Leah Messeris getting some quality family time inafter her splitfrom now-ex-fiancéJaylan Mobley.
In a PEOPLE exclusive, theTeen Momstar teased her exciting holiday season ahead, including plenty of family bonding.
“I’m going to just have a gathering, a dinner with my family and my daughters at my house on Christmas day,” she exclusively tells PEOPLE. “I think this will be a year to set traditions that maybe we haven’t set in the past.”
She continues, “We do cook. My family loves cooking. So my mom pulls out all of these different recipes and I’m excited to see what she pulls out this year.”
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Messer is entering the holidays after endingher engagementwith Mobley.
The pair’s relationship was madeInstagram-officialin September 2021. From there, PEOPLErevealed the news of their engagementin August.
Their breakup was confirmed two months later.
Leah Messer and Jaylan Mobley.Leah Messer/Instagram
Addressing their split ina joint statement, the former couple said they were going to “move forward as friends.” Messer and Mobley also said they’d “forever have love and respect for each other.”
Now, Messer says she’s “excited to spend the holidays with my daughters and continue to do what we do as a family.”
“The beginning of my breakup, it was difficult,” she explained. “But there’s a healing process, there’s a grieving process after any breakup.”
Messer added, “You form an attachment with someone and a connection, and you get to grieve that if that relationship doesn’t align.”
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source: people.com
