Gaby Rodriguez grew up with past history of sisters and sister-in-laws being teen mothers. Everyone expected that should would to become a teen mother too. Gaby had ambitions to not go down the same path as being a teen mom. When she decided to do her senior project by pretending to be pregnant, she did not think her world would change this drastically. Gaby stated this “I pretended to be pregnant in high school and learned the meaning of my family, friends, and living beyond stereotypes”. As a seventeen-year-old high school senior from Toppenish, Washington, Gaby Rodriguez would have to face the struggles and consequences with her faking a pregnancy that would open up her eyes to a whole different world full of fake friends, family history, and stereotypes. What Gaby learned changed her life forever and made international headlines in the process.
Gaby Rodriguez was raised by a single mother and is the youngest of eight children. All of her older siblings and her mother were teen parents. Growing up, Gaby learned what kind of person she wanted to be – pretty much nothing like her siblings. She was determined to break the stereotype of being a young Hispanic woman who came from a family where teenage …show more content…
The book “The Pregnancy Project” was released a week before her movie premiere on January 17, 2012. “The Pregnancy Project” is filled with statistics about teenage pregnancy for those who might not take the possibility of getting pregnant very seriously. Statistics like “Eighty percent of teen dads don’t marry their baby’s mom” and teenage fathers “pay on average less than eight hundred dollars a year in child support” are in the book throughout Gaby’s story. Even though Rodriguez’s main message is to avoid teenage pregnancy altogether, she still stands firm in her belief that getting pregnant as a teenager does not mean that the world will
Gaby Rodriguez was raised by a single mother and is the youngest of eight children. All of her older siblings and her mother were teen parents. Growing up, Gaby learned what kind of person she wanted to be – pretty much nothing like her siblings. She was determined to break the stereotype of being a young Hispanic woman who came from a family where teenage …show more content…
The book “The Pregnancy Project” was released a week before her movie premiere on January 17, 2012. “The Pregnancy Project” is filled with statistics about teenage pregnancy for those who might not take the possibility of getting pregnant very seriously. Statistics like “Eighty percent of teen dads don’t marry their baby’s mom” and teenage fathers “pay on average less than eight hundred dollars a year in child support” are in the book throughout Gaby’s story. Even though Rodriguez’s main message is to avoid teenage pregnancy altogether, she still stands firm in her belief that getting pregnant as a teenager does not mean that the world will