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TEEN parents Trina and Wilson have two children together and are still just 19 years old. The couple met at middle school but "never in a million years" would they have predicted what would come next for them. At the age of just 15, Trina found out she was pregnant for the first time - and, as Wilson told Truly: "It was a big turning point at that time. My whole perspective changed on life." When their first son, Amir (now 2 years old), was born the parents suddenly had to juggle high school with parental responsibilities such as "working, dropping the kids off at daycare, doctors appointments." Then, last year, having just turned 18, Trina found out she was pregnant again - she gave birth to their second son, Jace, four months ago. Both children have medical conditions, adding extra responsibility onto Trina and Wilson's young shoulders - but they have taken it all in their stride, despite judgement from people online after the teen parents decided to share their family's story on TikTok. They have often been told that they "shouldn't have children so young" and people assume Wilson is going to leave Trina to parent their sons on her own. But the pair are stronger than ever - and they have had to be in order to ride out turbulent relations with Trina's parents, who they live with. When he first found out his daughter was pregnant, Trina's dad "didn't want to see or talk to" Wilson and initially blocked him from seeing Amir when he was first born. Trina's stepmom Maria was similarly disappointed, but they eventually allowed Wilson to move in and support Trina in raising their new son. When Trina told her parents she was pregnant for the second time, though, old wounds reopened - and Trina has still not discussed that rocky period with stepmom Maria since Jace was born. So today, as they sit down together for the first time, will the family come to blows? Or will Trina and Wilson be able to move forward with the full support of Trina's parents?
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00:00I was pregnant at 15 now I'm a mom of two. We got a lot of comments that we
00:04shouldn't have kids so young. You should be worried about school and being young
00:07not spreading your legs. Children shouldn't be having children. People
00:12assume that I'm going to leave or like the kids are mine. Single mom in the
00:16making. My dad and my stepmom were so angry they said I was too young to have
00:20a child. My dad was like no stay away from my daughter I don't want I don't
00:24want you near my daughter. As soon as my dad started to accept it I found out I
00:28was pregnant again. Today we're gonna have a conversation with my stepmom. I'm
00:31nervous to hear her actual thoughts. She usually doesn't hold back. How do you
00:35and my dad feel about the second pregnancy? I'm Trina and I'm 19. I'm Wilson and I'm
00:4519. And we're teen parents of two kids. One is two years old his name is Amir and
00:49then Jace he's four months old. I would describe Amir as funny. He's always like
00:54dancing and like making everyone laugh. And then Jace is really like calm and
00:59hungry. Like he's he wants that bottle like right away. When Amir was born I was 16.
01:07When Jace was born I was just turned 19. I always see myself as being a mom just not at
01:14this age. I never envisioned myself being a dad at such a early age. Never in a million
01:19years. It was a big turning point at that time. My whole perspective changed my life.
01:25My morning before I had kids I would just wake up and go to school and then
01:29after school I'll come back home and go to sleep. Now I wake up early. You have to
01:33wake up before 8.50 in the morning to give Jace his medicine. That's the huge
01:39responsibility I would say for now. It's like the hearing aids for Amir and his
01:42medicine. Amir! Music! Where's your microphone? Amir has a syndrome called
01:49Warneberg syndrome which causes eyes to be blue. Comes with hearing loss. They gave him
01:54hearing aids. Jace when he was born he was extremely yellow. He wasn't waking up.
01:59He wasn't crying. He wasn't eating. Found out that he had seizures and brain bleeds.
02:05Right now we just know he has epilepsy. There's a lot of responsibilities add on to our lives.
02:10I feel like I was very immature and I like made like a lot of mistakes when I was
02:14younger. Now I have kids like let me be mature. Let me grow up. We were really young.
02:19The only thing we were doing was going to school and coming home. The only thing
02:23that changed was like more so like us working, us having like more things to do
02:27like dropping the kids off daycare, doctor's appointments, having more things
02:31to do like add to our list. I mainly work since morning to the afternoon so all
02:36credits to her. She takes care of the kids from there. Then once I get home you
02:40know I help out. I can make a bottle. I take care of the little one. He eats a lot.
02:47Sometimes we feed him four ounces. He starts crying and then we give him like two
02:53more ounces and he just goes straight to sleep. I mainly just started posting about
02:58Amir's Warneberg just like get like answers and like clarity of like will my son be
03:02okay? I just wanted to show that I'm a teen parent like I wanted to let that be
03:05known. I used to get comments like your life must be so hard now. People saying
03:10you guys can take care of them right or you guys want your life. I feel like
03:14there's a lot of stigma about being teen parents because they probably don't think
03:18we can handle it or they probably think we aren't going to be as responsible as
03:23older people. You should be worried about school and being young not spreading your
03:26legs. Okay. There's a lot of people our age that do the same thing they just don't get the
03:35same results or they just choose a different result. We made that decision
03:38like to keep our kids so for us that's our own route.
03:43Single mom in the making. I love this girl to death. That would never happen to my part.
03:47Children shouldn't be having children. When you're 18 you're an adult just wait two
03:52years and finish high school. One we graduated on time. Two I'm still taking
03:58college classes. I actually brought my son on stage to grab my diploma so that was a very big
04:03moment for me as well. We went to her graduation as well and we were just shouting from the back.
04:07Hey there you go mama. Having a baby doesn't stop nothing. I'm still doing the same thing that kids my
04:12age are doing.
04:13They're in school. I'm still in school. They're living their life and I'm living mine
04:18just with kids. When I first got pregnant I was living with my parents and he was
04:24living with his mom. My family reacted very disappointed and upset. My dad was like
04:30didn't say nothing. He was more so crying and wouldn't like really look at me.
04:34My dad was like no stay away from my daughter. I don't want I don't want you near
04:38my daughter. He just didn't want to see him or talk to him. It was just very negative
04:43at that point. I had a lot of anger in me because I wasn't thinking about his
04:48perspective or anything. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking oh how can you
04:52not let me see her after this or like I was just really upset. Now that I look back at
04:56it
04:57I understand his perspective you know his daughter 15 having a baby. It was just
05:02our families clashing against each other because we didn't we never had like a
05:06talk. We never had a talk at that point. Hey guys how are you? Today we're gonna
05:11have a conversation with my stem mom. We haven't had a conversation about it since
05:14I was pregnant for a second time. I'm nervous to hear her actual thoughts. She
05:18usually doesn't hold back. How did you feel when I was pregnant for the first time? Oh my
05:22God. I was in shock. I find out two days before you tell me and I was so upset.
05:30You dad was acting kind of weird those days when he called me that day at the
05:34room. I said what is it? He told me at once Trina is pregnant and I was like
05:40what? We are trying to do our best as a parent even I'm not your mom but I try to
05:46do the best for you guys and it hurt my feelings a lot. How did you and my dad feel
05:52about the second pregnancy? We were 18 we found out we were pregnant again. My
05:56dad I told him first. He was like why would you tell me this right now? I said
06:03mom she just didn't say nothing she was quiet and I couldn't like see her reaction.
06:09I'd say they were very like shocked and disappointed. We were so upset that I mean
06:16we were in shock especially the way that we find out. We held it in for so long
06:21because we weren't sure if Jace was going to make it or not because during the
06:27procedures they did tell me there was a high chance that he wasn't able he
06:30wasn't gonna make it so we didn't want everybody to like deal with what we were
06:34going through. But I would like to know it before even if something happened I was
06:38upset about the pregnancy the both pregnancy the way that we find out. I
06:42understand that you guys you and my dad were very disappointed and didn't agree with
06:47our decisions but I do respect that you guys were very helpful and still
06:53treated my kids like they were yours. I'm very grateful for that because most
06:56parents would have just kicked their kids out so I'm very grateful for that. I see
07:00that responsibility that you guys have and you guys are doing so well I'll be
07:04there for you always. Alright guys. Thank you. Me personally I have no regrets in my life I
07:12feel like this is probably the best thing that ever happened to me because it's
07:15changed my perspective and made me mature early on. It makes me work harder every
07:20single day. Like that's that's my why now. Parenting actually like it's like fun.
07:27Kids are always happy. They're like little angels. They're looking at us and they're
07:31just like smiling and it's just like why am I sad right now? I have my person like I
07:36have my babies. Gave us like a purpose in a way. There's no need to judge people for
07:41making their decisions at a young age. We're still doing what we have to do for our
07:45kids and also for ourselves and if you do judge it's not really our issue. Keep on
07:49hating. We're still living. We're still going to take care of our kids. We're still
07:53going to grow together and have fun. Just be positive man.
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