00:00People judge us because we had a baby at 14.
00:04Say hi.
00:06What's your name?
00:07Mina.
00:08I'm Mina.
00:10Mina.
00:11Cat.
00:12What is this?
00:13Cat.
00:14Do you know what that is?
00:15Me.
00:16I never thought I'd have a kid at 14.
00:21I felt very isolated, like I had nobody.
00:24I told my sister.
00:25She looked at me in my eyes and she said,
00:27Are you kidding me?
00:28My body like, it dropped.
00:33My name is Nicole and this is my partner, Anthony.
00:35And we got disowned at 14 by getting pregnant.
00:38When we first met, we were 13 years old.
00:41And we started texting on Instagram.
00:43And I would ghost him a lot because I wouldn't want to text him.
00:48We hung out for the first time and we clicked.
00:52To me, when I first seen her, I liked her.
00:56She was cute and funny and stuff.
00:58Should I take some of the water out?
01:00No.
01:01The way people reacted when they first found out I was pregnant,
01:04they were very judgmental.
01:05And they just stopped talking to us.
01:07I felt very isolated, like I had nobody but my sister and my boyfriend.
01:11When we had our daughter, Mina, we were 15 years old.
01:14It was barely our first year of high school and we got pregnant.
01:17This is going to take forever.
01:18That's enough.
01:20We currently don't live together, but we see each other like every single day.
01:23Or every other day.
01:24Yeah.
01:25We always spend the night with each other and Mina.
01:27Basically, it feels like I live there.
01:29He's there all the time.
01:30I'm there all the time.
01:31Are you going to drink coffee and bulldog noodles?
01:33Cheers.
01:34Cheers.
01:36It's spicy.
01:37I found out I was pregnant on May 9, 2022.
01:41I bought a pregnancy test.
01:43I was embarrassed to buy it for myself at the cashier.
01:45And I actually pretended to call my sister on the phone.
01:48And I was like, oh, is this a pregnancy test?
01:50Because they're probably like, why is this little girl buying a pregnancy test?
01:54And I had my school backpack on, so people were looking at me.
01:57My stomach dropped, like if I was on a roller coaster.
02:01And I was scared.
02:03She told me that she was pregnant and that she took three pregnancy tests.
02:07I was nervous.
02:09I didn't know what to do, how to prepare myself to be a dad.
02:13My brother, he has eight kids.
02:15So, my mom, she kind of already had a feeling that something was going to happen like that.
02:19She was kind of in shock, like, okay.
02:21She was mad at the same time.
02:23She didn't talk to me for like two or three days.
02:25But then she just forgot about it.
02:27She said, okay.
02:28And she started buying baby clothes and stuff.
02:30So, I live with my sister.
02:32And I was scared my sister was going to find the pregnancy test in my backpack.
02:36When I told my sister, she looked at me in my eyes and she said, are you kidding me?
02:40My body, like, had dropped.
02:43And, like, I just started crying.
02:45Like, I just started crying so much.
02:47She was like, what are you going to do?
02:49We can't raise a baby in this house.
02:51And after she was, like, yelling at me, she was trying to, like, comfort me.
02:54She said everything was going to be fine.
02:56But at that moment, to me, it felt like nothing was going to be fine.
03:00I felt like I was already growing up quick living with my mom because my mom was sick.
03:05She had diabetes.
03:06I wouldn't go to school sometimes because I would get anxiety that, like, something would happen to her.
03:11And then she passed away.
03:14I think that's what made me grow up fast, too.
03:17So we are going to read a letter from my sister about how she felt when she found out I was pregnant at 14.
03:23It's been a while since we spoke to my sister about that subject.
03:29I was truly in shock and thought my sister was playing a prank on me.
03:33There were many thoughts racing through my head and a lot of confusion.
03:37My expression was, you got to be effing kidding me.
03:41Of course, I was angry as we had already been through a lot, losing our mom.
03:46Initially, I had reservations about their ability to raise a child as teen parents.
03:51They have persevered and proven they are capable.
03:54They are loving parents to me, and it shows greatly.
03:56We weathered the storm, and now we have this amazing ray of sunshine in our lives.
04:00That was heartwarming.
04:02I thought it was going to be something bad, but the way she explained it all is how she felt.
04:08And this is me and Mina when she was born.
04:11She was hairy. Look how small she was.
04:14You could barely tell she was in there.
04:16And then this one of me and Anthony.
04:19When I first held Mina, I felt happy and emotional because I heard her first cry.
04:25And when I first heard her cry, it made me kind of sad because at first I thought something was wrong with her, but everything was fine with her.
04:32She was just crying.
04:33Mine and Anthony's relationship was rocky because we didn't know how to parent together.
04:40I had a lot of anxiety because I didn't know how to change a baby's diaper.
04:44Anthony was teaching me actually when I was pregnant how to change a baby's diaper on a bear.
04:49Mina coming into the world, it changed our relationship because in the beginning it was just us.
04:54I would try to go visit her, but at that time I didn't have a job.
04:57I was working, but it was part-time.
04:59I would try to go visit her, but at that time I didn't have a job.
05:01I was working, but it was part-time.
05:03And it was part because of the school.
05:05So when the school ended, I didn't have the job.
05:08So it was kind of hard for me to get another job.
05:11Sometimes what I would do is I would get oranges and lemons and avocados.
05:16And I would go walking around trying to sell them like a dollar for five lemons or like ten lemons for $20 or however.
05:23$20?
05:24Yeah, because it was the big lemons.
05:26But I don't know because I was a kid. I didn't know what to do.
05:28Hi.
05:29Hi.
05:33It's really hard doing school with her, especially if she's home with me by myself.
05:37Because Mina, she constantly is doing something.
05:39She likes to use my keyboard.
05:41And it's hard to do my schoolwork because when I'm using it, she wants to like play with it.
05:45And I'm just like, you can't play with it.
05:47Say bye.
05:48Bye.
05:49Because we have different teachers, I'll watch the baby while she goes to her class.
05:53And then when she's done, I'll go to my class and then she'll watch the baby.
05:57She's encouraging me to go to work as a 17-year-old teen mom.
06:00It's hard for me too because I have to go to work and then I have to go to school.
06:03When I'm watching the baby, I can't really do homework.
06:06When I told my friends I was pregnant, they were like so supportive.
06:10And then as soon as I like stopped going to school, they stopped talking to me.
06:14Like they just stopped talking to me. They cut me off.
06:17Get that one.
06:19The bunny one.
06:21A lot of friends stopped talking to me.
06:23Some of them were supportive and some of them were not.
06:25You've messed up your whole life basically.
06:27You're not even finished with school. You don't even have a job.
06:30You don't even have a car.
06:31Or you could have had this many years to your life to do by yourself.
06:34Now you've got to support your child for 18 years and blah, blah, blah.
06:37No, not like that. More straight.
06:39Like this?
06:40Yeah. No more. Ew!
06:42Up.
06:44Like that.
06:45Okay.
06:46We get a lot of judgment on social media.
06:49I think our account blew up because I made a video.
06:52I think I was making spaghetti.
06:53People just think Anthony looks a lot older than me.
06:55So that was the automatic like, oh, he's weird.
06:58Why is he messing with like a little kid or something?
07:01And I'm just like, what?
07:02Like we're literally the same age.
07:05Girl, we know you.
07:06Boyfriend ain't your age.
07:08Laughing emoji.
07:10That's so dumb.
07:11That's facial hair.
07:12Yeah, I guess a girl doesn't know what puberty is.
07:14And hormones.
07:15People say that he'll probably leave me in like a couple years.
07:19And then we're going to have a lot of problems in our life
07:22because we ended up having a child at 15 years old.
07:25Why do you both do this to yourself?
07:27Kids having kids.
07:28Bro, 14 is beyond crazy.
07:30In the beginning, it did affect me a lot.
07:33Like I would literally cry and I would like tell myself like,
07:36oh my God, just delete your account.
07:37But then I would be like, why?
07:39Hi!
07:40It doesn't affect me anymore either.
07:42I just go on with my day.
07:45Say hi.
07:46Hi.
07:47I'm.
07:48I'm.
07:49I'm.
07:50Mina.
07:51Mina.
07:52This is Mina and she's 2 years old.
07:53She's like our little mini twin.
07:55She looks like Anthony, the girl version.
07:57Mm-hmm.
07:58She does.
07:59Yeah!
08:00Mina's very energetic and playful and a very happy baby.
08:03Happy baby.
08:05What I love most about Mina is I love waking up to her.
08:10And she loves to cuddle me.
08:13When she wakes up in the morning, she's always asking for breakfast.
08:16Yeah, she loves me, Dad.
08:18I'll probably start crying if she told me she was pregnant at 15.
08:21She's going to suffer just like we did with our struggles.
08:24Me, I'll instantly pop out.
08:26I'll be mad because I don't want her going through the same situation as we are going now because it's hard.
08:35I hope she does not follow our footsteps because she has a good life ahead of her.
08:39Kick it.
08:40Kick it.
08:41Woo!
08:42Kick it.
08:43High five.
08:45Anthony changed my life for the better because he's really funny and he's brought a big spark into my world.
08:52And he's an amazing dad to my daughter.
08:55What is that?
08:57Who is that?
08:58Fish.
08:59Fish.
09:00She's always encouraging me to not give up on things.
09:03So if I would feel down, she's always bringing me back up.
09:06Fish.
09:07That's a baby.
09:08We could not imagine our life without Meena because Meena is just Meena.
09:13I want Meena to have a successful life and I want Meena to go to a university.
09:17What we will say to the people that judge us is keep judging.
09:21Keep praying.
09:22No, no, no, no.
09:23What?
09:24No.
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