A movie about the experience, starring Spykids actress Alexa Vega, premieres January 28 on the Lifetime movie network, and Rodriguez is making numerous television and radio appearances to promote her story. The book details her mother's first pregnancy, at age 14, and marriage to the baby's father — a year union troubled by allegations of abuse that produced seven children.
Their three daughters got pregnant as teenagers and two sons got their girlfriends pregnant. Teen pregnancy was practically a family tradition, said Rodriguez. Pretend pregnancy: year-old Miss Rodriguez wore a fake bump for six months to document stereotypes surrounding teenage motherhood.
Her mother, Juana, said it was difficult to share her story so openly. They needed to know. The experiment took on particular significance in Toppenish, which is about 75 per cent Hispanic. Latinas have the highest teen pregnancy and birth rate among any major racial or ethnic minority.
In the top five per cent of her class, Rodriguez participated in a leadership class and lectured her friends about safe sex. But she still heard the refrain — often from members of her own family — that she'd end up just like her sisters. The profile of teen moms has changed in recent years. Now 18 and a student at Columbia Basin College studying psychology, Rodriguez said she doesn't condone teen pregnancy. I wish we could have more information on that in schools — and if parents don't want that, they should be more open about it,' she said.
After her grand revealing, a student who was pregnant told Rodriguez she was glad she had taken on the project. I f anything, Rodriguez believes that should be the biggest message from her experience: Things will definitely be OK. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO. When we told them she was pregnant, they were like, 'What?
Gaby began the elaborate hoax following Homecoming last October. She convinced school principal Trevor Greene to let her pursue the project, which she's titled "Stereotypes, Rumors and Statistics.
Her courage, her creativity, her strength. She's gone through so much Gaby started with baggy clothes and eventually fashioned a fake belly out of wire mesh and cotton quilt batting. The aspiring social worker started taking notes on everything that was said about her. No college I knew she would get pregnant. Doesn't she know she just ruined her life," she said.
The struggles of being a teenager with a baby are well documented and they have gotten a lot of attention lately because of the controversial MTV shows "Teen Mom" and "16 and Pregnant. I admire her preparation.
I give her mother a lot of credit for backing her up on this. When Gaby approached Greene last spring, she says she worried he might say no. He says he was impressed with her determination. And then I went through all the difficulties I foresaw to making this happen. People might talk about her behind her back.
Her older brothers might want to beat up her boyfriend. And there might be backlash — even broken relationships — when students, teachers and family members learned the truth. John Cerna signed off. In fact, he left the west side of the state — where he had been attending a conference — at a.
It was a well-kept secret. Gaby began wearing her homemade, basketball-sized, prosthetic belly to school after spring break. Before that, she wore baggy sweaters and sweatshirts to conceal her faux pregnancy. Gaby and her boyfriend, year-old Jorge Orozco, met at the homecoming game when she was a freshman and he was a senior.
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