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Some of Hollywood’s biggest names were changing diapers before they could get a driver’s license.

Teen pregnancy usually comes with a script: shock, scrutiny, and a lot of unsolicited opinions. Add a red carpet and a Nickelodeon contract to the mix, and the reaction multiplies. TheThings Celebrity’s countdown “10 Celebrities Who Had Kids Young” runs through the stars who became parents as teenagers, several of them years before anyone outside their hometown knew their name.

The list ranges from a 15-year-old rapper in New Orleans to a 16-year-old sitcom star whose pregnancy announcement made front pages worldwide. What ties them together is timing — each one navigated diapers and bottles while their peers were still worrying about report cards.

• Jamie Lynn Spears was 16 and starring in Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101 when she told OK! Magazine in December 2007 she was pregnant with boyfriend Casey Aldridge’s child; daughter Maddie Briann Aldridge arrived in June 2008.
• Lil Wayne fathered his first child, Reginae Carter, with high school girlfriend Toya Carter when he was just 15 — well before his commercial breakthrough as a solo artist.
• Sofía Vergara married high school boyfriend Joe Gonzalez at 18 and gave birth to son Manolo Gonzalez-Ripoll Vergara in 1992 at age 19.

Jamie Lynn Spears’ Tabloid-Shaking Reveal

No name on this list generated more headlines than Jamie Lynn Spears. At 16, while still playing Zoey Brooks on Nickelodeon’s hit series, she confirmed to OK! Magazine that she was pregnant with boyfriend Casey Aldridge’s baby. The announcement landed like a bomb across entertainment coverage, arriving at a moment when her older sister Britney was already a fixture of tabloid scrutiny. Maddie Briann Aldridge was born in June 2008, and Jamie Lynn stepped away from the spotlight to raise her.

For more on how that chapter fit into the larger Spears family story, our earlier coverage of Jamie Lynn Spears confirming what fans suspected about Britney and Justin Timberlake digs into that same era of her family’s life in the public eye.

Lil Wayne’s Head Start Into Fatherhood

Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. was 15 when his daughter Reginae Carter was born to his high school sweetheart, Antonia “Toya” Carter. That’s years before “Tha Carter III” and the run of hits that made him one of hip-hop’s biggest commercial names. He was raising a daughter while most of his future peers in the genre were still finishing high school themselves.

Lil Wayne was 15 years old when Reginae Carter was born — a full decade before “Tha Carter III” turned him into a household name.

Sofía Vergara’s Early Marriage And Motherhood

Before Modern Family made her one of the highest-paid actresses on television, Sofía Vergara was a teenager in Colombia marrying her high school boyfriend, Joe Gonzalez, at 18. Their son, Manolo Gonzalez-Ripoll Vergara, was born in 1992, when Vergara was 19 — long before modeling and acting work brought her to American audiences.

Solange Knowles And Taylor Hanson’s Teen Vows

Solange Knowles, Beyoncé’s younger sister, married Daniel Smith at 17 and welcomed son Daniel Julez Smith Jr. in 2004 at age 18, years before she built her own recording career separate from her sister’s shadow. Pop singer Taylor Hanson, one-third of the band that scored the 1997 smash “MMBop,” married and had his first child at 19, putting him on a very different track than most of his teen-idol peers at the time.

The Rest Of The Countdown

The video also spotlights teen parents outside the brief’s core five: Bristol Palin, daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, gave birth to son Tripp in 2008 at 18 and later became a vocal advocate against teen pregnancy. Former supermodel Niki Taylor had twin sons, Jake and Hunter, in 1994 at 19. The late Anna Nicole Smith became a mother at 20 when son Daniel was born in 1986. And New Zealand actress Keisha Castle-Hughes, an Oscar nominee for Whale Rider, had daughter Felicity-Amore in 2007 at 16.

Reginae Carter turned 17 on November 29 — only two years younger than Lil Wayne was when she was born, which is a reminder of just how fast the gap closes between “young dad” and “dad with a teenager” when you start that early.