Recap: ‘16 & Pregnant: Brooke’

Pop Culture Crime
8 min readMay 6, 2020

From Amazon:

Tomboy Brooke spends all her free time tuning up cars and driving on racetracks. However, with a baby on the way, Brook and her husband Cody work to balance life as high school students while trying to move into their own place.

Starting off, I remember very little about this episode except that Brooke and Cody get married and save up to buy a shed house?

Brooke is 16 from Mansfield, Texas. She lives with her parents, brother, and a literal herd of goats. She’s not an average 16 year old because she was “born to race.” She spends most weekends at the track with her boyfriend Cody, also a racer. They’ve dated for two years, and they are engaged.

Brooke’s mom, grandma, and great-grandma all got married young, so they are super supportive of Brooke and the fact that she’s pregnant. Her parents even let Cody move in because . . . she’s pregnant

August — 19 Weeks Pregnant

Cody works at QuikTrip. The fact that he has a job puts him miles ahead of some of the other dads on this show. He also apparently helps out feeding the animals.

Brooke and Cody have been engaged for two months, and they are going to get married tomorrow. Brooke’s cousin Emalee is visiting for the wedding, and they talk details as they feed the goats.

Cody says that Brooke told him she was pregnant on the phone but he didn’t believe it until he saw the test. His main concern was how he…

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