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Recap: ‘16 & Pregnant: Lizzie’

Pop Culture Crime
8 min readMay 3, 2020

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Let’s meet Lizzie. She’s in Smithfield, Virginia, with her mom and three dogs. Apparently Lizzie’s parents are divorced but still get along. She loves to party (I think in the high school band way), and she has a boyfriend named Skylar.

Skylar works at a thrift store and is “studying to become a professional glass blower.” Lizzie plays flute in the school band and is looking forward to graduation. She wants to play in the Virginia Orchestra some day.

Lizzie says she has the perfect life, but that’s all about to change because . . . *flute sounds* . . . she’s pregnant.

16 & Pregnant | MTV

September — 5 Months Pregnant

Lizzie was a junior when she got pregnant, but she left to be homeschooled. She says her mom was shocked, but now she’s excited to be a grandma. They look at Lizzie’s pants, and she to wear stretch jeans.

Lizzie says her dad, Rick, is less supportive. Rick, Lizzie, and her mom eat at an empty restaurant. Lizzie was on birth control but decided that she didn’t want to go for her annual check-up for a pap smear, so she stopped taking it. By the way, you don’t have to get a pap smear to get birth control everywhere today.

Rick says, “You couldn’t abstain for a month.” He points out all the things that Lizzie wanted to do. He talks about how things would have been easier.

Lizzie has a lot planned for her life.

16 & Pregnant | MTV

Back at Lizzie’s house, Skylar plays with a dog in the yard. Skylar is going to move in and turn the spare room into a nursery. They are painting the room and talk about the baby’s sex. They don’t know what it will be yet, so they are going to paint the walls green.

Skylar tells Lizzie the baby needs to learn to play the trumpet so it can be in a ska band. Lizzie is against this. She says trumpet players give flute players a lot of crap in band. Is this true?

Lizzie says she got kicked out of band, but I think the truth is that she just decided to be homeschooled, which means you are also automatically no longer in the school’s band.

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