The topic of early pregnancy and the ever-lower threshold at which girls become mothers continues to be relevant. These days, a TikTok video has literally “rocked” viewers of all ages.
In the scandalous clip, an 11-year-old girl tells how she gave birth to a child in Bulgaria. She shares details about how she got pregnant and found out she was carrying life inside her. he girl reveals the story to a reporter and doesn’t even realize how inadequate her story sounds, and maybe she doesn’t because, after all, at 11 years old, she is still a child herself.
The story will leave you speechless, indeed, let us remember how a child gives birth to a child.
“He’s there, I was looking at him. I liked it. We met. We started walking and he dishonored me. And I didn’t know it, but I got pregnant. When I got pregnant, my belly started to grow. Grandma used to ask me why she was growing, and I told her that I didn’t know, but I knew that I was pregnant.
Took a test, saw it – I’m pregnant. My mother wasn’t here. I was 5 months old then and she called my mom and said his mother, my mother-in-law, came and took me because I was pregnant. I love him and we got married.”
Corteza Zhelyazkova is from Bulgaria. She gave birth to a baby at the age of 11 when her legal husband was 19. The possibility of a minor ᴄᴏɴᴄᴇɪᴠɪɴɢ without the man being punished is explained by Romani traditions: the girl’s family allowed her to marry.
Corteza’s husband said he met her when he defended her from peers who were ʙᴜʟʟʏɪɴɢ her on a playground. He explained that it was love at first sight and the two had sᴇx within the first week of meeting each other. The young mother said she felt strange as she had to grow up quickly, giving birth and deciding not to go to school anymore.