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The Sun
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
I had kids at 15 & 16 with different guys – I was a single mum but got back with my baby daddy AFTER he went to jail
A WOMAN who gave birth twice in her teens has shared a look into her life. Lindsey Loftis is just 18 years old and yet already has two children with different fathers. 3 Speaking to Love Don't Judge, the teen mum shared that life had clearly not been easy for her, but that didn't stop her from trying. While Lindsey might be 18 with two kids under five, she still finished school and works to provide for them while her baby daddy is locked up. "I go to work, I make my money and I provide them with everything they need to live," she said. "I strive for them to have a better childhood than I had." The young mum first got pregnant when she was 14 with her eldest child, but she and the baby daddy split up soon after when she caught him cheating. She added that Clyston, her current partner, was his best friend and to get payback on the affair she had one with Clyston. When she was 15, Lindsey fell pregnant again and has had many negative comments thrown her way. "They'll say 'You ruined your life, you ruined your body, kids shouldn't be having kids,'" she explained. "Which is not true because we're obviously not kids if we can have kids." The mum revealed the pair have been on and off for two years, even breaking up when she was pregnant with his child. 3 I had my first kids from age 18 & my next 3 in my 30s, but being a teen mum was easier - the last year has been savage Lindsey said Clyston wasn't acting right and soon after he got sent to jail. While he was in the jail cell they rekindled their romance, but four weeks after his release he was jailed again for outstanding warrants. He now has a year and a half left to serve of his three-year sentence, and Lindsey hasn't given up on him. Now she says she writes to him everyday and keeps him updated on how their kids are doing too. She added: "Even if we weren't on good terms or whatever I'm doing all of this for my family I want him to be in my family." The video went viral on Love Don't Judge with over 21k views and people were quick to share their thoughts in the comments. One person wrote: "She is a dedicated mum. Good for her. Another commented: "Unpopular opinion but good for her. She's working and providing for her babies and she looks good/healthy. She's doing well as a young parent going through all this." "Say what you want. She looks like a good mom with a well-kept environment," penned a third. UK Teen Mum Statistics Teen pregnancies in the UK have been decreasing considerably since 2007... The under-18 conception rate has decreased considerably since 2007, reports Nuffield Trust. Between 2007 and 2021, the under-18 conception rate in England and Wales decreased by 68%, from 42 per 1,000 women to 13 per 1,000 women. This resulted in 13,131 under-18 conceptions in England and Wales in 2021. Meanwhile a fourth said: "I'm hoping the best for this couple. She seems like a very good mum with a promising future. "I know life was rough on her so I really do hope he is the man her kids and she deserves and learned the lesson of missing out on life while being in prison." "I like her mentality, I so super hope this girl doesn't get her heart broken, she seems like such a good mum,' claimed a fifth.
Daily Mail
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE General Hospital star reveals harrowing 'trauma' after multiple family tragedies and says he's lost everything after LA fires
General Hospital star Cameron Mathison revealed he is going through a new 'forced chapter' of his life after suffering a succession of 'major, major life challenges' which culminated in losing his house to the devastating LA wildfires. Mathison's Pasadena home was gutted in the terrifying Eaton fire, one of many that tore through California back in January. It came months after his 'shocking' divorce from his now-estranged wife Vanessa Arevalo, with whom he has children Lucas, 22, and Lelia, 18, and within four years of losing his mother, his dog, a job and being diagnosed with cancer. Reflecting on losing his home, the All My Children star, 55, told the Daily Mail: 'It's a very unique death. You never expect your children's home, the home that you raised your life in, everything. You never expect that. It really is a unique loss that doesn't feel real. 'It's so much more emotionally challenging than people know. I've been through in the last four years, major, major life challenges. A life threatened and a cancer journey, and a loss of a parent, a shocking divorce. My dog died. I lost a job. My son went through something traumatic and now this.' Mathison and Arevalo announced their separation in July, telling fans they had 'made the difficult decision to part ways' after 22 years of marriage. It has been an emotionally tough five years for the former Hallmark Channel host who was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma – a type of kidney cancer – in 2019 and underwent surgery to remove a tumor. He is now cancer-free. Months later his mom Loretta was diagnosed with brain cancer and died in 2021 amid the Covid-19 pandemic. In August 2023 he announced the heartbreaking news that his beloved Doberman and 'best bud' Red had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma – a type of blood cancer. He died four months later in the December. But Mathison, who has played Drew Cain on General Hospital since 2021, said the 'trauma' of losing his house hit differently because you 'never expect' to witness a family home burn down. He said although it still feels 'totally surreal' four months on, he is embracing being at 'ground zero' and building up a new life and future. 'There's aspects of it being totally surreal still every day in this type of loss, you remember something else,' he said. 'Every day. Just the other day I remembered my Letterman jacket from high school. Every single piece of my kids' lives. The Father's Day cards. Mother's Day is coming up. Twenty years of Mother's Day cards for my ex.' The actor, who was speaking at Thursday night's NAMI 2025 Mental Health Gala, continued: 'This is a real true forced new chapter of my life. I'm talking new underwear, new socks, new everything. I had to borrow this tie from General Hospital. I don't have anything. 'So, my marriage ended to me pretty shockingly. My kids moved out for college. My house burned down. So that's all awful, of course. But also, it's like I get to create this next chapter from ground zero. Well, that's a weird word, from a level playing field.' Earlier this week the Canadian actor and presenter revealed his beloved Mustang had survived the catastrophic inferno. Celebrating the discovery on Instagram, he said: 'Mustang somewhat survived the fire. It was one of the few things that survived, and this car is very, very important to me and the kids for different reasons.' Mathison shared a series of heartbreaking posts as he returned to his home, now a pile of rubble, after the fires had subsided. Speaking to Good Morning America at the time, he said: 'I can't sleep. I've lost my home and everything that I own … Every few minutes we're thinking about things that were in there that are irreplaceable.' He was also forced to warn fans of scammers who were pretending to be him on GoFundMe in a bid to profit off the fires. 'PLEASE DO NOT DONATE TO A GO FUND ME PAGE using my videos or photos!!! It is not us. We are not asking for money,' he wrote. 'Unimaginable that someone is using this disaster to rip people off.'
