Bristol Palin

Bristol Palin, born on 18th October, 1990 in Wasilla, Alaska, is the oldest daughter of former governor of Alaska Todd Palin and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin among their five children.  

Currently a commercial fisherman and champion snowmobile race, her father Todd worked for BP as an oil field production operator. Her name came from the Bristol Inn at Bristol, Connecticut, the headquarters of ESPN, where her mother Sarah was employed and Bristol Bay, where her father Todd spent his childhood days.

She was “a neat freak and perfectionist” as a child according to her mother.  She became pregnant when she was a teenager and became the center of media attention when her mother was running for Vice President.

Because an unmarried pregnant teen daughter would ruin their reputation in politics, Sarah’s advisors had her publicly announce the engagement of Bristol Palin, and Levi Johnston, the father of her child. Johnston, however, has stated that he was not being pressured into a shotgun wedding.

Palin and Johnston’s child Tripp Easton Mitchel Johnston-Palin, opened his eyes for the first time on December 27, 2008. Their engagement ended on March 2009. She announced that she had become engaged with Dakota Meyer, a fomer Marine and Medal of Honor recipient on March 13, 2015 and married on June.

On June 25, 2015, Palin announced that she was pregnant with her second child and that although this news would be “a huge disappointment” to them, but she didn’t want any of their “sympathies” or “lectures”. Later, she also gave birth to her third child and second daughter with Meyer.

On May 2009, Briston Palin, on the occasion of National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, made an appearance on both the Today show and Good Morning America. But her “teens must abstain from sex” was removed from The National Campaign To Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.”

She became the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Ambassador in May 2009 for the Candie’s Foundation. She stated:  "Regardless of what I did personally, abstinence is the only 100% foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy" on Good Morning America.

Her work was criticized by former editor-in-chief of YM, Bonnie Fuller, who stated that Palin’s work has glamorized teen pregnancy rather than prevent it. She reaffirmed her views on abstinence in an interview with Christianity Today on July 13, 2011 as she discussed whether she thought abstinence was unrealistic.

She appeared in an episode of the ABC Family network series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager and competed in the fall 2010 season of Dancing with the Stars, partnering with Mark Ballas. She also appeared on Sarah Palin’s Alaska, a TLC documentary and competing on the all-star season 15 of Dancing With The Stars.

 She has made the headlines on many occasions for making anti-gay and anti-gay marriage comments.

Palin, being one of the hottest topics to discuss on numerous occasions over the past years, has a huge fan base on social networking sites.

Available as @BristolsBlog on Twitter, Palin has 43900 followers and has tweeted around 3000 times. Also available on Instagram as @bsmp2, she has collected 144 thousand followers as an influential speaker on teenage pregnancy.

As an advocate of prevention of teenage pregnancy, the public speaker is paid to speak in front of masses and has become an influential figure.

She earned a salary of $100 thousand from the show Dancing with the Stars and $262.5 thousand from joining the teen pregnancy prevention nonprofit called the Candie’s Foundation. Her current estimated net worth is around $500 million.

Dakota Meyer, Palin’s husband has officially filed for divorce. Palin and Meyer state they were separating because of “discord of conflict of personalities” between them.

Meyer said that he will be entering into a written agreement over the custody of their two daughters with Palin, along with the division of their properties.