Hahaha! Darn those “family values” will bite you every time.
If they were black, the conservative reaction wouldn’t be fit to print.
TRUTH. Just imagine if Barack Obama had been married three times and had five children with these three different women, AND had cheated on Michelle with an adult film actress and then paid said actress off.
the hypocrisy of today’s GOP never ceases to amaze me.
@whatWHAT? for a second there, I had to think who the heck you were talking about… my flu riddled brain, obviously let me forget about Mango Mussolini for a moment. HAHAHA
I’ve never thought much of the veneer of upright respectability that gets peddled as “family values”. You know what are real family values? Integrity, respect, self control, caring for others, cooperation, conducting yourself with a modicum of dignity…. Basically nothing I’ve ever seen the Palins demonstrate on any occasion. But the GOP definition of “family values” where you screech loudly about abstinence and being a Christian while doing the exact opposite of those things….. yeah.
When it’s the other guys, “family values” mean they will burn in hell. When it’s one of their own, “family values” mean you have to forgive all transgressions because that’s what Jesus would do. Hypocrisy at it’s finest.
Dakota’s Instagram is an interesting blend of jingoism and shirtless homoerotic ammosexuality. Wonder if a porn offer is in the works like it was for Bristol’s previous baby daddy.
Please Britain… why do you torture yourself with one of America’s most worthless and useless trash family? Here in New England, we rely on her to keep a lookout for Russians every since she said she could see them from her house. By the way, Bristol baby’s name,..there’s an aspirin here in America called Bayer, made by Bristol Meyer. Do you think Bristol is showing us how she randomly came up with a clever name like that?
I’m sorry but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA.
*take breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHHAH
Best of luck to the kids, though, no matter how many there are.
YUP. When I read this last night, all I could do was laugh.
I laughed too. Schadenfreude can be hilarious.
I tend to think their planned wedding broke up because she was about a month further along in her pregnancy with Sailor than she could have been, if Dakota as the father. Bristol posted a picture of herself after giving birth to Sailor, and the interesting thing is that she claimed it was shortly after the birth, but the date written on her IV dressing was for November, not December. Then the picture disappeared for a day and was re-released. Same pic, but reversed. Hair, expression, the folds in her blankets. All the same, but reversed. Just one little change: the November date written on the IV dressing had been whited out, and a December date written in.
After the Dakota/Bristol wedding, a pregnancy was very quickly announced. My conclusion was that the planned wedding was cancelled owing to Bristol being pregnant after her omg what-have-i-done weekend in Vegas, and Dakota knew it couldn’t be his child. When they did get married,Bristol got pregnant right away, which basically tied Dakota to her for a minimum of 18 years of child support. And the marriage couldn’t last because a marriage built on “I’ve got your kid so you’re trapped” couldn’t possibly last. So this is completely hilarious to me. Don’t judge me. Some people watch soap operas.
There is SO much shady information surrounding this family, it’s not even a joke. I don’t doubt for a moment that Dakota Meyer is a creep and that any sane individual would stay far far away from him. But the circumstances surrounding the birth of their first daughter is just like, so weird. Even aside from faking the date of birth and shit. However, I do believe that the kid is Dakota Meyer’s, if only because I think the court ordered the paternity test and it confirmed him as the father so that he could be added to the birth certificate.
There are Republican hypocrites, and then there are the Palin-level hypocrites. Frankly, they’re right on par with the Trumps, and that’s saying a lot.
Gawker has a gif showing that the tape with the November date was manipulated and could have just as easily said 12/23/15 (her delivery date.) She posted a photo after the fact that showed it actually said 12/22/15, the day she was admitted to the hospital. The kid was born in December. Whether or not she’s Dakota’s…who knows.
http://gawker.com/the-new-new-bristol-palin-pregnancy-conspiracy-theory-1751236946
This will not be a simple “ we grew apart or we will remain friends “separation. When it comes to Sarah Palin and her family, you just know messiness and drama will soon appear. This is the calm before the storm.
This^^^
Bristol strikes me as narcissistic, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Dakota suffers from some form of PTSD. A recipe for disaster. This is going to get ugly, and probably in a very public way.
Of course she’s a narcissist. Look who her mother is.
Wait a minute, my mother is a narcissist And I am not one 🙂
@smcollins, he does. He’s openly talked about it, and he’s also talked about his decision to not seek help for it, in spite of having attempted suicide at least once. It’s sad and depressing for him, but the word is that the only reason Bristol married him is because he is a Medal of Honor recipient and that looks good for the Palins.
Everything the Palins touch turns ugly and spiteful and disastrous, and this is likely going to be no different.
Oh, I bet Sarah Palin is not happy about this. Sarah has only had one husband and now her daughter will be a divorcee. Once divorced Bristol is quite likely to get pregnant out of wedlock again based on her previous behavior.
It wouldn’t surprise me if she were pregnant now.
I would be surprised if she isn’t.
I doubt it. Sarah Palin’s first child was also conceived out of wedlock. Iirc, her son also had a baby while not married to the mother. I doubt she really cares much, considering this is really typical behaviour for her family.
Sarah Palin has a pretty varied sexual history herself, she just wasn’t dumb enough to get knocked up by her many paramours.
Meh. I think Kaiser gives Palin too much credit. When has any Palin shied away from anything foolish or dangerous.
I haven’t thought about the Palins much lately but I do now loathe them with a greater intensity, knowing that their brand of right wing ignorance and vitriol is a direct link to how we ended up with President Trump.
@esmom – came here to say the same thing! The Palins and their blind eye to the truth was the precursor to Trump.
That is how I feel about them too. Dakota originally ran from her, didn’t he? I think the whole bunch of them are a basket of trashy loons so who is the worst is impossible to determine.
Given how well the older two Palin kids have done with this marriage and parenting thing, Willow’s fiance might consider making a run for freedom.
That one’s engaged already? Isn’t she like 18 or 19? Yikes.
Willow is 22 or 23, she managed to make it through her teens without having a kid, although that doesn’t mean she was never pregnant. She supposedly trained as a hair stylist. Piper is still in her teens.
I just hate hypocrites in general. I don’t really care about who she has sex with. If her mother wasn’t Sarah Palin, noone would even give a crap about her. It’s the double standard as usual with republicans and the religious nuts.
And these idiots brought two kids , who will likely be brought up in messiest way possible
Great.
cute kids.
I believe it makes sense that the older girl was his and that was the reason they rekindled their relationship and got married. Why would he have done that if the test proved it was not his?
Reportedly he wants an eventual career in politics. Being married to a Palin gives him a higher profile.
so three kids, two baby daddies, and already divorced, so before she’s thirty. yeah she’s killing it with those GOP family values.
Shocking! I’m pretty sure Jesus says divorce and babies out of wedlock causes the terrorists to win or porpoises to take over the world….or something. I’m sure Fox News will let us know that gay people are to blame for this somehow. 🙄
Actually it’s Obama’s fault!! lmao
I wish porpoises WOULD take over the world.
It’s ok as long as they aren’t gay!!! Then it’s an issue.
Or not white.
Oh and one she got pregnant with while getting paid to do abstinence lectures. To not have sex before marriage. Bwahaha.
Honestly I would have no judgement for her if she didn’t go around making money (!!!) from ridiculous “abstinence” lectures and the whole GOP “family values” thing. It’s her life, whatever. But as soon as you start preaching and getting up on your high horse about stuff… then no. If you don’t walk the walk then you get zero respect from me.
Family values though amiright?
He probably didn’t enjoy being bossed around by the Palin mob. That’s my guess
It’s Obamas fault!!!!!
I don’t know how, but with this particular strain of loonies, it always is.
I know they moved to Austin last year to get a fresh start or some bull. I can’t remember her words. I figured he hated Alaska. Interesting.
I moved from Alaska to Texas 20 years ago and it absolutely broke my heart (in Virginia now). I wouldn’t blame her if she ran back….AND far away from him. He seems pretty unhinged.
That should make for a messy custody battle if true, because she will likely want to go back to Alaska.
So she’s unmarried again? I wonder how long before she’s pregnant by unknown baby daddy again. #familyValues
If she isn’t already pregnant by some random. Bristol strikes me as very capable of cheating.
If it comes out that THAT’s why they divorce I’ll meet you back here for cocktails!
And incapable of using birth control.
@BearcatLawyer — you don’t know the half of just how much Bristol Palin is capable of cheating.
This marriage lasted about a year longer than I thought it would. Now back to demonstrating that using abstinence as a contraception method does not work.
Let me gently correct you: abstinence DOES work as contraception. The only problem here is that you have to actually ABSTAIN. That’s not something humans as a species are really very good at, and the Palins in particular are clearly as horrible at abstaining as they are at anything else.
It was Hilary’s emails that did their marriage in 🙁
And Uranium One.
and Benghazi.
Plus the Chem Trails.
And pizza
Haha!
He seems like a decent guy. Wasn’t he a Medal of Honor recipient?
Yes, he is. He seems fine, for a Republican. I think if anything he suffers from the mistakes way too many military men make — getting involved with really messy women.
messy, messy, messy.
He is ultra conservative, and some of the stuff he posts on social media makes me really uncomfortable because it’s pretty clear that he’s playing to a certain crowd.
He has the face of a dudebro who’s honestly puzzled as to why you don’t enjoy your own rape. Just my random thought.
@Ankhel nailed it with that description. totally.
Dakota is playing to the same crowd the Palins do, and the Palins (including Bristol) are very openly big gun fans. I don’t think his politics or guns would be a problem for Bristol.
The paternity testing for her first daughter does sound a tad murky. It’s possible he isn’t the genetic father but made an arrangement to claim her as his for various reasons (not the least of which might be just to give her a real father rather than a one-night stand sperm donor). If she ends up looking like him then that theory is disproven. But he claims her and that really should be enough regardless of DNA. Anybody can be a sperm donor, men become fathers based on what they do after the birth.
Bristol’s third child (or fourth, depending on whether you want to count Trig as Bristol’s as he probably is) may be more problematic. If Dakota planned to be that one’s father (which is possible) and he’s sure Bristol wasn’t cheating on him at the appropriate time, no problem – he is now the father of two. But Bristol has a history of cheating and getting bored with her significant other rather quickly.
Good luck with the custody battle, Dakota. She made Levi’s life hell over that, thinking she could just unilaterally decide the baby was hers and hers alone. Levi had to take her to court over it just to pin down visitation rights early on (both parents still in their teens, not too long after the campaign) and later she had a habit of moving the kid far away from him to make visitation difficult.
Trashy family through and through. Domestic violence arrests, teen pregnancies, multiple baby daddies, divorce and pretty sure the third one is not his. But they sure love judging others.
Damn it if you’re having second thoughts and you cancel a wedding, you don’t force it.
You can reserve judgement-I will not.
She’s made all these choices and practically been lauded as the Virgin Mary despite the stomach churning hypocrisy of preaching family values after having two kids out of wedlock. I don’t feel sorry for her at all. She and the family will do their usual hatchet job on this guy (and possibly he deserves it-I haven’t read anything about him), they’ll probably try and shop another reality show, push forward poor Bristol pieces in any magazine that will pay them and generally make more gross, hypocritical comments against other women who find themselves in the exact same position as her, only without any publicity or support.
And once they get tired of that, it will be falling back on the tried and true “But her emails” and blaming Obama for everything.
So judgemental on the parents. Ok. Does anyone think about the children. Children are always my first thought.
This is exactly who I’ve been thinking about, especially Tripp. That poor boy has been through the mill and several moves with his mother and her messy personal life. I doubt he sees much of his biological father, then he had this guy as a father figure and now Dakota’s going to be gone too (because he will not be a part of any custodial agreement she reaches with this divorce).
And if she decides she’s going back to Alaska and he moves back to Kentucky, this is going to be a disaster for those kids.
If Tripp’s dad doesn’t see him much, it’s not for lack of trying. Bristol has frequently made visitation difficult. But Levi may very well be seeing more of him than the public realizes, he just doesn’t post pictures. He’s had to fight her in court before, but he doesn’t have Palin-level resources
What are we supposed to think about the children? Am I misunderstanding your comment ? This is a gossip site, not family services. Of course everyone hopes for the best for the kids – but we are here to discuss Bristol and fam, and NOT out of concern for her or her situation (or we’d be massively hypocritical). I don’t think anyone here is participating in this forum to share well wishes for Bristol.
The kid on the left in the first photo-her facial expression sums up everything I think about their relationship.
Ha!
I’m amazed it lasted as long as it did. They both sound like a nightmare to be married to. I couldn’t be married to a Palin or a gun nut.
I’m absolutely no fan of the Palin family.
That said, I’ve never understood the constant questioning of her first daughter’s paternity. Is there some timeline that makes that insinuation justified? If not, I think it’s uncalled for.
The other criticisms of their hypocrisy? Of, course.
If I remember correctly, there was a big question about paternity for their first child together – and there’s a theory that she lied about the baby’s birth date (I remember reading an article with a picture of her holding the baby in her hospital bed and someone zoomed in on her IV and it was dated November of that year instead of the late December date she claimed the baby was born). I think she cheated and that prompted the pre-wedding break up and then, after a paternity test, he came around and they got back together.
I don’t pay much attention to the Palin family beyond what’s in People magazine or sites like this, but for some reason I remember the detail of the IV. There are probably a lot more couples who have paternity questions than we realize and I think that it’s one of those things that ideally should be the business of the couple (and the child) only, but the fact that she’s so repellent and, at the same time, keeps doing things that are wholly the opposite of the position she touts make her a target. Having humility without telling haters to eff off would go far for her.
I have vague recollections of some
Instagram posts during her engagement and prior to her pregnancy being announced that made it look like she was cheating with some other guy.
You’re remembering correctly. Bristol had drunken one-night stands (in Vegas?) at the likely time of conception. Her behavior (including the odd alteration of the tag) was suspicious and there was good reason to believe that the child was born earlier than claimed (consistent with the one-night stands as the time of conception).
That family has pulled such schemes before, such as with Trigg. All the evidence points to him being born well before Sarah’s wild ride after her water allegedly broke, to be consistent with her sudden claim to be pregnant about a month before. The most likely theory is that Trigg was born to Bristol, who had been sent off to live with an aunt during the time she would have been showing. Most likely he was supposed to be quietly adopted by someone else who backed out when he was born with Down’s and would need more intensive care. (As Sarah’s son, he would have access to cheap/free medical insurance through her husband’s part Native ancestry. )Then Sarah’s brief pillow baby pregnancy ensued. So he was basically adopted by his grandparents but he has spent a lot of time with Bristol and Tripp.
Sarah seemed rather detached from him but his grandfather and little Piper seemed to really enjoy being with him so I always thought he would be fine. Bristol was his main caregiver during the campaign. There was some question about whether Sarah was properly following up on his early intervention needs, though. Down’s kids don’t automatically hit developmental milestones without more help than most kids need. Sarah seemed inconsistent about him wearing his glasses and hearing aid, for example, if I remember correctly.
I vaguely recall some shenanigans with Tripp’s birth date also but can’t remember the details.
Dakota is the one who asked for paternity testing. The pregnancy and timing were most likely the reason the engagement was broken off. It was obvious that Dakota doubted that child was his during Bristol’s pregnancy.
the hillbilly hootenanny of this trash family is almost quaint at this point.
That poor kid. Sailor Grace’s life is going to be a real mess.
I feel worse for Atlee. That name!!!
That is a jacked name. Twee and ugly at the same time. I can’t be polite when it comes to these garbage people.
This kid’s life once she can talk: “Natalie?” “No, it’s Atlee.” “Ally?” “Atlee.” “Got it. Abby.”
Reminds me of Clement Attlee, the former British PM. He was a socialist. 😁
These people. Ugh.
Quits after two years, just like her mother.
Oh, burn! Lol.
Wasn’t there a story about Dakota being an abusive guy who has PTSD?
Serioiusly, what is her aversion to birth control?
She comes from a family that hates sex ed, contraception, and reproductive choice. And she is an abstinence spokesperson.
@Lee, @Merritt, I don’t normally bring up this type of accusation, because I think it’s often used in a misguided way to smear women. But given the way Bristol Palin and her family tends to operate, there’s a lot to suggest that she gets pregnant exactly when she wants to. As in, it’s not that she’s not aware of birth control, just that she wasn’t interested in using it in this situation.
Yeah, I saw this ending a mile away. I really think he got her down to aisle so he can have parental protection from Bristol and that crazy family of hers. He , like the rest of us, saw what went down with Levi…..and that party they all got arrested at…..and her brother…..and….and…and what I am saying is she and her family are a mess and I think a showdown in family court is coming.
Judging by that top photo, no one in that picture is actually happy. He seems the happiest, but there’s something guarded there. Not one smile in that picture is touching their eyes, and the youngest two look miserable. The older son makes me sad because his smile isn’t real. I hope that Dakota isn’t abusive. Just remembering how many fake smiles I gave as a kid.
No disrespect and I’m not taking away from your experiences, but my daughter looks a lot like the one on the left…she always looks miserable in photos, and I promise she’s a very happy and well-loved toddler. So hopefully all is well for those kiddos too.
Who did she have her son with?
HS boyfriend, Levi somethingoranother
Thanks! It’s hard to keep track with this family.
Don’t they have a son named Track?
These names!
Track is Sarah’s eldest – the serial abuser of women.
So she has three children by two (maybe more) guys at what, like 23? I’d expect nothing less (or more) from Sarah Palin’s daughter.
Yeahhhh I don’t think he’s as crazy as she is. My feeling is that he sought legal advice when it came to the paternity of their first kid and ended up marrying her to get a leg up on custody. Now he’s on both birth certificates and has been clearly established in their lives. It’ll be harder for the Palins to smear him this way
She is the worst, and I get a really bad vibe from him (I’ve seen his Instagram).
Well I would say it’s sad for the kids but if the home situation was hostile, then everyone is better off.
He looks a little like Pence in that b/w photo. Small beady eyes too close together. I wonder if Jesus speaks directly to him, also.
Maybe if Jesus were a spokesman for the NRA. I hear Dakota is a gun nut.
Gosh, they seemed to get off to such a good start.
Who would have thought?
Her name is Bristol Meyers. As the daughter of a pharmacist this makes me laugh a lot. Like a dork. That I am.
Ha ! To dork-ness !! 😁. Love it.
Two idiots.
I spent the better part of yesterday reading up on this chick and her family’s record of manipulating narratives to suit them (not that it really ever works, since everyone with a brain cell knows she’s a lying, self-righteous hypocrite), and hoo boy is Dakota Meyer in for a world of trouble. He’d better lawyer up quick if he knows what’s good for him (and doesn’t want to wind up the same way as Levi Johnston, who has surprisingly emerged from all of this in a good way).