Get this: the average age of first-time mothers in America is now up from 21 to 26 .
Of course, parents have kids earlier — celebs included. Everyone from Kylie Jenner to Hilary Duff to Reese Witherspoon found themselves with a baby to care for at a young age.
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Some were unexpected, some planned, and some celebs were teen moms.
1. Kylie Jenner
After hiding her entire pregnancy, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star welcomed her first child, Stormi, when she was 20.
Kylie recently announced that she and Travis Scott are now pregnant with their second child!
2. Jamie Lynn Spears
As the star of the Disney show, Zoey 101 , the world was shocked when the star got pregnant at 16.
As a result, she took a step back from Hollywood. “I put myself in an adult situation, so I needed to handle it like an adult,” she told People .
3. Candace Cameron Bure
Children were always in the cards for the Fuller House star. She and her husband had their eldest child, a daughter named Natasha, when Candace was only 22.
Two years after this came a son, Lev, and then another son, Maksim.
4. Sofia Vergara
The Modern Family star has a modern family of her own! Back when she was married to Joe Gonzalez, she had a son named Manolo with him. As you can imagine, he’s gorgeous .
5. Hilary Duff
The Younger star was 23 when she welcomed her first child, Lucas, with ex-husband, Mike Comrie.
Duff has two more children with her current husband, Matthew Banks. This caused her to have “mommy guilt,” she explained to PureWow.
She struggled with having a second child when her first one, six-year-old Luca, was so young.
“It was just he and I for so long that he was like, ‘Why? Why, Mom? Why would you do this? I really just love the way it is,’” Duff recalled to the site.
6. Roseanne Barr
The Roseanne star gave birth to a daughter , Brandi Brown, when she was only 17.
Since she was so young, she gave the child up for adoption. The two later reconciled and Brown even worked on Roseanne .
7. Suzanne Somers
Although she looks like she’s never given birth before, the actress gave birth to her son, Bruce Jr. when she was 19. As her only child, they have a close bond. She calls him the “greatest person.”
8. Britney Spears
While she wasn’t a teen mom like her younger sister, the singer welcomed her first son , Sean, when she was 23.
She and her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, welcomed their second child, Jayden, only two years later.
9. Kate Hudson
The How to Lose a Guy in 20 Days star was married to Black Crowes’ singer, Chris Robinson, for almost 10 years.
Before their divorce, they had one son together , Ryder, when she was 24.
She told *People* that she didn’t feel like a “young mom” until Ryder started growing up.
“As I started getting older, as [Ryder] started getting older and I was 28, 29, I was like, ‘Wow. I’m a young mom.’ It started hitting me,” she said .
10. Louis Tomlinson
The One Direction star has a five-year-old son named Freddie Reign .
He had him when he was only 23 with Calabasas stylist Briana Jungwirth. There was crazy speculation for a while that the baby was fake since he looked different in every photo he was in.
11. Liam Payne
Louis wasn’t the only One Direction star to have a baby young! He once dated X Factor judge, Cheryl, who’s 10 years older than him. They welcomed a child, Bear, together in 2017.
12. LeBron James
A lot happened to the athlete in high school. He met his now-wife, Savannah, and they found themselves pregnant with LeBron James Jr. at 19. Thankfully, everything worked out and they were able to provide for their son.
13. Niki Taylor
The supermodel was only 19 when she welcomed twins, Hunter and Jake. Since she had her kids young, they have a lot in common.
“We like the same music and movies and we think the same things are cool,” the mother of four explained to Mom magazine.
14. Adele
As the woman who said she wanted three sons by the time she was 30, it makes perfect sense that the Grammy winner would have her first son at 24 years old. This was with her ex-husband, Simon Konecki.
15. Victoria Beckham
The former pop star has four kids with her husband David Beckham. They had their first son, Brooklyn Joseph Beckham, in 1999 when Victoria was only 24. Since then, they’ve welcomed Romeo James, Cruz David, and Harper Seven.
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16. Reese Witherspoon
The Legally Blonde actress gave birth to daughter Ava Philippe with then-husband Ryan Philippe when she was 22.
“Whatever I was going to do in my life, I had to do it myself,” she told Harper’s Bazaar UK about being a young mom.
“Then when I had a little girl at 22, I was even more determined to, I don’t know… I went from just surviving to, ‘Who do I want to be for this other person?'”
She explained that that’s what happens when you have a child: you look inward.
