Victoria Lee, age 19, Jones, Alabama, February 20, 2004 Robin Bowman

Victoria Lee, age 19 I was fifteen when I first had sex and that first time I got pregnant. I wish I woulda waited til I got older, but that’s the only regret I have. I would never go back and change it because then I wouldn’t have Christopher right now. I wouldn’t go back and change it. I did not even get to go to high school. I didn’t go because I got pregnant. I was never really good in school and I guess I got bored sittin at a desk for eight hours. I never liked it. About the only thing that I probably miss about school is that I never got to graduate. I never got to go to any prom or anything like that. I live with my husband now. A month ago, we thought we was pregnant again, but the doctor told me that I was ovulating and I just wasn’t having a period. It was caused by stress and depression so luckily I’m not. I want another one; I would like to have another one probably about three years from now. But I want a boy cause they… Harley, she’s just… it’s that much easier with boys for me. Before I had Christopher I didn’t think I was gonna get married. I thought I was gonna wait til I was 25. But after I had Christopher and me and Chris got back together while I was pregnant, everything was just going so great. We just decided to go ahead and get married instead of waiting. I was eighteen. He was twenty. It’s been good. It was worse before. Before me and Chris got married they wanted ‘guy’s night out’ more often and they were goin out like all the time. It was just getting to me because I was the one stayin at home with the kid. But now that we got married it’s all mellowed out and we just all go out together. My husband, he’s a mechanic. He works on vehicles. First thing we do with the paycheck is pay our bills and then if there’s anything left, we go get what the kids need, and then we get what we need. If I could be someone else in this world I would probably be Jennifer Lopez because I love the way she looks. She’s very pretty and she’s famous. I would just love to be her.