History Main / TeenPregnancy

* Raquel from ''ComicBook/{{Icon}}'' is 15 years old and found out she was pregnant right around the time her superhero career as Rocket began. Unlike Steph, she decided to keep her son, whom she named Amistad.

* ''Literature/{{Inkmistress}}'': Ina is seventeen like Asra, and it turns out she's pregnant from her fiance Garen.

* PlayedForDrama in an episode of ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'', where the baby is the BodyOfTheWeek. The girl conceals her pregnancy and when she has the baby, she throws it in a dumpster and it dies.
* In the Mexican [[SoapOpera Telenovela]] ''Quinceañera'' ("15 year old girl"), the main theme around {{Music/Thalia}}'s character Beatriz was her how she got pregnant at age 15.

* The premise of Creator/{{TLC}}'s reality show, ''High School Moms''.

* {{Exaggerated| Trope}} on ''[[Series/Switch1997 Switch Reloaded]]'': Dennis aus Huerth is 20, and his grandmother is in her late 30s.

* One episode of ''Series/ColdCase'' centers around a teenage pregnancy, with the victim being the child's father (also a teenager) who was murdered just hours after his baby was born. It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:he was killed by the baby's would-be adoptive father after telling him that he had decided not go through with the adoption.]]

* French song "Aurélie", by Colonel Reyel, has a very [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome dark]] take on the situation: even though Aurélie is actually okay with being pregnant, her boyfriend ditches her and her family kicks her out, resulting in a pregnant 16-year-old on the street, desperate for a job, a roof, and someone to guide her. The song advocates more support for girls in her situation.

* ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'': Downplayed if [[spoiler:the protagonist saves Tammy early in the game]]. On the 8th Vertumnalia Festival, Lum announces [[spoiler:Tammy's]] pregnancy at 19, the first in the colony since they landed on Vertumna. [[spoiler:Tammy]] decides to keep the baby because she has always wanted to be a mother and believes that she's ready for it despite her age.

'''Alli:''' ...pregnant teenager?

* The '''Franchise/{{Degrassi}}''' shows have covered ''all'' the bases with teen pregnancy:

* ''Series/DegrassiHigh'': Erica and Tessa both got pregnant. Both got abortions. The only difference is that Tessa's baby daddy is Joey Jeremiah. In some instances, Erica's pregnancy created a minor WhatHappenedToTheMouse, as the second part of the episode was not broadcast.
* ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'': Spike got pregnant with [[Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration Emma]] in the first season - [[DarkerAndEdgier they weren't messing around]] - and had her in between seasons. Yes, that was on Degrassi ''Junior'' High.
* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' has covered ''all'' the bases with teen pregnancy:
** Manny gets pregnant in season 3 when she was in 9th grade, and ends up having an abortion. Unsurprisingly, this two-part episode didn't air in the US on the first run, especially since her decision was portrayed as the right thing to do, and she never regretted it.
** Liberty gets pregnant in season 5 when she's in 11th grade, carries the baby to term, and gives him up for adoption.
** Mia enters the show in season 6 when she is in 10th grade and already has a two-year-old daughter, Isabella. Mia is nicknamed 'Mamma Mia'. The show follows her as she juggles motherhood, school, and a blossoming modeling career.
** Emma has a pregnancy scare in season 6 when she is in 12th grade, but in the end she isn't really pregnant.
** Anya ''fakes'' her pregnancy in season 10 to get back at her ex-boyfriend Sav and make him drop out of the school presidential run. After Sav finds out the truth, they actually get back together and continue to lie about the pregnancy, then later tell everyone that Anya had had a miscarriage.
** Jenna (who provides the page quote) gets pregnant in season 10 when she's in 10th grade. She tries to be a mother to her son Tyson, but gives him up for adoption after a few weeks.
** Alli has a pregnancy scare in season 12 when she's in 11th grade. She realizes she missed a few birth control pills and was really scared that her period would be late.
** 18 year old Dallas is introduced in season 12, and it's revealed he has a three-year-old son that lives with the child's mother.
** Clare finds out she's pregnant at the end of season 13 when she's in 12th grade. For a while she [[WhosYourDaddy doesn't know who the father is]], and the pregnancy ends in a late term miscarriage [[ConvenientMiscarriage right before she graduates.]]
** Lola in "Next Class" gets pregnant after a fling and gets an abortion, with no regrets.
** Jonah reveals in "Next Class" season 4 that he has a daughter but isn't allowed to meet her.

* ''Series/TheFosters'' Brandon's girlfriend Courtney has a two-year old son, Mason. Another example is Emma gets pregnant by has an abortion.

** Lorelei got pregnant at 16 and had Rory, and the main plot of the show is about their relationship as two girls living alone together without a very big age gap.
** Rory's ex-boyfriend Jess was also the product of one, which contributed to his TroubledButCute backstory.

* ''VideoGame/IwasATeenageExocolonist'': Downplayed if [[spoiler:the protagonist saves Tammy early in the game]]. On the 8th Vertumnalia Festival, Lum announces [[spoiler:Tammy's]] pregnancy at 19, the first in the colony since they landed on Vertumna. [[spoiler:Tammy]] decides to keep the baby because she has always wanted to be a mother and believes that she's ready for it despite her age.

[[caption-width-right:300:Growing up, with a bump or so along the way.]]

* ''Film/SugarAndSpice'': Diane gets pregnant by Jack unexpectedly. Both of them are teenagers in high school, and thrown out by their parents over this. The plot is set in motion since they need money, with Diane deciding along with her fellow cheerleaders to rob a bank for it.

** One episode centered around a pregnant teen who had run away to New York to get an abortion because she was afraid her father would kick her out if he found out about the baby. When she wasn't able to obtain the abortion (due to the fact that she ended up in a sham/decoy clinic instead of a real one), she had her boyfriend beat her on the abdomen to try and induce a miscarriage.

* ''[[Webcomic/Rain2010 Rain]]'': Emily is pregnant (strongly implied to be [[ChildByRape nonconsensually]]) by her ex-boyfriend for most of her senior year of high school. As St. Hallvard is a Catholic school, she [[MySecretPregnancy hides that she's pregnant]] from everyone at school except her girlfriend, Rain, until she's far enough along that that's no longer possible;[[note]]A few of her other close friends find out independently, but they don't tell anyone else and Emily doesn't know that they know.[[/note]] when she eventually has to come clean to the school administration, she gets weeks of detention and is stripped of her status as the year's valedictorian and outed as pregnant to the rest of the school (which, in turn, causes some trouble for [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Rain]] when another student clocks her and comes to the [logical but incorrect] conclusion that ''she'' got Emily pregnant).

* ''[[Webcomic/Rain2010 Rain]]'': Emily is pregnant (strongly implied to be [[ChildByRape nonconsensually]]) by her ex-boyfriend for most of her senior year of high school. As St. Hallvard is a Catholic school, she [[MySecretPregnancy hides that she's pregnant]] from everyone at school except her closest friends until she's far enough along that that's no longer possible; when she eventually has to come clean to the school administration, she gets weeks of detention and is stripped of her status as the year's valedictorian and outed as pregnant to the rest of the school (which, in turn, causes some trouble for her girlfriend, [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Rain]], when another student clocks Rain and comes to the [logical but incorrect] conclusion that ''she'' got Emily pregnant).

* Referenced in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''. Fifteen year old Marco and Star were gone for one year. Marco's friends see his baby sister and think that [[IsThatCuteKidYours she is his daughter]], even [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo when he claims otherwise]]. Marco's friends think that pregnancy was the reason he and Star left for a year.

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* Anna Nicole Smith's mother, Virgie, was married and had her first child at fourteen, and gave birth to Smith at sixteen. Smith had her first child a few months after her eighteenth birthday, making her mother a grandmother at ''34''.
* As detailed on FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo, actress [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Oberon Merle Oberon]] was only 26 years younger than her ''grandmother'' -- a double-dose of AbsurdlyYouthfulMother -- and was the result of a ''preteen'' pregnancy.
* Maurice White's mother was only 17 when she had him. Realizing there were few opportunities for a black woman in Memphis in the 1940s, she gave him up to a woman from her church and relocated to Chicago. She later married a black doctor, and had four other children. Her two sons from this marriage, Verdine and Freddie, would join their half-brother in Music/EarthWindAndFire.
* Famous country singer Loretta Lynn married at 15, had her first at 16, was a mother of three by 19, and a ''grandmother'' by 34. To put this into perspective, Loretta's own younger sister Crystal Gayle was an aunt of two at birth.
* Jamie Lynn Spears got pregnant with her first daughter, Maddie, at 16 a few months after filming on ''Series/Zoey101'' wrapped up. She gave birth a few months after turning 17.
* Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor King Henry VII of England]], gave birth to him at age 13. Her underdeveloped physique made for a physically traumatic birth that rendered her unable to have any more children.
** Her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth of York, just barely made this. She was 19 when she married Henry, got pregnant almost ''immediately'' (they were married in January and their first child was born in September), but turned 20 during the first few weeks of the pregnancy.
** Elizabeth's eldest daughter, Margaret, played the trope straight. As Queen of Scotland, she gave birth to her first three children before turning 20, although none of them lived very long.
* Naomi Judd gave birth to Music/{{Wynonna|Judd}} when she was 18.
* Political scandals involving this trope crop up from time to time, such as UsefulNotes/SarahPalin's eldest daughter, Bristol, having a baby at 17 while her mother was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008.
* Maria Reynolds, mistress of founding father Alexander Hamilton, was 17 when she gave birth to her first and only child, Susan Reynolds
* The world's youngest grandmother, Rifca Stanescu, was 23 years old upon earning the title. She became pregnant at twelve, and despite warning her daughter not to make the same mistake...she got pregnant at eleven.
* Creator/GeorgiaMoffett had her first child at 17 following a brief relationship with a university student.
* Actress Katie Jarvis had two children before turning twenty (she had her first at 18 and her second at 19).
* Porn star Devinn Lane got pregnant at 16. She supported her child by being a SingleMomStripper at 18.
* Creator/WhoopiGoldberg had her daughter Alexandra Martin at 18. In the book ''The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion'', she mentions having six or seven abortions by the age of 25, even performing one herself with a coat hanger at ''fourteen''.
** Said daughter had her first child at sixteen.
* Charlotte Lee, one of UsefulNotes/CharlesII's many children, was married to Sir Edward Lee at twelve, and gave birth to her first child at 13.
* Music/SelenaGomez's parents were teenagers when they conceived her. She mostly spent her early childhood with her grandparents because her parents were busy at school.
* English comedian Ava Vidal had her eldest daughter at eighteen.
* Labour MP Angela Rayner had her eldest son at sixteen.
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