List of famous teenage parents

*At the age of 13, Lady Margaret Beaufort gave birth to her only child, who later became Henry VII of England.
*At the age of 18, William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. Their first child, Susannah, was born within six months.
*Sacagawea, translator and guide to Lewis and Clark, gave birth to her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, while on expedition, and traveled with him to the Pacific Ocean and back. Although Sacagawea's exact birth date is unknown, she was probably 17 or 18 at the time of the birth.
*In 1917, 17-year-old Kamala Nehru gave birth to her daughter, Indira (later prime minister of India).
*Child actress tuned diplomat Shirley Temple was 19 when she gave birth to her first child, Linda Susan, in 1948.
*Maya Angelou, an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement became pregnant at the age of 16 and gave birth to her son, Guy Johnson, who also became a poet later in life.
*Country singer Loretta Lynn had four children in her teens and was a grandmother at 29.
*Oprah Winfrey gave birth at the age of 14 to a baby who died in hospital weeks after it was born. Oprah has said, "I would tell no one until I felt safe enough to share my dark past,” Oprah said in the February issue of O magazine. “The years I was sexually abused, from age 10 to 14, my resulting promiscuity as a teenager, and finally, at 14, my becoming pregnant".
*Author Beverly D'Onofrio, whose autobiography Riding in Cars with Boys was adapted into the 2001 film of the same name, was 15 years old when she gave birth to her son Jason in 1961.
*Linda Lee Cadwell, wife of Bruce Lee, gave birth to her son Brandon shortly before her 20th birthday in 1965.
*Anna Nicole Smith had her first child, Daniel, when she was 18.
*Pop singer Marcia Hines, who later became a judge on Australian Idol, was 17 when she gave birth to her daughter Dohnyale "Deni" Hines in 1970.
*Bollywood actress Dimple Kapadia gave birth to her daughter Twinkle Khanna in 1974, at the age of 17.
*Australian actress Carla Bonner, best known for her role as Stephanie Hoyland in the hit soap Neighbours, was 18 when she gave birth to her first son Harley in 1991.
*Manju Warrier, Malayalam actress and wife of the actor Dileep, was 19 when she gave birth to her first daughter Meenakshi in 1999.
*Pop singer Fantasia Barrino, winner of American Idol 2004, was 17 when she gave birth to a daughter named Zion Quari' in 2001; in 2005 she released a controversial song about single motherhood entitled Baby Mama.
*Taylor Hanson, a member of the pop band Hanson, was 19 when his 18-year-old wife Natalie gave birth to their first child, a son named Jordan Ezra, in 2002.
*Singer and actress Solange Knowles was 18 when she gave birth to her first child, Daniel Julez Smith Junior, in 2004.
*Yulia Volkova, of the controversial Russian pop band t.A.T.u., was 19 when she gave birth to her daughter Viktoria Pavlovna in 2004; she had spoken publicly about having an abortion the year before.
*Asia Nitollano, who joined the pop group The Pussycat Dolls after winning a reality tv show, was 17 when she gave birth to her daughter in 2005.
*Oscar-nominated actress Keisha Castle-Hughes was 17 when she gave birth to her first child, a girl named Felicity-Amore, in 2007.

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