{"id":89317,"date":"2026-05-17T06:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89317"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:37:54","slug":"i-was-shamed-as-britains-youngest-mum-at-12-twenty-years-after-she-became-the-poster-girl-for-a-broken-nation-tressa-middleton-reveals-shes-now-a-happy-mother-of-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/17\/i-was-shamed-as-britains-youngest-mum-at-12-twenty-years-after-she-became-the-poster-girl-for-a-broken-nation-tressa-middleton-reveals-shes-now-a-happy-mother-of-four\/","title":{"rendered":"I was shamed as Britain&#8217;s youngest mum at 12: Twenty years after she became the poster girl for a broken nation, Tressa Middleton reveals she&#8217;s now a happy mother of four"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/05\/17\/06\/108666803-0-image-a-10_1778996602971.jpg\" alt=\"I was shamed as Britain's youngest mum at 12: Twenty years after she became the poster\" width=\"557\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At 32, Tressa Middleton is still a young woman but she doesn\u2019t feel it. \u2018I feel old beyond my years,\u2019 she says. \u2018I feel like an old lady.\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/lifestyle\/article-15824051\/I-shamed-Britains-youngest-mum-12-Twenty-years-poster-girl-broken-nation-Tressa-Middleton-reveals-shes-happy-mother-four.html\">\u00a0 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>At 32, Tressa Middleton is still a young woman but she doesn\u2019t feel it. \u2018I feel old beyond my years,\u2019 she says&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tressa-Middleton.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89319,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89317\/revisions\/89319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}