Janelle Evans is one of the young ladies on the MTV reality show 16 & Pregnant. Teen pregnancy is nothing new, but MTV has now made it into a possible stepping stone into reality television for some lucky little teens. Well Janelle is making headlines not because she was a teen mom, but because she admitted to smoking marijuana during her pregnancy. Not only that she says her doctor recommended it to help with nausea. Having just welcomed my first child into the world in December I can’t recall our OB saying that is you feel a bit queasy just take a few puffs and you will be good to go.
Since the news of her smoking habit went more mainstream Janelle has been playing a bit of damage control. She has taken her YouTube videos, which show some drug use, and made them private. She has deleted her Formspring account where she answered questions about her use of illegal drugs during pregnancy.
Some of the Q&A:
Q: i dont get how any mother can smoke weed when they are prego and endanger there child like that. please tell me that one.
A: uhmm… drinking while yr prego is WAY WORSE then smokin a lil bud. and some doctors even RECOMMEND TO THEIR PATIENTS that they should smoke if they are nauseous
Q: i dont think that any doctor has recommended that a prego woman smokes weed when they are prego. what are you high now. get a grip on reality!
A: really? my doctor recommended it.
Q: mahybe if you stop spending all your money on drugs then you would have more money to spend on your son dumba$$. and my daughter is the happiest kid tht you will ever met.
A: i dont buy weed or cigs, never. my friends support my habit for me. :] i bet if social services seen yr TRUE LIFE yu would get her taken away forever and ever. stop being a lil b*tch and grow up.
More Q&A and some pictures can be found here!
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i think janelle is already a dead beat mom. Her mother is the real woman that stepped up and took that babyout of that situation. Not many mothers would do that. some of the teenage girls on that show can barely get there mothers attention. janelle has had chance after chance to prove to her mother and that young boy that she can step up and make the right decision. All she cares about is herself the people she hangs aroung and doing the marijuana use is just topping off the whole situation. Get it together janelle that little boy needs you.
well, i think that janelle partys a little to much..but besides that she is a child her self and owes it to her self to have a little fun while she can..and umm docters do recommened pot. it may be illigal. but there is prescription pot whihc dr.s write a prescription for. i have heard women smoking small does while pregnat.. she is a great mom when her own mother lets her be one. everyone who hates janelle probley has no room to talk and has made mistakes as a parent.. ya your all moms but do you kno how hard it has to be being a teen mom. job, school,chores, and baby?? ya she has ten times more on her plate then 30 year old mothers who probley have problems in the marrige and only problems are kids husband and work and chores? try raising a kid with no support and while trying to all that by your self. before you cast a stone maybe you should decide if you need one thrown at your self.. yelling and cussing at a girl who is a minor..while your all in your 20-50? ya ur worse then her cause she acts like a kid causeshe is one..what your excuse?
Honestly, Its not a great thing to do while pregnant or ever really…..but its not awful. Drinking is 10 times worse, right? Well in Europe, they find nothing wrong with that either. Honestly, people are so very quick to judge and so very quick to say ” Oh, well I would NEVER do THAT!” Haha, puh-lease….did you know that literally everything is bad for you when you are pregnant? You just have to apply common sense. COMMON SENSE!! C’mon America….stop being so nasty to each other.
I guess I just have a hard time believing that even if there was no proven good or bad effects of a little pot smoking during pregnancy, that any dr in their right mind would recommend it to a 16 year old pregnant woman, whome he knew was going to be featured on a popular MTV reality show???? Talk about breaking the law, recomending not only an illeagal drug to a pregnant woman, but a minor???
I just don’t know if I buy it, and if it’s true, He should be facing some serious charges. As he offered professional advise to a trusting patiant, and if she’s lying and threw her dr. under the bus for the sake of covering her pot smoking tracks, she is going to face huge slander charges.
i think Jenelle is stupid, and all she cares about is drugs. Your going to be a dead beat mom, and im sure you dont have your baby daddy around. Don’t get pissed cause everyone is telling the truth. Its your fault you got pregnant at 16. Especially by a loser.
wow this girl just does not have a clue at all.
i feel bad for her little son. i know months have passed since this but i hope to god shes grown up and reslized that by being a teen mom means forfitting your right to teenage behavior.
i got pregnant at 16 had my little on at 17 and she is a year old now… i think ive gone out like idk maybe 6 or 7 times without her since shes been born. #1 i know it is my responsiblitly #2 i WANT to be thier for my child. i will sacrifice any time with frinds or time on vacations or parties to be with her. she is my world and you do what you have to do for that child..
when you have a kid thier is no such thing as “myself time” anymore. unless you want to call hopping in the shower or making yourself sum lunch myself time. any social life i do have revolves and includes my child.. had to drop the irrespponosble way and irresponsible frinds, graduate early and support that baby. I am a single mother doing it completely alone and it is not that hard where you have to take ‘me time” almost every night of the week. I was so grateful when I had her G-ma helping me the first four months of her life. but that was finacially. I take 100% responisibilty for this little being i created out of carelessness.. Janelle if you ever stumble upon this comment i hope you learn not to take that baby for granted. thier are so so so many families out thier who are DYINGGGGG to have a child to call thers and love it and be thier for it any time it needs…
i hated how you said is so hard waking up in the middle of the night, and making bottle…. cummon.. maing bottles???? what is that 6 oz. water 3 scoops of formula and 30 seconds in the microwave and 20 mins to feed and burp him??? cummon now. is it really that hard… really? you need to realize what is important in life. you need to realize what and who is going to be thier in the ned when your partying days are over… im afraid for you that by the time you do realize whats important and grow up it will be far to late.
good luck… i dont feel sorry for you.