“People have said to me, ‘You are only 17, what will happen to your life?’ But I’m not like most 17-year-olds,” says Keisha. “I have only lived 17 years, but I have already done so much. In the last four years alone I have done more than a lot of 40-year-olds have. I’m about as ready for this as I could ever be.”
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having a baby that young is just STUPID.
I don’t care HOW much “life experience” you think you’ve had- your head is still up your ASS at that age.
INSANE!
I remember watching Whale Rider a couple of years ago, and thinking how little & cute she was.
WTF?!!!
Cute baby! I do hope they beat the odds . . .
Too young! Even though she does seems a bit more mature than her peers BUT she still should live life first before bringing another to this world. But I hope the beat the odds too, cause it’s against them big time. The guy she’s with now is probably her first, one and only
It was only in this century that 17 seems young for marraige and motherhood.. not that some young adults shouldn’t be made steril, atleast temporarily… but I know some grown ass adults who should be as well.. just food for thought
Pretty baby. It’s not your life and she doesn’t need help from the government so live and let live and worry about what goes on in your own family.
Too young in my opinion but then again it’s not my life.
only 1: that was when people died by age 50 though……..lol
definitely too young. heck, i was 27 when i had my son and thought it was too young
then again, she is financially self-sufficient, and (hopefully) has the support of her family. and who didn’t think they were “so mature” at the age of 17?
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only 1 - i so agree with you about sterility!!
LOL
Is it me or does that baby have a really long middle finger… look at that cover shot again… its a really long finger! No???
I really don’t give a crap about what will happen to her life, what about the baby? Can she possibly give that baby everything it will need, in terms of an emotionally mature and stable mother, at the age of 17? She might think she’s done more than most 40 year olds, but she hasn’t lived as long, and life experience is important.
I don’t agree with condemning someone’s mothering skills because of their age. My mother had me at 17 and busted her ass to make sure my brother and I came up as responsible individuals… my brother is a sgt in the army and moving up fast.. I graduated 12th in my class in highschool had a 3.9 GPA in college and work everyday with no help from anyone AND donate 6 hours a week to a local progress shelter for low income and homeless families.. Some people I know who’s parents had them in their 30’s are total fuck ups
BTW.. not looking for anything regarding what I do.. just proving a point.. so please, no jumping down my throat
My Mom was a teenage mother, so I know it can be done properly, but it’s the exception rather than the rule. I guess it doesn’t really matter now, since she’s already a mother, all anyone can do is wish her the best. Perhaps in the future celebrities will take the time to ask people on message boards what they think before they go off and get pregnant hehe.
i loved her in Whale Rider and wish her the best. i can’t imagine being 17 with a baby! personally, i think it is way too young, but maybe 17 in NZ is different than 17 in the usa.
Has contraception not reached N.Zealand & Australia yet? I know they’re light years behind the western world but c’mon!
There’s no difference in the way teenagers behave in ANY country, there are individual differences. Anyway, I wish Keisha all the best, she’s talented and she could come back from this, she seems a lot more secure than Ms. Spears anyhow.
aww im glad shes happy and embracing motherhoods.is that not themost important issue.good on her for living her life by her rules.i wish her all the best.
Yeah that shit is wrong! The ho can barely wipe her own ass, not to mention the baby’s.. IMHO she shouldn’t even be having sex that eary, but maybe I’m a little old school. And if she is gonna do it anyway, then use some God damn contraception, it just bothers me that she thinks she is ready for a baby, when she clarly isn’t. Enjoy life and see the world. You know her boyfriend is gonna leave her ass in a year’s time max. Those are the cold hard facts.
She probably isn’t like other 17yr olds in that she already has a career and is financially stable but she does set an example for naïve teens by publicizing it on a magazine.
I don’t think it’s impossible for a 17 year old to be a good mom, but the odds aren’t good when you apparently think you know it all already.
How the heck have you guys all lived so long without knowing at least one teen mom? I wish her well, and that is one cute baby! I agree it looks like the middle finger has been extended to give us all a salute.
I had my first baby at 19 so I wish her luck! It sucks and it makes your life and getting on your feet WAY harder than it has to be if you just strap on a condom. Getting through college with a baby strapped to my back was not easy.
Fair enough if that’s her decision to have a baby but I personally think that 17 is wayyy too young! She may think she has had a lot of life experiences, all 17 year olds think that, but raising a baby is a huge responsibility and I wonder if she realises that in order to be a good mom she will have to give up a lot of the things that normal teenagers do. Even a 20 yr old guy is young to be a daddy! Most of the 20 year old guys I know would not have a clue! I wish them luck though and hope they make it work!
so true audrey! maybe i would have been condemning her when i was 15 but you can’t all be that close minded for goodness sake! accidents happen and a lot of teenage mothers do well because they have strong family support to help give the baby everything she needs.
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BeeJeeBus- having a baby does not mean that you stop enjoying life and cannot see the world. What makes you say she ‘clearly isn’t’ ready for a baby- just because she said she is? Maybe you were an immature teenager but it may come as news to you that some 17 year olds have their heads screwed on more than some 25 year olds- especially someone that has travelled and had as much experience as her. I absolutely do not know that ‘her boyfriend is gonna leave her in a year’ considering they’ve been together for 5 years and now have a child together.
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I already think she’s a better mum than britney. Good luck to her.
^^^Uhm, it has nothing to do with having her hean screwed on right. It has A LOT to do with the fact that she is a kid for crying out loud. Maybe I’m just “narrowminded” but I happen to think that getting an education is very important in life…
But she is already famous, why would she need an education? Well, seeing as she got a baby at age 17, before she actually reached any certain level of fame, she is very likely just to disappear after this. And having an education would have been nice, in order to have something to fall back on.
The statistics show that teenage romances don’t hold up in the end. Even if there is a baby involved (especially so) there is a tendency for couples to break up because they realise that it wasn’t what they bargained for.
Say what you want to me, and act like I am ignorant, but don’t glamourize children having children. That’s not cool. I wish her the best, but I doubt this will be a fairytale like the little girl makes it out to be. Just because you claim maturity, doesn’t mean you actually posses it.
well.. accidents happen and you deal with it.. i wouldn’t condemn her mothering skills or capabilities without knowing her.. but if she CHOSE to have the baby at her age, i would think she was crazy. if you’re not old enough to even get married, you’re definitely not old enough to have babies.
It’s kind of crazy, but she made the choice and she seems to be very mature about it - I know she’s not the youngest person ever to have a kid, and age isn’t automatically a sign of maturity or responsibility. If she’s a good mother, who cares how young she is - look at Britney, that’s an example of a young mother screwing up left and right.
hes the k-fed of our country … yes im a newzealander
Good on her for accepting the responsibility of being a Mum at 17. You know 50 years ago you were an old maid if you weren’t married and pregnant by 20 and all those Mum’s did just fine.