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Then they visited a friend in the Worthing area.
It was a moment in the car with her daughter that changed the trajectory of Chelsea DeBoer’s career.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, it's so beautiful over here,’” remembered Chelsea. “Our friends told us the farmer who owned it was potentially open to selling some more land.” After getting in touch, the farmer said he could offer them 10 acres. Her husband, Cole , put on his negotiation hat.
“Once Aubree got to a certain age, I could almost feel a shift, and she was starting to speak up and give her perspective on how she was feeling about things,” recalled Chelsea of filming Teen Mom 2 on MTV . The specific setting had the mother and daughter surrounded by GoPros while Aubree started sharing something personal, and suddenly “it clicked.” “In that moment I was like, ‘Okay, I want to protect this,’” continued Chelsea, “and it was such a gut feeling it was time to really think about it and see if this was feeling right anymore.”
“I persuaded him to give me 25, so we bought 25 acres,” he said.
The DeBoers began the building process, and that’s when they started to catch the design bug, specifically with a modern-rustic vibe. To his excitement (or dismay), they soon realized Cole could do a lot of the work with his background in construction. “From then on out I was like, ‘I have this project and this project,’ and so it started then, really building from the ground up,” recalled Chelsea.
After 10 seasons, it was time to leave the show, which opened up doors to other opportunities.
One was to start thinking about their forever home with their family of six. The initial plan was to build on land they purchased in 2020 outside of Vermillion, where Chelsea grew up.
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