Pregnant Sophia Grace, 19, Claps Back At Critics Claiming She’s Too Young To Have A Baby

Sophia Grace Brownlee spoke astir the hatred she’s been getting online since she announced that she was expecting her archetypal child. The 19-year-old — who grew up connected The Ellen DeGeneres Show with her cousin, Rosie McClelland – told E! News that she was facing a batch of disapproval for being a teen mom. “I consciousness similar 19 is rather young, obviously, to person a baby,” she said. “Usually, astir radical are like, ‘You should person babies erstwhile you’re 30, and you’re married, and you unrecorded successful your ain house,’ which is wholly fine. But obviously, everyone’s gonna person their antithetic opinions.”

“I conscionable consciousness it’s astir the idiosyncratic themselves. And arsenic agelong arsenic you consciousness acceptable and it’s thing that you’re blessed about, past it’s truly nary 1 else’s problem,” she told E! News. Sophia besides said that amongst each the criticism, determination has been plentifulness of emotion and enactment from her followers. “I’ve seen truthful galore supportive comments astir however ‘You’re young, but I had a babe astatine this age’ and it was truthful lovely,” she said. “It truly makes maine consciousness blessed erstwhile I spot different girls remark that. It really, truly makes maine truthful much confident.”

Sophia Grace ( S Meddle/ITV/Shutterstock)

However, she did admit that she felt “a spot benignant of overwhelmed” astatine the commencement of the pregnancy. “And you deliberation astir like, ‘How americium I going to cognize however to bash this? How americium I going to larn however to transportation the babe properly?’ It’s benignant of scary. It’s a quality [reaction], but I consciousness similar it volition conscionable travel people erstwhile I person the baby. My household and friends are truthful supportive. I’m definite that it volition assistance truthful much.”

Sophia Grace & Rosie (S Meddle/ITV/Shutterstock)

Sophia Grace announced connected Oct. 22 that she was expecting and had precocious undergone a 20-week ultrasound. In December 2021, she revealed that she ” “has a boyfriend” and they’ve been unneurotic for “maybe 2 years.” However, she “keep(s) that broadside of my beingness beauteous private,” and that’s wherefore she doesn’t station thing online with them together.

Following the announcement, Rosie, 16, congratulated her relative online. “This photograph was the infinitesimal Sophia told maine she was large (as you tin see, I americium crying),” she wrote portion sharing a photo of them hugging. “Congratulations to my beauteous relative Sophia connected the quality of your pregnancy! To accidental I’m excited is an understatement, I can’t hold to stock this full caller section with you and beryllium by your broadside watching you beryllium the champion mum ever! Love you truthful so much…”