Young mum Haylee shared the revelation via a video posted to her TikTok channel, where she often posts insights into her life with her eldest daughter, who is now 11 and her two other children.
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The caption to her video reads: “It wasn’t all sunshine & rainbows. I thought I had it all figured out. I thought I was the exception.”
In the video, Haylee discusses all of the things that people told her would be the case when she got pregnant as a teenager, that she now agrees with.
The first thing that people told Haylee when she was a teenager was that the father of her baby would leave her after the baby was born.
Haylee said that her daughter Hazel’s father left her when her child was two.
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The second thing that people told Haylee when she was 15 was that she would miss going out and partying as she would have to stay in and look after her baby all of the time.
Haylee said: “After I turned the legal age to party I sure did start to miss it”.
The last thing that Haylee said she was told as a teenager that she now agrees with is that she would have a hard time finding herself as she was so young.
Haylee said: “I’m 28 now and having an identity crisis. Being a mum is all I know.”
TikTok users raced to the video’s comments section to share their thoughts on Haylee’s video.
One user said: “My mum had me at 18 and she still says this”.
Another user added: “I feel this. I became a mum at 16 and that is all I know. I feel like I don’t know me”.
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