- I'm that girl that got pregnant from dry humping someone,
that's horrible.
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- I was 18 and my first year in college
there's a big house party that everyone
in my dorm was going to.
Having a good time and then I saw a really cute guy there
we were just around a fire pit and flirting
and I decided this was gonna be my first one night stand.
So I took him back to my dorm. We did the thing.
We did it with the lights on 'cause again,
I was feeling myself.
The next day I went and bragged to my friends.
My friend was like, oh I know who you hooked up with,
he knocked up some other girl.
And I was like, I'm sorry, wait,
and I figured obviously I would be next
because I was so drunk I did not even think about
using a condom, I immediately just lost all of my cool.
I was freaking out.
I went to a Walgreens down the street, got Plan B,
went to a second Walgreens across from that Walgreens
got a second Plan B just in case.
In my brain I was like, what if the first one doesn't take?
I don't know.
It was the stupidest reaction I could have had.
I didn't even take a pregnancy test
because I was so terrified that it would come out positive
I just kinda cowered and let it happen if it did,
but it never did thank god.
- I was a little bit late on my period,
it had been a few days, but for some reason
I didn't think anything of it.
And then I was at my grandparents house
and I was watching this movie, where this girl,
the protagonist she has a pregnancy scare,
and for some reason that's when it hit me
that, wait a second, this could be a pregnancy scare,
because it's been days, I was supposed to get it.
I called my boyfriend instantly
and we were both very young, and I was actually
really upset at him even though I mean,
it takes two for that to happen.
I was like, you, you did this to me,
I could be pregnant, my life could be over.
I was very irrational.
I was like, oh my gosh, you ruined my life,
you ruined my life, you ruined my life.
You know anything nice that he was trying to do for me,
or any cute little thing that he was saying to me
I would be such a, don't talk to me, don't touch me,
I don't wanna see you.
I knew that if this was real abortion wasn't an option.
I was gonna have this baby and I was going to be a mom
and that's why I was so, so terrified.
I knew I wanted to pursue acting, get out of Venezuela,
I would have to in a way put some things on hold.
I was very lucky that he was very supportive.
He made me see that this could be so beautiful
even though I wasn't ready at the time,
but this could be such a beautiful thing.
So we just kinda waited and eventually I got my period.
- I'm pretty sure it was the summer
before I was supposed to go to college
and at that point I had been seeing a boyfriend
for a little while, for about a year.
We were doing things, we were sexually active, you know?
But we always used a condom,
I was so afraid of getting pregnant.
See, I went to a catholic school, so in my mind,
if god wants me to be pregnant it's gonna happen.
It doesn't matter if I use a condom or anything,
it's gonna happen, immaculately and I have
no control over it.
Me and my friend went to gay pride,
and we were having fun, we ate some empanadas
and we're just having a good time.
I came home after that day, took a shower,
and I just started throwing up.
I never throw up.
The one time that I had thrown up before this
I was six years old and I had the stomach virus;
so in my head if I throw up, I'm pregnant.
I don't think I was in a place where I could be pregnant
and everyone would be okay with it.
My mom always had a saying, she was like,
if you're gonna tell me you're pregnant,
pack your bags first.
I'm 17, no one is gonna help me if I get pregnant,
but what I realize is that I just keep throwing up
and I threw up for the entire weekend.
And what I realized was I had just gotten sick
from the empanadas at gay pride.
I wasn't pregnant!
There wasn't a baby in my stomach!
There was just a bad empanada, I was fine.
- There was a guy that I liked
and we didn't actually have sex.
We were at this party, we started making out,
got down to just our underwear.
He ended up coming in his underwear,
some of it got through mine.
In Sex Ed class we had learned that sperm anywhere
near anything could potentially cause pregnancy.
It was kind of in the back of my mind,
but then when I missed my period that was when
I really started getting worried that I was pregnant.
It just didn't come that month.
Like, oh my god, I'm that girl that got pregnant
from dry humping someone.
It had to have been three weeks past my period at this point
and I was like, I gotta just do it,
I have to just go ahead and buy one.
I was at work, went to the bathroom
and by some miracle got my period.
So I didn't end up having to buy a pregnancy test
and that's how I knew I wasn't pregnant.
- I think my advice to anyone who winds up
in a situation like that, please don't do something drastic
just because you're scared.
- Use a condom.
- Stay calm, there are a lot of resources
available to you.
- Spend the money, don't listen to anybody else,
go and get a pregnancy test.
- Something like that happens, first use a condom,
maybe go to a doctor, or take a pregnancy test,
then you can just know right then and there.
- Tell somebody.
I feel like you would be surprised
at how supportive people can be.
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