Just about anyone with kids will tell you it’s hard (and expensive) enough to raise them as a full grown adult.
The stakes are raised exponentially if you’re barely old enough to vote, but that didn’t stop these 12 people who were teenage parents.
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Solange
Before there was a thought of Blue Ivy or any of the children Mathew Knowles fathered with his sidepieces, Solange brought in the new wave of Knowles kids with her son Daniel at the age of 2004.
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Fantasia
Believe it or not, Fantasia was a mother at the tender age of 16.
Evelyn Lozada
Lurk on Evelyn Lozada’s timeline long enough, and you’ll find her throwback pics from 1992 when she gave birth to Shanice Hairston at the age of 17.
LeBron James
The prospect of fatherhood at the age of 17 doesn’t seem so scary when Nike offers you $100 million before you even sign an NBA contract.
Lil Wayne and Toya Carter
Weezy almost has enough kids to comprise a starting basketball team. But things started rather innocuously at the age of 15 when he and Toya Carter became parents.
Sofia Vergara
Much like Steph Curry, Manolo Gonzalez-Ripoll Vergara knows what it’s like to have dudes thirsting over your mother. It’s probably been that way since she gave birth to him in 1992 at the age of 18.
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Dr. Maya Angelou
According to various accounts, Angelou gave birth to her son Clyde at the age of 17.
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Dr. Dre
If you watched Straight Outta Compton, then you saw one of Dre’s primary motivations for making N.W.A a success was helping to provide for the child his girlfriend gave birth to at the age of 16.
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Aretha Franklin
Much has been made about the alleged scandalous circumstances that led to the Queen of Soul becoming a mother at the tender age of 14-years-old.
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Lamar Odom
During Khloe Kardashian’s first dalliance with an NBA baller, it was very much a Brady Bunch situation, as Lamar Odom had two children from a previous relationship. Odom’s daughter Destiny was born when he was 19.
Jourdan Dunn
Part of the reason Jourdan Dunn gets so much love is because becoming a single parent to a son with sickle cell anemia at the age of 19 didn’t stop her from becoming a renowned supermodel.
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Iyanla Vanzant
Before she was fixing people’s lives, Iyanla got her own affairs in order after becoming a mother at 16.
