Bristol Palin Gives a Confident, Amazing First Interview
“I don’t regret it at all, I just wish it would have happened in 10 years rather than right now,” Bristol Palin, just 18, said of becoming a teenage mom. She was talking to Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren in Alaska in an exclusive interview which aired last night. (Part 2 to run tonight, February 17.)
In her first interview since giving birth to her son, Tripp on December 27, Bristol told the world the intimate details of how she broke the news to her parents. And it turns out – she couldn’t do it alone.
Bristol described breaking the news of her pregnancy to her parents as “harder than labor.” She described how she, the baby dad Levi Johnston, and Bristol’s best friend sat on the couch and asked her parents to join them. After sending her younger sisters upstairs, she says, “I couldn’t even say it, I was just sick to my stomach and so finally my best friend just blurted it out.”>
“I don’t even remember it, because it was like, something I don’t want to remember.”
She says it “doesn’t matter” what her mother’s view on abortion are, “it was my choice to have the baby.”
Bristol is a beautiful young woman, a loving mom, and will do just fine with the support of her extended family behind her. She was courageous to speak out about teen pregnancy, strongly encouraging abstinence for young people her age yet acknowledging is “unrealistic” to think teens will act otherwise.
