As I dragged myself in to my flat from boxing I catched the end of an advert on TV… I wouldnt have taken any notice if it were a normal advert I would have just ignored it and carried on crawling along the floor looking for comfort from Ami, but it wasn’t a normal advert - it was a documentary about Kizzy: Mum at 14!
How could this be? 14! MUM? 
I was well and truely shocked… 16 is young enough let alone 14! This had caught my eye and I was interested in watching the rest of it, which I did and it was interesting, disturbing, brave and shocking all at once.
It was all part of Channel 4’s Born Survivor series.
Kizzy, the young girl in the documentary had sex at the age of 13 and claims she got pregnant after a ”one night stand” with a boy named Louie - she also says it was her first time.
She gave birth when she was 14 to a baby boy named Kaylib but Louie who is in denial has ran away to his nan’s in Essex by this time.
She lives in Torbay which is about 40 miles from Plymouth and something I never knew is that the area of Torbay (Torquay/Paignton) has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancies in the UK and 12 other girls in her school year also became pregnant that year!
You see how she loses so many friends as they found out she was pregnant which must have been quite hard, as if it wasnt hard enough dealing with the pregnancy!
Her brothers talk about how they have been abused verbally and on several occasions had been physically beaten.
At the end of show Kizzy, her mum, brothers and her new boyfriend Michael (who is a nice guy) travelled up to Essex to see Louie.
Louie wouldnt allow Michael or Kizzys brother at the meeting or any cameras as he is just a little boy and cant live up to his responsabilities. This is also the first time he meet his son.
Before she gives birth it made me feel physically sick to see someone so young whos body hadnt developed properly yet to be carrying a baby, her stretch marks were rediculously large - her body wasnt ready for a baby!
Her labour lasted 19 hours and she had to be cut 3 times with 80 stitches needed afterwards…
However I was amazed how much she grew up throughout the whole transition and that she decided against an abortion (for better or worse)
It puts that little bit of fun kids like to have into perspective!
Her rather than me I say
