Media personality Miriam Mensah, popularly known as Mimi Kay, has opened up about her life as a mother during her days as a teenager.

According to her, she lost her father, and that left her yearning for comfort to fill the emptiness it caused.

The search for comfort eventually led her to become pregnant.

"I met this boy, and what happened, happened. I got pregnant. I wrote my BECE with a child," she recounted.

Not only did the void culminated in her pregnancy, Mimi said, she was also diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, which manifested in self-harming behaviors.

"I would lock myself up. I would self-harm. I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder," she explained.

Mimi, however, noted that she did not hold back on faith and therapy in her healing process.

"You never truly heal from trauma, but if you have God, it makes the journey better and easier. I had to undergo therapy multiple times," she said.

Ghanaian actress Kisa Gbleke has also shared her challenging experience of becoming pregnant at the age of 17.

Speaking during an interview on Accra FM, as shared by ZionFelix on November 22, 2024, Kisa revealed that the father of her unborn child tragically drowned in a river, leaving her devastated.

She recounted that, following advice from her family, the overwhelming grief and frustration drove her to contemplate suicide after learning of the young man's passing.

"I won't say I came from a very poor background, but I got pregnant at age 17. I was willing to have the baby. Also, when I was a kid, I looked mature, and the funny thing was, I didn't even know my age. I grew up in a home where my mom didn't go to school, so all those documents were kept in a place where if you didn't ask, you wouldn't see them. So when the guy died, I wanted to kill myself.

"But at the end of the day, if he were alive, I would have been in the village right now, maybe as a woman with three kids. Like my friends who are currently in the village. So everything that happens in life happens for a reason," she said.