by Now this one’s a real one mother to disrupt.
Drinking, partying, and dating sexy strangers might be routine pastimes for most singles in their twenties.
But unlike her Gen Z cohorts, 21-year-old Hunter Nelson isn’t a wild party girl. Instead, she is the full-time parent of her teenager.
“Me driving down the road realizing I’m 21 with a 15-year-old boy,” a visibly stunned Hunter, from Kentucky, wrote in the caption of her controversial TikTok confessional, which spooked more than 8 .2 million views.
“No other parent or staff member of his or her [high school] are going to take me seriously,” the blond continued. “I can already feel people asking me what class I’m in when I go to his events.”
“How am I going to teach him to drive when I can barely go down the road? Nelson asked in the video, which she captioned, “I like to think too much.”
And his dazzling message sparked an avalanche of questions from worried commenters.
Gen Z TikToker Hunter Nelson has gone viral on TikTok after sharing his panic over raising a 15-year-old to 21.
Many on social media believed that Nelson gave birth to her 15-year-old child when she was 6 years old.
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In her viral TikTok clip, Nelson nervously worries about raising a high school student who is only 6 years younger than her.
In response to concerns that she became a birth mother before hitting puberty, Nelson shared a series of clips explaining her unconventional family formation.
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“WERE YOU 6 WHEN YOU HAD A BABY?” asked a shaken cyber-viewer.
“This video makes it look like you had a child when you were 6, is that what you wanted him to appear?” writes another.
“OMG, you had a child at 6?” said a separate viewer.
Nelson moved her 15-year-old daughter from North Carolina to Kentucky to live with her in 2021.
On TikTok, Nelson insisted the teenager has a strict set of rules she must follow, including no sleepovers, no alcohol and no vaping cigarettes.
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The blonde explained that she was happy to provide a safe and loving environment for the teenager.
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But in a later clip, Nelson unpacked the details of his peculiar parenting situation.
“I didn’t have a baby when I was 6,” she told more than 3.9 million people. “I recently applied for guardianship of my sister a few months ago…I felt the best way to keep my sister safe, happy and meeting all of her needs and wants was to come live with me.”
Nelson explained that their father died in 2015 and his half-sister, Gracie, from North Carolina, also lost her mother shortly after.
And after learning that Gracie was at risk of being placed in foster care following the death of her mother, Nelson asked the courts for guardianship of the teenager.
“It’s 100% legal,” she noted in the video.
But becoming a parent to her baby sister overnight sparked major family drama.
In a separate excerpt, Nelson revealed that she had received a slew of death threats from members of Gracie’s maternal line, who did not want her to get parental rights. The girl’s aunt even hired a lawyer to try to thwart her custody request.
Nelson also admitted that Gracie also protested his request for guardianship.
“Gracie didn’t want to come with me,” she confessed on camera alongside the teenager. “She had a seizure and I thought she was going to kill herself in the bathroom.”
“She was very angry with me,” Nelson said, adding that Gracie was temporarily living in an unsanitary and abusive environment following her mother’s death.
“But I felt like I was doing what was best for her even though it was very difficult for both of us.”
And Gracie agreed, advising others who might find themselves in a situation similar to hers: “Put the child’s safety, pride and necessities above their emotions.”
“Sometimes they’re not going to be happy,” she warned. “But you just have to do it.”
