"Wouldn't trade being a mom," lol. She already did that the moment she kicked Rylee out of her life.
Actually, she did that not too long after Rylee was born, dumping him on her disabled mother so she could run off to Seattle to be an alt/pinup moddle.
Also, Bowie is the spitting image of Nick. How long until that along with his emerging bad attitude from her poor parenting triggers her to ship him off to someone in her family or Nick's? I can truly see her getting rid of him around 12/13 just like she did with Rylee, maybe even earlier so she can have her forties to herself. Little kids are cute; mouthy tweens are not.
She can't afford to ship him off to Nick, and Nick is never going to scrape the money together to fly him to Australia, so his parents would have to pay for it, and take care of Bowie (because Nick's just not going to do that). But, since Nick has been the source of a major narcissistic injury for Tess, she may refuse to ever send him to Australia at all. I don't think Nick or his family are going to see Bowie again for years. And Tess clearly despises her remaining family enough to not send him back to Mississippi unless she (or the state) has absolutely no other choice. Being a Narc, the last thing she'd want is her kids hearing stories from her brother about how terrible she really is, and always has been (Narcs like to keep people in their lives compartmentalized, so they can't get together and compare notes). Also, she might be keeping the boys away from her mom and other family as a way of punishing them--her mother went back to Mississippi rather than stay in LA and raise Bowie for her (while, no doubt, being constantly scolded by Tess for being an embarrassing hick from the South). And now that Tess is trying hard to play elite-level Woke in Public, no way would she let her kids be around her "backwards" relatives.
So if we're starting a betting pool, my money is on Tess finding a gay couple who think they want to be dads, but haven't been able to adopt, and parking Bowie with them. Among all the gays she's dealt with as hairdressers and makeup artists, there's got to be somebody who knows somebody who is willing to take a loaner kid. She'll probably use the same excuse as she has with Rylee, claiming that she wanted him to stay in the same school he'd already been attending. Which may be true, but that she's effectively homeless and can't afford to house him appropriately, and that he was already putting up resistance to her exploitation of him, aren't reasons that get you on the cover of
Parents magazine.
That stripe on those shorts is so unflattering. If i were her, I would not have posted those.
She doesn't have much choice; she desperately needs that Flabletics sponsorship money, for as long as it lasts, so she'll wear whatever ugly shit they send her and do her best to pretend it's amazing. Flabletics really needs to start sending her clothes in her actual size, however (assuming they make those pants in a 5X), because it's so obvious that everything (especially the bottoms) is much too small on her. Those sweatpants? Sweats are supposed to be loose-fitting, and she's got those stretched so far out, it didn't even occur to her to tie the drawstring at the waist. Nice going, Tess.
ETA: I just checked, and Flabletics only makes clothes up to a size 4X, which is still not going to be big enough to accommodate Tess's ass. Tess'd better cut back on the champagne cakes while she can; the day is rapidly approaching when she won't be able to wedge herself into those spandex sausage casings at all.