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Guaranteed Human.

And we return to our American stories.

Tiffany Jenkins is a wife and a mother of three.

She's acquired a huge social media

following on her blog, Juggling the Jenkins, where her videos receive millions of views. Tiffany

wrote a highly successful memoir, High Achiever, the shocking true story of one addict's double

life. Here's Tiffany Jenkins with the rest of her story and what it means to be a good mom.

You know what I want to talk about today?

I want to talk about what it means to be a good mom, okay?

Because listen, if you look on social media and YouTube, okay, let's take YouTube,

for example, they have tons of videos,

of families announcing pregnancies to their loved ones, right? And it's always so joyous,

and everybody's so excited and screaming and yelling, and they're like, oh my God, finally,

thank you. Look at these little booties. I'm going to have a green kid. Okay. That was not how my pregnancy

announcement went. I had been living in a halfway house for two months and I started dating this guy

and I got an overnight pass, okay, one weekend. I got one overnight pass. I'm not going to go

into detail about what happened on the overnight pass, but let's just say that two weeks later, my body started acting a little weird.

I didn't have a job or a car at the time, so I'd scraped together some quarters and walked my butt down to the dollar tree and bought a pregnancy test.

I took a pregnancy test in the

bathroom of the halfway house I was living at with six other women. And when the second line popped

up, I collapsed on the floor and lost my mind. It was not joyous. I was not excited. I was

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