Allie Eklund is breaking her silence — and sharing her side of the story — after ex Steven McBee Jr. tried to get her a percentage of Kacie Adkison’s skincare business while filming The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys.
“What happened in real life, off camera, was I was asked to be a part of the tallow business,” Allie, 29, exclusively tells Us Weekly, referring to Steven’s soon-to-be sister-in-law Kacie’s skincare business with products using beef tallow under the McBee Farms umbrella.
Allie says she was “transparent” with both Kacie and Steven — the latter of whom she dated for less than one year before they split in April — about how busy she was when they first approached her for guidance with marketing in the fall of 2025.
“I had a lot going on business wise on my own with my family’s businesses and my personal businesses that I’ve been involved in for a decade,” Allie, who helped her family’s Triple E farm launch Triple E Mercantile, recalls. “I communicated to them that I would love to help for free in whatever capacity that I can. They needed more help, though.”
Allie notes that she didn’t know what was going on between Kacie and Steven, who initially said he’d support Kacie with the business and help promote it on McBee’s website and social media accounts.
“Stephen was having conversations about me getting a percentage before ever speaking with me about that,” Allie claims. “That was the first I had heard of it when they brought that to my attention, I had no idea he was asking for that behind closed doors.”
The model insists, “I never asked for that, and I actually ultimately declined that percentage because I didn’t feel like I had the capacity to take on another business venture at the moment.”
Allie tells Us that despite declining a percentage in the company, she told Kacie and Steven, 33, at the time that she would help “for free with what I could.”
Allie’s comments come three months after Steven accused her of cheating on him at Stagecoach Music Festival in April, which she denied. He alleged in a since-deleted social media post that Allie was getting “cozy” with another man after he left the California-based festival for Missouri.
While the couple split over the controversy, the early days of their romance have been front and center on season 3 of The McBee Dynasty, including Steven’s desire to have Allie join forces with Kacie as her business started to grow.
During the Monday, July 13, episode of the hit Bravo show, the tension between Steven and Kacie began to boil over when he suggested Allie come in and take over marketing — for a cut of the business.
“He did tell me that the tallow business is mine,” Kacie told Allie on the episode during a one-on-one chat. “I haven’t gotten paid yet. I have put in around $12,000 into the business. I’ve been working on it five days a week.”
Allie noted that she thought Kacie, who is engaged to Steven’s brother Cole McBee, would “save the farm” with her side hustle, adding that she would gladly offer assistance when it came to marketing.
Steven, however, later told Allie that he had the idea to use tallow in skincare in 2023 but his ex-girlfriend Calah Jackson didn’t want to run it so he approached Kacie.
“She’s so busy being a mom, we’re 300 orders behind,” Steven claimed to Allie on the episode. “If we’re going to scale this, it needs to be a team effort.”
When Steven had a sitdown with Kacie later that episode, she was surprised that he’d changed his tune about the money breakdown.
“I told you at the beginning, you keep 100 percent of the profits. I thought it was going to be a little side project that you could work on. It’s not,” Steven said. “It’s a monster that we’re sitting on if we do it right.”
Steven has been the CEO of McBee Farm & Cattle Co. since his father, Steven “Steve” McBee Sr., stepped down amid his crop insurance fraud case that resulted in a two-year jail sentence beginning in December 2025.
Steven told Kacie that he thought the business could grow to $5 million a year but only if he and Allie helped on the “backend” and therefore, the “profits can’t go 100 percent” to her anymore.
He suggested that Kacie get 40 percent, McBee Farms get 40 percent and Allie take home 20 percent of the profits.
Kacie, however, said she wouldn’t agree to anything before talking it over with Cole, who fully had her back.
“I want you and Allie to help but it also makes me really nervous because Allie’s only been in my life one month,” Kacie confessed.
Allie, for her part, tells Us that she had an “in-depth business conversation” with Kacie and Steven when she learned that he was negotiating for her behind closed doors.
“I didn’t feel like I could, you know, bring the value that I wanted to at that time, and I ultimately chose to not get involved in the business,” Allie shares. “But I wanted to support them as a friend wherever I could.”
Allie explains that she and Kacie even discussed doing a collection together with the tallow, to see how “sales go from there,” but her abrupt split from Steven ended that possibility.
“Obviously, since breaking up, we didn’t end up doing that. And I know a big concern of hers was what if you break up and you have this percentage?” she continues. “And I communicated that that’s something that should be in an operating agreement. That way, there’s no question around that.”
Despite liking Kacie’s ideas, Allie says “ultimately” she realized that she does business “a little bit different” than the McBees and “chose not to get involved.”
Kacie is still running the tallow company, according to social media, while Allie is busy with her own business ventures, including Triple E Mercantile, an extension of her family’s farm, Triple E, into producing ranch-made goods in the Texas Hill Country.
“It’s basically bringing Triple E Ranch, my family’s ranch, to life and giving people an in-person experience to come together, build community, and get back to their roots,” Allie tells Us of the exciting venture. “And kind of remind everyone the importance of slowing down and getting back to your roots, and being with people and connecting with the land again.”
She notes the family has plans to “open up our ranch to the public to create some of these experiences called Triple E experiences” in addition to expanding their merchandise collection.
The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.
