A TEEN mum who is expecting her second baby at 18 has told how she is subjected to vile hate from trolls who have branded her a ‘slapper’
Digital cinematography student, Kailey Pool, who had her first child at sixteen refuses to let online bullies who label her irresponsible get to her, insisting she is a great mum despite her age.
Kailey, from Omaha, Nebraska, is mum to Avery, two, and admits she fell pregnant with her first child just four weeks after she started dating the baby’s dad.
Speaking exclusively to Fabulous, Kailey explains why even the worst comments don’t bother her and how will be a ‘hot MILF’ in her thirties.
“Peeing on a pregnancy test in the toilet of a cafe I l took a picture of it and chucked it in the bin.
I was on the pill and had only been back in the US for two months after living in Saudi Arabia for my dad’s work.
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It was July 2019 and I had been dating Nathan Smith, now 21, for just four weeks.
I was a straight A-student in year 11 at high school, I never suspected that I was pregnant, I just took the test as a dare.
I had always had irregular periods and gynaecologists said it was likely I was infertile due to ovarian cysts.
So when my friend asked me the result, I replied I was totally chilled.
When my mate saw the phone picture and told me it was a positive result I was in total shock, I hadn’t realised two pink thick lines meant positive.
I was 16 years old, and this wasn't meant to be happening.
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I walked around in a daze, in complete denial about my situation.
I hadn't even told Nathan I was expecting our baby but at 13 weeks my mate told him himself.
My fella of four months immediately text me demanding the truth and I arranged to meet him after school
Terrified he would dump me, Nathan and I lay on my bed trying to figure out what we were going to do.
I knew immediately that there was no way I was going to have an abortion and after hours of discussion Nathan agreed that he would stand by me.
It took a little while longer for me to muster the courage to tell my mum but after three failed attempts, when I was four months pregnant I blurted out that I was not infertile and was pregnant.
Mum was shocked and angry. It took her a few hours to digest the news and then she told me I would have to tell my dad.
He was in Dubai for work, and I was petrified about his response. I’d been raised an ‘army brat’ and we moved around all over the world and teen pregnancies never happened.
When I was four months pregnant I blurted out that I was not infertile and was pregnant
Two weeks later and I still hadn’t had the guts to confess, so my mum was forced to break the news to him.
But it wasn’t just my family I had to worry about.
Soon enough I began to show, I was determined to keep my pregnancy a secret from my peers so I began wearing baggy clothes.
But it was no use and word quickly spread.
I was labelled a ‘slag,’ a ‘slapper’ and a ‘slut’, other so-called friends labelled me a ‘human incubator.’
I was bullied and teased but it only made me more determined to stand up for my rights.
I stayed at school until I was seven months pregnant and completed all my classes while Nathan was working all hours at fast food joint saving for our baby.
Then in March 2020 our lives changed completely when Avery came screaming into the world after a 21-hour labour.
Nathan was by my side, and I knew the nurses were judging me as a ‘typical teen mum.’
After our daughter was born, Nathan moved into my mum’s house and Avery became the centre of our world.
In October 2020 Nathan proposed on the beach presenting me with a diamond ring.
Just a few short weeks later, on the 19th of November 2020 we married at the local courthouse. I was seventeen and Nathan was nineteen.
The same month Nathan enlisted in the air force.
We knew if we were married, we would get access to low-cost military accommodation on the base he was assigned to.
In May 2021 we moved from Enterprise, Alabama to an air force base in Omaha, Nebraska, making friends as a 17-year-old teen mum was hard.
I found that few teens my age wanted to hang out with someone who always had a baby on their hip.
While the wives of other air force staffers were older than me and many snubbed their noses at the teenager with a baby.
So I put socialising behind me and made caring for Avery and Nathan, now an air force mechanic, my priority and I began sharing my life on social media.
I was determined to use my experience to break the stigma associated with teenage pregnancy.
If I had the chance to do it all again there is nothing I would change. I love being a mum and know it is my destiny.
On TV shows many teen mums were depicted as irresponsible, making poor choices and flitting from bloke to bloke.
I knew sharing my journey would divide viewers, but I didn't care.
I have been inundated with messages of support but for every positive comment there are a dozen more trolls who have, at times, pushed me to the edge.
As I read comments from strangers describing me as a slag or worse telling me my daughter should be taken off me it’s hard not to let the words sting.
But I remained determined to share my story in the hope it may help another struggling teen mum out there.
Avery and Nathan saved my life. They gave me purpose and motivation and I am a better person for it.
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If I had the chance to do it all again there is nothing I would change.
I love being a mum and know it is my destiny.
You can imagine my joy when Nathan and I discovered I was pregnant with our second child in June and we cannot wait until February 2023 to give Avery a little brother or sister.
The pregnancy was planned because I wanted another child before I was 20 years old.
We are financially secure, Nathan has a good job and a roof over our heads so I couldn’t see any reason to wait.
I have no doubt that the trolls will be out in force when we welcome our little one in February but they can call me what they like for all I care.
It will not stop me sharing my journey and educating the world that not all teen mums are hopeless and we’re certainly not ‘sluts’.
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I plan to be a glam mum in my thirties with great kids, a career, and an amazing husband.
The trolls will still be slagging but bring it on I say, I will still be here standing up for teen mums everywhere.
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