Teen Vogue features pregnant teen on cover

i dont think they were wrong for it, teens have seen the bad side of teen pregnancy in every other magazine you see, Every cover has another teen mother going through another obsticle i think its important for girls who may become pregnant to see that theres a chance they can get through. im not saying every girl should go out and have a baby but come on people its reality its going to happen at least by showing the good side it can help solve the whole depression thing thats so common with new mothers.

So what? Shes 19. It's not a crime for a 19 year old woman to be pregnant. She has the right to vote and yet not to be pregnant? She can enlist in the army and yet it's "appalling" that she would be pregnant? That's stupid they need to get over it.

this girl is going to be 20 or very close to it by the time the baby is born. i don't see what the big deal is. 19 is a WHOLE LOT different than 14 or 15. she is done w/ high school. she is college-aged. she is old enough to do "grown up" things like buy cigarettes, vote, join the armed forces and fight for her country. so i think this is much ado about nothing.

There is nothing to brag about being a teen mother. I don't care if she is a supermodel and what kind of money she makes, she has yet to experience life. Who is to say that she will have a successful career in modeling long-term, everyone is speaking of her current situation (short-run). My best friend had her first child at 16 years of age and she often stress to me that she wish that she had waited to become a parent. Yes she finished college, partied, and dated but she often tells me that she has a hard time career wise because of her children and no guy really wants to marry her because of her children. That's my friend and I really love her, but I am glad that I did not make the decisions that she did. I am waiting until I get married to have children even though I am near 30, but I have been able to achieve alot of things in life. My friend is counting down the days until her children are grown and so she can live her life for herself. I feel bad for her because she does not have a strong family support system, she is a single mom, and she is miserable. To all teens, take notes on my friends situation and think twice before you go out here having babies. Motherhood at a very early age comes with a price and no matter how your celebrity peers might try to make it appear easy, it is NOT.

That's disgusting. She shouldn't be on a TEEN magazine. Sick, sick. What a horrible message to all the teen girls who read it. It's like some nasty little whore begging for attention by posing on that magazine. Typical that she didn't tell them that she was pregnant in the first place before choosing to have her face published on the COVER of a magazine. Awful representation.

I don't really think this would of been a big deal if they hadn't brought to light the fact that she was pregnant. But I don't think it is a good idea to put pregnant 19 year olds on the the cover of magazines. Sure she is an adult but that in no way suggests that she is ready or capable of being a good parent. I think it sends the wrong message to the younger teenagers who do read the magazine. Its like saying see look at this girl she is pregnant at 19 and she can still be successful when in reality that isn't the case for most teenage girls. I don't know many girls her age that are stable financially or responsible enough to care for an infant, especially since her job is being a model which she will not have after about month 3. Bottom line they should of never told anyone she was pregnant.

wow OK she is pregnant and you point is exactly. so many people out there worry about these magazines supposed to being role models for our teens when a lot of the time these girls hate themselves at times because they are not shaped like, look like, pretty like these models and destroy themselves. teens get pregnant everyday and nobody looks at that but can make a big deal out of a model being pregnant, she can still be a roll model for teens even teen mothers now to help them come out of their shell and feel great about themselves too. where is the damn real support at for our young women. I'm 24 with a 2 yr old. i find it sad that many of my generation and older looks down on young mothers. where is the love and support from us that we are supposed to give. stop criticizing and be there when they call.

teens are gonna have sex.. you cant really stop it. I dont think it really sends out a bad message it could possiably be encouraging for other young mothers.

Think that its not being glorified but 19 is grown first off, second, its reality. People get pregnant. Hell i knew girls in my 8th grade class that were pregnant, be it that it may, its addressing the issue of the responsibilty and how to handle the situation after you didnt think about before the pregnancy occurred. Thats like saying, should an 18 year old with a tattoo on her face be featured on TIME? Yea its unprofessional but its not illegal nor should there be an uproar... We need to come to grips with REALITY, this perception of "acceptable" behavior is what makes people feel less than. I dont wanna feel bad for being me... I was a 19 year old expectant mother, but as an adult i accepted my responsibility to my child and have been taking great care of him thus far. Its more about maturity and responsibility than age...

Now that she's gonna be a Mom, her agent should explore other venues for her to model on. TEEN anything no longer applies to this woman, not because she's pregnant, but because anything in any market with the TEEN tag on it, really is targeted toward the pubescent teenager, not the college age person with an adult track mind. Also goes to show you the hypocrisy of the Modeling world, they use overly made up and heavily "decorated" 14 year olds for adult market print (i.e. non-teen Vogue, brand name advertising, etc), but then they push the limit with a 19 year old on a teen-version print, who happens to be living an adult life. Almost an oxymoron.

Wow, I am appalled at the responses to Ms. Jacobs post! It is unbelievable to me the absence of any sense of shame. Being pregnant at 19 is nothing to boast about, whether one is working, married, unmarried etc. This is not something a society in 2009 should be willing or happy about exemplifying. Teaching young girls (who by the way are the demographic of Teen Vogue!)to be responsible, independent, successful, goal oriented and career minded should be the goal.It is absolutely irresponsible of Teen Vogue to run this cover. They found out about the pregnancy after the shoot but BEFORE finalizing the issue and they should have pulled it. Whether or not the magazine is presented as being a role model for teen girls, the truth is that young girls do read it and do attempt to emulate what they see. The magazine is a tool for teaching young girls, thus the magazine would have been more in keeping with this by pulling the cover and explaining why OR using the issue to teach sexual responsiblility. All of these people posting that they did not see a problem with the cover COMPLETELY missed the point!!!!

It's not like you can tell by looking at the photo that she's even pregnant. I don't see what the big deal is. Stop making mountains out of mole hills.

Im 15 and i dnt see what's the big deal with her getting pregnant she's 19 years old,if teenagers read this article and then go out and have sex,it's not her fault she didnt encourage them to do it,it's a parents job to talk to their children about sex,and all the bad things that could happen while they are taking part in it,all teenagers do not take a part in doing things that other teenagers do.Some know what's right and whats wrong.Teen vongue is not influencing young teens to have sex or have babies.

I was pregnant at nineteen, had my son at twenty and married his father at twenty one. I am now a happily married woman and we are planning on baby number two. Nineteen is not a child or "appalling."

i've been subscribing to teen vogue since i was in the 8th grade, im now 18 years old. And i can tell you right now that they have in the past had articles that dealt with teen pregnancy and have addressed all of the issues of that, stds, and using protection in the past. maybe they didn't do a good job this time around but they usually do a fantastic job explaining things and having the knowledge of professionals shown in their work.

I don't see a problem with her getting pregnate at 19. She seems to be able to take care of it if she chooses to keep it. However, I think they should have either left the article out or talked about issues in the aticle. I knew girls in 6th grade reading this magazine. I think that is what the author is trying to point out. Many 19 yr olds don't read teen vogue. Many of their readers are under 16 yrs of age. To make it seem like it's no big deal in a magazine that so many young teenagers read just isn't right. Many of the readers would not be in the situation she is in where she can support the child. Printing that article was a mistake. She doesn't look pregnate, so they should've just left it out if they were just going to ask how her loved ones feel about it

what is wrong with this ??i admit it probably isnt the way to go but everyone makes mistakes. she just came into adulthood and this is the sort of awakening she needs to show her this is reality. ease up, she's still a child. i think that just because you are eighteen doesnt mean youre an adult. evry teenager thinks about sex.its just smarter to wait.
its her life just leave her alone. geez.

My only issue with a 19 year old being prego is that they should be married. But whether they are or not it's not convincing teens to/to not have sex. They will make up their minds about that whether she's on the cover of vogue or not. That's a personal decision that isn't going to be changed if vogue would've refused to put her on the cover. She wont change a darn thing.
To say that by this girl being on the cover is going to convince girls to have sex is ridiculous. What about all their other role models? There are TONS of girls that shouldn't be on t.v./magazines and yet they're still put on them. Think of all their bad role models. Just turn on the disney channel or the cw or whatever else teens are watching and watch all these girls walking around in skimpy clothes and changing out boyfriends every week and having sex with half of them. How are they good examples to girls? Even if this girl disappeared they still have TONS of bad examples.
A 19 year old is perfectly capable of taking care of a child. Look around the daycares. In almost all that I've been in at least half the staff (if not most) are between the ages of 18-25. They are perfectly capable of taking care of kids. In the daycare I volunteered at there were only 3 women above the age of 30. And 2 of them acted less mature than the 18+ year olds. Only one of those women got up and actually worked. The other 2 just sat in a rocking chair and said "that baby needs a diaper change" or "could you get that for me". Not that I'm implying all women over the age of 30 are immature I don't believe that at all. But the point is it's not your age but who you are as a person.

Wow, some of the people writing here are really judgemental! We have jesiniah2, who is 15, and another girl, leenboost, who is 19, both of these girls within the age range we are discussing, stating that they are influenced most by what their parents teach them, not what some magazine decides to print. And yet a lot of people are insisting that this magazine is in the wrong for not asking the "hard questions" and any 19 year old who is pregnant should be ashamed of herself, and in no way can be a role model. There are countless examples of people in similar situations that go in opposite directions. There are plenty right here in this discussion. Some regret getting pregnant early. Others don't regret it at all. I too got pregnant when I was 19 and finished college, married the father, just had baby number 4 and have a great job. I am now 27. I had hardly any support from my family when I was pregnant, and not only did I do fine, but I LOVED my son, he became my world! I didn't WANT to party and do all those "teenage" things. My son was my life and I loved it. I have never regretted getting pregnant. However, not everyone is like that. It all comes down to the kind of person that you are. But I agree that parents need to teach and influence their children, not society. My parents never advocated teen pregnancy, but they were good parents, and they made me want to be a good parent. As a side note, when I had my son, I lived next to a 31 y/o woman who had three kids by two different fathers, not married to either one of them, lived completely on welfare and government assistance and didn't work, even though all of her kids(ages 11-15) were in school full time. So yes, sometimes a 19 year old is smarter than a 30 year old.

Also, why is partying when you are a teen always encouraged? Why does everyone always say that teens should do something that is known to cause underage drinking, doing drugs, possibly having sex with multiple partners and increasing the risk of STD's or pregnancy, DUI's, and many other poor choices? Why is partying ok but pregnancy taboo?

First off I was 19 when I found out that I was pregnant. 19 is not a good age to become a mother I agree but it happens even if you are being responsable I was on birth control I’m just part of that 2%. Yes teen pregnancy is a problem, but it is a problem parents should be dealing with not magazien editors. It is not their job to make sure your child knows about birth control, condoms etc. it’s the parents job. So does vogue have a right to put a pregnant teen on their cover hell yeah they paid for her. And you have the right to not buy vogue for your teenage daughter.