Teen Mom 2 star Leah Messer, confirming Breaking Celebrity News's exclusive report from last summer, said her family is rallying around her 4-year-old daughter Aliannah, who is battling muscular dystrophy.

"Ali’s condition has brought us all extremely close together," Leah, who is married to Jeremy Calvert, told In Touch. "We have to stay strong for Ali, and things are going good.”

The West Virginia native opened up about the internal heartache her young clan -- including her ex-husband Corey Simms -- has withstood following the diagnosis of