With a new cover story and photoshoot for GQ Magazine, Levi Johnston, the shotgun-totin’ former Buss It Baby of Bristol Palin, just got one step closer to the modeling career he’s always dreamed of. After going nose to nose with Alaska governor Sarah Palin and the rest of the family over visitation with his son Tripp earlier this year, Levi says his relationship with teen mom Bristol — who is now an advocate for abstinence-only education — has grown stronger in recent weeks.

Still, it has been a tough year for the 18-year-old high school droput, whose future and career prospects become increasingly bleak.

GQ writes:

In roughly the past year, Levi has experienced:
(a) having dad leave home;
(b) seeing mom get arrested and face incarceration, in national news;
(c) watching own son be born, with Sarah
Palin also in room;
(d) dropping out of high school and taking electrician job;
(e) losing fiancée, son, job for reasons that mystify him and may be political;
(f) becoming instantaneously megafamous—Antichrist to some, slab of sweet Arctic man-beef to others—but either way finding self at center of momentous events with zero comprehension or aid after having left home to go on sheep hunt.

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