Ashley Salazar: My 16 & Pregnant Journey
Cate & Ty Break It Down
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Ashley Salazar (16 and Pregnant Season 2) joins Cate & Ty to discuss her journey with kinship adoption. Ashley reflects on the emotional challenges of relinquishing her daughter to her aunt and uncle, including the difficult period when she briefly changed her mind. Cate & Ty bring up the unaddressed trauma of birth parents, the lack of specialized support, and how Ashley's past experiences might have impacted her life today as she raises another child.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, guys, I know I talked to you guys that we were going to have a guest this week. And I'm |
| 0:15.0 | super excited. This week we have Ashley with us. Hi, Ashley. |
| 0:23.3 | Hi, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:30.8 | Thank you for taking the time to do it. I know how it is being a mom and all the things that come with that. |
| 0:40.2 | Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if people don't remember you, I mean, I don't know how they wouldn't, but you, you were on 16 and pregnant season two. And you also chose adoption. Yeah. So for people who don't know who you are, |
| 0:46.9 | just give a little, little gist of how this all came to be. Like how it came to be like, just like |
| 0:53.9 | getting on the show or like choosing adoption or all of it. Yeah. All of it. be. Like how it came to be like just like getting on the show or like she was adopted or all of it. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.8 | So yeah. |
| 1:01.5 | I found out I was pregnant when I was, I just turned 17. |
| 1:06.4 | I was in 11th grade and there was this show 16 and pregnant. I saw y'all. I was like, oh, my gosh, |
| 1:13.1 | like this is, this is like such perfect timing. Because like back then, I mean, I'm sure you all |
| 1:18.3 | remember it was just like such a taboo subject. Like it wasn't as like, I don't want to say accepted, |
| 1:23.6 | but it just wasn't as common as it is nowadays. And I think that's just because people |
| 1:27.1 | weren't really speaking about it yet. But some girl that I knew through like, MySpace was like, |
| 1:33.0 | hey, there's this show. And I'm like, yeah, I'm aware. And she's like, they're actually like casting for |
| 1:37.0 | a new season. You should apply. And I was like, you know, whatever. Why not? And prior to that, |
| 1:43.1 | I had started a blog because my school was so |
| 1:47.8 | small that like everyone knew everyone. And there was like one other girl who was pregnant, |
| 1:53.0 | like a couple years back in high school. And people just like started like talking and like chit-chatting. |
| 2:00.5 | And I was like, you know what? If people are going to like talking and like chit-chatting and I was like you know what if |
| 2:02.2 | people are going to talk anyway and they're going to notice I'm going to like out myself in my |
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