Teen mom YouTubers have become popular vloggers on the video sharing platform, as they've
offered firsthand looks into becoming a parent at a young age, and the community has become
a haven for girls who need information on teen parenthood. Here are the youngest teen
moms with popular channels.
According to DoSomething.org, every three in 10 American teenage girls will become pregnant
before the age of 20, and more than 50 percent of teen moms won't graduate high school. While
those numbers may seem startling, WomensHealth.gov reports that teen pregnancy has dropped by
half since 1991.
Educating young girls about how to prevent pregnancy has been fundamental in lowering
those numbers, and the media has become one of the most important resources for teens
across the U.S., thanks to programs like MTV's hit series 16 and Pregnant. That show led
to a 4.3 percent reduction in teen births in the 18 months after its premiere on TV,
according to a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
And now the next generation of young teenagers have turned to a new outlet to share their
experiences: YouTube.
Allie Brooke and her then-boyfriend had been dating for almost two years when she discovered
the news that would change her life forever: She was pregnant at 17 years old. For the
high schoolers, the news came at the "worst time," as they were both applying to colleges
and were essentially figuring out the next point of their lives together, according to
a since-deleted video. With the surprising news, however, plans changed.
The young mom detailed how she was initially in denial when she learned she was pregnant.
Describing the difficult decisions she was faced with in a 2017 YouTube video that has
since been removed, she said,
"I'm telling you right now, you could be 17 years old and watching this and you think
that you understand everything. You think literally it's you against the world […] Sorry,
that's not how it works. If you do make certain choices, there will be consequences."
Brooke gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Cartia when she was 18. Brooke and her
child's father are no longer together. However, Brooke continues to happily raise her daughter
and shares her life on YouTube to assure other young moms that they aren't alone.
When 14-year-old Lexa Moedano was entering her freshman year of high school in 2015,
she had to take on a lot more than book reports and exams. The teen discovered she was pregnant,
and she wasn't ready to open up about the huge news with her classmates. In a December
2017 YouTube video, she detailed the difficulties she faced making friends and her goal to keep
her pregnancy a secret.
"I didn't embrace my pregnancy at all. Um, I didn't even tell anybody."
Eventually, her classmates found out she was expecting a baby, and Moedano learned to navigate
the school halls as a pregnant teen. The baby's father is no longer in her life, but, thankfully,
Moedano's mom helps her watch her son while she continues attending school.
In one April 2018 YouTube video, Moedano said that although it's hard being a single teenage
mother, she loves it.
"It's crazy. It's hard being a mom, but obviously I be enjoying it all the time. Like, I love
my kid, and I love being a mom. It doesn't bother me at all. I actually like it."
Feisty 15-year-old Unique Láshea had an on-and-off relationship with her boyfriend when they
got the shock of their lives: She was pregnant. Due to the uncertainty of their relationship,
Láshea initially considered having an abortion; however, the teen eventually changed her mind.
Láshea gave birth to a girl she named A'moura, and she explained that the father of her child
changed for the better once their daughter was born.
Along with going to school and raising a baby as a teenager, Láshea booked an acting role
on the Crackle drama series The Oath and had to leave her daughter for three weeks to film
in July 2018.
Despite all of the life hurdles and responsibilities, Láshea has continued to successfully raise
her daughter, and she graduated from high school in May 2019.
She explained that she is grateful for her daughter, describing her as a blessing.
"It's had its ups and downs of course, but at the end of the day, it made me a stronger
person."
Maddie Lambert was just 14 years old when she learned she was pregnant. Initially, Lambert
suspected her pregnancy symptoms were due to depression caused by a breakup from a serious
boyfriend.
"Like, I thought I was just really depressed because I felt really sick, like I was throwing
up. And I have bad anxieties, and my anxiety can make me throw up."
Despite being so young, the teen was excited and happy to be having a child. Plus, she
had an extremely supportive mother who told her they were going to get through the big
life change together.
In one September 2018 YouTube video, Lambert explained her mother's reaction to her pregnancy
news:
"Like, she said, 'Maddie, it's gonna be okay. I love babies. We can get through this. You're
a strong girl. We can't go back and change the past. We've got to embrace the future."
After experiencing a difficult pregnancy, Lambert gave birth to a beautiful baby girl
she named Everly. Lambert continues to share her struggles as she raises a toddler, talking
to over 1.5 million YouTube subscribers, who she calls, "Foreverlys," about her experiences.
Camryn Turner and her boyfriend had been dating seriously for two years when she found out
she was pregnant at age 16. Making the situation even more difficult, Turner was forced to
move with her family away from her boyfriend, Landon, just a few weeks into her pregnancy.
She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Colette, seven weeks before her due date, and her daughter
is now happy and healthy. She and Landon eventually married.
She explained how grateful she was for her family in a 2017 YouTube video:
"I'm obviously very lucky to be in the situation that I'm in. To not have been told to get
an abortion.
After sharing her pregnancy story and her struggles on YouTube, her channel grew to
over 1.5 million subscribers. Sadly, Landon passed away in 2020, and Turner is now raising
their two daughters, Collette and Delilah.
Ana Gomez was just 13 years old when she found out she was pregnant.
Still a child herself, Gomez shared the surprising pregnancy news with her mother, who did not
handle it well.
"I let her down. I let my mom down. And then she just looked at me and she just started
crying, and she was like, 'How could you do this to me?'"
At the time, the Gomez family was struggling to make ends meet and had been sharing one
bedroom together.
Gomez eventually gave birth to her son, Nathan, and is currently raising him and sharing her
parenting journey on YouTube, where she shares advice for other young mothers. She graduated
from high school in 2020.
Natalie Shay was a bit of a rebel when she was 14 years old. Although her parents disapproved
of her relationship, she continued to see her boyfriend. After six months of dating,
the pair became sexually active, and, just two months later, Shay became pregnant.
Soon her parents found out about the pregnancy, and, while they were initially disappointed,
they have supported their daughter every step of the way. Shay delivered a healthy baby
girl she named Rylah, and she continued to live with her parents while attending school
and working at McDonald's.
Shay created her YouTube channel to share her struggles with others and to provide advice
for other young moms who are sharing similar experiences.
Despite having a great support system, Shay has struggled with anxiety.
"Anxiety is a serious thing, especially when you're a teen mom. I have dreams where I wake
up with anxiety attacks."
Sophie Gonzalez was just 16 years old when she learned that she was pregnant with twins.
Gonzalez turned to YouTube in search of advice from other teenage mothers who were going
through the same thing. Their videos, she said, helped her think clearly about her situation.
"When I first found out I was pregnant I went right to YouTube and was searching up teen
moms and listening to their stories."
She decided to create her own YouTube channel to document her pregnancy and life as a young
mother. She said she wanted to help others because seeing other young moms be good parents
and be happy in their videos was inspirational for her during her pregnancy. Gonzalez eventually
gave birth to her twins naturally at 32 weeks pregnant, sharing her labor and delivery story
in an emotional YouTube video.
Naturally independent and headstrong, Olivia Palmer's life drastically changed when she
learned she was pregnant at age 16. She had been having problems with her birth control,
and after she started experiencing pregnancy symptoms, she took a pregnancy test. As she
explained in one June 2017 YouTube video, she and her child's father were in disbelief.
"It was weird, honestly, finding out. I don't think either of us believed it. We weren't
sad, we weren't mad, we were just, like, confused."
Palmer, who was anxious about keeping such a huge secret from her parents, eventually
told her father the news after becoming emotional over dinner. He supported her, and soon Palmer's
mother would as well.
Palmer gave birth to a daughter, Avalynn, in May 2017, and, in May 2019 at age 18, Palmer
delivered a baby boy named Luca with her boyfriend, Anthony, who'd later become her husband.
No one would ever think a 16-year-old would plan to become pregnant on purpose — but
that's what Megan Baker did when she conceived her son, Jaxon. Initially, Baker claimed she
accidentally became pregnant after incorrectly taking birth control in a since-removed April
2016 YouTube video. Then, she revealed the truth two years later.
"So the truth about my unplanned pregnancy at 16 was that it wasn't unplanned at all."
Still, Baker added that at the time she and her then-boyfriend didn't fully understand
what they were getting themselves into.
She said,
"I can say that planning a baby before you are emotionally, physically, financially,
everything, before you're living on your own, before you have a stable income and a job,
it's not a good idea."
Baker relied on her parents a lot throughout her pregnancy and while her son was little.
Still, she's said she wouldn't go back and change anything, and she is happy with the
way her life is now. She eventually married the father of her child in January 2019, and
a month later, the couple announced in a since-removed video that they were expecting their second
child together. She welcomed a son she named Lincoln into the world in September 2019.
In February 2020, she announced she was getting a divorce.
When McKayla Adkins was 16 years old, her life was pretty unconventional. She was living
with her grandparents, had a strained relationship with her mother, and was documenting her surprise
teen pregnancy on the TLC series Unexpected. To make things even crazier, Adkins' mother
was also pregnant. The drama played out on the show, and Adkins gave birth to a baby
boy, Timothy, in July 2017.
Adkins continued to have an on-and-off relationship with Caelan, the father of her child, and
the pair conceived a second child. Sadly, the young couple broke up just before the
birth of their daughter, Gracelynn, in January 2019. While she and Caelan later got back
together, they broke up for good in February 2020.
Adkins continues sharing her life as a mother to over 278,000 subscribers on her YouTube
channel. She has plans to attend college and become a full-time working mom, as she explained
in a June 2019 YouTube video.
"I know I have two kids, and I know it's going to be hard for me, but getting a job is really
important for me. I never wanted to be a stay-at-home mom permanently."
She said she wanted to provide for her children, adding,
"I just want to let everybody know that if you are a teen mom, you can do it."
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