The youngest confirmed mother in history is Lina Medina (age 5), but for modern celebrities, Lil Wayne (age 15) and Jamie Lynn Spears (age 16) are among the youngest to have babies, with others like Solange Knowles, Sofia Vergara, and Kylie Jenner becoming mothers in their late teens or early twenties, showing a trend of young parenthood in entertainment.
🎵 Aretha Franklin Age at First Child: 12 One of the youngest celebrity moms in history — had two children by 15. 🎶 Loretta Lynn Age at First Child: 16 By age 20, the country icon was already a mother of four.
Aretha Franklin
Her first son was born when she was only 12 and her second child arrived when she was just 14, which certainly must have been a traumatic experience for Aretha.
Kylie Jenner says she 'feels more like myself' after not having a baby in a few years. Kylie Jenner is opening up about how her life has changed since having her first child at 20 years old. “I haven't had a baby in a few years,” she said in an Oct.
Charlotte fell pregnant at 14 and is now mum to 9-month-old Kenzi-James. She lives with Kenzi's dad, 15 yr-old Lewis, in her parents' house. Her pregnancy was not only a shock to her parents, it caused a rift between twin sisters who were once inseparable.
Pregnancy can occur with sexual intercourse after the start of ovulation, which can happen before the first menstrual period (menarche). In healthy, well-nourished girls, the first period usually takes place between the ages of 12 and 13. Pregnant teenagers face many of the same pregnancy-related issues as older women.
Her pregnancy was likely due to parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction where a female egg is fertilized without the sperm from a male. That phenomenon occurs in species including reptiles, insects and some fish.
Kylie Jenner has publicly shared her struggles with postpartum depression (PPD) after both of her pregnancies and, more recently (late 2025), revealed she's been dealing with chronic back pain for nearly three years, leading her to undergo stem cell therapy for relief. She also previously mentioned a diagnosis of recurrent corneal erosion syndrome affecting her eye.
Diane Keaton (50): The iconic actress chose adoption to build her family, welcoming daughter Dexter in 1996 and son Duke in 2001, both over the age of 50. Naomi Campbell (50): The supermodel surprised the world in 2021 with the announcement of her daughter's birth.
Jenner was only 20 years old when Stormi was born, but becoming a mom was something she felt she was always meant to do. “I used to have dreams, even at a young age, of having kids, like actual dreams,” she told James Charles in a joint YouTube video in October 2018.
In 1991, the birth rate for girls aged 10 to 14 years in the United States stood at 1.4 births per every thousand girls. Since 1991, this rate has consistently decreased, dropping to . 2 in the year 2023. This statistic depicts the number of births per thousand U.S. females aged 10 to 14 years between 1991 and 2023.
Having children was always the dream for former Miss World Rosanna Davison and her husband Wesley Quirke. But while all their friends "seemed to be having normal healthy pregnancies", the couple experienced 14 consecutive miscarriages in the space of two years.
Farrah Abraham is by far the most financially successful of the entire cast - whether you agree with how she did it or not. Despite being the first cast member fired from MTV for starring in an adult film, Farrah has managed to build an empire with an estimated net worth of $5 million.
A woman can get pregnant and have a baby as soon as she begins ovulating, or producing eggs. This typically occurs about a year after they first begin menstruating, which usually happens between the ages of 11 and 12. Some women start ovulating late, though, and others, extremely early.
Famous firstborns include Shakespeare, Einstein, Churchill, Saddam Hussein and Jesse Jackson. Leonardo da Vinci and Tiger Woods were only children.
The actress and businesswoman, now 48, became a mom in January at the age of 47. In a new episode of Naomi Campbell's YouTube series, No Filter, Diaz opens up about what it's like to become a mom in your fourth decade.
In April 2023, De Niro, 81, became a dad for the seventh time, welcoming daughter Gia with his girlfriend, Tiffany Chen.
Nicole Kidman
She underwent IVF to have her first daughter with Keith Urban. A surrogate carried their second daughter. She has honestly spoken about her struggles in conceiving at Australia's Who magazine in a 2008 interview she said: “I had tried and failed and failed and failed”.
Kylie Jenner lost about a million Instagram followers primarily due to backlash from fans believing she and Hailey Bieber mocked Selena Gomez's eyebrows in February 2023, followed by more losses in October 2023 after posting and then deleting support for Israel amidst the Israel-Palestine conflict, leading to accusations of being "mean girls" and "spineless". Fans perceived these actions as shading Selena, causing a significant unfollowing trend, though Kylie denied the eyebrow shade, and the political post drew strong criticism for perceived insensitivity and deletion.
Dr. Lancer examines the spots on her legs and tells Kardashian she has psoriasis—a chronic, genetic disease of the immune system that appears on the skin, often as red, scaly patches that itch and bleed. Psoriasis is often misdiagnosed as a rash, ringworm or other skin irritation, such as eczema.
"I've never had any work done. I told you, the only thing I've done twice is I've done baby Botox in my forehead." "I didn't love it, and I don't love it," she added. "I consider it sometimes, but then I'm like, 'My eyebrows are so straight and low to my eyes, that I actually really enjoy the movement that I have.'"
Black alpine salamanders are amphibians that live in the Central and Eastern Alps and give birth to live young. Their pregnancies can last from two to three years, longer than elephant gestation periods, depending on the altitude at which the salamanders live. They typically bear two fully developed young.
When she said Charlotte was pregnant, Ramer called it an apparent case of parthenogenesis, a method of asexual reproduction seen in other species of rays and documented in sharks, which are related to rays, Virginia Tech's Booth noted.
The period of gestation can range from 9 months to 2 years (frilled shark gestation period may be as long as 3.5 years). Most species have an average gestation period of 9-12 months.