As BBNaija housemate, Angel, restates that she is a product of teenage pregnancy, she has noted that her mother actually carried out an abortion when she was in her womb but she survived.
According to her, the mum got pregnant at 16, which made her (Angel’s) grandmother to ask her to abort the pregnancy.
Reflecting on her past on Thursday, Angel said, “As some people know, my mum had me when she was pretty young, when she was 16 years old and about to go into college.
“When she got pregnant for me, she thought she could handle it. I mean, it’s just a baby right? She was happy. Thus the yellow here at the beginning of the artwork.
“She was happy to have me regardless of the age. She tells my granny, ‘oh mummy I’m pregnant’ but my granny goes ‘what will people say? You’re a woman, a young woman. You should be in college. You should be entering university like your mate, why would you want to keep a baby?’
“So my granny tells her, ‘you’re going to get an abortion.’ That’s what she said.
“My mum decided to go for the abortion but unfortunately, I remained. So now she’s thinking about the different things that’s going to happen.
“During that process, there was a lot of slut-shaming. ‘You’re 16 years and you’re pregnant’, which is what most women go through. There was a lot of hurdles that she had to face.”
