These Are The Youngest Teen Moms On YouTube

Teen mom YouTubers have become popular vloggers on the video sharing platform, as they've offered firsthand looks into becoming a parent at a young age — an experience shared by many. According to DoSomething.org, every three in ten American teenage girls will become pregnant before the age of 20, and more than 50 percent of teen moms won't graduate high school. While those numbers may seem startling, WomensHealth.gov reports that teen pregnancy has dropped by half since 1991.

Educating young girls about how to prevent pregnancy has been fundamental in lowering those numbers, and the media has become one of the most important resources for teens across the U.S., thanks to programs like MTV's hit series 16 and Pregnant, which led to a 4.3 percent reduction in teen births in the 18 months after its premiere on TV, according to a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

And now the next generation of young girls have a whole new outlet to turn to for research and advice on the topic: YouTube. The video platform is a haven for girls who need information on the realities of teen parenthood.

When 14-year-old Lexa Moedano was entering her freshman year of high school in 2015, she had to take on a lot more than book reports and exams. The teen discovered she was pregnant, and she wasn't ready to open up about the huge news with her classmates. In a December 2017 YouTube video, she detailed the difficulties she faced making friends and her goal to keep her pregnancy a secret. "I didn't embrace my pregnancy at all," she said. "I didn't even tell anybody."

Eventually, her classmates found out she was expecting a baby, and Moedano learned to navigate the school halls as a pregnant teen. The baby's father is no longer in her life, but, thankfully, Moedano's mom helps her watch her son while she continues attending school.

In one April 2018 YouTube video, Moedano said that although it's hard being a single teen mom, she loves it: "It's hard being a mom, but obviously I [sic] be enjoying it all the time. Like, I love my kid, and I love being a mom — a young mom. It doesn't bother me at all. I actually like it."

Yasmyn Switzer hasn't lived the typical life of a regular teenager — and that was before she unexpectedly became pregnant at age 16. The blonde beauty has dealt with family issues like a mom who struggled with substance abuse, and she's helped raise her two younger sisters. 

Switzer's life changed dramatically in the summer of 2017, when she went to live with her aunt and uncle. She got a job as a lifeguard and met her summer fling who would, as Switzer claimed in one YouTube video, purposefully impregnate her so she would stay in a relationship with him. However, he left her life soon after their daughter, Laela, was born. "I felt extremely violated," Switzer recalled. "He forced me to make the biggest decision of my life, one of the hardest decisions for someone to make. It's something that changed my life so drastically, and now he's not even a part of my life." 

Now a high school graduate, the teen mom is in a happy relationship with her boyfriend, Logan, and, in May 2019, the pair announced they were expecting their first child together. By the end of that year, they'd welcomed a daughter they named Analia.

Camryn Turner and her boyfriend had been dating seriously for two years when she found out she was pregnant at age 16. To make the situation even harder, Turner was forced to move away from her boyfriend just a few weeks into her pregnancy. She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Colette, seven weeks before her due date, and her daughter is now happy and healthy.

She explained how grateful she was for her family in one YouTube video, saying, "I'm obviously very lucky to be in the situation that I'm in. To not have been kicked out of my house, to not have been told to get an abortion ... Everybody was super supportive, and I'm so grateful that I have the people that I do in my life."

After sharing her pregnancy story and teen mom struggles on YouTube, her channel grew to over 1.5 million subscribers. Now, Turner, whose husband passed away in 2020 (via People), is raising their two daughters Collette and Delilah.

Natalie Shay was a bit of a rebel when she was 14 years old. Her parents disapproved of her relationship, but she continued to see her boyfriend. After six months of dating, the pair became sexually active, and, just two months later, Shay became pregnant.

Soon her parents found out about the pregnancy, and, while they were initially disappointed, they have supported their daughter every step of the way. Shay delivered a healthy baby girl she named Rylah, and she continued to live with her parents while attending school and working at McDonald's. 

Shay created her YouTube channel to share her teen mom struggles with others and to provide advice for other young moms who are sharing similar experiences. Despite having a great support system, Shay has struggled with anxiety, as she discussed in one YouTube video, stating, "Anxiety is a serious thing, especially when you're a teen mom. I have dreams where I wake up with anxiety attacks. ... I'm always so stressed and that's really not good — I'm only 16."

Naturally independent and headstrong, Olivia Palmer had her whole life change when she learned she became pregnant at age 16. After having some issues with her birth control, the teen started experiencing pregnancy symptoms. She eventually took a pregnancy test to confirm she was indeed pregnant, and, as she explained in one June 2017 YouTube video, she and her baby daddy were in disbelief. "It was weird, honestly, finding out," she shared. "I don't think either of us believed it. We weren't sad, we weren't mad, we were just, like, confused."

Palmer, who was filled with anxiety over keeping such a huge secret from her parents, eventually told her father the news after becoming emotional over dinner. He supported her, and soon Palmer's mother would as well.

The teen mom gave birth to a daughter, Avalynn, in May 2017, and, in May 2019 at age 18, Palmer delivered a baby boy named Luca with her boyfriend, who'd later become her husband.

When Asia Leigh was 14, she kept a giant secret from her family for six months: She was pregnant. Initially, Leigh intended to get an abortion and even went to court for a judicial bypass so she could do so without her parents' permission. But a gut feeling told her to keep the baby — and she did.

After her parents found out about the pregnancy, emotions were high. They told her she was going to put the child up for adoption once the baby was born, but that all changed as soon as Leigh's daughter, Alanni, arrived. As she explained in a YouTube video, her parents were just concerned for her future. "My parents were just so hard on me. It was because they were teen parents too, and they didn't want me to go through what they went through," she shared.

The teen mom continues to raise her daughter, as well as identical twin boys she welcomed into the world in 2019.

When McKayla Adkins was 16 years old, her life was pretty unconventional. She was living with her grandparents, had a strained relationship with her mother, and was documenting her surprise teen pregnancy on the TLC series Unexpected. To make things even crazier, Adkins' mother was also pregnant. The drama played out on the show, and Adkins gave birth to a baby boy, Timothy, in July 2017.

Adkins continued to have an on-and-off relationship with Caelan, the father of her child, and the pair conceived a second child. Sadly, the teens broke up just before the birth of their daughter, Gracelynn, in January 2019. While she and Caelan later got back together, they broke up for good in February 2020.

The teen mom continues sharing her life as a mother to over 278,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel. She has plans to attend college and become a full-time working mom, as she explained in a June 2019 YouTube video. "I know I have two kids, and I know it's going to be hard for me, but getting a job is really important for me. I never wanted to be a stay-at-home mom permanently," she said, noting, "I just want to let everybody know that if you are a teen mom you can do it."