Bristol Palin is back on the defensive, ripping her growing chorus of critics who suggest she's a hypocrite for pushing abstinence all these years.
A few days after announcing that someone she did not name got Bristol Palin pregnant again, she is taking to the Internet with a vengeance.
She has since confirmed that the baby's father is Dakota Meyer, whose wedding to Bristol was supposed to take place Memorial Day weekend.
It didn't happen, though, and upon revealing that she is pregnant, Bristol joined a long list of celebs who have gotten pregnant out of wedlock.
Again.
It's her encore performance - and status as a paid, vocal advocate for abstinence after her first baby was born - that has critics tearing her apart.
Her denials of this fact aren't helping. "I have never been paid as an 'abstinence spokesperson,'" she said, though she was sort of exactly that.
Palin admits she was employed by "the great people at the Candies Foundation [sic]" and paid $262,500 in 2009 for her work as an advocate.
In 2010, she earned $70,000 more. Not bad for the daughter of a V.P. candidate who got knocked up and fake engaged to her high school lover.
Just saying.
Sarah Palin's oldest daughter is the mother of son Tripp, 6, by Levi Johnson, who turned their relationship into a spectacle like no other.
Bristol turned it into serious bank. As for her apparent hypocrisy, Palin insists her focus, and that of Candie's, was preventing teen pregnancy.
Her statements have been stridently pro-abstinence, however.
"Regardless of what I did personally, I just think abstinence is the only 100 percent foolproof way to prevent pregnancy," Bristol has said.
"I'm not going to have sex until I'm married: I can guarantee it."
So much for that, however you want to interpret her job title.
On Greta Van Susteren's On The Record in 2010, she was introduced as such: "Bristol is promoting abstinence for the Candie's Foundation."
Not to mention, her listing on the webpage for the Single Source Speakers Agency lists "abstinence" as the very first topic of her expertise.
Sounds a little like Farrah Abraham saying she's not a porn star while raking it in from porn, just because she decides to call it a sex tape.
If you say something enough times, it must be true, right?
As for her sounding so morose when announcing it last week, and how people took her tone to mean the pregnancy was an accident?
Palin denies this. But is certainly bitter at her critics.
Bristol has pivoted a bit, saying the pregnancy was in fact planned and "not the mistake all these giddy a--holes have loved to assume."
If that's true, does it make it better or worse?
"I am pregnant," Bristol wrote. "This is not the ideal situation, but life is important even if it's not in the most absolute ideal circumstance."
Meanwhile, the Candie's Foundation voiced their support for the "brave" unwed mother, and said in a statement on social media:
"Bristol Palin was enormously helpful in our mission to educate teenagers about the devastating consequences of teen pregnancy."
"Her courage, while still a teenager herself, to admit her mistakes so publicly in an effort to help others was remarkably brave."
"Today, at 24," the group added glowingly, "we can only offer our support to Bristol and her family and respect her request for privacy."
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