00:00I got pregnant at 13.
00:02I was like 15, turning 16.
00:06People would say,
00:07you're ruining your life.
00:08Somebody even messaged me saying,
00:10I hope you guys f***ing labor.
00:12I took that and I shifted it.
00:16I said, this is making my life.
00:18I felt scared.
00:21I was really scared.
00:22What I wanted before anything,
00:24let's just get a paternity test
00:25before any actions were stepped forward.
00:28I thought to myself,
00:29he's going to take her away from me.
00:32I need to take the nose.
00:34Okay, let me help you.
00:35We're going to have to take it off in a minute.
00:36You know that, right?
00:38There you go.
00:40This is Everly.
00:41She is three years old.
00:43She's my little girl and we're super close.
00:46Let me spray some of this.
00:48Make your hair a little bit softer.
00:50She is so mature and so sassy.
00:53I don't always look down on teen moms
00:55if I'm being completely honest.
00:57I think that was just from a lack of knowing
00:59what it's really like.
01:00When I actually got pregnant,
01:02I was so scared for the reactions
01:03people were going to get.
01:04I did get a lot of negative reactions,
01:06a lot of hate.
01:07Can you try to wipe it off?
01:08Everybody had something to say
01:10and they didn't hold back.
01:11I had people send me the address
01:13to abortion clinics
01:14when I was about seven months pregnant.
01:16In gym class, they would put balls in their t-shirts
01:18and be like, hi, I'm Maddie.
01:19I'm a teen mom.
01:20Somebody even messaged me saying,
01:22I hope you guys f***ing labor.
01:24I took that and I shifted it.
01:27I said, this is making my life.
01:30The hate made me want to do better.
01:33It made me want to show them
01:35that I'm going to be the best mom ever.
01:36Even though I'm young,
01:37I'm going to be the best mom they've ever seen.
01:39All right, let's put this up.
01:41Do you want to go pick out an outfit?
01:42Hey, for Everlees, it's Maddie and Everlee.
01:45When Everlee was about four months old,
01:48I decided on a whim,
01:51okay, we look cute today.
01:52You know what?
01:53I'm going to go film a YouTube video.
01:54Today, I'm going to be talking about
01:57how I found out I was pregnant.
01:59My first video I ever posted
02:01ended up going viral.
02:02I just didn't know what was going to happen, you know,
02:04because I was pregnant at 14.
02:10Today, I am going to be filming a video
02:12for my YouTube channel
02:13with Everlee's dad, Isaac, my ex-boyfriend.
02:16I'm quite nervous
02:17and I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes.
02:19We're going to discuss co-parenting
02:21and how we've kind of made it work
02:23through the good, the bad, and the ugly.
02:28Everlee.
02:29Yeah.
02:30Come here.
02:31Give me a big hug.
02:36How are you?
02:37This is beautiful.
02:39Oh, is that your toy car?
02:40When Maddie first found out that she was pregnant,
02:43I was like 15, turning 16.
02:47I missed you.
02:49I thought it was all just a joke,
02:51like it wasn't real.
02:52Let's go upstairs.
02:53And then when she showed me the scan...
02:57I went to get a sonogram
02:58and I sent him this picture.
03:00I felt scared.
03:04I was really scared.
03:05So before we do this little co-parenting video,
03:09I know we've talked about before,
03:10like probably a couple years ago on my channel,
03:13how one of your regrets
03:14was not meeting Everlee earlier.
03:16And I never really got that explanation
03:20to what was going on during my pregnancy
03:23and after she was born.
03:25Did you move to Canada?
03:27No.
03:28What happened?
03:29Were you still in Texas?
03:30No, I was still in Texas,
03:31but when you told me, I was just shocked.
03:36I was like, wow.
03:39So I talked to my mom, obviously, about it.
03:42I told her that what I wanted before anything,
03:45before I got into Everlee's life,
03:47let's just get a paternity test
03:48before any actions were stepped forward.
03:52Basically, I wasn't there for the 10 months, right?
03:55So Maddie had the most hate for me,
03:57which was correct.
03:58And I messed up right there, and I did.
04:00This whole time, all I have said is
04:04I know who Everlee's dad is.
04:05He's the only person I've ever been with,
04:07which remains true.
04:08But he wanted to get proof.
04:10They said, okay, so for the paternity results,
04:12hand them them forward.
04:14He is the father.
04:15I've been telling y'all this literally
04:17for freaking almost a year.
04:20I just couldn't accept the fact that it happened,
04:23but it happened.
04:25Oh, I was so mad at you.
04:27Like, I literally...
04:29Oh, my gosh.
04:30It did get pretty bad, and I was really upset.
04:33I would post things on my social media
04:35and be like, he's a piece of crap
04:37and, like, say all these things.
04:39I thought to myself,
04:40he's going to take her away from me.
04:42I was hurting.
04:43Me and him had left off on bad terms,
04:46and I kind of turned that pain into anger,
04:49which I really do regret.
04:50I feel like I should have pushed harder
04:53and been nicer.
04:54I should have realized that, like,
04:56parenting is a two-way road.
04:58But at that time, for me,
04:59I was just kind of, like,
05:00I was still resenting everything that happened.
05:03I was really selfish with Everlee.
05:05Today is a special vlog
05:07because Everlee will be meeting her dad
05:09for the first time in her life.
05:12Everlee, you're going to meet your dad.
05:14How do you feel about that?
05:17What do you think about that?
05:19I feel like it would just be a lot better
05:21if I would have, like,
05:25came out, like,
05:26hey, like, this is my daughter.
05:28This beautiful angel.
05:29Like, yeah, like, it would have been different,
05:31but I was gone for that 10 months,
05:33and I can't do anything about it now.
05:36I'm just going to be there for her.
05:37You kind of get that mentality
05:40where it's the villain and the hero,
05:42and you make yourself the hero,
05:43and you make the other person the villain,
05:44but it's not like that.
05:45You're just both basically side characters.
05:48Everlee's the hero.
05:49Yeah.
05:50I'm really glad we got to talk about this,
05:51and I think it's really good
05:52to kind of get these things out in the open
05:54before we film our video
05:56telling other people how to co-parent
05:58when we're not professionals ourselves.
05:59Yeah.
06:00All right.
06:02All right.
06:03Are we sitting down now?
06:04Yeah.
06:05Well, hello.
06:06Okay, so we're going to start with something, like,
06:09a bit more simple,
06:10and even though it's super simple,
06:12we've definitely fought over it.
06:13Definitely.
06:14Just, like, the times for visitation,
06:16because when you're co-parenting...
06:17We both want her.
06:18Yeah.
06:19As much as possible.
06:20I think it went really well.
06:22We've never actually discussed this
06:24just on our own terms.
06:26I think it's really good
06:27that we were able to talk about those things civilly,
06:29and it just really shows how far things have come
06:32from where they were before.
06:33Daddy!
06:35Come on.
06:37Let's move.
06:38All right, girl.
06:39Do you have shoes on?
06:40Yeah.
06:41So many people assume I'm a bad mom
06:43just because I'm a teenager,
06:44but I have the same capacity to parent
06:46as anybody on this world.
06:47A good mom is somebody who drops everything
06:50for their child.
06:51I dropped my whole childhood.
06:53Nice!
06:55Be careful by the edge!
06:57I do everything for that little girl.
06:59She is my entire world,
07:00and I feel like she can have such an impact.
07:03Do you know any of those letters?
07:05Yeah.
07:06Which ones?
07:07I think this one is A.
07:10That's the one I just pointed to,
07:11and she said she doesn't know.
07:12Good job, baby.
07:13You're so smart.
07:14If she wants to be the first astronaut on Jupiter,
07:16she's going to do it.
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