Farrah Abraham born May 31, is an American reality television personality, singer, and writer. Born in Omaha, Nebraska , and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa , she received public attention after being cast in the reality television series 16 and Pregnant in , which documented the pregnancies and first months of motherhood for several young women. Later that year, she was cast in the spin-off series Teen Mom , and appeared in each of its four seasons until its conclusion in That August, she released her debut studio album and first memoir, both of which were titled My Teenage Dream Ended. The book made it onto The New York Times bestseller list. Her mother, Debra Danielsen , is of Danish and Sicilian ancestry.