00:00People judge us because we had a baby at 14.
00:05Say hi.
00:06What's your name?
00:07Nina.
00:08I'm?
00:09Hi.
00:10Nina.
00:11Nina.
00:12What is this?
00:13What is that?
00:14Did you know what that is?
00:15Me.
00:16I never thought I had a kid at 14.
00:21I feel very isolated, like I had nobody.
00:24When I told my sister, she 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 and I would ghost him a lot
00:45because 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.
00:55She 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 that I was pregnant,
01:04they were very judgmental and they just stopped talking to us.
01:07I feel very isolated, like I had nobody but my sister and my boyfriend.
01:11When we had our daughter, Nina, we were 15 years old.
01:14It was barely our first year of high school and we got pregnant.
01:16This isn't the same forever.
01:18That's enough.
01:19We currently don't live together, but we see each other like every single day.
01:23Or every other day.
01:24Yeah.
01:25Or we spend the night with each other and Nina.
01:27Basically, it feels like I live there because-
01:28He's there all the time.
01:29I'm there all the time.
01:30Can I drink coffee and bulldog noodles?
01:32Cheers.
01:33Cheers.
01:36It's spicy.
01:37I found out I was pregnant on May 9, 2022.
01:41I bought a pregnancy test.
01:42I 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 like people were looking at me.
01:57My stomach dropped, like if I was on a roller coaster.
02:00And I was scared.
02:02She told me that she was pregnant and that she took three pregnancy tests.
02:07I was nervous.
02:08I didn't know like 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 like 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.
02:29So I live with my sister.
02:30And I was scared my sister was going to find the pregnancy test in my backpack.
02:35When I told my sister, she looked at me in my eyes and she said, are you kidding me?
02:40My body like dropped and like, I just started crying.
02:44Like I just started crying so much.
02:47She was like, what are you going to do?
02:48We can't raise a baby in this house.
02:50And 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.
02:59I 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
03:10happen to her.
03:11And then she passed away.
03:13I think that's what made me grow up fast too.
03:16So we are going to read a letter from my sister about how she felt when she found out I was
03:21pregnant at 14.
03:22It's been a while since we spoke to my sister about that subject.
03:26I 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.
03:47Initially, 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.
04:10And this is me and Mina when she was born.
04:13She was hairy.
04:14Look how small she was.
04:15You could barely tell she was in there.
04:17And then this one of me and Anthony.
04:21When I first held Mina, I felt happy and emotional because I heard her first cry.
04:27And when I first heard her cry, it made me kind of like sad because at first,
04:31I thought something was wrong with her, but everything was fine with her.
04:33She was just crying.
04:34I held her hand and she kind of stopped crying.
04:36And then I carried her.
04:37Oh, so cute.
04:38My and Anthony's relationship was like rocky because we didn't know how to parent like together.
04:45I had a lot of anxiety because I didn't know how to change a baby's diaper.
04:49Anthony was teaching me actually when I was pregnant how to change a baby's diaper on a bear.
04:54Mina like coming into the world, it changed our relationship because in the beginning it was just us.
04:59I would try to go visit her, but at that time I didn't have like a job.
05:02I was working, but it was part time and 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 10 lemons for $20 or however.
05:23Yeah, because it was the big lemons.
05:25But I don't know because I was a kid. I didn't know what to do.
05:28It's really hard doing school with her, especially if she's home with me by myself because Mina, she constantly is doing something.
05:39She likes to use my keyboard.
05:40And 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.
05:56It's giving me to go to work as a 17-year-old teen mom.
05:59It's hard for me too because I have to go to work and then I have to go to school.
06:02When I'm watching the baby, I can't really do homework.
06:05When I told my friends I was pregnant, they were like so supportive.
06:09And 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.
06:16Get that one.
06:18The bunny one.
06:20A lot of friends stopped talking to me.
06:22Some of them were supportive and some of them were not.
06:24Like you already messed up your whole life basically.
06:26You're not even finished with school.
06:28You only have a job.
06:29You only have a car.
06:30Or you could have had this many years to your life to do by yourself.
06:33Now you gotta support your child for 18 years and blah, blah, blah.
06:37No, not like that. More straight.
06:38Like this?
06:39Yeah.
06:40No more. Ew!
06:41Up.
06:42Like that.
06:43That's good.
06:45We get a lot of judgment on social media.
06:48I think our account blew up because I made a video.
06:51I 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 boyfriend ain't your age.
07:08Laughing emoji.
07:09That's so dumb.
07:11That's facial hair.
07:12Yeah, I guess the 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 gonna have a lot of problems in our life because we ended up having a child of 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, oh my God, just delete your account.
07:37But I'll be like, why?
07:38Hi.
07:39Hi.
07:40It doesn't affect me anymore either.
07:42I just go on with my day.
07:44Say hi.
07:45Hi.
07:46I'm.
07:47Our.
07:48Am.
07:49I'm.
07:50Mina.
07:51Mina.
07:52This is Mina and she's two years old.
07:53She's like our little mini twin.
07:55She looks like Anthony, the girl version.
07:57She does.
07:59Mina's very energetic and playful and a very happy baby.
08:03Happy baby.
08:04What I love most about Mina is I love waking up to her.
08:09And she loves to cuddle me.
08:12When she wakes up in the morning, she's always asking for breakfast.
08:16Yeah, she loves her dad.
08:18I'll probably start crying.
08:19She told me she was pregnant at 15.
08:21She's gonna 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
08:30now because it's hard.
08:31I hope she does not follow our footsteps because she has a good life ahead of her.
08:44Anthony changed my life for the better because he's really funny and he's brought a big spark
08:51into my world and he's an amazing dad to my daughter.
08:55What is that?
08:56Who is that?
08:57Fish.
08:58Fish.
08:59She's always encouraging me to not give up on things.
09:03So like if I would feel down, she's always bringing me back up.
09:06That's a baby.
09:07We cannot imagine our life without Mina because Mina is just Mina.
09:12I want Mina to have a successful life and I want Mina to go to a university.
09:17What we will say to the people that judge us is keep judging them.
09:21No, no, no, no, no.
09:23No.
09:42I want to know about whether we face them.
09:43How do we finish this?
09:44How do we finish this so long that it does not ordinarily?
09:45Do the things that we have given here so long we start with
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