{"id":125829,"date":"2026-01-16T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/125829\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:35:08","slug":"teen-mom-star-farrah-abraham-announces-run-for-austin-city-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/125829\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Teen Mom&#8217; star Farrah Abraham announces run for Austin City Council seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gettyimages-2235439236.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Farrah Abraham at the Page Six Virtual Reali-Tea Awards held at City Winery on September 17, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Steve Eichner\/Variety via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A &#8220;Teen Mom&#8221; star is hoping to unseat an Austin City Council member in the November 2026 election.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to a TMZ report, Farrah Abraham originally announced she was running for mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Shortly after, she took to Instagram to clarify that she is running for Austin City Council District 5. Council member Ryan Alter currently holds that position.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Abraham&#8217;s campaign finance report was filed on Jan. 15 with the City of Austin. Currently, it does not specify which office she is seeking.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Abraham is a former reality TV star, writer, singer, and an adult film actress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Her website says she plans to tackle the Austin housing crisis, support first responders, and invest in Austin&#8217;s SWAT team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from a TMZ report, Farrah Abraham&#8217;s social media, and a campaign finance report<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/organization\/austin-city-council\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin City Council<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/entertainment\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Farrah Abraham at the Page Six Virtual Reali-Tea Awards held at City Winery on September 17, 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,1501,134,133,2777,223,1827,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-125829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-city-council","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-organization","15":"tag-travis-county","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}