A lot of women get shamed when they have children at an age that society sometimes perceives as too young. While we don’t encourage teen pregnancies, adults have the right to make their own decisions over their bodies and when they want to start their families. Here are a few who did just that.
Kylie Jenner
Kylie Jenner gave birth to daughter Stormi Webster in 2018 while she was together with Stormi’s father Travis Scott at the age of 21. Stormi is now two-years-old.
Gigi Hadid
Gigi Hadid, a supermodel, was only 25 years old when she gave birth to her daughter Khai in a home birth that lasted for 14 hours. During the birth, Hadid told Vogue that she transformed into a “beast lady.”
After the delivery, Hadid said, “I know my mom and Zayn and Bella were proud of me, but at some points I watched each of them in horror.” Zayn and Bella are Hadid’s brother and sister. After everything was over, Z and I exchanged glances and said to each other, “We can have some time before we do it again.”
Reese Witherspoon & Ryan Phillippe
In 1999, after dating for two years, Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe tied the knot, and in the same year, the couple became parents to their first child, Ava Elizabeth. Both of them were only 22 years old at the time; Phillippe was 24. In addition, Deacon Reese Phillippe was born to the couple in 2003, and they divorced the following year in 2007. Since then, both have become parents through relationships with other people, which means that Ava, now 20, and Deacon, now 16, each have one full sibling and two half-siblings between them.
When asked about becoming a mother at the age of 22, Witherspoon told Elle, “It was very difficult…living away from my family.” In all honesty, I didn’t have any pals at all. And I became a mother. Nobody else her age had a child by the time she was 22.
Sofía Vergara
When Sofia Vergara was just 18 years old, she tied the knot with Joe Gonzalez, the boy she had a crush on in high school. In 1992, while Vergara was only 19 years old, the couple welcomed a child, a son named Manolo Gonzalez-Ripoll Vergara. Manolo, who is now 25 years old, made his debut as a model in 2016.
Lil Wayne
Rapper and hip-hop mogul Lil Wayne, who is now 37 years old, welcomed his first child, a daughter named Reginae, with his ex-wife Toya Carter when he was just 15 years old.
TMZ has stated that although Lil Wayne already has four children, he is suspected of fathering a fifth child with Keiotia Watson in the year 2002. When Watson went to court to establish paternity and get child support, a judge reportedly found in her favour and gave her a favourable decision.
