I got pregnant at 13 & was shamed as a ‘bad mum’ but it hasn’t stopped me having more kids young as I’m expecting again
A TEEN mum who fell pregnant aged 13 has revealed that she is expecting her second child.
Maddie Lambert, now 20-years-old with a five-year-old daughter, shared the news with her fans – and said this time she’d been desperate to fall pregnant.
When she first gave birth to her first child, Everly Joy Lambert, in January 2018 at the age of 14, Maddie was told she had “ruined her life”.
One troll had even wished death on her.
However, Texas-based Maddie has not let it hold her back, and has recently started a university degree after previously dropping out of school.
Maddie also started creating social media content when Everly was just four-months-old and has since gained 1.8 million YouTube subscribers invested in their lives.
In a video called “I’M PREGNANT”, Maddie, who is now dating partner Randy, shared how she wanted to give Everly a sister.
The first half of the video showed Maddie testing frequently during the first month of trying for a baby.
However, she was left upset when all the pregnancy tests showed that she was negative.
She said: “I did end up getting my period and I was really sad.
“Going to try again this month and see what happens.
“As somebody who got pregnant at 13 years old, I held this idea, before I got pregnant, that conception was a pretty difficult thing to across.
“I heard stories about people trying to conceive, now that I started trying to conceive, I thought I would conceive on my first time, because I thought getting pregnant was just that easy.
“It turns out it’s not. It was and now it’s not.”
Maddie vowed to test again during her second month of trying, and this time was a different story.
She started to get a feeling she may be pregnant as she was feeling tired, nauseous and her “boobs were super swollen.”
When she looked at the test results and saw the two lines indicating she was pregnant, she was over the moon, exclaiming: “Oh my god I’m pregnant!”
Maddie then broke down in happy tears as she called in partner Randy and showed him the test, with the pair hugging on camera.
And little Everly was also delighted when Maddie gave her a “big sister” T-shirt to break the news to her.
The young tot hugged her mum saying: “I’m so happy.”
Maddie, whose baby is due in April 2024, added: “My jaw hurts from smiling, we are having a baby.”
Maddie previously admitted she used to judge teen mums before she became one.
“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’s really like.”
The mum-of-one said she “gave up her childhood” for Everly.
Before becoming a mum, she wasn’t aware of the tribulations of raising a child and believed being a young parent would be filled with drama and negativity.
“Whenever you would see the media surrounding teen mums, you see the TV shows, and it’s just really negative and it shows a lot of drama,” Maddie told Truly.
“When I actually got pregnant, I was so scared of the reaction people were gonna give.
“I did get a lot of negative reactions, a lot of hate.”
“Everybody had something to say and they didn’t hold back,” she continued. “I had people send me the address to abortion clinics.”
Other girls at school mocked Maddie and put sports balls under their tops to mimic her bump when she was seven months pregnant.
Everly, who is now gearing up to start school, goes everywhere with her mum.
The pair regularly go on holidays, shopping trips and out for dinner.
“She is so mature and so sassy,” Maddie said about her little girl.
Dad Isaac wasn’t present for the first ten months of the tot’s life but is now.
“So many people assume I’m a bad mum,” Maddie said. “But I have the same capacity to parent as anybody on this world.
“A good mum is somebody who drops everything for their child.
“I dropped my whole childhood.
“I do everything for that little girl. She is my entire world.”
Maddie has dreams of working in health and becoming a radiology technician alongside her career as an influencer.