“16 & Pregnant”’s Aleah LeBeouf Recalls Heartbreaking Considerations She's Made While Trying to Stay Afloat: 'I've Been Homeless'

Angela AndaloroSat, May 23, 2026 at 6:58 PM UTC

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Aleah LeBeouf in "16 & Pregnant" (left) and today
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Aleah LeBeouf appeared on season 5 of 16 & Pregnant

In ID's Hollywood Demons: Surviving 16 & Pregnant, LeBeouf shared some of her concerns as a mom without secure housing, years after her time on the MTV show

"I've been homeless and have slept out of my truck with kids," she shared

Many of the young girls featured on 16 & Pregnant came from difficult backgrounds.

Aleah LeBeouf was among those girls, appearing on season 5 of the reality TV series. The then-teenager had grown up in a poor household with a mom who struggled with addiction. While the family enjoyed a period of relative stability when her mom met and married her stepfather, it sadly didn't last.

As seen in LeBeouf's season of the show, which came out in 2014, she met her then-boyfriend, Shawn, while in juvenile detention. LeBeouf and Shawn learned she was pregnant with their baby shortly after she turned 17 and moved in with him. The pregnancy was complicated by the fact that LeBeouf has type 1 diabetes, she explained in the latest episode of ID's Hollywood Demons: Surviving 16 & Pregnant.

"My actual birth was not filmed. Because my doctors were not comfortable with filming a high-risk pregnancy," she shared. "But whenever I started filming, they wanted as many details as possible. I would say it was consistent anxiety for me, but yeah, I believe it was an accurate portrayal of my actual fears and anxieties at that time."

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Aleah LeBeouf
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In December 2013, LeBeouf became a mom when she gave birth to her daughter, Peyton, who she remembered being "healthy and beautiful and honestly, the easiest, best baby ever."

"She hardly ever cried. She made parenthood easy. It was all the other stuff that made parenthood hard," LeBeouf, now 31, acknowledged.

LeBeouf and Shawn, however, ended their relationship shortly after filming ended.

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Later, LeBeouf lost her stepfather in a tragic accident, which she said caused her mother to slip into addiction. Not long after, LeBeouf got a call that her mother had overdosed.

"They found her keeled over, dead in a s---ty, s---ty crack hotel. The cause of death was cocaine and fentanyl overdose," she remembered. "And then, I said, 'You selfish bitch. You selfish bitch. You left me here.' I just fell over on the floor and started crying. I was in the fetal position."

The losses contributed to LeBeouf's own issues with drinking. In the show, LeBeouf — who is now mom to four — recounted the struggle of trying to stay afloat.

"I've been homeless and have slept out of my truck with kids. And now I see certain places when I drive past, and I think, ‘If me and the kids had to sleep in a tent, that'd be a good place to go,' " she shared.

"I know that it's easier to steal butcher ground beef than it is to steal the rolls. I know that hospital parking lots are the best places to go and sleep at night, because they cover the wind and the cold," she continued. "Typically, people park there overnight, so nobody notices. Because they have security, cops don't go in there. And that I wouldn't get the kids taken away. I had been worrying about that kind of stuff, and it changes you a little bit, you know?”

Hollywood Demons: Surviving 16 & Pregnant premiered Monday, May 18 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ID. Episodes are available to stream on HBO Max.

If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, please contact the SAMHSA helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.

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