Earlier this month it was announced that Bella Vaughn— a girl who got pregnant at the age of 14 by her 12-year-old boyfriend Hunter— would be appearing on the upcoming seventh season of Unexpected. Since then the controversial teen mom has been the subject of much online speculation and rumors.
In a video posted to TikTok earlier this week, Bella (who just turned 16) addressed many of the rumors and statements being made about her and Hunter, including whether or not she faced legal consequences for having sex with a 12-year-old.
“I definitely think it is overdue for me to make this video,” Bella began. “Y’all have really hit the mark with me. I know they say that when you’re on TV, you can’t let things get to you but you guys are way overdoing it.”
Bella seemed to be addressing several TikTok creators who have been reporting about her very controversial pregnancy. (As The Ashley previously reported, Bella became pregnant at the age of 14 by her boyfriend Hunter, who was only 12 at the time Bella conceived their son Wes.)
“There’s so much more that people have put out there that is a lie,” she said.
Bella went on to address plenty of things that have been said about her and her family, her pre-teen baby daddy and her pregnancy.
“Hunter is a father! Just because he was 12 [when he got me pregnant], he turned 13 a few days later!” Bella said. “I understand it doesn’t make it any better. I understand. He was sexually ready faster than I was, and that’s OK. But I was ready when we had sex.”
Bella addressed fans who have stated that they think Bella should be arrested for having sex with Hunter.
“You can all stop saying it was illegal and that I raped him, because I didn’t,” she said. “It was both consensual on both sides. People have already said that. We have already talked to the cops about it. It was consensual.”
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She also denied fans’ claims that she “ruined” her baby daddy Hunter’s life.
“When I found out I was pregnant, I gave Hunter the option. I said, ‘If you can’t do this or you don’t want to be here, that is fine, I understand. I can do this on my own or with you. It’s your decision. Whatever you choose I’m fine with.’ He chose to stay with me. He chose to take care of our baby. Y’all can all stop saying that now.”
Bella went on to insist that she’s a great mother, despite being only 15.
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“Just because I am a teen that does not make me any less of a mother,” she said. “I am a mother. I did have that baby. I did grow that baby for nine, almost 10 months.”
She also defended her parents during the TikTok rant, insisting her mom and dad did what they could to prevent her from getting pregnant.
“My parents are great parents,” she said. “They have done everything for me. They support, they take care of me, they help me take care of my kid because I am a teen. I can’t do every single thing right now but they support me in every single way.”
She also disputed that it was her parents’ fault that she got pregnant at 14.
“I knew right from wrong,” she said. “I knew I was doing wrong. It’s not a parenting issue when a teen gets pregnant always…”
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Since the cast of ‘Unexpected’ Season 7 was announced earlier this month, Bella and her mom, Falen have been very active on social media, causing many fans to accuse Falen of exploiting her daughter’s teen pregnancy. (As The Ashley told you, Bella’s older sister is also a teen mom and was pregnant at the same time as Bella.)
Bella disputed claims that her mother used her daughters’ teen pregnancy to gain a social media following.
“My mom did not build her platform off of me being pregnant,” she said. “She had a TikTok before that…I was six months pregnant when we started posting. And I only did it because I had people messaging me on TikTok saying, ‘I’m in the same situation as you, I don’t know what to do. I really need some help. Can you post your story? It’s really similar to mine and I don’t know what to do.’… girls started reaching out and that is the only reason we started posting.
@kris.n.falen This is what teen love looks like #teenlove #teenparents #teenmom #fyp #wrestling @Kris N Falen Vaughn @bella🐆🎱 | boy mama 💙👶🏼 @Hunter_00🦆🕊️ ♬ original sound – KrisNFalen
“I did not expect to make money off of it. I did not expect people to support me as much as they did.”
Bella admitted that her sister, Emi, was trying to get pregnant (as some of the TikTok creators have claimed). She denied, however, that she was also trying to get knocked up.
“Mine was completely unexpected!” Bella said of her pregnancy. “Hence the show we’re on… I was using protection. It did break.”
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Bella insisted that her mother did not know that she was having sex, despite them having a very open relationship.
“She did not know when I decided to start having sex,” she said. “She did provide me with protection way before Hunter and I were together because she knew at some point it would happen but she did not think that I was going to use it that early… she did take care of me. I just messed up… I actually had every single thing I needed to not [end up pregnant].”
Bella admitted that she turned down the offer to get on birth control, though.
“I said no because my mom got cervical cancer from it and I did not want the same thing to happen to me,” she said.
(The Ashley just wants to interject here and clarify that being on birth control pills does not cause cervical cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, “most cervical cancers are caused by a persistent infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV).” It is recommended that young women get the HPV vaccination, as it “can be used to prevent cancers related to HPV infection.” Women who take birth control bills for more than five years do have a slightly increased risk of cervical cancer, but according to the American Cancer Society, “the risk tends to go back down over time when you stop taking the pills.” In addition, taking birth control pills containing both estrogen and progesterone can lower a woman’s risk of endometrial and ovarian cancer. Click here to read more.)
Bella also denied that her being on ‘Unexpected’ is glorifying teen pregnancy.
“If you watch ‘Unexpected,’ they show how hard it is,” she said. “They show how much fights you get in, and how annoying it is, and how inconvenient [teen parenthood] is. That is what ‘Unexpected’ is about. It’s not about glorifying it. I’m not recommending teen pregnancy to anybody.
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@_izabellamarie sorry i talk with my hands a lot lol #rumors #15andpregnant💙 #boymama #teenmom #mamasboy @KrisNFalen ♬ original sound – bella🐆🎱 | boy mama 💙👶🏼
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I just watched Unexpected last night and it was so sad to see a 13 year old boy and a 15 year old girl about to become parents. The boys is failing all his classes in school and is very immature and not understanding that he will be a father at 13. By the time his own child will be 13 he will be 26. And his mother will be 28. Neither of them are mature enough to handle the situation and my heart goes out to their child. I pray they don’t have any more children. The boy is unable to face the reality of his choice to be sexually active at such a young age and the girl is just as immature. Their parents are responsible for raising the child which I doubt they are thrilled about. Bella’s sister is also pregnant.
Bella is really a sad case along with her younger boyfriend. They have absolutely no understanding that becoming a parent is a life time job. The very fact that she comes up with all those reasons why they were ready for sex at 12 and 14 shows her completely ignorance. I use the word ignorance not to belittle her. It means her lack of smarts. What happens when she and the boy get tired of being parents? What happens when they want to be kids and live life without the life long responsibility of raising a child. Taking care of an infant is easy compared to the future. And there is no way she and the boyfriend will stay together for the long haul. His parents and her parents need a major wake up call.
Wait, her mom convinced her teen daughters that birth control gave her cervical cancer??? One day, this girl is going to wake up and (hopefully) realize that there was a parenting problem. Both of them are way too young to be raising a baby. This is just sad and it’s even sadder that they’re now being exploited on TV.
Just wait till you hear what they think about vaccines!
I would guess it was because she was on BC that she didn’t feel like she had to make the guy wear a condom and got HPV? Whereas if you know you aren’t on any BC you will make him wear a condom?
I wouldn’t expect legal consequences since they’re only a year-and-a-half apart and both are under sixteen and over twelve, but it’s still wild this happened. I saw a comment on Facebook that said his grandma would rent them hotel rooms to share when he’d have out-of-town baseball games (not sure if that’s true, just what I read). Strong boundaries need to be set and upheld when it comes to young relationships. Those ages should have been going on supervised group dates, not sharing hotel rooms. Yes, kids can still find ways to sneak out and do things while parents are at work or asleep, but it doesn’t need to be made easy!
TWO pregnant teenagers in your house is absolutely a parenting problem. Of course the teenager doesn’t believe it is, there is a reason why teenagers shouldn’t be having sex and making babies.
One thing that bothers me about all of this is that he was a LITERAL CHILD when she got pregnant. She was at least a teen. And if she thinks at this age someone can be “ready” to sleep with someone, then there’s something really wrong with his upbringing too. I only feel bad for Wes. He didn’t ask to be born to people so young.
“My parents have done everything for me”
So… that does in fact make you less of a mother, Bella, because a mother doesn’t rely on her parents to feed and clothe her own baby.
Did she say that he as a 12 year old was more sexually ready than her but when the time came she was ready? How can someone younger than you be more sexually ready when you are 14 and he is 12? Yu can’t make a statement like “He was a boy but I turned him into a man” when the boy is 13 and a father >.<
I think Bella is still too young to realize how deeply creepy that caption sounded to every adult that read it. I have definitely seen adult women posts similar sentiments on social media in regards to marrying and building a family with their high school sweetheart. It obviously doesn’t come off as creepy in those contexts as it does in this situation, when the parents got pregnant *so* young are still minors. I just think Bella isn’t able to see it the way adults do.
He admitted he was not a virgin. He was “fast.” Everyone is on her, as they should be…but what about HIS parents? You should not take a chance like that at 12 or 14. And both act like this is a-ok. She is lucky her parents are helping/enabling her, I hope she refrains from rationalizing having more kids before 18 so Wes has siblings close to his age.
They at least seem to still be involved in teen activities and school, which is good.
Why would she face legal problems? Americans are so age fixated. They are two years apart and both little kids. Something is not right in that family, though…..
How old is her sister?
Not even. They’re 1.5 years apart.
I find it unlikely that birth control caused her mom to get cancer. It was most likely hpv. I have a feeling there’s not much accurate information or education happening around them.
Saying they both consented does bring up an interesting question. Kids can’t consent to adults but can they consent to each other?
When one is much older, it is presumed it is more likely they pushed the other person in my country. But we don’t make 18 year olds registered sex offenders because they had sex with their 17 year old partner of years.
I was 16 when I started a relationship with a 4,5 years older guy. I was almost 18 when I was ready to go all the way (I was assaulted/ raped by an actual pedophile at 13) and he waited, never pushed me, never whined. That’s we are taught here too: consent.
Yet on Reddit, Americans keep trying to turn me into a victim and basically say Im too stupid realise I was groomed and raped and that my parents were responsible too.
My eldest is 16 and I would have no issues with them dating a nice 18 yo but consent, consent and protection.
Keep in mind that Reddit is essentially a virtual open-air insane asylum.
You say you’d be OK with an 18-year-old dating your 16 year old, me too, but what about a 20 or 21-year-old which sounds more like your scenario?
The US does not make 18-year-olds register as sex offenders because they had sex with their 17-year-old partner.
The boy was not a virgin per other articles. Seems he was more sexually active/felt he was ready. I don’t think either groomed the other. Just young folks with too much freedom and not enough sex ed at home. But two under 18 girls pregnant, get it together mom.
There’s nothing OK with 11/12/13 year olds having sex. That’s very much NOT ok. This girl seems trashy af
Wow. You do realize she is still a child. A full on adult calling a child trashy is trashy
Thank you.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was SA with either or both of them as children.
And they both seem very off.
Unhealthy environment at the very least
In the very least. Yes.
I’m sure there’s a legit reason his family hasn’t been shown, right?
I think it is more too much exposure to adult topics and information too young. Parents think they are being honest with kids and discuss things WAY too soon, resulting in permissive parenting and unhealthy environment. No boundaries. Both act to grown for their ages, I have a friend who raised her kids that way and they were never “kids”. Dressed like teens when they were 10! Talked like high-schoolers in elementary school. Very cringy to me.
Not trashy, too young. But raised in some VERY lax circumstances without full understanding of long term repercussions. Her mom on the other hand, trashy parenting.
I would not call her trashy. I would call her lost if anything. It seems like there is way to much freedom within her family. A sister who was pregnant at the same time? She at 14 having sex with a 12 year old boy? Something within the entire family is wrong. The same with the boy. So here we are now. They have a child who more than likely her parents are raising. Neither she or the boy can get jobs and even if they could someone would still be taking care of their child. Bella just doesn’t know what she doesn’t know. She may think she knows it all but in reality she knows nothing other than she and a 12 year old boy, not a man, a boy have a child. And they are still kids themselves.
Did people really think she’d face legal consequences as a 14 year old? They were BOTH children ffs. People are losing the plot over age gaps and it’s honestly alarming that how many people cannot use common sense
Depending on the state, and the ages, yes she could face charges of rape and/or child molestation because he cannot consent. She can’t consent either but she is the older child in this case. When you are talking about children under the age of 13, it gets more complicated. She’s lucky that his parents didn’t press charges against her. There are minors who are registered sex offenders.
Her mom told her that the reason she got cervical cancer was from being on birth control?? This girl didn’t stand a goddamn chance. YIKES 😮💨
Probably an alternative to admitting the real reason which is HPV which she prob didn’t get from their dad.
Almost every sexually active adult (80%) had HPV prior to the vaccine becoming available. I’m happy that I am young enough that I can vaccines were available when I was a kid, but it’s not at all salacious for people her mother’s age to have HPV. Your own parents almost certainly have it
Actually the risk is slightly elevated after 5 years but increases with time and continues to do so until stopped. As a scientist…..this is pretty common knowledge in circles that study lower cervical and beast cancer risk in asian women. Please research it for your own knowledge.