Ashley Salazar

like how it came to be like just like getting on the show or like choosing adoption or all of it yeah so yeah um i found out i was pregnant when i was uh i just turned 17 i was in 11th grade and there was this show 16 and pregnant i saw y'all i was like oh my gosh like this is

this is like such perfect timing.

Cause like back then, I mean, I'm sure y'all remember it was just like such a taboo subject.

Like it wasn't as like, I don't want to say accepted, but it just wasn't as common as it is nowadays.

And I think that's just because people weren't really speaking about it yet.

But some girl that I knew through like my space was like, Hey, there's this show.

And I'm like, yeah, I'm aware.

And she's like, they're actually like casting for a new season.

You should apply.

And I was like,

You know, whatever.

Why not?

And prior to that, I had started a blog because my school was so small that like everyone knew everyone.

And there was like one other girl who was pregnant like a couple of years back in high school.

And people just like started like talking and like chit chatting.

And I was like, you know what?

If people are going to talk anyway and they're going to notice, I'm going to like out myself in my own way.

So I started this blog.

And so I applied to the show, submitted my blog.

And I think that's like what helped me get on because that's what they noticed.