Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin[1] (born October 18, 1990[2]) is an American public speaker and reality television personality.

[4] Her most recent television series was as a member of the fall celebrity cast of Dancing with the Stars's 15th season in 2012,[5] where she was eliminated in the fourth week of competition.

[11][12] Her father's grandmother Lena Andree grew up in the now abandoned community of Tuklung in a mixed race region of Bristol Bay.

[14] Palin was raised largely in Wasilla and attended Juneau-Douglas High School when her mother was governor of Alaska.

[18] On September 1, 2008, the opening day of the 2008 Republican National Convention, it was publicly announced that Bristol Palin was pregnant and engaged to Levi Johnston, her baby's father.

[15][19] McCain's advisers reportedly thought a wedding between Johnston and Palin would boost the waning popularity of the McCain-Palin ticket.

[18] Johnston denied claims that he was being pressured into a shotgun wedding, stating, "We were planning on getting married a long time ago with or without the kid.

[20] At age 18 in May 2009, Palin appeared on the Today show and Good Morning America in recognition of the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

In September 2009, Palin formed BSMP, a lobbying, public relations and political consulting services firm.

[30] That same month, Meghan McCain stated her support for sex education, criticizing Palin's sexual abstinence campaign, saying it was "not realistic for this generation".

[citation needed] In 2015, Bristol Palin took to her blog to correct the media regarding what the Candies Organization is and her role within it, stating, "Let's get another thing straight, because I can't tolerate all the talk on this subject.

She was listed on the company's website as available for conferences, fundraisers, special events and holidays, as well as women's, youth, abstinence, and pro-life programs.

[37][38] In January 2011, Palin was invited to speak by Washington University in St. Louis as the keynote speaker for "Abstinence in College" at Sexual Responsibility Week.

Students protested both the high fee she was to be paid out of student-generated funds and her lack of expertise on abstinence in college.

[39][40] Palin appeared in an episode of the ABC Family network series The Secret Life of the American Teenager, playing a friend of the fictional character Amy, a 15-year-old who is dealing with an unexpected pregnancy.

[49][50] Nonetheless, Green speculated that Palin may have received votes from her mother's fans and other supporters,[51] and from older viewers who had maternal feelings toward her due to her youth and lack of experience.

[55] In October 2010, while competing on Dancing With the Stars Season 11, Palin appeared in a music video for an Alaskan symphony rock band called Static Cycle.

[56][57] Palin's docu-series Life's a Tripp, produced by Associated Television International, premiered on June 19, 2012, in the United States, on Lifetime TV.

[61] In July 2018, Palin began working as a real estate agent with Keller Williams Realty in Austin, Texas.

[62] In late January 2020, Bristol joined the local boutique real estate agency Austin Home Seekers.

In the book, Palin candidly discusses aspects of her personal life, including tensions with the McCain family and losing her virginity.

Palin asked the court to use pseudonyms for herself and Johnston to keep the normally public proceedings private, arguing that the media attention would not be good for the child.

[73] On December 27, 2009, the judge ruled in favor of Johnston, and it was publicly announced that the pair had been battling for legal custody.

[75][76] That month, Palin and her son began living in a condo she had purchased in Anchorage, where she was working at a dermatologist's office and taking business courses at a community college.

[81][82][83][84][85] The couple reached an agreement giving primary custody to Palin, and visitation rights and child support responsibility to Johnston.

[87] According to Bristol's blog, she first met Meyer in 2014 while filming Amazing America with her mother Sarah Palin in Alaska.

Following her blog post, it was reported that her mother used the name Denali during her farewell speech when resigning from the governorship of Alaska.