Posted by Adam

Tuesday November 17, 2009

SARAH Palin is not amused that Levi Johnston — the father of her grandchild — decided to model nude for Playgirl magazine.

“I believe he goes by the name Ricky Hollywood now . . . He’s quite busy with the media tours … That’s Levi’s gig right now,” said the former Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States.

Speaking on Monday’s Oprah Winfrey Show, Palin also referred to Johnston’s “aspiring porn” career as “a bit heartbreaking”.

But she insisted Levi will “forever be the father of this beautiful baby [grandson Tripp].”

Palin then admitted she was surprised her running mate John McCain‘s team knew her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant because she thought it was a family secret.

She said it disturbed her that the pregnancy became public knowledge and that she wished they could have dealt with the issue in a more productive way.

“If [Bristol and I] had been given the allowance to deal with the issue in a more productive way, we perhaps could have sent a better message: ‘This is not to be glamorized. It is not to be emulated. It is a tough, tough challenge and it is a problem in America, so let’s try and deal with it’,” Palin said.

The governor of Alaska says she spoke with Bristol when her pregnancy hit the headlines.

“She was quite devastated and, perfectly honestly, she was quite embarrassed,” she says. “She called me in tears saying ‘Oh, mom, now not just [in] Wasilla do they know what’s going on in my life. Now the whole world knows’.”

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