I got pregnant at 13 & my daughter's dad blocked me over it – I then vlogged the custody trial… yes, I regret that now
AFTER finding out she was pregnant at 13, Maddie Lambert-Crowley
thought her life was over.
Now 21, and a mum to Everly, seven, and Ryder, one, Maddie has
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Maddie got pregnant at 13, leading her then partner to block her when he found out she was carrying his child
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It led Maddie to make some questionable decisions in her teenage years
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But Maddie wasn't going to go down without a fight and decided to not only go through a custody trial but also
film
the entire thing to upload to the internet.
Looking back, she now regrets the vlogging she confessed in a recent Instagram
She wrote: "Me to my 15-year-old self who VLOGGED HER CUSTODY TRIAL."
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The video used a voice clip that said, " Let's not post that. Let's not post that video."
Maddie also admitted to looking down on teen mums prior to becoming one herself.
'I'd always look down on teen mums, if I'm being completely honest,' Maddie said.
'I think that was just from a lack of knowing what it is really like.'
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But despite her previous thoughts on teenage pregnancy, the mum has learnt what it takes to be a good mum at any age.
'So many people assume I'm a bad mum,' Maddie said in one YouTube video, 'But I have the same capacity to parent as anybody in this world.
I'm trolled for raising my 8-month-old in 'squalor' after I showed off the state of my room… but his cot's squeaky clean
'A good mum is somebody who drops everything for their child.
'I dropped my whole childhood.
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'I do everything for that little girl. She is my entire world.'
Despite the rocky reaction to the pregnancy and absence for the first ten months of the tot's life, Maddie revealed the pair do now co-parent.
UK Teen Mum Statistics
Teen pregnancies in the UK have been decreasing considerably since 2007...
The under-18 conception rate has decreased considerably since 2007, reports
Between 2007 and 2021, the under-18 conception rate in England and Wales decreased by 68%, from 42 per 1,000 women to 13 per 1,000 women.
This resulted in 13,131 under-18 conceptions in England and Wales in 2021.
Evelyn has now started school and when she's not, goes everywhere with her mum.
The pair, from Texas, US, regularly go on holidays, shopping trips and out for dinner.
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'She is so mature and so sassy,' Maddie said about her little girl.
The duo started creating social media content when Everly was just four-months-old and have since gained 1.8 million YouTube subscribers invested in their lives.
Since starting school, Maddie now has some free time and has decided to go to medical school.
Maddie previously spoke about her desire to study
medicine
,
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'I've spoken with doctors, PAs, and NPs, and one of the biggest consensuses I've gotten is that medical school equals debt, and you lose so much time.'
People were quick to take to her Instagram post and revealed they had been following her from the start.
One wrote: "Lmaooo I've been here since your 14 and pregnant video and I ate that whole series up."
"Honestly, as you should," another commented.
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