A WOMAN has admitted she's so sick of the "judgement" that comes with being a teen mum that she lies about her age. Emily first became a mother at the age of 17, and is now 20 with a three-year-old and a 10-month-old. But she's faced her fair share of criticism over the years, so much so that she's decided to start saying she's older than she actually is.
"Does anyone else lie about their age? Or is it just me?" she asked in a video on her TikTok page. "I was 17 when I became a mum. "And even though I am so proud to be a mum, and it's my favourite thing ever, I hate telling people my age.
"Simply because I just can't be arsed with the judgement." Emily went on to recall a recent incident, when she was out walking the dog with her kids in the double buggy. "There was some man the other side of the street also walking his dog," she said.
"He then shouted across telling me I looked really young and asking how old I was. "I replied 25. I could just tell by the way this guy was talking, he gave no f**ks.
"And I just knew I was going to get the judgement hard. "And even after saying I was 25, which is 5 years older than I actually am, he then replied going, oh, that's a bit young to have two kids. "Could you imagine how mortified he'd be if he actually knew I was 20?" And the judgement has even stopped her from telling other mums her age.
"Even when I'm at soft play and I'm chatting away to another mum, who I've never met before, and she's asking me about how old my kids are, I'm j.
