"I know I’ll be a hockey mom"

Absent, of course, is Tripp’s father, 20-year-old Levi Johnston, whose engagement to Bristol was announced to much fanfare. But two months after Tripp’s birth in December 2008, she and Johnston split, and he’s spent his time posing for Playgirl, battling Bristol over custody, and denouncing her mother to anyone who will listen.

“I just ignore it. He is a stranger to me,” she says, visibly rattled by the mention of Johnston’s name, though she refrains from saying more. “I don’t want to get into it. It’s just dirty laundry.” She is not seeing anyone at the moment: “I’m in no rush. One day I’ll find a nice guy.”