WITH a rock star father, a Playboy model mother and a Kardashian for a stepmother, Alabama Barker was always destined for the limelight.
While the 20 year old – whose dad is Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker – was on course to be the next ‘It girl’, things have turned out a little differently.
Now, insiders tell us why her fans are deeply concerned for Alabama‘s well-being following a string of controversies – and how Travis’ wife, Kourtney Kardashian, really feels about being connected to the wild social media star.
Just a few weeks ago, Alabama was involved in one of her worst-ever public fallouts – with fellow streamers Aire Jay, 24, Summyah, 19, and Malayah, 20.
She tearfully took to social media to insist she hadn’t done “anything negative” to the trio and insisted she had “never tried intentionally to hurt any of those girls”.
But after the emotional display, her fans are worried. A source told us: “Alabama has had a number of public falls out but the latest one has been really upsetting to watch.
“It’s like she is addicted to the validation she gets when she posts – even though she often ends up getting a lot of backlash.
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“She has been very distressed by the situation as per usual everyone has been airing all their dirty laundry in public.
“Who does she really have left at this point? She’s just rattling around her dad’s mansion all day alone – seeking comfort online.”
Alabama has 6.3 million followers on TikTok and more than two million followers on Instagram – but her social media has often landed her in hot water.
When she was 17, the star was accused of “blackfishing” – when influencers and other public figures appear Black or mixed-race for social media engagement and financial gain – after lip syncing to a song about sex and drugs on TikTok alongside her pals.
However, she hit back at the “mentally exhausting” comments, writing: “I do not need to explain all of the negative assumptions about us, it’s absurd to see a group of friends just having a good time gives so many grown adults a topic to talk about.”
A year later, Alabama, then 18, was accused of “cultural appropriation” after stripping down to a red, black, yellow and green bikini.
One troll commented: “She wanna be black SO BAD!” And another wrote: “Why do u pretend to be another race?”
The source added: “Alabama has had a far from conventional life and she started sharing things on social media at a really young age.
“There was no one to stop her or even really watch what she was posting.
“The whole thing is incredibly damaging really.
“It’s like she is addicted to the validation she gets when she posts – even though she often ends up getting a lot of backlash.
“She was home-schooled and now doesn’t really have a job apart from social media, so there is no structure in her life and never has been.
“It’s incredibly worrying really and does make you wonder what the future holds for her.”
However, Alabama certainly has her supporters, including stepmother Kourtney.
In December, The Kardashians star – who married Travis in May 2022 – publicly showed how much she cares for her stepdaughter.
“Kourtney understands about being in the limelight better than anyone, but she is very good at avoiding controversies and drama. Alabama isn’t.
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On the star’s 20th birthday, on Christmas Eve 2025, Kourtney wrote on Instagram: “Alabama !! 20! known you since 8! May this next year be filled with love and peace and laughter “happy birthday … I love you and all our laughs!”
Kourtney previously admitted on her sister Khloé Kardashian’s Khloé in Wonder Land podcast that she “tries to be a good role model” and a “positive influence” to her stepchildren, who also include Alabama’s brother Landon, 22, and stepsister Atiana De La Hoya, 27.
Another source told us: “Kourtney has really tried to be there for Alabama as much as possible. She understands about being in the limelight better than anyone, but she is very good at avoiding controversies and drama. Alabama isn’t.
“She is constantly being dragged online for missteps and has had some very public fall outs.
“A few years ago, Kourtney was mortified by Alabama’s public fall outs, but she no longer cares and just wants to protect her now.
“Kourtney and her mum Kris were going to step in and get her crisis management a few years ago when things were really bad.”
As well as Alabama’s recent disagreement with Aire Jay, Summyah, and Malayah, there have been several other public clashes.
Alabama’s former friend Bhad Bhabie dropped a diss track in February 2025, entitled Ms Whitman, which was aimed at her.
In the song, Bhabie raps that Alabama relies on her parents’ cash for clout.
It came after Bhabie claimed Alabama had tried to steal her then-boyfriend Le Vaughn, while she was undergoing cancer treatment.
Bhabie also feuded with Alabama on diss track Over Cooked, in which alleged her foe fell pregnant with rapper Tyga‘s baby – which both parties denied.
Tyga – who dated Kourtney’s half-sister Kylie Jenner on and off for two years – wrote on X: “This the dumbest st I ever heard . yall believe anything yall see online.
“I have never had any sort of physical relationship with Alabama. It’s honestly ridiculous I even have to address it. [sic]”
Alabama hit back with her own song, Cry Bhabie.
On the same track, she also slammed OnlyFans model Camilla Araujo, rapping: “Camilla bch, shut the fk up.” But Araujo responded by telling Barker to keep talking about her, because it will only make her “richer”.
Earlier in their feud, Alabama had claimed on TikTok that Araujo’s career was “based on selling herself”.
But Camilla blasted “nepo baby” Alabama, and pointed to the star’s mum, model and former Playboy centrefold Shanna Moakler also being on OnlyFans.
Controversy, drama and family fall outs
Alabama is no stranger to family fall outs, and neither are her parents.
In 2024, Shanna accused Travis – who she was married to between 2004 and 2008 – and Kourtney of “parental alienation”, and she claimed on the Dumb Blonde podcast that Travis always wanted to be “the best parent”.
A day after the pod dropped, Alabama shared a cryptic post on Instagram which read: “Once you stop relying on other individuals, your life will become so much better. Disappointment in others won’t exist.”
Shanna previously claimed to Us Weekly that the Kardashians had “put a wedge” in between her and her children by “buying my kids Prada every other day” and “taking them on “lavish trips”.
However, Alabama wrote on Instagram at the time: “Can you guys stop painting her out to be an amazing mom? “Did your moms ask to see you on Mother’s Day [because] mine didn’t? I’m done keeping it a secret, reality shows.”
That same month, during tensions with her mother, she wrote on TikTok: “I cut off family too. They do you the dirtiest.”
Travis has also come under fire online due to his parenting. In his 2015 memoir – entitled Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums. He wrote about bringing new born Alabama back from the hospital.
“When we got home, I couldn’t believe I had a little girl, and when she was a baby, she had a crazy bubble butt,” he wrote. “After all the stuff I had done to girls through my life, I knew I was cursed.”
The comment resurfaced in 2024, after some fans got into a debate about whether Alabama had ever undergone plastic surgery.
Travis was also slammed online in December, after he bought racy underwear for his daughter for Christmas.
However, Alabama defended her dad, saying at the time: “You think my dad’s like, ‘I’m going to pick out my daughter lingerie’? No. It was on my Christmas list and he wanted to make it happen for me,
“God forbid a girl wanted cute panties and bras. Literally leave me alone.”
Alabama even revealed Kourtney helped pick out her Agent Provocateur underwear.
A source told us: “Kourtney knows how close Travis is to his daughter and would never risk rocking that.
“At times she does think it’s a bit unusual but she gets it and thinks Travis is an amazing dad.”
Alabama is now on good terms with her mother, commenting on a recent TikTok post: “Thank you for staying by my side! I love you mom.”
And the influencer hopes she is on “the right path” in life going forwards.
Alabama recently wrote on social media that she is in a better place than she was at times last year, when she tragically lost a baby.
At the time, even after such an horrific life event, social media was not her friend.
She was attacked online by trolls who claimed she only spoke about her baby loss to be attention-seeking, which led her to defend herself.
In a since-deleted Instagram Story, she said: “The idea that I’d ever share something so personal for attention is insane.
“But, in March, the defiant star appeared to be positive about her future.
She wrote on TikTok: “Last March, I was at my lowest, grieving a huge loss in my life, health anxiety at its peak, surround by fake people, got heated on, internet drama, wanted to disappear, losing myself.
“This March, I’m learning to love myself, isolating myself with myself, growing closer to God, re-learning my path, working out, understanding my anxiety, still not perfect but headed down the right path.”