When Alaska Governor Sarah Palin ran for vice president in 2008 on John McCain's presidential ticket, no one could have fathomed the comical fodder that her circuslike family entourage would ensue. With a hockey playing husband and children Piper, Track, Willow, Trig and Bristol always in tow, it was a shocker when that last one, a supposedly conservative teenage Bristol got knocked up by her boyfriend, then 18-year-old Levi Johnston. After appearing “salt of the Earth,” shaking hands with John McCain on stage at the RNC, high school dropout and professional hunter, Levi Johnston made a public mess of himself by breaking it off with Bristol after their baby Tripp was born only to come back around with another engagement, then most recently breaking it off again after rumors surfaced that he impregnated another girlfriend.

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We did some digging in Levi’s past to see how he became the famewhoring babydaddy he is today. Here’s what we found.