Bristol Palin, Baby Tripp Photographed By In Touch

Bristol Palin has generally avoided the spotlight ever since her confusing pro-abstinence tour last summer. But now she's opened up to In Touch, giving the celebrity gossip magazine both exclusive photos of her home life and new details about her breakup with Levi Johnston.

Both Bristol and her mother Sarah are featured on the cover, with the headline "We're Glad We Chose Life."

Of her split with the baby's father, Palin said, "I remember sitting on a black recliner, just bawling my eyes out. I was just rocking Tripp to sleep because he had been screaming for so long. I was just like, 'What am I going to do? This is as bad as it gets."

From the press release:

Bristol Palin didn't know what she was in for when she made the life-changing and controversial choice to have a baby at the young age of 18. But after she gave birth to her son, Tripp, in December 2008 -- and broke up with her boyfriend, Levi Johnston -- the reality of single motherhood quickly set in. "I remember sitting on a black recliner, just bawling my eyes out," Bristol tells In Touch. "I was just rocking Tripp to sleep because he had been screaming for so long. I was just like, 'What am I going to do? This is as bad as it gets."

Though raising an infant has been challenging, Bristol has the unconditional love and support of her family -- especially her mother, Sarah Palin. After all, no one can better understand the complicated decision to have a baby under difficult circumstances. Just a year earlier, at the age of 44, Sarah carried her son Trig to term, even though she was told during a sonogram that he would be born with Down syndrome. Now, the mother and daughter are sharing a unique experience-- raising baby boys together under the same roof. In an exclusive interview at the family's home in Alaska on January 10, Sarah and Bristol plopped down on the teenager's bed and opened up about the joys and challenges of raising Tripp and Trig. With Trig's birth, Sarah's vice presidential run and Bristol's very public pregnancy during the campaign, "The last few years have been unreal and surreal," Sarah tells In Touch.

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Comments

[linaya]

10:33 AM on 01/25/2010

That is a creepy looking, homely baby, and I don't mean Sarah's. Bristol should definitely stay a re-virgin from now on.
Eww.

[justobserve]

08:22 AM on 01/23/2010

Well, at least Bristol had learned her lesson the hard way and made a concious decision to be a born again virgin, unlike many other teens who just keep having children without their fathers around. As for Bristol's sueing Levi for child support, she should give him 50% access time as he is willing to take his responsibility too. She should think of her son having a mother and a father even though she now has her family (the Palins) 's full support living with them.

[Susanmg]

01:25 PM on 01/20/2010

Is s that baby eating a whole pie in that picture?

[FawkesNews]

08:27 AM on 01/16/2010

Palin gets 100G for mag cover*

Bristol: "the experience has made her a born-again virgin"

Sarah Palin and her daughter, Bristol, earned an eye-popping $100,000 for their new In Touch Weekly cover, sources say. For just eight hours' work at her own home, Palin pocketed nearly as much as her $125,000-a-year salary as Alaska governor. It seems her decision to quit her political role is making big financial sense. Palin also reportedly earns $100,000 per public-speaking engagement, while she has a multiyear deal as a Fox News Channel analyst. Reps for the magazine and Palin refused to comment on the deal. But in a classic example of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, Bristol -- who gave birth to son Tripp in 2008 after a brief liaison with Playgirl-posing flop Levi Johnston -- told In Touch the experience has made her a born-again virgin and announced, "I'm not going to have sex until I'm married. I can guarantee it."

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/sarah_easy_payout_SMfqvoGHYTM3ntx3fV6K7K#ixzz0cmOlIWxd

[CJAY]

04:44 AM on 01/15/2010

What's so wonderful about Palin choosing to have Trip? I know of several mothers with Downs syndrome children, & they are a joy to be around, & much easier to raise than their children with no disabilities! I'm sure she was able to discover this fact, chose to have him & advertise the fact that she was such a wonderful role model.

[Hammerofthor]

06:42 PM on 01/14/2010

Wow, beautiful family. Must go buy a copy of "In Touch" magazine...now! Thanks, HuffPo.

[usamade]

08:20 AM on 01/14/2010

I can't stand Sarah Palin but i do admire her for having her baby. It has to be a very difficult decision to make when you find out that your baby isn't perfect; and you have the option of ending it.

I am pro choice and really don't know what I would have done.

[JKPHILLY]

08:50 AM on 01/14/2010

Why are you applauding this hillbilly?
Any woman that gets pregnant past 40 knows that the risks are enormous.
She does not get any added props for her stupid risky behavior that caused her to have a child with Downs Syndrome......Did that child ask to be born with that debilitating disease?
NO! Purely selfish!

[sandiegoconservative]

11:56 PM on 01/14/2010

Yeah, bringing a baby into this world and loving him unconditionally. What a selfish gesture and what a horrible thing to do.

Do you even realize how dumb you really are?

[jillian71]

05:32 PM on 01/25/2010

The risks of Downs Syndrome at 40 is about 1% - at age 45 it goes up to about 3% - not an "enormous" risk.

[janeycat]

01:57 AM on 01/14/2010

comments on the bottom of the magazine implies that bristol has found love while being a teen mom.... wonder who passed sarah's test of being a good dad for her g-son ???

hypocrites ... all of them ... wonder how long before sarah put all of them on fox news and they all make money off of fox .... HA

[One more Thing]

01:48 PM on 01/14/2010

Does Levi Johnston get a cut from the fees paid for him son to participate in this story?

[iMissMollyIvins]

01:47 AM on 01/14/2010

Is that a dead fish going with the flow up above the window? I wonder if it's one of ones that washed up on the shore after the Exxon Valiz had it's little mishap.

[One more Thing]

01:49 PM on 01/14/2010

No, that's one Sarah caught this morning and will be served for dinner tonight!

[verycold]

12:16 AM on 01/14/2010

What is really funny is that those of you that spend night and day bashing the Palins are the very people giving they a media life. Every stupid story about Sarah Palin by far gets more comments than any other serious subject. It is almost like all of you are addicted to chasing the Palins. I am what in the world is so exciting about them? I just don't get it, but I am sure the Palins are laughing all the way to the bank.

[Kenrob1345]

11:55 PM on 01/13/2010

These are the folks who are trying to keep Levi from even seeing his own son. In court papers seeking full custody filed by Bristol, she states that Levi is a media hound who will use Tripp as a money making prop, her mother is NOT involved in the custody suit, and Levi has no means of support other than the media. Projection much? In other words, the Palins are the only ones who deserve to make money off the kids, and who can criminally use them as props for Granny Grifter's family values campaign. Levi & Bristol (according to Levi) both agreed not to publicize Tripp's pictures. Guess who got over ruled? Guess who appeared several times with him on TV, guess who's appeared on magazine covers with him, guess who's now publicizing him with Mommy Dearest? Hypocrites? Thy name is Palin.

[twinskids]

10:21 AM on 01/16/2010

I believe this is why Levi wants open court so the Palin's cannot slander him the way they did Officer Whooten in court.
The judge in the Whooten case was flabbergasted that they were trying to get him fired while trying to collect child support. The Palin's are not that bright.

[JaneQCitizen]

09:45 PM on 01/13/2010

No, Bristol, that isn't as bad as it gets. Try being a single teen mom WITHOUT your parents to support you. Imagine working for minimum wage where a full 1/2 month's salary go towards day care. Been there, done that.

You made your choice. Now shut up while other young women make theirs.

[Mark Twaine]

11:47 PM on 01/13/2010

You told her! About time someone did.

[twinskids]

10:19 AM on 01/16/2010

With no helath insurance and barely any food in the cabinets, no family to help you as you struggle and juggle...

that dear Spoiled Brat Bristol is as bad as it gets.

[ashabot]

08:54 PM on 01/13/2010

Where's Tod?

[Mark Twaine]

11:47 PM on 01/13/2010

He's in the garage having a beer!

[ashabot]

04:31 PM on 01/14/2010

Or at the spa having a facial.

[Blues02]

07:41 PM on 01/13/2010

Isn't it nice to be able to have a choice.

[One more Thing]

01:52 PM on 01/14/2010

Exactly and these two could have chose birth control!

[Alpha11]

04:58 PM on 01/14/2010

I guess teenagers don't really have sex.!

[HKB]

06:28 PM on 01/13/2010

Wasn't Bristol recently petioning the court for full custody of the child, claiming Levi was only using the baby for publicity and money .............. what the heck is this then? She was on the cover of People magazine in her cap and gown with the baby now its her and mom and the kids.

Now how long until Sara and Bristol start the big whine that people are being mean to them ... when their the ones putting their private life out on public display.

And by the way it is a Choice - you can't chose life it there are not options to make other choices .... and until you have been pregnant and lived a life without the family support, husbands support and oh by the way a few million in the bank now - don't try to make personal private decisions a matter for a bunch of men, with a few women thrown in, to be making in some governmental vote. It's not political - its a womens right to decide.