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Seven famous men, seven pregnancies that started well before their partners could legally buy a drink.

Nicki Swift’s rundown of “Celebrities Who Got Teenagers Pregnant” digs into a mix of Hollywood scandal, rock-and-roll infamy and a couple of genuine high school love stories that stuck. The common thread: a teenage girl, a much older or same-age famous partner, and a birth certificate that made headlines for very different reasons. Some of these pairings ended in decades-long marriages. Others ended in blacklisting and public outrage.

• Director Luc Besson began a relationship with Maïwenn Le Besco when she was 15 and he was in his early 30s; she gave birth to their daughter Shanna in 1993 at age 16, shortly after the two married.
• LeBron James and high school sweetheart Savannah Brinson welcomed son LeBron “Bronny” Jr. in 2004, when James was 19 during his rookie NBA season and Brinson was 18; the couple married in 2013.
• In 1957, 22-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13-year-old first cousin once removed, Myra Gale Brown, who gave birth to their first child at age 14 — a scandal that got him blacklisted internationally.

Luc Besson and Jerry Lee Lewis Both Sparked Real Scandals

Besson’s relationship with Maïwenn Le Besco started when she was 15 and he was over 30, well before the two married and had daughter Shanna in 1993, when Maïwenn was just 16. The pairing has followed Besson through his career, resurfacing repeatedly whenever his personal life makes headlines.

Jerry Lee Lewis’s situation was on another level entirely. The rock-and-roll pioneer married his 13-year-old first cousin once removed, Myra Gale Brown, in 1957 — news that detonated internationally and got him effectively blacklisted from the mainstream music industry for years. Brown gave birth to their first child when she was just 14.

A 22-year-old rock star marrying his 13-year-old cousin in 1957 wasn’t a rumor or a tabloid smear — it was a marriage certificate, and it nearly ended Jerry Lee Lewis’s career on the spot.

NASCAR and the NBA: Teenage Motherhood in the Fast Lane

Ricky Hendrick, the NASCAR driver and heir to Hendrick Motorsports, was engaged to Emily Maynard when she became pregnant at 18. Hendrick never got to celebrate the news — he died in a plane crash in October 2004, just days before Maynard learned she was pregnant.

LeBron James’s story went the opposite direction. During his rookie season in the NBA at age 19, James and 18-year-old high school sweetheart Savannah Brinson had their first child, LeBron “Bronny” James Jr., in 2004. The two stayed together through James’s rise to superstardom and married in 2013, turning what started as a teenage relationship into one of sports’ more durable celebrity marriages.

Rappers and Rockers Who Became Dads as Teenagers

Lil Wayne — born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. — became a father at 16, when his high school sweetheart Antonia “Toya” Johnson, then 15, gave birth to daughter Reginae Carter in late 1998. Charlie Sheen followed a similar timeline a decade earlier, fathering eldest daughter Cassandra Jade Estevez in 1984 with high school girlfriend Paula Profit when Sheen himself was only 18.

Rod Stewart’s case dates back even further. At 18 in 1963, the British rocker fathered his first child, Sarah Streeter, with art student Susannah Boffey, who was around 17 or 18 at the time. The baby was put up for adoption — a detail that stayed largely out of public view for years compared with the rest of Stewart’s famously public love life. For more on musicians whose off-stage lives look nothing like their public image, see Musicians That Are Nothing Like They Seem.

Distinguishing Scandals From Love Stories

Lay all seven cases side by side and the split is obvious. Lil Wayne, Charlie Sheen, LeBron James and Rod Stewart were all teenagers themselves when they became fathers, which puts those situations closer to high school romance than exploitation. Luc Besson and Jerry Lee Lewis, by contrast, involved grown men well past their twenties pursuing teenage partners — the kind of age gap that turned into lasting controversy rather than a wedding anniversary. Readers who track how celebrity relationships hold up — or don’t — over the years might also want to check out Inside Megan Fox’s Relationship History.

Of the seven, only James and Stewart’s relationships with their teenage partners produced anything resembling a conventional family arc after the fact — James and Brinson’s 2013 wedding came nearly a decade after Bronny’s birth, while Stewart’s daughter was raised separately through adoption. Hendrick never got the chance to find out what came next; he died before Maynard even knew she was pregnant, leaving Nicki Swift’s list with its one genuinely tragic entry among the scandals.