A WOMAN has revealed that she is trolled for being a young mum, but she won’t let the haters get her down. Leeanne, 21, fell pregnant when she was just 18, and is now mother to a little girl named Eloise. Whilst Leeanne explained that haters slam her for being a ‘kid raising a kid’, she was eager to clap back to the keyboard warriors, as she confessed that she’s old enough to buy herself alcohol and cigarettes , as well as pay rent and bills , and so therefore, is an adult.
Posting on social media , Leeanne shared that haters will often say to her ‘kids raising kids, poor little thing!’, when they find out that she became a mother when she was a teenager. But keen to silence the trolls, Leeanne penned: ‘I’m literally an adult but okay’. Whilst the age of consent in the UK is 16, according to the Office for National Statistics , the average age of mothers who give birth in England and Wales is 30.
9 years - almost 13 years older than Leeanne was when she first fell pregnant. In a follow-up clip , Leeanne clapped back to those that criticised her, and in response to a comment that read: ‘18. Is an adult’, she explained: “I have my own home, I pay for my own rent, I pay the bills, I pay for my car, I go to the shop and buy alcohol and cigarettes, I provide for my daughter.
“I'm fully aware I am an adult, but I made the video just to kind of show people how you're treated when you're pregnant, especially when you are a younger mum. “I got it a lot while.
